FREE Tutorial Fridays...now number 38 + new book + Taiwan workshops

I've been swamped finishing the "How to Draw" book and so my blog has had no updates for far too long. As well as finishing the book I've been posting one FREE tutorial every Friday to my You Tube channel, check it out and help spread the word. Heading out to Asia for the next 3 weeks this Friday. I'll be hosting and teaching a series of workshops in Taiwan under the SRW-Asia brand. Come see us there if you are near there.

Back to work on the book!

Speaking at CCS on Monday Feb. 18th.

All be making a presentation on my creative techniques and inspiration Monday the 18th at 6pm at the College for Creative Studies in Detroit. Talk is open to the public but you will need to RSVP here. Hope to see you there.

CGMW webinar today: Sunday, February 10th.

I'll be doing a live webinar interview TODAY at 1pm Los Angeles time. Please join me and ask some good questions! You can sign up for it HERE.

footwear digital sketches

I just recently turned my design attention towards designing footwear and here are 20 teaser examples of my quick "upper" sketches. These are of course developed with different tools than traditional media sketches but due to the speed I can generate them and the often loose gestural nature they end up having they are technically just sketches even though they are photo-real. Used as a means to stimulate new aesthetic directions I think the are pretty fun. So fun in fact that I did 700+ of them last week.

Recent Instagraming...

Here's what's been going on on my Instagram account over the last few weeks. You can follow me there as scoro5.

New You Tube channel content.

By the way I've been updating my You Tube channel with lots of lectures and tutorials. I'm going to try to continue posting something each week, usually on Fridays. Check out the latest here.

Environment Sketching step-by-step

Working on a step-by-step environment sketching demo for the "How to" books.

Interview with Bobby Chiu of Schoolism.

Here is an interview I did a few weeks ago with Bobby Chiu. We chatted about drawing, rendering, design and the online course I'm currently teaching at Schoolism.

Facebook images

Here are a couple of images I uploaded to my FB page yesterday.  These are quick colorizing and weathering tutorials for my Schoolism course. To learn why the yellow one says BRoba design check out my FB page.

FREE lectures

I've just posted another FREE design lecture on how to improve your visual library. Parts 1 and 2 out of 3 are now up. Watch for part 3 next week. Link to lectures.

A few higher resolution

Here are 11 of the 114 sketches I did while on the East coast the last couple of weeks. I was asked if I would share some of them at a higher resolution than what I was able to do via my iPhone with Instagram last week. By the way the largest sketch, in the upper left, on this page measures ~4" in width within my sketchbook. These are all ballpoint pen sketches. Some with a Copic marker T-0 block-in to get me started. I hope you enjoy them.

render time

I had to take a break from all the sketching and throw down some value on one of them. Done in Photoshop.

a bunch of fresh new sketches!

This week as I've been here on the East coast I've had time to work on new content for my "How to Draw" book. I've been sharing these new marker and pen sketches via my Instagram account (scoro5) and then onto my FB page. Next week when back in LA I'll scan a few pages from my sketchbook and post them here at a higher resolution. In the meantime if you are interested you can see the sketches in this FB photo album.

Copic marker - environment thumbnails

Here are the full sketch pages I selected from for my latest Instagrams.

Tools used: Jimnie Light ballpoint pen, Pilot hi-tec .025, Copic markers, black and white gouache all sketched within a Strathmore hardcover sketchbook.

Orb ship has landed!

Michael over Industria Mechanika just sent this over to me. My Orb ship has arrived and looks great...now to find the time to build it! Maybe during the holidays?

BTW only 6 left for sale now in the first run, as of 5pm LA time on Oct. 20th!

And now they are all sold out! They might be back in stock in a few months.

Just for fun!

Can't forget to just have fun now and again. Original sketch is on some very old, not so good vellum and the one with the dark background is a quick Photoshop paint over of the original.

more instagram

For the live feed and to see all of my images find me on Instagram as scoro5.