Speed sketch with sketchbook pro

A very quick speed sketch using Sketchbook pro
to demonstrate using and creating custom brushes.

Sketchbook pro speed sketch tutorial

Here is a very quick speed sketch on the Wacom Cintiq...just sketch up your design in pencil and airbrush and use as an underlay remember to use new layers as you add  colour highlights and detail.

Nullarbor Racer

Thought I would do some more work on the Nullarbor Racer concepts

Really cool stuff

How cool .....this was like the film the right stuff ...... After 9 minutes and 3 seconds (preliminary data) from jump to landing, Felix Baumgartner touched the ground safely with a perfect landing. Preliminary figures (awaiting official record data)

Altitude reached: 128,097

Total time from jump to landing: 9 min. 3 seconds

Freefall duration: 4 min. 19 seconds

Speed: 1137 km per hour

Speed render demo

A very quick class demo of speed rendering using one of my students Glen Tay's concept for an alien weapon the render took 15/20 minutes. It was done using Sketchbook pro on a Wacom Cintiq

Wacom Speed concept sketch

 I thought I would post this Roo concept racer Speed sketch I did as a tutorial. It was sketched in about 2 and a half hours on my Wacom DTU tablet on my lap with sketchbook pro.

Carbodydesign tutorials

There are 2 more of my tutorials on carbodydesign.com  thanks again Marco.
It really is a great reference site, not only for automotive but product design and concept design.
Check out the Pleyel piano concept by the Peugeot design lab and the Bosendorfer piano by Audi.
It really does show that  car designers can do anything

Bernie Walsh Workshops

The festive season is on its way

Its time to start thinking of ideas for Christmas cards for my clients, here are a few I have created for Flexitech Group previous years

Sketchbook speed sketch - Camera Concept tutorial

It's easy to start with a simple block form in perspective of an existing camera...then you can sketch your new concept design over it

Danish exhibition honours Sydney Opera House

Designed by Joern Utzon, the Sydney Opera House has continually been a revisited subject by some of Australia’s best known artists. To me it was what pure creativity is all about...imagining something that did not existed until Joern sketched it in pencil. 


Featured prominently in paintings of some of Australia’s best known artists, daughter of the Opera house’s designer, Lin Utzon has decided to bring these images together for a major exhibition in Denmark.

The exhibition will take place at the Utzon Centre in Aalborg where the designer grew up and showcases the works of Ken Done as well as 7 other Australian artists.

Lin Utzon is hopeful that in celebrating Australian-Danish connections, Princess Mary will open the exhibition in September and would love for the exhibition to be seen in Australia in time for next year's 40th Anniversary of the Opera Houses opening.

15 years earlier I did this painting of the opera house for a competition for the 25th anniversary,

It didn't win but was shortlisted,there are still a few prints of the original painting left, the original painting hangs in pride of place in my studio.

I was always fascinated by Utzons slices of a sphere for its construction so added it to the finished image