GX470 sketch

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Around Torrance, I see a lot of interesting different types of vehicles. I’ve seen R32 GTRs, Mclarens, Ferraris, and even some stanced Lexus LS430s. One vehicle I’m a fan of is the modified GX470. When I was in college, these were primarily used as grocery getters driven by soccer moms. Lately, people are learning that these vehicles are great for off-roading. Around town I’ve seen examples of GX470s with lift kits, roof racks and extra fuel canisters. I think its a very cool, repurposed look.

I wanted to create a sketch thats aggressive, yet fun. I thought pearl paint with bronze trim would look classy. The design features useful off roading accessories like a roof rack, extra gas tank, a modernized brush guard and plenty of LED lighting. This was sketched on an iPad with Sketchbook Pro.

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Some initial progress before the final line drawing and color.

Sketchwars mask

I really enjoyed this weeks topic for Sketchwars. Considering whats been going on, the topic has been gas masks. For a while, I had an idea about creating some sort of mask based off a CPU heatsink. I was influenced by my Noctua CPU fan, Banes mask from Batman, and a dash of Star Wars. The result is a something thats a little sinister and aggressive.

A praying mantis sketch

I’ve been using this time for more creative sketching for myself. Some time ago, I found a really cool picture of a praying mantis. I finally took some time to sketch it in my moleskine sketchbook with pen and tombos.

Sketchwars exploded views

After winning the chess piece challenge, I was given the honor of picking the next week’s topic. I was sketching exploded views for my freelance work and decided it would be an appropriate topic. This gave me an excuse to take apart an old remote I had lying around and sketch it. It was an interesting challenge that brought back memories of viscom from my days at CIA. Once again, I really enjoyed trying to create a clean sketch with pen and markers.

Sketchwars chess pieces

A few weeks ago one of the challenges for Sketchwars was to draw chess pieces. I submitted two entries. A digital knight sketch and a good old fashioned ideation page.