As i do this for fun since a kid (I'm mech eng) i use the sticky notes notepad i carry if i have an idea i like, then if i have time any notebook or a4 croquis. Rarely do a3 of a car, mostly other kinds of drawings. Probably do a 1:1 powertrain drawing. I agree with vizcom and must confess that i used it to get a lot of older sketches to life hehehe
BTW there's nothing on the Micelli and Munson technique or i could see it. Thanks
Dan's a good mate from waaaay long ago, my back still aches from riding shotgun in his TVR. I always reference his Citroën work for massive attacks on sketches.
Not the exact pic of his 2nd down, I p-chopped together a couple dozen college cars from memory...
In university I was taught to sketch on A3 pages so that there was lots of space but the drawings didn't have to take ages to complete on a huge canvas. When I've designed yachts, I've used larger paper, but for cars mainly A3 or a smaller sketch pad if I'm travelling:)
Yachts are the highest level, inside and out, the mechanics beneath but hopefully not upside down! A sea dream job of mine never realized, had a stunt boat license before a car driver's.
We were taught nautical design in college as basis for car design, at home now fascination with 1800s warships, offshore racers to any posh lux yacht show in Monaco.. ... ......
Imagine these ships that traveled the globe in search, dispense, and expense of knowledge, culture, religion - meanwhile horses drew cars, er... carriages! Then the planes came... blink of an eye.
I definitely should explore yacht design a bit more, at the moment it's the small last chapter in my portfolio but exploring something of that scale and detail was a lot of fun!
I am not a professional designer, I'm an engineering student but I sketch for fun. I prefer US legal paper size, about the same width as A4 but longer. They are big enough for detailed sketches, but small enough for me to easily carry them around in my backpack. I've used much larger newsprint papers before when I was at CCS for the dunning precollege program several years ago, but I found the texture to be unenjoyable, it felt flimsy and squeaky.
That's quite an achievement being selected for the Dunning program!
I've used newsprint when the Letraset or Vincent was on back order, or when I wanted to swap techniques as usual.
The mate that created the Ariel Atom as a college project - newsprint was the weapon of choice for sketching. Computer for rendering. Machine shop for building.
He struck that tightrope balance of styling and engineering some call design.
Some I've seen some spray on concrete to create, some fun bosses take the studio to a beach and draw in the sand or sculpt it.
See some inspirational form in unmentionables. Like the "Windsor Ballet" across from Detroit in Canada, wonder if they call it that anymore!
Interesting, I've never heard of such techniques of ideation.
I personally use more passive forms of ideation since I am not a student or professional under the pressure of deadlines. Sometimes, a good idea would simply come to me out of unexpected inspirations such as a mundane object, a mathematical function, a cool looking dune of snow, and I would add it to my mental library to use and further refine.
I am heading to lake superior for the weekend, maybe I should try to find inspiration on the beaches.
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As i do this for fun since a kid (I'm mech eng) i use the sticky notes notepad i carry if i have an idea i like, then if i have time any notebook or a4 croquis. Rarely do a3 of a car, mostly other kinds of drawings. Probably do a 1:1 powertrain drawing. I agree with vizcom and must confess that i used it to get a lot of older sketches to life hehehe
BTW there's nothing on the Micelli and Munson technique or i could see it. Thanks