Rocketship sketch (and my retirement from #Daily365)
Last weekend I bought a nice heavy weight sketch pad and some new technical drawing pens, and I’ve finally had some time to sketch something. I’m not thrilled with the wonky proportions and I rushed some of the details, but I’m generally happy with the result, considering I haven’t sat down to draw something like this in years!
Penguin on the Moon #Daily365
This is the most reluctant I have been to post one of my daily designs. There’s an amusing picture here, but I really wanted to pay more attention to the details, add stars and the Earth in the background, some more craters, fix some of the colours … the list goes on, but I simply don’t have any more time today.
Retro cassette icon freebie #Daily365
Password incorrect #Daily365
[Second post attempt - I forgot to attach the picture to the first!]
Living in a Box World #Daily365
Feeling rough, I called in sick today. On the plus side, I got to spend a bunch of time tweaking today’s daily design. I’m quite pleased with the stick-robots, so may use them again!
Bootleg Falcon - my #thingaweek and #Daily365 for Sunday
I’ve decided that doing a daily design and a Thing a Week is a bit much work for someone who doesn’t do design or photography for a living, so I am going to be counting one photograph every week as a daily design, starting with this one.
George Lucas had a $150,000 contract for writing and directing Star Wars, but he cannily insisted on 40% of merchandising - something the studio agreed to because they had no idea of what a phenomenon the franchise would become. In just the first year 42 million small action figures were sold.
Lucas once said that the shape of the Millennium Falcon was inspired by a hamburger. This toy pictured however is a bootleg, and would not have profited the Star Wars empire at all. The ship behind is a Nostromo knockoff from Alien.
Dodgems #Daily365
Another uninspired day, so another in my series of ‘fontographs’.
Bath time #Daily365
Today’s daily design makes use of my earlier penguin cartoon, and adds another little guy who looks like he wanted a bath. I’ve tried to reference a little of the style of old-school animations, by making it look like the background was painted on a separate layer. Sadly, the direction of light is inconsistent on these two because I drew the smaller chap facing the other way and flipped him at a later stage, when I didn’t have the time or inclination to redraw the shadows.
Welsh Twitter dragon #Daily365
A bit of a cheat today - this design wasn’t created entirely this evening. In fact, it’s about three evening’s work (see other posts from last September).
Adventures in Space and Time #Daily365
This was one of those designs where I had the basic concept nailed in ten minutes, and then spent ages refining it. I’m still not entirely satisfied, but happy enough to leave it here. That said, I may revisit this in another daily design and produce a magazine cover or something.
Mixed signals #Daily365
Happy Birthday Sir Isaac Newton #Daily365
A simple daily design today, in honour of Isaac Newton, born this day in 1643.
Rarr! #Daily365
Not so happy with this one, but I guess that’s the deal with the daily design: learn, move on, do another one tomorrow.
Freedom #Daily365
Today’s daily design. Not much inspiration this evening, so I produced another image for my typographs series.
Dok-torr? My first daily design #Daily365
Smashing Magazine has an article encouraging designers to produce a something every day. This is my first effort. I was ‘inspired’ by the recent Doctor Who finale, and by Comicraft’s big font sale (which is still on as I write this, so act quick if you want some great fonts for only $20.10).
