Week 2 Lecture

Michael Rinaldi

Michael Rinaldi

Model Tank Artist

http://www.rinaldistudiopress.com/

Peter Han

Peter Han

Concept Artist

http://www.peterhanstyle.com/

Fieldtrip Locations

Tanks and Military Vehicles 

 http://www.tankland.com/

Petersen Museum Cars & trucks 

http://petersen.org/

Autry Museum

https://theautry.org/

Automobile Driving museum 

http://www.automobiledrivingmuseum.org/

Travel Town 

http://www.traveltown.org/index.shtml

Planes of Fame

http://planesoffame.org/

Nethercutt Car Museum

http://www.nethercuttcollection.org/

Equipment

Sketchbook:

A spiral, hardbound sketchbook. It give one more room to swing and gives room for one to put more "poses" on the page. The regular cloth-bound sketchbook can't bend backwards without breaking the spine. Hardbound is good to stabilize the arm or to lean it on the railing, it's basically a good flat drawing surface. Here are some of the sketchbook I recommend, and personally use, out on the field.

Cottonwood:

http://www.cottonwoodarts.com/products/f1-vellum-dot-matrix-notebook-11x14

The following link shows a good sketchbook with a vellum that allows you to draw over an under drawing, good for muscular anatomy over skeleton drawing.

Aquabees:

The second one is Aquabees, this sketchbook hold wet medium well and regular drawing utensils. It can be bought in any art store like Blick and Utrecht.

Komtrak:

Lastly I also use Komtrak, this one you would have to order on your own since it's not sold in regular stores.

As for drawing utensils, I suggest trying out several kinds of pencils, brush pens, pens, and markers, also something that travels easily. Be aware that different brands of pencils (colored or  not) have different hardness and waxyness. Here are some supplies that I use.

Various brush pens:

Brush pens have tips that vary from very thin, fine lines to wide strokes that simulate painting, plus with the water brushes you can fill them with ink to get some nice washes over your drawings (assuming the under drawing is not a pencil or something that smears easily with water).

Pencils:
Blackwing Pencils, Fabercastell Polychromos Pencils, Prismacolor colored pencils, etc.
Different pencils are made differently and feel different when using it, not to mention that the value of them can vary as well.

Erasers:

Pens: 

Closeup of Pens:

Closeup of white gel pens:

Week 1 Assignment

Of these 7 pages, two of them are instructional "how to" pages. I'm looking for you to do the simple parallel 1/4 page to full page wide pages, the diagonal, the compound angle, the two curvy pages and one ellipse page. Make the ellipses simple at this point. Better that you get the repetitiveness and rhythm of making the lines (straight and curved)rather than filling the page up with a crazy, confusing mess. Use pencil (no erasing) and pen.

Page 1

Page 2

Page 3

Page 4

Page 5

Page 6

Page 7

    Also bring in one or two pieces of simple handheld office or kitchen tools (no silverware, etc...). Make it substantive and hopefully one with angles and curved forms. I sent an attachment to look at. 

Example of Office Gear