Goodbye Sir Jeffers

   This weeks been an interesting one, an intensive visual design workshop....because well collectively we suck a little too much. I do say this knowing full well in how many areas I fall short, you know, before anyone gets offended. Now for an intensive workshop this has actually been a pretty fun project. Essentially using silhouettes and very basic shapes in order to build up a vehicle design. Seemed a tall order at first until it all started to click. 

 I've never tried either these techniques or designed a vehicle before so this is all fairly new to me and even the digital painting, while something I've played around with is certainly something I'm not that good at. I mean I can't paint with a brush and that seems like a fundamental thing to understand before being any good at the digital equivalent. 

 Ended up creating a glider of sorts, really basic considering how every vehicle I've seen so far from anybody else has been a high tech sort of affair. Though I did find myself inspired by the forms of hand made guitars and violins, that sort of stuff. Seems like it lean't itself better to a more old timey design.

 

   I ain't gonna lie, for a while the design had no purpose. Which is a bit awkward, I mean after all things like this are generally made with a specific goal in mind. Hard to design something if you have no use in mind for it. A little later though things started to take shape. It's a fairly classy looking craft, somewhere between a glider, a gondola and an engraved classical guitar. To me it does look hand made, as though it's a labour of love by a dedicated craftsman.   

 At some point mid way through the design I just happened upon the thought of that Red Bull event where folks from all over create those completely impractical flying machines and throw themselves off a pier. Now I got to thinking, what would be a more dangerous idea. Throwing yourself off a waterfall would do it, a big one at that. So the concept arose of a sport in which people build these, crafts that they really do put effort and dedication into and then try to fly off the edge of a furious torrent of cascading water and land into the river below, seeing how fair they can make it. Adds a nice aspect to it as well if you consider messing it up means the loss of a craft you could have spent a year putting together yourself. Alright idea I thought, still can't paint mind.