Jack Ashcrafts' incredible sketches

Jack Ashcraft 97 HVAC detailed sketch

"...Jack Ashcraft is a unique combination of mechanic, artist, engineer, and thinker. If he isn't wrenching on an old vintage Saab, he's likely enjoying a glass of wine and sketching some mechanical brainstorm he's had. Lucky for us, much of his work has been documented."

Dear friends,

I wanted to show you the work of Jack (Art Center College of Design graduate 1975) because I find them incredible instructionals for several reasons so a very good guide for you!

The precision and detailed sketching is an example of professionalism, all written notes are done following the ACCD rules I learned by Harry Bradley and Ted Yankin...set up lines and write in between being carefull about how clean you do it.

I suggest you to go visit Jack's blog with lots of his sketches cars, mechanical parts and lots more...

click: Jack Ashcraft's sketchbooks!

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Sketching new proportions by Jordan Gendler

Jordan Gendler sketch

Jordan Gendler sketch

I like those sketches made by Jordan Gendler, typical search studies for new mass proportions excercise. Both are good and in both of them we can find or imagine nice elegant details or volume changes, we could retrace some of these lines and make everytime a different design proposal.

Check more about clicking: Jordan Gendler sketches

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Design schools: how to choose mine?

Art Center College of Design - Pasadena - CA - USA

How do I choose my Design school? What about the right Design school to become a car designer?

These questions are very common for all young design lovers trying to search for their best Design school choice...if I remember how hard it has been for me to learn about the existance of Design schools! Back at that time (1983) in South Italy no infos about design schools...so I got the info thanks to a motor magazine discovering Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California.

For this reason I wrote some time ago an article (on Hubpages.com) about : how to choose a Design school.
If you are interested in reading it please click: How do I choose my best Car design school?

Enjoy!

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What about digital virtual 3D portfolios? Here some tips for you.

Via Carbodydesign.com by Christophe Jourd'Hui

Dear friends,

many of you from DSK-ISD design school in India are starting to send me digital  virtual 3D portfolios for a feedback. To be useful I decided to write about it with some interesting tips for you, to read my article click: Tips about a virtual 3D portfolio for car designers.

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Ferrari illustration by Alfredo Marin

Ferrari proposal by Alfredo Marin

Dear friends,

I was looking for some new and fresh Ferrari design proposals and I spotted this one made by Alfredo Marin from Spain.
Really a nice illustration and design, it is a completely new interpretation almost a visionary proposal. Alfredo has lots of nice works on his blog go visit click:

Alfredo Marin blog

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Car sketch Coupé by Luciano Bove

Car sketch by Luciano Bove

Dear friends,

this evening I felt like taking my black BIC pn and try a quick side view and this is what I got a Coupé car sketch.

I only used a black pen cross atching to get a shading effect (around the wheels), I designed the reflections before taking care of line quality to give a mirror reflecting effect.

Hope you like it!

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Lamborghini sketch By Artemiev

Lamborghini sketch by Artemiev

I was looking for Lamborghini sketches in internet and I came across this beautiful side view made by Artemiev.

Even if it does not have all the angular surfacing I can still see a lot of Lamborghini design codes, a sort of essential design Lamborghini interpretation, very nicely done.

Check Artemiev's blog here: Artemiev blog

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VW XL1 official sketches

VW XL1 official sketch

The VW XL1 at the Geneva auto show has been one of best aero designed concepts, here some of the original official sketches made by VW designers.
Super lite simple sketches very well done with great light volume finishing, precise technique, good design.

See more and other sketches click: VW XL1 official sketches gallery

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Design salary survey, lets talk money!

Sometimes I get messages or emails asking : " How much money designers make? How much do you earn? What is a designer salary?"

I cannot answer to those questions because a part of the answer is very confidential and private, but also because I am not an expert about this topic.

Salaries can variate from country to country, in USA it is different from Europe, and within those countries there are big differences if you are working in the South or in the North.

Coroflot.com just published a designer salary survey worldwide and it works simply participating in anonimous way to their web tool survey, then they collect all the infos and started to give a picture about how designers are gaining per year according to their job role career and company size.

I find it extremely interesting for all students looking for this infos, but also for professionals that feel like changing and try to understand how much they could earn more and with what kind of benefits.

To discover and to participate (if you are a professional designer) click: Designer Salary Survey

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Luciano Bove thanks all his followers!

Dear friends,

today just few words to thank you for following my blog with enthusiasm and devotion...special thanks to all young students from India and some countries like Croatia (mainly from Zagreb)...but also from Pakistan and the increasing number of chinese language followers...naturally thanks also to all Americans (a part of myself is always in California where I studied at ACCD)....and to all other countries not mentioned.

To me all this constant traffic to my simple blog means a lot, Facebook followers are encreasing in non expected way (today 1122 on my professional profile and 2855 for my blog page). G+ also is starting to go well and Twitter slowly is catching up...

I know that when I write a post I am not alone :)

Stay tuned...

Luciano

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