Monday, June 30, 2008


WIP, hommage to Sparth

Tuesday, June 24, 2008

Jeff Z Week 2

Here's my two line art sketches for this week, first the Flying City:



And the hovering Turbo City:



And here's some silhouettes I'm working on for next week:

Sunday, June 22, 2008

sample linear thumbnails




Here are some samples of the thumbnail sketches for the project. We will explain more of the creation process in class on Monday and then refine some concepts from these. Enjoy!

Saturday, June 21, 2008

Basic Types of Perspecive





These are the 3 basic perspectives that were covered in class. For the 3pt perspective, the vertical lines are not parallel to the vertical edges of the picture plane. Whereas the other two perspectives do have vertical lines parallel to the edges of the picture plane.

Friday, June 20, 2008

Shadows

Here are some techniques on how to plot shadows. It's really basic but it should give you a general idea on how to incorporated the height angle and the direction of your shadows.

Tuesday, June 17, 2008

Week 1 Thumbnail Studies

Hello everyone,

I just wanted to start off by saying, that we have some tremendous designers in class! It's very inspiring being around all of you, and I hope to learn from each an everyone. Here's my contribution to the bunch..





-Jason S.

Jeff Z's Week 1 work...

Here's my thumbs from this week:



Next week I'll follow instructions and do line art! :)

Monday, June 16, 2008

Week 1 thumbnails




My thumbnails for this week. The first 9 were done in Painter, the last one was for fun in Photoshop using a chaotic custom brush.

Wednesday, June 11, 2008

Old class demos

Here is the Environment Design class blog from spring 08, there are some great demos and notes from the previous term. Just in case you are interested :)

http://artblog101.blogspot.com/

Welcome to Environment Design~!!

Hi class,

Welcome to our Summer 2008 Environment Design (Mon) class blog. This space is created for you to share work in progress, help each other in work critiques, and share class demos and notes.

Hope you will enjoy your visit and find this an useful tool to learn and communicate with each other.

I am looking forward to see you all this coming Monday.

-Kevin