Ship thumbnails for BLAST

I had to add an image after going for three in a row with only text.

These little guys are for the book BLAST I'm working on with Annis and Danny.

Cheers,

Scott.

Interview in 3D Artist this month.

I did an 8 page interview about DRIVE in 3D Artist magazine.

Click here to read it!

no eBay for awhile...

I'm getting busy and I need to focus so I'm taking a break from selling anymore of my originals on eBay.

Cheers,

Scott.

Art Center presentation next week, all welcome.

March 29th, 1:00PM - 2:00PM, L.A. Times Auditorium

Art Center College of Design
1700 Lida Street
Pasadena, CA 91103

Scott Robertson, graduate of ACCD and author of DRIVE, Lift Off and Start Your Engines, talks about creativity, thematic styling and tools and techniques of vehicle design!

Q & A and book signing to follow presentation.

Please RSVP HERE.

4 new pages on eBay

Here are the 4 latest offerings on eBay.

Cheers,

Scott.

this week on eBay...

Kind of busy this week.

So only two to share.

Click here to go to eBay auction.

only 4 on eBay this week

Busy, so only putting 4 new pages for next week up on eBay.

The ones sold today are heading to Australia, Florida, and New York.

Cheers.

next round for eBay!

The last auction has closed and these are the next up for sale.

The last sketches will soon be heading out to Austria, the UK, Florida, Georgia, New York and California. Thanks to those of you who put in a bid!

Here is the link to next week's auction: drawthrough eBay auction

Cheers!

next wave of work for sale on Ebay

Hi All,

Thanks to those of you who placed a bid on the first round of work for sale on Ebay this year. All six pieces sold and they just left today for new homes in the UK, California, Ohio and Florida! Here are the next bunch of sketches for sale. I'm going to try and get in the habit of posting new items each week for sale on Ebay on Thursdays or Fridays for 7 day auctions. If there is a specific piece you are interested in buying from one of my books let me know or make me an offer. Here is the link to this week's auction, click here.

Cheers.

BLAST WIP

Here's rendering I'm working on for BLAST. It started with a quick brush pen sketch and then spiraled out of control to this point. I'll make few more tweaks before it is print ready.

Cheers.

First 6 for Ebay

Here are the first six originals I have chosen to put up for sale on Ebay. As you can see the range is all over the place, an old pirate ship done with markers and black and white gouache, a funky retro sports car done with wax pencil and chalk, pen sketches for the other cars, wax pencil for the airplane and a bunch of hovercraft done with ballpoint and gouache. Most of these have shown up in various DSP books. I'll get the Ebay page set up over the weekend. Until then consider this your advance peek!

Drawings now on Ebay!

Click here to bid: Robertson sketches on Ebay.

Cheers.

Originals on sale soon.

Hello All,

I was looking through my flat files last weekend and decided that it was a waste to have all of my originals camped in there hidden from view. I've identified about 340 pages of work I am going to start offering for sale on my "drawthrough ebay page." The work varies a lot from demos done for my DVDs and classes I have taught at Art Center to pieces published in Start Your Engines, Lift Off, Alien Race, Concept Design 1 and 2 and most recently DRIVE. I might keep a small number of pages for myself but I think that teachers around the world could use these as examples for their students and some would look nice framed hanging on the wall. If you have enjoyed my traditional media work in the Design Studio Press books and on my blog and website then just sign up to the mailing list on the drawthrough site to be notified as the work goes on sale or just follow this blog. I'll start posting the work this weekend.

Cheers,

Scott.

bot WIP

As you might have been able to deduce by my lack of posts since mid November that I've been working on several freelance jobs I cannot talk about, hence the lack of personal work to share here. I found this one floating around waiting to be finished for the robot book I'll be doing with Ben Mauro and John and Daniel Park.

That's it for now...back to the freelance work.

Cheers,

Scott

A special thanks to all of you who have picked up a copy of DRIVE so far. You are very directly helping to make similar books like that one happen again in the future. Most appreciated!

DRIVE back on track!

Yes! Finally after almost a month, DRIVE makes it through customs! That means the bulk shipment is now on its way to our warehouse back east and books will start to ship very soon off of our website and to our normal retailers.

Sorry for the slight delay.

DRIVE stalled!

I was enthusiastic to report that DRIVE had arrived early, which it did, but now I'm sad to report that customs has placed the warehouse shipment on examination hold, where it has been for the past 3 weeks on the east coast!

At this time, you may only purchase a limited number of copies at the following west coast locations: Hennessey and Ingalls, Swain’s, Autobooks-Aerobooks, Gnomon School of Visual Effects, Nucleus, Art Center College of Design Bookstore and Stuart Ng.

I look forward to updating you with a post that the books are available to order/purchase everywhere soon...

DRIVE arrives early!

Part of the bulk shipment of DRIVE arrived this week to Design Studio Press a couple of weeks early. Nice to get one in ahead of schedule! The rest of the bulk shipment going to our east coast warehouse is currently going through customs. We hope to still beat our official release date of November 10th. When the bulk clears customs we will start to fill our website orders. If you want a copy of the book before that, Stuart Ng just left here with a box of softcovers http://www.stuartngbooks.com/ and a box of each soft and hard will be delivered to the Art Center student store later today.

I was to be on my way to Lucca, Italy last night for the great Lucca Comics and Games festival. Unfortunately I've been under the weather this month and my doctor has grounded me so I will not be at the DSP booth this year. In my place I have flown Chirs Ayers, author/artist of "The Daily Zoo 1 & 2" to Italy to take my place at the booth.

DRIVE will be sold there starting this Friday. We had the text translated into Italian and printed as a black and white document to be given away with each book. So, if you happen to be going to Lucca this weekend for the show, I'm sorry I will not see you this year. I plan to be there again next year with another new book or two.

Oh yeah, almost forgot the collectible slipcased version of DRIVE, limited to 250 signed and numbered copies, each personalized with a sketch will be available only through our website starting this Friday.

DRIVE advance copy #1

The first advance copy of DRIVE just arrived and it looks great. Nice to see it in book form. Always a little nervous opening the package for the first time, but all's well and I'm happy to announce that it looks like 4 boxes of advance soft covers were delivered to CCS in Detroit this morning, meaning that there should be 48 soft covers for sale at 4:30pm tomorrow afternoon outside the auditorium where I will also be signing them before my presentation of the book at 6pm. These will be the only books sold publicly before the release date of November 10th. Hope to see you there. Off to the airport!

5 more ship sketches

Off to CCS tomorrow to present DRIVE and do a two day workshop for the Trans Grad students so probably no new posts after this one until the weekend. Looks like 40 or so books are currently on the way to Detroit! Fingers crossed they make it. Should know tomorrow for sure. Oh yeah, these sketches are 10% grey marker first followed up by the black brush pen again.

quick flight to abstractville

Had to get something a bit more original on my blog today other than a photograph, so here's a quick abstracted ship sketch.

Not much time for sketching and rendering today, as I'm off to visit with the students at Humber Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning, aka HITAL. Sounds like a good name for a sci-fi bot manufacturing outfit!

early morning

Since my next bot is not quite ready for posting yet.

Here's an image from this last weekend's photo trip.

Any guesses as to the location?

single seater

A late night post to finish the week!

ship warm up sketches

Starting to get back into sketching ships again, revisiting some past ideas. Same technique as previous post.