initial sketches

Category: Concept

Posted on: September 21st by Andrius Skibaris

did some initial blocking out, tried to get a sense of composition in mind and some minimal coloring for warming up.

still not going in to too much detail

problems that I ran in to so far: sketched out dozens of skate-able architecture pieces but I realized that its going to be harder than I thought to compose them in to one big space without it looking like a big mess of random stuff, so I’m gonna have to spend some time to think that part through.

at least I have an proximate environment laid out

after uploading my sketches I noticed that my layout resembles Christian Miranda’s initial blocking a lot, that kinda sux. Gonna have to work on that too

P.S. this site is incredibly lagging form me :/

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Saulman 16 pts

I can understand why you're struggling with the composition on this one. Are you planning on designing a skate friendly city which has organic forms everywhere or an area for skating within a city?

I think you're hitting on something with image 3, btw.

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AndriusSkibaris 20 pts

Saulman _ well my vision is to build a hole city, of course considering that a skatepark mainly consists out of lots of small pieces its pointless to show it all on a big scale so I'm concentrating on a plaza type spot, but yeah the idea is a skate able organic city :)

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Saulman 16 pts

AndriusSkibaris

Skaters paradise, eh? Developers are usually trying their best to deter skaters by putting obstacles everywhere or little metal strips along any long surfaces to break things up. I like your idea or thinking in the opposite direction and making the city a haven for skaters.

Best of luck with it.

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AndriusSkibaris 20 pts

Saulman yeah, those things are called grind blockers and they suck :D well anyway, thanks a lot :)

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JoaoValerio 17 pts

@andyskb

Indeed, it is going to be difficult to showcase all things in one place =P

In relation to your main layout, I think it could be a little bit more fluid, not so radial/ circular/ symmetric. This way, you could explore some more insteresting and organic forms, what I think that would beneficiate your project... Try to have a look at some skate park layouts and extrapolate some of their shape ideas into a city plaza or a urban environment. Also look for some less-rigid designs you have in your inspiration panel. Hope this helps something ;)

Good luck!

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