Unforgettable Meating

Vlado Gregurek, iconic owner of Vlado's restaurant in Bridge Road, Richmond, has passed away today.

Vlado opened his first restaurant in 1964 in Collingwood which quickly gained a reputation as one of the best steakhouses in Melbourne and Australia.

I had the pleasure of dining with Paul Taylor, David Flynn, and Ian Wong, when we took Syd Mead and Roger out for the best steak in Australia recommended buy our good friend Tom Matano.
Cheers Vlado for an unforgettable feast.

Creating Concepts

After the quick speed sketch its easy to creat new concepts by evolving the sketch with some new layers...change the colour by locking the transparency of the colour layers...creat new shapes on one side of sketch to see if they work... explore new surfaces remember these are only concepts for a later finished sketch

Sketchbook pro mobile

Very handy when you just want to doodle and you are not near a cintiq or sketchpad.

Sunday afternoon speed sketch

Thought I would relax with a bit of speed sketching practice this is just a quick sketchbook pro speed form sketch to explore some surface.

Chess Design Concepts

And some more of my students very creative work

More concept Cameras

Just a few more of my students digital SLR camera concepts sketched using Autodesk Sketchbook pro on Wacom Cintiqs.

Student Chess concepts

Just a sample of my first year Industrial design students chess concept designs all sketched with Autodesk Sketchbook pro on Wacom Cintiqs, as you can see creativity goes hand in hand with concept sketching

Nitro snowboard cruiser

The coupe is now evolved into a snow cruiser with snowboard storage in the roof.

Concept Design Workshop

The Concept Design Workshop is an international digital art event aimed at students and industry professionals that are interested in concept art for Video Games and Movies, Matte painting, Illustration and Design. After the sellout success at the Adelaide event in May 2011 and Melbourne Jan 2012, they are currently organizing the next workshop for Sydney July 2-7 2012. They also have an event lined up for Wellington, NZ in September 3-8 2012. They have managed to organize some awesome instructors for these events and it is a really unique opportunity for students and industry to see these artists working LIVE. Please check out www.conceptdesignworkshop.com for all the information about the workshop.

First snow

The first snow on Mt Buller which we overlook from our farm in the high country inspired me to add some to one of my Sketchbook pro sketches

Well done

Because the work was so good I decided to award a prize for the best camera concept sketch, showing their ability to explore forms and surface, which then caused a headache because there was so many excellent concept sketches so after consulting a few of my fellow lectures I awarded the prize to Patrick Goslar. Patrick recieved a special artists proof of one of my limited edition art prints "sandcastles" which was part of my very succesful beach art series