Radio Controlled Pet In Manhattan

Last year, we spent about 4 weeks in NYC. I've done a lot of sketching there, at places like Central Park, Bryant Park and Union Square... Bryant Park by the way I liked best regarding sketching around, watching people and stuff.

That summer, we also had the joy to meet up with Tina Roth Eisenberg in her studio in Brooklyn. I still owe her a swiss-miss-branded duck. Which is so very nearly finished since last year, only the final clean-up is missing...

(above from left: Maryam Laura Moazedi, Tina Roth Eisenberg and me behind the camera)

Photos © Maryam Laura Moazedi. W.r.r.

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Testing Shapes: Mount; Anatomy of My Rough Process

Update: I already posted these pieces over at The Art Center, but since this is my journal, I wanted to put it up here, too. It's a sort of anatomy of my rough process. The final rough sketch is a composite of the pencil and the digital drawing. The clean-up will follow soonish... by the by, you can buy the original pencil sketch through an auction for the Christchurch victims. The starting bid is as low as $10,-! Plus, the original piece comes with signed prints of the coloured and cleaned-up illustration (Motorbirds Illustrated cover and work-in-progress sheet).

Update2: AUCTION CLOSED, THE SKETCH WAS SOLD!

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Quick, rough shape study...

Photo: Wikimedia

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Duckmarine: Rough Process Final Version

This is a follow up to the last post. It took me quite some time to know the right way of going about this design...

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Digital Sketchbook: Duckmarine

Another rough design out of my props sketchbook.

BTW, what I love about digital sketching is how quickly I can edit and modify the rough pieces.

This is where I got a lot of inspiration from:

And from here (Supercar!) :)

Update: Check out the interview with the fantastic Mr. Greg Broadmore (concept artist on P. Jacksons King Kong) on the Academy of Art blog. To view Greg's blog click here.

Update2: I LOVE paper toys and this kit is a stunner.

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Semi-Rough Sketch

This, then, is a nice example for a semi-rough sketch, it's much more definite than the samples I posted the other day.

Update: Here's a little winter colour inspiration. I took those shots in my hometown's city park, today in the early morning.

BTW, I'm in the – literally – lucky position to be buddy-buddy with 'Lucky Luke' artist Achdé, so, guess what I got in my mailbox, last week?:

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The Ducks Who Thought They Were Spirou And Fantasio

This rough cover concept drawing is for something I plan to do one day. Not in terms of a full length comic album nor a graphic novel but in a form of a short story or fun homage to the Franco-Belgian Spirou and Fantasio comics I grew up with. Especially the ones by André Franquin. Apropos Franquin, his collection of black comedy comics - Idées noires (Dark Thoughts) - is, to me, one of those all time "must haves".

The iron boat was quite inspired by those streamline beauties: (BTW, Hans Bacher gave me the idea of using irons as reference material)

Photos via DRB and Streamline Irons

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Marine Biologist And Lucky Luke Fan

Well, the picture says it all... BTW(1), lately I had no time to write answers in the comments section. Sorry for that, I will reply as soon as I can. BTW(2), corresponding to my drawing here, Achdé already posted the cover art of the upcoming/latest Lucky Luke comic album on his blog.

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Colours!

As promised, here's the finished thing. Some pieces from the process will follow, like colour palette etc.

The colour palette I used in this design:

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Monkey King StarDucks Branded; Nuke Sub Suit

Update: Another ruffy, the ACME Nemoland Nuke Sub Suit.

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In a final step, I did a lot of re-editing on my Monkey King piece. I StarDucks-branded the whole thing a little with the assistance of this fellow bird character and a lot of motorpunkish appliances. Alright, colours will follow with the next update. BTW, cheers to Charles, Charlène, Josh and Attilio for the kind feedback on my rough things here. I'm always suprised that those unfinished sketches are that well-liked.

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Vehicle Design: Rough Process

Here is another little insight into the rough process or very beginning of creating a vehicle. In this particular instance, it's a sort of prisoner transport craft with an unfolding chassis prison cabin.

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Rough Process; C.C. Cooper

Update on the fly (Fri, Aug 27, 2010): Recently, I discovered the wonderful work of the smashingly talented Taylor Krahenbuhl: Just wow!

Images © by Taylor Krahenbuhl

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Here's is a little update (Tue, Aug 24, 2010): Charley Parker did a lovely post about one of my favorite impressionist painters: Colin Campell Cooper. I'm fascinated by his street scenes and skyscrapers of New York and Philadelphia.

Images: Wikimedia 1 2

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This is another rough "beak an' ride" concept piece which I did sometime earlier this year in parallel with that motor-suit piece.

The inspiration came, partly, from here:

Image: Modern Mechanix

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