I’ve been a little busy during this past year. This year started off busy with CES. It’s now Chinese New Year and things have slowed down a bit. I’ve been an active participant of Sketchwars on Facebook. Many of the designers participating are very good, so I do want to try my best. Its been a very fun and creative outlet! Here are my entries during the past year:
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.
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.
Continued progress on my Cartier watch design
There has been some free time with the job search. I've been utilizing that time to better my CAD skills. Some time ago, I sketched a Cartier watch for Sketchwars. I've been practicing Solidworks by modeling this design. I would say that its progressing pretty well. The watch face and movement should be an interesting challenge!