Better late than never? I tried to skive off this with the excuse that last Sunday was my B-day, but I have had enough requests to get off my arse and produce a cartoon that I have done just that – enjoy…
Uber Coffeemaker
…or “a triumph of detail over content” … or “the anti-Braun”. Not sure why I did this. Just got started and got carried away. Still, there are mornings when I would like this to be the coffeemaker that greeted me…
Hungarian Grand Prix
No cartoon this week – Sorry! it’s my birthday today and I’m taking time off…
Cheers – Bruce
Hondas
A sketch I’ve done for a client who wishes to have his old Hondas painted. This is one rough of several to show the client different views and compositions. Drawing 2 cars together is always tricky, because if you draw them in the same perspective “grid” they look unnatural, but if you don’t they can look out of perspective…
Braun Hairdryer (HLD-6)
This was a tricky one. I was giving this the same treatment as the previous post (the Mercedes coloured paper rendering) but it just wasn’t looking “right”. In the end, I took the sketch layer from the base and put it on the top layer, “multiplied” it and knocked back the opacity to about 35%… and suddenly it looked good. I think so anyway.
This is a much simpler subject than the previous post, but it took more time to do – simplicity is hard to catch, and “off white” is hard to render…
300SL – “Coloured Paper” Rendering
“Coloured paper” is in quotes – as this is entirely digital. This is an old Industrial Design rendering technique I teach my students (for “real” examples of this see my website under “renderings”). It’s a tricky one to learn and hard to do correctly – however, it works amazingly in the digital format. Essentially you take your sketch in, establish a “paper” (or background) colour and then simply dodge and burn, or alternatively, render in black and white. I suspect I’ll be knocking off a couple of these in the next few weeks…
I always like the look of these. The car is nice too… 😉
Polski Fiat (Colour)
A rather “too careful” colour rendition of the earlier Polski Fiat sketch.
German Grand Prix
Senna Sketch
This is a sketch I did back when I was in England – about 2005, I’d guess. I found it on an old hard drive – the actual sketch is long gone. You’ll notice that the quality isn’t great – for some reason, the only image I saved was 72 dpi at 450 pixels..! I really should “archive” my work better.
I like the sketch – particularly the reflections on the nose…
Old House, Old Montreal…
Sat on at Pub terrace to draw this one – and the perspective mistakes have nothing to do with my beer consumption!! This is a tricky sketch because of the “double” downhill slant to the front corner of the building… I made the mistake of starting there and building up – if I’d been smart, I’d have started with something “static” like the horizontal lines that define the upstairs windows or something… live and learn.
Caught in my headlights 