Honesty. Purity. Elegance. The Values of Gray.

From Sketch to Reality: Part II

2010-07-29T02:55:00.001-07:00

Going in for new ink.

2010-04-28T21:53:00.000-07:00

More Bluetrain.

2010-02-07T21:00:00.000-08:00

Latest and greatest.

Something new, but not so new....

2009-03-04T15:00:00.000-08:00

My maya/mental ray skills have improved some since grad show....I said "some", not alot. Still working with it. But here's a new & improved studio shot of my Bluetrain concept.

First person to ask why the car's not blue gets a shoe thrown at them.

Fun with Ambient Occlusion....

2009-01-11T02:49:00.001-08:00

I've become a total CG fanatic.

Oldies but Goodies.

2009-01-11T02:42:00.000-08:00

A couple of pre-Art Center sketches I found while cleaning.....

Oscar Schulte is the man.

2008-11-11T23:04:00.000-08:00

This is my Pathfinder model, straight off the CNC, milled from 10lb. foam at Schulte Corp.

Something I need to finish....

2008-11-11T22:38:00.000-08:00

One of my first freelance clients post-ArtCenter is screenwriter Travis Adam Wright (Eagle Eye) and among other things I'm designing a logo/identity for his new production company Beyond Comics.

The main logo is almost there, a tweak here a tweak there and we'll be good to go....

Something I've been meaning to do...

2008-11-11T21:59:00.001-08:00

As some of you know, my Brother-In-Law and good friend is currently at Corcoran State Prison serving three life sentences. In the 10 years that I've known him he has sent me some amazing artwork and I've always felt his work deserves a venue of it's own.....and now I have finally have the time to make that happen. So stay tuned for a new website this Christmas....designed by none other than yours truly.

Time to do some catching up....

2008-11-11T21:04:00.000-08:00

Finally have some time to catch up on this blog thing. I haven't really had a break since graduation, it's just been one thing after another...and to be honest I rather like it this way. It's been a couple of months since I closed that last chapter of my life called Art Center, and I'm still finding myself working until 2 in the morning.

But.....for the first time in a long time and I can say that I'm enjoying life.

Love and Marriage, Love and Marriage

2008-06-14T12:54:00.000-07:00

Go together like a horse and carriage. Or so I've heard.

For those who don't know, Chamonix and I finally tied the knot two weeks ago after being together for ten years. It's honestly very comforting to know that win lose or draw she'll always be there for me....she's the only thing that matters more to me than Car Design.

Getting ready for Grad Show....

2008-06-11T18:22:00.000-07:00

I have so much work to do in the coming weeks I feel like jumping off of a bridge.........then again if I did, who would finish my models?

A couple of teaser shots of some of the projects I'll have a grad show...

Holy Shit.

2008-04-03T17:36:00.000-07:00

Mental Ray rocks my world.

That is all for now. Stay tuned for further updates...

Details, Details.

2008-03-28T11:23:00.000-07:00

In all honesty I should be done with this by now; but the reality is that I have alot of things going on at the moment and some are a higher priority. Even though they might not be as fun as this project.

So, just an update here. The surface model is finished, you'll notice the design has changed and it is now a biplane. Dave Marek told me from the beginning it should be a biplane and at first I was reluctant but now I'm glad I listened. Now all I have to do is decide on the graphics that are going on the plane....a few trim/divides and I'm done with the modeling part.

Do you know the meaning of "Nemesis"?

2008-03-17T18:04:00.000-07:00

Nietzsche stressed need for conflict in the interest of progress. Without conflict, we grow weak and decadent...yes? Can you tell where I'm going with this? Yes, the Baroness needs an enemy...but not only an enemy, she needs a walking talking antithesis to herself.

New artwork from Project Gunfighters....

2008-03-17T17:53:00.001-07:00

After having replaced several cartridges of red ink....I decided that the red canson sketches weren't working. I wanted to sketches of the plane to be on white backgrounds to make it easier for me to integrate them into presentation materials later on. I'm much happier now....I have to learn to stop being so damn picky.

The A4 finally gets some love...

2008-03-08T22:51:00.000-08:00

Finally got around to doing a few more upgrades to the A4...new shoes as you can see, an 034 snub mount, and last but not least I finally put in some real HID's....6000k VVME's to be specific. I have to say this car has been good to me, I've put almost 100,000 miles on it since I bought it and it never gets old. Click on the picture for a complete mod list...

First images of the Baroness...

2008-02-27T20:28:00.000-08:00

Surface Model is almost done, just a few more details and graphics. I did some very basic Alias renderings just to see how the forms read under different lighting situations. The next step is a crash course in Maya, hopefully I'll have some juicy stuff to show you in the coming weeks.

Update: Project Gunfighters

2008-02-22T13:00:00.000-08:00

So here is the story, for one reason or another I needed to make up 1 unit of studio credit this semester...so I decided to repeat my Alias II class. My Instructor, Eric Bauer, was gracious enough to let me do an independent project in his class in lieu of the weekly assignments I had already done in his class. So now, Project Gunfighter has gone from a little idea I've been kicking around to a full blown project.

Here is the project's current status...

Kickin' it Old Skool.

2008-01-23T16:51:00.000-08:00

There was a day long ago when men were men, 10 sketches meant 10 sketches and real designers used chalk, markers and vellum. We called this Trans I. We produced 10 renderings a week for 14 weeks.....and now, Elitists that we are....we think lesser of those who haven't.

These are some of mine...

From Sketch to Reality.....

2008-01-16T00:24:00.000-08:00

Got Logotype?

2008-01-09T01:07:00.000-08:00

This is a Logo I did for my good friend and hair stylist...the girl opens a hair salon and names it after herself.

Narcissist that I am.......I'm jealous.

The other love in my life....

2008-01-08T21:51:00.000-08:00

The soft, sweet little Devil I'm going to marry this May...

Fun with photochops...

2008-01-03T21:49:00.000-08:00

Gunfighters: Fire in the Sky

2007-12-17T02:07:00.000-08:00

This is just the beginning of a project I'm going to explore this semester...some sort of story revolving around the daring and wealthy great great granddaughter of
Manfred Von Richtofen......better known as the Red Baron.

Stay tuned...this can get interesting.

Some of the artwork from Project MG...

2007-12-17T01:20:00.000-08:00

Some of the development sketches from Project MG. You'll notice my propensity for very subtle, desaturated colors. I think while I was at Fisker I finally came to terms with my lack of color sense. Now I'm just running with it...

Wrapping up Project MG...

2007-12-17T00:34:00.000-08:00

Well, I just finished 7th term at Art Center. The goal for this semester's project was to design an authentic, undeniably British coupe. I got to work with Ben Ebel from Mercedes, who was an immense help with everything from developing the concept to the proportions. He even put me in contact with Oscar Schulte who CNC'd the model for me.

Here are some alias shots, I will have some pictures of the model once I have it painted.

Better hide the Scotch....

2007-12-15T21:32:00.000-08:00

I have arrived.

Welcome to my blog.