Monday, March 30, 2015
Monday, August 25, 2014
Wednesday, May 7, 2014
Saturday, January 25, 2014
Friday, January 10, 2014
Snow plows often cause more problems than they solve by shoving snow around. They bury cars, block in driveways, envelop small children in frigid masses of snow. We have put up with it throughout the years because we do require relatively clean roads to drive, but can't we improve on the simple snow plow? This is what I aimed to do with this concept.
The plow actually stores the snow and moves it instead of shoving it aside. The snow travels up the plow/ramp, under the cab, and into the back of the truck. The cab is held up by steel beams and "floats" anchored above the ramp to allow maximum visibility and the travel of snow. Because of this, the vehicle is required to be controlled electronically for things like steering, etc. Once the snow is inside the truck bed it is compacted into large blocks, much smaller than an uncompacted pile. Theses blocks can be put in areas out of the way. A certain amount could be dropped into a near by waterway and the rest can be place in areas where snow would normally be piled but at a fraction of the space.
This would prevent your neighbor across the street from hiring a plow to clean the front of her house, the plow from merely piling all the snow in front of her neighbors house, and in return him from having to hire a plow to dig himself out.
Friday, January 3, 2014
A video game controller I designed. It's main feature is that it's 8 main buttons are accessible while leaving the thumbs on the joysticks allowing one to move and rotate the camera and press said buttons at the same time.
Tuesday, November 19, 2013
Thursday, October 24, 2013
Tuesday, October 22, 2013
This time of the year I'm always in the mood to play resident evil 4. The game has some very beautiful designs and I wanted to do a piece inspired off of the castle area. This is a reading room in a castle or mansion type structure. I wanted to do a piece with lots of soft light hence the fire and lamp being the only light sources.
Monday, October 7, 2013
I decided to do three more characters in my medieval batman series. I did Robin, Bane, and Two Face. Robin has light armor and I pictured as a good archer. Bane obviously is an executioner. Two-face and Robin I took a little more liberty with. There isn't a medieval character that has half a face as far as I know so I had a little more freedom designing him and wasn't transposing him as I did with the other characters. Meaning, Joker to a jester, Bane to an executioner etc. I gave him a disfigured half face and armor on his right arm. I never liked the half and half costumes, and I feel this sort of hints at it without being completely obvious.
I also forgot to mention in the first post that I did these to test out scanning pencil drawings and manipulating them to look like ink drawings. The original batman was a 20 something minute sketch out of my sketchbook and the rest are similar amounts of time. The process still needs some tweaking, but I'd say it has promise.
Wednesday, October 2, 2013
I did a sketch of medieval batman and it got me to thinking batman would be really cool if it were set in that period. I really liked the idea so I decided to do a quick painting of it. After just finishing up a freelance job this was a nice little project of my own to do.
It really makes sense if you think about it. Bruce (or the medieval equivalent) would be rich so he could afford the suit of armor and stuff. Being that other criminals might not be able to afford armor for their henchmen it makes sense that he could beat up a horde of them if they are so out matched. His fighting skills would be even more useful because of the lack of guns. His batarang would fit in more with the medieval setting too. Plus his nick name is already the Dark Knight! Like I said, a lot of it makes sense.
I also did two of the villains. Penguin and Joker lend themselves to this era very well. Penguin obviously having the plague doctor mask and Joker equally obviously being a jester. I might make another sheet of more villains and maybe robin just because it was so fun.
It really makes sense if you think about it. Bruce (or the medieval equivalent) would be rich so he could afford the suit of armor and stuff. Being that other criminals might not be able to afford armor for their henchmen it makes sense that he could beat up a horde of them if they are so out matched. His fighting skills would be even more useful because of the lack of guns. His batarang would fit in more with the medieval setting too. Plus his nick name is already the Dark Knight! Like I said, a lot of it makes sense.
I also did two of the villains. Penguin and Joker lend themselves to this era very well. Penguin obviously having the plague doctor mask and Joker equally obviously being a jester. I might make another sheet of more villains and maybe robin just because it was so fun.
Thursday, September 5, 2013
A little battle area in a steel mill. In sort of a robot apocalypse scenario a group of people made a stronghold in this secluded area and managed to thrive. I've been working on this piece sporadically over the past couple of week taking breaks to do other pieces, so I'm glad to have this one done.
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