Summer Skills Endeavour.

Following on with my recent choice to try and further my photoshop abilities I have been following various tutorials to teach myself different and new skills to enable me to work more efficiently during my third year of university. My aim is to try and get as many possible computer skills under my belt or at least become more familiar with these programs to help in my third years. This has led to me reviewing my current skills and working to improve my weakest areas. I have begun with photoshop, as this is an area I am not very familiar with and that I know I need to do the most work on. So here is today’s work. I have followed a tutorial on how to produce this image and it needs tweaking to make it look a little better but that will follow soon. The tutorial showed me a lot of skills and buttons that I have not previously explored or worked which was the main aim. I will endeavour to develop the newly found functions in the future but for now enjoy the image and if you have any constructive criticism or advice do leave a comment here on the blog. Also if you have any tutorials that you have found useful I would be most grateful to hear about them.

Thank you for reading,

Student Render.

Quick Rendering Lesson

I have recently bought myself some new books related to design to try to help me on my university course. These books range from ones about materials to ones about solidworks but my favourite book at the moment is called “Drawing for product designers” by Kevin Henry. This book is easy to understand and explains perspective and other important areas of getting a good sketch in very understandable terms. After looking through this book last night I came across a tutorial towards the back and thought why not give it a quick try. After 30 minutes this is what I have managed. It’s not as good as the example in the book but its an improvement on some of my other work.

So take a look and let me know what you think.

Kevin Henry’s book is available on Amazon for a very reasonable price and I would recommend it to everyone who has an interest on brushing up there sketching skills. Here is a link to it on Amazon.

Thank you for reading

Student Render

Kenwood Food Processor

So today while looking through information for the CSWA certification I decided that I should try to make a current item as accurately as possible. I’ve decided that instead of trying to make things looks good for this project I will focus in on the detail and see how accurate I can make this model. I’ve also set myself the challenge of building all the internal components so as I build this model I will strip down the food processor and model the parts. This project I can see will take me a long time but i believe this will make me focus more. I will do some nice renders of this project as I go along but that isn’t the main focus (Plus there is a lot of clear plastic so render times will be through the roof).