9 August 20112 Comments

A pie in the oven.

Sunbeam 1000 H.P. Speed Record Car

Sunbeam 1000 H.P. Land Speed Record Car

Sunbeam 1000 hp Land Speed Record car

You know how cooking shows always seem to have a perfect version of the final cooked dish waiting in the oven? Artists need them sometimes too.

This is my “pie in the oven” for an Autodesk Sketchbook Pro demonstration that I’m giving tomorrow at the Grafisch Lyceum Rotterdam. Even though I’ll be doing a real-time walkthrough of my process for creating a digital illustration in SBP, it always helps to have a version that you know will come out right in the end. This illustration of the 1926 Land Speed Record setting Sunbeam “1000 hp” car took me about 2 hours to complete and uses various techniques that I’ll be able to highlight during my presentation if my “drawing hand” doesn’t show up when I do tomorrow afternoon.

Tricks of the trade aren’t just for celebrity chefs.

30 July 2010No Comments

The Scientist – Brick by Brick

Illustration for The Scientist magazine feature article, February 2009. Created using Autodesk Sketchbook Pro.

29 July 2010No Comments

Bugatti Royale in the Snow.

Bugatti Royale in the snow. Exploratory sketch for 2008 Christmas card.

16 September 2009No Comments

SketchBook Pro goes mobile

I've been playing with it for months on my iPhone, but now it's gone public – Autodesk's Sketchbook Mobile is coming to the app store. A fantastic addition to the digital designer's workflow, this is the drawing app you've been waiting for if you're a professional designer or digital artist.

Check out Carl Alviani's article about it on Core77, and I'll be putting up my impressions soon.

10 June 2009No Comments

Autodesk releases me

Autodesk sent out a press release yesterday about all the love it's getting in the Mac community, and guess what? They quoted me. As "a creator of iconic technical illustrations"

Nice. Thanks Autodesk.

24 February 2009No Comments

Sketchbook Pro 2010 announced

©2009 Andrew Meehan

©2009 Andrew Meehan

I've been a beta-testing Autodesk's Sketchbook Pro for years now (since version 2), so I'm really excited to see the new version (2010) is getting released soon. Sketchbook is a lightweight, fast, digital sketching software that I use every day in my workflow. If you've never tried it, you owe it to yourself to download the free trial here.

There's also a great article outlining some of the new features coming out in the 2010 release on Autodesk's AREA. The ellipse and rulers have changed my life.

This is really a great product that not a lot of artists and designers know about, and that's a shame. So check it out. It's cheap, it's great, and you'll never go back to sketching in Photoshop.

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