Fashion Boot Render

Wishing everybody a successful year in studio... Just thought I'd kickstart the semester with an illustrator/photoshop rendering of the fashion boot I posted up here back in March.

I mean, it's gonna happen sooner or later.

Car proportions • Style4Cars

Car proportions • Style4Cars

Target Bottle

Idsa south

TREK Madone 6.9

Golf Bag Render?

Gonna try to add textures soon.

Sophomore - Illustrator

Reid Schlegel

Illustrator rendering

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Akshay Sharma
Assistant Professor
540-231-7415

I wear my sunglasses at night

Lamborghini Concept

I think I am starting to get the hang of computer rendering and sketching on a cintiq. Nevertheless, this took me about 3 hours from start to finish. I hope that with a lot of practice, I will be able to take a sketch to this level within 1 hour (which I think is a professional benchmark).
Here is the Lamborghini Concept I sketched today:



Again, I utilized the "lens blur" filter in photoshop to draw attention to the front of the vehicle. Also, a technique used to check the perspective was used -- I flipped the canvas horizontally and then used the transform tool to tweak it a bit. This technique is almost mandatory. In this case, I kept the sketch facing the other way (which is explains why the steering wheel is on the wrong side). This time around, I paid particular attention to the wheels-- I used ellipse selection tools to form them and then freehanded the spoke holes. It is said that if the wheels don't look right, it will mess up the whole sketch, and I find that to be quite true. So, let it be a lesson-- don't skimp out on the wheels.

Cintiq part IV

Cintiq part 2

Three Baby Beds aka Next Generation Nursery Concepts by Evan Gant � Yanko Design

Three Baby Beds aka Next Generation Concepts by Evan Gant � Yanko Design

VT ID Graduate featured on Yanko AGAIN....

http://www.yankodesign.com/2010/03/05/welcome-to-the-future-dad/

Women's Fashion Boot Ideation

Greetings from Portland-- definitely some cool stuff on this blog from everyone. I decided to switch gears a little, so here are some rough blue pencil ideations and a quick ballpoint/photoshop rendering of a women's fashion boot. The focus here was to design a unique visual using negative spaces in the boot upper. Around 1-1.5 hrs total.

Starting to jump on the sketchbook pro band wagon...

soft goods.

soft goods.

Ode to the Padilla Brothers

Important Message

Hello All the authors.
the blog is now called:
http://ideationlabonline.com/


I took my olding (that is a new word I just invented) brain some time, but now we can just ask people to go to this web address.

www.ideationlabonline.com


Just so that we are all clear about this:
You all hold all the rights to your work.
You have the ability to post and delete the posts that you might have posted mistakenly.
Be extra nice to your professors.
Akshay


*I will delete this message tonight.

Retro Audi and Camcorder.

It will be all Cintiq tomorrow.

sketchbook pro... getting there...

goodnight YAwall

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From my droid

B&W

This is so much fun, just to focus on the stance, and forget about the finer details. About 10 min each

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--
Akshay Sharma
Assistant Professor
540-231-7415

--
Akshay Sharma
Assistant Professor
540-231-7415

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In the spirit of moto-goodness, an updated cafe racer/street tracker combo.

MOTO_focus