Time out before school starts

I was offered to take time out and smell the roses(or fish)by my good friend John Willoughby and sail Enchantress back to Adelade after competing in the port Lincon race which they placed 4th previous to that they had won outright the Melbourne to Hobart.
The weather was good so we sailed back via the northwest coast of Kangaroo Island

Single person vehicle concept

Glen Tay who has been developing his vehicle sketching produced these quick concepts

speed bird sketches

Ryan Fonceca a 4th year student produced these concept sketches for the RMIT University display at the Avalon Airshow

Speed sketch

This is a 3 minute speed concept sketch to motivate one of my students

Visual futures

This is last years Visual Futures poster for inspiration the theme was single person transport

Vehicle Sketching Elective RMIT University

After many requests by students I will be running a vehicle sketching studio first semester.

Speed demo sketch

Just a quick 10 Minute demo in the Wacom studio.

Wacom studio interview

Extra images from the Syd Mead Wacom Cintiq Studio opening

Yacht concepts

Just a few quick yacht concepts sketched in sketchbook on the Cintiq

Art reference

Some digital art drawn with sketchbook pro on the Cintiq

Art reference

Here are some older sketches produced for tutorials

Concept Drawing Weekend

Glen worked hard and learnt a lot from the one on one tuition and produced some great work

Concept drawing weekend

We also ran our first Concept Drawing Weekend up here at henely park in the beautiful high country.Glen Tay was the first to try the experience and enjoy some country air

I have also done some quick single pod vehicle sketches in sketchbook pro to be used as tutorials in my Vehicle Concept Sketching Elective at RMIT University this semester

RMIT INDUSTRIAL DESIGN Students work

Here are some from Michael Gray,even his shoes have an auto style

RMIT INDUSTRIAL DESIGN Students work

next is Mitch Rose.All these images were sketched on wacom cintiqs using alias sketchbook pro.

RMIT INDUSTRIAL DESIGN Students work

Here is a selection of my advanced concept sketching students from last year the first is Ryan Fonceca who has just completed an Intern year at Holden Design

Welcome to 2011

Hi All,
I have been off the Internet for some time,huge problems with my satelite internet service up her on the mountain. So I have decided to try wireless bigpond and after a few teething problems we finally have a service(cross fingers).So here are a few images to catch up.