molly near completion

there. seriously. think I've got the background colour and eyes down for this piece. I've got less then a forth cutting left. yay for me.

sketch: school project

a ongoing school project but I doubt the other groups doing this project have found their way here... markers on second sketch got messed up. they bled tremendously.

this is a USB sender and receiver for controlling electronic devices in your home from your computer. it's meant to be able to do schedule tasks and receiving input from around the home. USB connection is on the back and a 12V plug in front to amplify signal if needed.

basic idea behind the design; slim and easy to bring along with your portable computer. people move away from stationed computers more and more so why create a product that only helps to lock one at place? essential for the product is that it must be very cheap to produce since the market is very young.

for the even more super nerds, it's symmetrical both at length and from the middle out, so only one of two parts need to be produced. the shape makes it ideal to withstand torque compared to a flat one. that allows us to cut down on the material. all in all it adds up to a slim, cheap product that just might look kinda appealing too(?). might add some of the other rejected sketches too at a later stage.

I'm out.

project: free art stuff

flowers, 'cause I'm all fresh out of hate

all in all I'm very pleased with the piece, some people have problems with halftone patterns but from the blind-test I did very few people had an actual problem. close to none to be frank.

almost no underspray at all, beside where I was aiming to get some. my goal was to get underspray at the lightest colour of orange to give some glow effect to the flower. didn't quite end up as I wanted. this is the piece that will lay the foundation to my "free art stuff"-project. looking forward.

sneak preview

next project looks something as seen in the picture. it will not be halftone based on dots though. due to lack of appropriate tools I'll postpone that until further notice. bear with me, the finished piece wont be nothing like this.

anyhow, not sure if I should be sharing process snap shots or just present the finished piece when it's done. beside that... I'm considering adding a series of deviantART submission featuring some of my favorite pieces at that site, credit and link including each post of course. any thoughts on this?

picture taken by Elin and texture is done by KillxThexScenexStock over at deviantart.

toy car

so, frankly. I should have spent some time in photoshop with this one but alas, no. this is just a mock-up model of my toy car I made half a year back. the rear wheel is a ball so it allows 360 degrees turning. awesome. sketch here

the basic idea around the design was to make something that was industrial reproducible and yet appealing. clean cut design with some interesting angels beside the normal once, in example the wheel. its supposed to speak to the parents yet be funny for the kids so to say. the simple design and color worked like a charm on my sisters two and a half year old kid, or I think it did. that or he thought it was the flashiest thing I had available.

I also worked some with the idea to tilt the car while it turned, influenced by playsam, or making asymmetrical wheels like brios toys (ie. dachshund). or... spring-loaded centipede!

on a side note. I've been able to borrow a super amazing camera from a super amazing person(!). Finally some of my recent project will start to turn up here as well. cheerio

preview

short preview of two project I've laying around. due to me only having my mobile phone available to document the pieces I wont show of the full view at this time. but perhaps tomorrow, eh?