Car drawings and showcase mania!

The first two weeks of the new year have already been quite crowded, yet very easy-going. I've been working on my Industrial Design showcase, which can be found [a="id.jeroenrood.nl"]here[/a]. While there still has to be done some work, it comes together pretty well! In addition, I also got some drawing projects running at the moment. First of all, this Alfa Romeo 6C 3000cm.


Secondly, I also started working on real paper again. It's a racing scene of some sort of typical American muscle car race, crowded with Camaros, Firebirds and all that horsepower-wealthy goodness! It's a big drawing, so it's going to take a while.




Last but not least: I'm also drawing a 1969 Ford Mustang for my neighbours! They have some special memories to that car, but got rid of it. They only have some photos of it, and would like to have something that they could hang up to the wall, which is going to be a massive canvas with a drawing of their loved Mustang!

Merry Christmas to y'all!

Wow, it's really been crowded the last couple of weeks.. If it wasn't my study sucking up all of my time, I was busy making websites, having hobbies or doing other stuff. It's really been a long time since I was able to take some time for blogging!

Well, it's Christmas holiday and now I got some time to spend some time bloging. Not too much, however.. Plenty of stuff to do for school even during the holidays!

Christmas has already been really cool. On the first day of Christmas I had a brunch with the family at "Galerie de Hoeve", and afterwards we went to my grandparents', and played Scrabble. All in all the day was pretty fun!
This morning we had a splendid breakfast, with pancakes, strawberry sauce, whip cream, hashbrowns, bacon, saucages and even more. Gosh, was that nice!

Anyway, now it's time to get back to work (I know, on the second day of Christmas: bwah!!).

I would like to wish anyone an awesome second day of Christmas, and a cool New Year!

Week 1 after the SDL weeks

This week the normal project work started again, and somehow I was looking forward to it. To seeing my team members again and work on our project. The first week has been going okay, and I started with my new assignment this week. It's called 'Look!' and I'm pretty excited about it! It's really cool, as it is about idea generation and prototyping. We need to make pictures and moodboards, sketches, models etc..

I also finished a new painting! It's a car I saw during the road trip through America, next to 'Sisters Creek', a winery near San Antonio, Texas. Over there they make the best wine of America, which is high-rated internationally as well! I didn't discover it's name, but I guess it's a Ford Thunderbird. I'll post a better picture soon and try to find the actual name of the car, as I will put it in the art gallery.

My drawing tablet arrived!

As the twitter-feed showed some while ago, I got my drawing tablet! It's a Wacom Intuous4. I chose the small one, because it would be handy to carry around with me. I must say, it works really well!
With my experience in drawing, I found it really easy to get used to a tablet instead of paper.

I'm impressed by the results I got for so far. I've drawn some sketches for my project I'm working on right now, and started with a car drawing done in its entirely digitally.

Now the SDL-weeks are almost over and I am really excited about what I saw and experienced there! I'll spent the rest of the week making and updating my design showcase. It's also been some time since I worked with my team on the project, so I need to dig in the notes I made and get back on the track!

Let the SDL weeks begin!

The Interim Exhibition was great! It was quite inspiring to talk about your project or others' projects, and discuss about it! It was really cool that other students saw many other possibilities for my teams project. My team even got mentioned for best presentation of the concepts, awesome! :D

Up next is what is called the SDL weeks. SDL stands for Self-Directed Learning, which means we need to find some interesting activities on our own, on what we want to learn ourselves. But these weeks I'll be making my ID portfolio, too!

I'd say: bring it on!

By the way, some time ago I drew a car in my notebook, that's the one on the right! :)