Season's Greeting to all, thanks to our hosts, and best wishes to everyone for productive digital doodling, designing, drawing and drafting in 2013!

Hi all, Back on the main blog you might well remember James' post about SubScribe Designer - the plugin from Astute Graphics. It was originally available only to current customers - but I noticed a couple of days ago it's now freely available to all. Well worth a download IMO. http://www.astutegraph...

Sorry to be late to the party on this one. I was going to comment earlier, but 'life' got in the way :) First, I've got to say I'd be really happy if this were mine. You've done a great job - especially on the metallic surfaces, but I think Jim is spot on: removing the drop shadow has really 'un-fla...

Hi Steven,
That's some futuristic looking studio you have there
How do you find the sharpness and useability of the TV compared to a regular monitor?

Hi James - thanks for the comments. Yes - the 'solid' end faces and the transparent body came off better than I could have hoped. Illustrating a product were the 'holes' are a significant feature proved tricker than I expected. Your edit comment is spot on. I needed to show that crossing drainage tu...

Don, Thanks for the kind words and encouragement - always appreciated. The grey cylinders are voids (100mm dia.) filled with a rubber material. They're designed to act as vibration dampers - and also have the benefit of reducing the overall weight of the slab. I always find it amazing how much scien...

Hi all, As the board's a little quiet, I thought I'd put up a recent job. Not the most exciting job I've ever done, but there were some 'interesting' aspects... Here's the finish: http://www.vantagegraphics.co.uk/PostedOnTheWeb/120731HS_025_04_Assy1f_800px.jpg A higher res version here: http://www.v...

I put up the tech art I did for the new ICON Airmada Helmet that launched today. http://www.hatchillustrations.com/ICON-Airmada-Helmet-Technical-Illustrations. Beautiful illustrations Jim - as always. The tonal variation / control in what is a predominantly greyscale image is gorgeous. Were you wor...

The Lynx - along with most of my 3D stuff - is done with a combination of FormZ and / or Cinema 4D. C4D is better at modelling organic shapes and is good for texturing and rendering; FormZ is rather more 'engineering' oriented and is good for more 'precision' modelling. They both have their strength...

That's the one - thanks James. I'd forgotton it was in iso, not perspective - but it still might be helpful.