Dreaming of an IROC christmas

1st semester board.

i cannot wait for christmas.

reconning it up

this rendering shows the location of the infrared range finders on the vehicle as well as the first illustration to incorporate wheelhub motors into the wheel.

whats that thing?

My concept on the street. watch out!

camo

latest iteration with some camo..... a bit more army-ish

vw truck im working on

this is the render before i go in and tweak the perspective and add cutlines and such, as well as fixing up a few details

quattro

im currently fascinated by audi quattros

wheel for my jeep military vehicle

this is the rim and tire together without the wheel hub motor in the middle. the rim remains stationary during travel while the motor which fits in the middle turns a gear attached to the inside of the rim, driving the tire. i need to post some more renderings. also, a tank like tread can be attached from front to rear to ensure traction during all terrain missions.

camaro rendering

THEME 1.

pantera

quickie

in loving memory of my first car: the xc70

xoxo

guitar renders: a work in progress

guitar renders: a work in progress

guitar renders: a work in progress

heres some quick delta gen renders from my block models in alias. still in the beginning stages of filleting and patching.

Pantera!!!

found this oldie the other day, dont know how i let this one fall thru the cracks but is here and i still love it. enjoy

a grand entrance indeed

camaro black edition pulling into the gas station on woodward

audi coupe

quattro sketches

some audi sketches i did over the summer

quattro graphics

quick audi thumbnail

mid semester board

The Bison

sketch i did in basic design class bored out of my mind during my 1st semester of freshman year. i was inspired by the stance of a bison

theme development

ahh the wonders of photoshop. a quick selection of the cabin and i instantly changed the proportions...... theres a lot that could be taken from this... these could be different vehicles or the cabin could move to fit multiple functions

A dream I had last night....

so i was researching GM design studios the other day and i found one in Port Melbourne, Australia. that night i had a dream that i was working as a car designer drawing rear wheel drive muscle cars and big V8 utes all day, not to mention being payed for it. being from detroit, im sick and tired of snow. i hope to god that one day i find myself driving down an australian highway in my camaro blasting highway to hell, honoring my favorite rockers from down under, on my way to work with the ocean breeze in my face. i consider this very dream the reason im at school to become a car designer  :)

early development stages of the guitar design.

this is the first photoshop of the guitar im designing. after a weekend of sketching and 30 pages later, ive built a quick alias model and slapped a gibson sg neck on it in photoshop. the inspiration comes from the shape of ww2 bombs dropped from b-17 flying fortresses. much more to come with this one, and an actual working model built of high quality wood (preferably mahogany). i will probably end up using gibson tuners and p-90 pickups on it. it should sound pretty nice, and be something a little different than normal guitars. im really excited to get this project going in my free time, its going to be the bomb ;)

my wall

I'm glad they painted the wall green, it matches my military theme and graphics! im not gonna lie, i thought it was kind of lame at first, but it works out great!!

a page of jeep sketches.

theres hundreds more where these came from.......... ill just have to sift thru all of them and make a collage for my blog so you can see my sketch direction

Project spectrum

so here's an overview of the direction I will be taking in my project. this basically explains the two ends of the design spectrum, from mild to wild. I plan on taking all of the wild inspiration and sketches from the right end of the spectrum and the more "today" looking jeep DNA and sketches from the left end and creating something that will end up in the middle- the best of both worlds, A jeep that shows both edgy and modern styling cues while at the same time showing the function based design attributes that jeeps have always had.

Sophomore Project: Design a Jeep for 2025

so here's my first product board for my sophomore project. pretty simple graphics, a customer profile, and some pix i found that inspire the form language i'm going for

Mustang side view

some renderings from my first year

 Front 3/4 renderings done in Photoshop CS4

Freshman work