From the Drawings Unit
Been working on the Robot technology section of the ROBOTS book and I love how these are coming together.
This is just a taste of what's in the book! I'm pretty excited about how it's all coming together. More sneak peeks to come!
See the rest of the Robots Technology Section on Patreon: LINK
-Jake
From the Inspirational Thought Unit
My installment for the Inspirational thought Unit this week is A VIDEO!
My thesis for this video is that if you want to break through the noise of social media you need to be making things people must experience off of social media to provide a more genuine connection.
I have a lot more to say on this topic, so expect more videos.
-Jake
From the Industrial Design Desk
I've been collecting these as reference for a project that may never see the light of day. Figured I'd share these with you. One of the aesthetics I love more than anything is utilitarian industrial design with a focus on just getting the job done, and that being a canvas for striking color and graphic design meant purely for cosmetic reasons.
These helmets are all of that and I love them for it.
-Jake
From the Department of Space Exploration
There's this cluster of ten villages in remote northwest Russia where space debris falls from the sky. I just found out about this and thought it was so cool. They scavenge it for materials to either repurpose the material (like building a reindeer skin lined sled made out of titanium alloy sheets from rocket boosters) or cut it up and sell to buyers.
This is so niche post-apocalyptic-core I thought these were AI images at first. But I found several articles from 6 or 7 years ago that tell the story of these people. You can read those here: LINK and LINK
It’s not all fun and games though. Apparently, with space debris you get fuel toxins in your soil and water and a lot of these communities suffer from strange medical conditions. The Russian gov denies it's from their spent rockets. *eye-roll*
I think this is some solid inspiration for a cool sci-fi story. It practically writes itself.
-Jake
Chipping away at the ROBOTS book. Here's a handful of images made for the book I've recently finished coloring.
Can't wait to get this thing put all together and sent off to the printers!
PATREON: I'm posting my process for all my art on the patreon. If you'd love getting more behind the scenes content and learn a little more how I approach creativiy, project management, and business strategies I post over there at least one a week. Consider signing up!
From the Inspirational Thought Unit
Last week a friend of mine was writing a screenplay and having a rough day with it. He barely made a dent in it all day. Some days the sun rises and sets and the only progress you've made on your project was just thinking about it. We lamented to each other about how hard it is to be creative sometimes.
Then I said this to him:
"You know this already, but creating something from nothing is legit magic and writers have to do it everyday. So don’t feel bad that it’s actually hard some days."
I extend that same message to anyone who creates, not just writers.
The greatest event in history was when space, time, and matter all exploded onto the scene from nothing. Scientists are still trying to unlock that mystery and, as far as our instruments can detect, it's only happened once.
But in a way, it also happens every time you sit down to the drawing board and conjure up something where there was nothing.
Don't feel bad if it's actually hard some days.
-Jake
From the Illustrators Division
Toronto based 3d designer Pavel Postovoit's 80's futurism industrial design is a window into a future that never was. Right now he's just made these I've shared here, and I'm not sure what they're for, but I hope we get more.
Artstation: LINK
-Jake
From the Illustrators Division
Japanese illustrator Okamoto Kiichi (1888–1930) took the aesthetic of early 20th century European magazine illustration and filtered it through an eastern sensibility to give us these remarkable illustrations from the legendary illustrated children's magazine Kodomo no kuni. His designs still feel fresh almost 100 years later.
More here: LINK
-Jake
From the Department of Graphic Design
Found a nice collection of old logos put together by graphic designer Reagan Ray. This is a GOLDMINE. If you're into world building for your comic, video game, concept art, or whatever creative project you're working on, adding well thought out, appropriate logos make the world feel lived in and real.
If you're just a huge fan of graphic design in general, or an artist looking for ideas, you've got to check out Ray's website. It really is a gift.
He's collected them in different categories:
Science Fiction Movie Lettering
Check them out, but be careful, this is a potential day wrecker. You've been warned. I'm not responsible for any thing you didn't finish today because you got lost in logo design.
-Jake
From the Drawings Unit
Not going to bury the lead, so here you go: Steamboat Willie entered the public domain this year and I thought I'd refresh an old robot Mickey I designed several years ago and make a few variations of it. I present to you:
M1CK3Y
M1NN13
and
Steambot W1LL13
Should I do the Brave Little Tailor and Sorcerer’s Apprentice versions??
-Jake
