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Marine Design: Airborne Rescue Watercraft Concept

2010-09-19T23:30:00.000-07:00

Final project for Marine Design course, first ever held in art center. Most of the colleagues and instructors liked my idea and supported me throughout the finishing line. Presentation was held on the bridge, which is a great chance to showcase my hardwork :)

Learning Digital Painting

2010-09-19T22:55:00.000-07:00

Indicative illustration based on a photograph. This took some time, but the result was not too bad. From viscom 5 with Ian Cartabiano.

Ad-Pages for ADult entertainment convention :p

2010-09-19T22:46:00.000-07:00

Developed out of a one-week assignment in "Creative Strategies" with Mr. Fridolin Besert. The strategy was cross-polination; so I fused "adult expo" and "macro-photography" together. There are more to the set, but these three were the successful ones.

Early photoshop attempts

2010-09-19T22:41:00.000-07:00

Hyundai Mini-Limo Project

2010-09-19T22:31:00.000-07:00

Runaway project from fourth term. Never was sure how this flying-butress mini-limo going to turn out...

Overdue: The only architectural model I've ever built

2010-09-19T22:18:00.001-07:00

Did this during first term. It was for one of those filler classes that forced us to learn google sketchup. This particular project was to design a facade for a store on Colorado Blvd.in (Oldtown) Pasadena. I choose to re-do the Rusnak/Audi dealership :P

"napkin" sketch!

2010-09-19T22:12:00.000-07:00

Part of a short group assignment for "History of Automotive"... primitive sketching, but fun to do nonetheless.

Solidworks Product/Ad-page Exercises

2010-09-19T21:57:00.000-07:00

Splash pages for my first product design related course. The BOSS perfume bottle was the midterm. The subsonix speaker shell was a quick project that ended up being a part of my final presentation. Last but not least, architecture inspired crystal fruit plates (but the models are made of laser-cut acrylics). Thinking of making a whole mag spread for Crate & Barrel with the plates...

Fun with Stewie!

2010-09-05T00:23:00.000-07:00

Old assignment back from term 2, but I still have them displayed at home.
Just poking harmless fun at Warhol, Rembrandt, Picasso...

Overdue Viscom Issue: Alfa Romeo TIpo 33 "Stradale"

2010-09-04T19:08:00.000-07:00

My all-time favorite automobile.
Alfa Romeo Tipo-33 Stradale.
So rare, that apparently less than 20 was made.

Overdue Viscom Issue : Lamborghini Miura Engine Monochromatic

2010-09-04T19:02:00.000-07:00

I meant to post some work last year, but never got around to it. So here they come. Beginning with Velazco's engine rendering assignment, this is a close up for Miura's crazy v-12.

Finally posting.

2010-09-04T17:56:00.000-07:00

From now on, I'm dedicating this blog as a pre-website work screening. While I'm going to be struggling to create my own web-space from scratch, everything else that I will be publishing will be here first.

The next step

2009-10-16T22:23:00.000-07:00

is to inject my DNA into the designs I create.

Beginning Alias: 4th Week

2009-10-10T20:56:00.000-07:00

Just being lazy. I always wanted to do swarovski something.

Beginning Alias: 3rd Week

2009-10-10T20:44:00.000-07:00

Some wheel design exercise. I really needed to get BBS webs to get out of my head, so there. I think I'm keeping the architecture inspired wheel for later projects.

Beginning Alias: 1st Week

2009-10-10T20:36:00.001-07:00

First Week of Digital 3D Modeling. We have Nik Stefanov as instructor. Cool guy, cool class. Alias Autodesk is definitely a beatdown to learn from scratch. But rendering it with HyperShot was really fast. Maybe I should post some sketches preluding these models.

Viscom IV: 4th Week

2009-10-10T20:26:00.000-07:00

Muscle Week. The rebel wins.

Viscom IV: 3rd week

2009-10-10T20:19:00.000-07:00

This time I was able to control the lighting a little bit. Design-wise it is a little too simple. I think I went too happy with those black chalk, my overall rendering quality came too dark. But thank god for photoshop right.
I also received a warning to never ever do a warped extreme perspective again...

Viscom IV: 2nd week

2009-10-10T20:12:00.000-07:00

Again, speedform inspired vehicles. I added drop shadow, panel cuts, and quick glass/interior indication to add "believability" to them. The lighting needed to be more focused into a "featured" area of design. Maybe next time.

2009-10-10T20:07:00.000-07:00

These are work examples from my first week in Viscom 4. Speedform inspired vehicles. The crit were great, I was immediately aware of my shortcomings... seems that I did these too fast.

3.5 Term Update.

2009-10-10T15:26:00.001-07:00

why am I following my own blog? I'm updating works from Visual Communication 4 and Alias soon.

End of Term 3

2009-08-15T22:23:00.001-07:00

With the end of Term 3, I posted my canson sketches from R. Pietruska's class. The skyscraper environment backdrop was the class' final. The class dubbed it "Giant Sombrero with Planet Mexico Looming Over". Richard tried to be nice in terms of grading, but I don't think I deserve it. All throughout the term, I've given less than 50% effort due to many excuses, and if anything, I learned more about what NOT to do in his class...Term 3 was a bit tough, but only because I was too damn distracted with so much bs. No more of that next time. Peace out!

Marker Techniques viscom 3

2009-08-15T22:18:00.001-07:00

Some marker techniques from viscom 3 with Richard Pietruska. This class is your bread and butter rendering course.

Cutaway Sketch

2009-08-15T22:06:00.000-07:00

These are one of the sketches I "recycled" between Interior and Exterior 3 classes. Ricky liked it, but not Mike, because they're not exactly a view from the inside. I personally loved it, the marker work wasn't much, but it shows the driver's space well.

2009-08-13T02:25:00.001-07:00

Trying to post pictures... for the lack of readily available sketches, I'm posting the clay speedform I did from Spring '09. Picture is taken by the Sinclair pavilion at ACCD.
I'm quite happy with the result, which is rare. Some classes in the first two terms were such turn-offs.
I might have been the only one painting the sculpture black...

Commitment

2009-08-11T00:40:00.000-07:00

Finally blogging.
Hopefully this will serve its intended purpose, which is to help me "commit" into my works a little more. I guess from now on I can't be too shy to show my true colors...(pun intended but I don't think it works).