Thursday, May 13, 2010

scribble scribble


venting out my solidworks frustration with this. it kinda reminds me of wen i was in kindergarden, i was coloring with crayons for the first time... and some kid called me out for scribbling. then the teacher told me to stop. and i was like, 'im not scribbling!!'

ppl still tell me to stop scribbling and stop sucking... but i guess now my response would be... 'screw you... im gonna scribble cuz i feel like it. and im gonna make u look at it too.'

Sunday, May 2, 2010

painting... on my new macbook pro!



painting on my new macbook pro is definitely better than my old macbook.. bigger screen, and i can work at a much higher resolution... perfect time to level up my skills!

Thursday, April 15, 2010

Friday, April 2, 2010

meat grinder

recently started a video game project... scifi first person shooter called meat grinder. its just started up in early concept phase. this is some of the stuff ive done so far...


anybody wanna help out, email me! we r especially in need of character designers and level designers...

Saturday, March 6, 2010

form/style study, 3/5/10



created a form by putting down random lines... rendered it out a bit... trying to get less of a painterly style and more of a rendering style out of this brush.... same brush i used in the previous post....

my goal.. have better understanding of form, be better at style.. trans majors seem to have those things down.. time to step it up...

Monday, March 1, 2010

robot, 2/28/10



just spent the evening with a sketching group.. 'Studio L'... earlier they told me to work the color some more... this was the result after i got home and added a couple quick filters... i should also add some more detail but o well... next time... gotta keep practicing....



my "setup" ;)

Saturday, February 20, 2010

back in action!

abstract form studies... goin back to hand sketches... feels really weird and fun at the same time... i like this technique... brush pen/ballpoint. lately ive been interested in zaha hadid's parametricist forms.... fun fun fun....

Monday, February 8, 2010

new coroflot portfolio!

i just uploaded some of my work up on coroflot these past couple days. its already been getting some pretty good feedback so far! its about time i put myself out there... ahh i just keep wishing i had more polished work to show off...

i really feel like im part of the new generation of designers now... especially seeing how much my sketch techniques differ from the old school designers... i learned those old school techniques from teachers, too... just that its different now that we're on the same playing field.

as part of the new generation i guess its my responsibility to push for new and better ways to design... wish me luck... and hope i dont starve to death cuz of my idealistic nature~



view my portfolio:
coroflot.com/nelsonwah

Thursday, December 24, 2009

sketchbook stuff

back to pencil on paper.... feel like i gotta take a break from the tablet... after going totally digital last term...






and these were from before the term that i guess i never posted...



Monday, December 14, 2009

turkey, 12/14/09


quick photo study... i think i lost some of my painting skills these past several wks with finals and all -_-;;... but still learning... trying to get back into it...

Wednesday, December 9, 2009

done with finals!

this is my product 2 final.. the project turned out pretty well i think... want to come back to it later on to do the environments...

^ final presentation model 

^ this was the other environment i was working on for the environment design class.... slowly getting better with details....


Wednesday, December 2, 2009

robots




had my final for robotics class 2day...

Tuesday, November 24, 2009

black is my favorite color...

im starting to look more like a product designer...

my model rendered in bunkspeed hypershot.... my first time using this software... pretty sweet!

wut i like about my design.... it looks nice from every angle ;)





Saturday, November 21, 2009

moretta

an update on my concept fashion hotel.... my solidworks model... a clothing rack... for the shopping experience... 



starting ideations for interior concepts...

itll b something in between venetian carnival and modern style.... so many things ive never done b4... its sink or swim time!

Tuesday, November 10, 2009

wip



this week's environment hw... gotta detail and refine this for next wk... i dunno why i have trouble with details -_-;;

need to start practicing this on my own after the term ends.... 

Tuesday, October 27, 2009

environment color studies...

 


these were for this wk's hw for the environment class.. color studies... 

a color comp i started but didnt get around to refining... i feel like my thumbs are always better than my refinements in a way... i guess i really need to improve my detailing skills...

Tuesday, October 13, 2009

environment thumbs


this was our first hw assignment for james paick's environment design class at concept design academy. pretty fun class... makes me wanna switch over to entertainment hahaha....

the last 3 thumbs are sparth master copies... the rest are my own.

Wednesday, September 16, 2009

hotel concepts, fall09 wk1

designing hotels this term for my product studio class. heres some of this week's blue sky concept sketches..

i call this one waterfall city... concept was a cavernous type living environment that makes u feel like u are standing underneath a waterfall. waterfalls could serve as partitions separating indoor spaces, also can diffuse open spaces to feel more intimate.


secret garden.. concept was a romantic intimate environment. the space is supposed to give you the experience of feeling like you are the only two people in the world.

Thursday, September 3, 2009

base, 9/2/09


i worked on this design on and off this wk... kept making changes to it... it started off as an interior at first then turned into an outdoor shot... then i made it evening instead of daytime... pretty fun just playing around with it, but got sick of working on the same piece so i just called it finished...

Sunday, August 23, 2009

dwell, 8/23/09



this started off as one of those generic sci-fi environment compositions but then i worked the architecture a bit and it came out slightly less generic sci-fi...