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Lately I haven’t been very productive on my blog, in fact posting fresh stuff on the blog & website was the last thing I was worried about. The long hours at work drain all my energy and I am left with no juice to battle with my personal projects you see here :))))

Few days ago I received a message from a visitor of my blog, informing me about a person (who apparently is using my name) and posting some of my design works on cardesign.ru. The weird thing is that he is not only posting the works, but he appears to be pretty keen on receiving compliments for his original design works from the visitors on the website.

With today’s world, the information spreads within seconds. Once you upload something on the internet, it’s immediately available to the millions of users online and all that annoying digital media. The social networks are even worse, anything you do is becoming a knowledge of the thousands of people and your private life is practically no more existing.
On the other hand side, publishing around 300 slides on my website alone  and running a blog on parallel, means that I am ready to share with the world a part of my personal design work. I am of those people who believe the creativity & talent are given to us in order to create, enjoy and please (up to certain extent) every person on this earth. With the help of talent, our job is to conduct/manifest cool ideas that make the surrounding world more attractive, rich and beautiful. I am not of these designers who consider themselves to be the greatest in the world and never share their ideas, these very same people who secretly keep their magnificent sketches in the drawers and never show it to the world. At the end of the day, we all die sooner or later and what we leave behind us is our work or creations if I may say. Therefore things like: “this is too great to show” are not my spirit! Of course, when it comes to working in the companies or client’s work, things change but this is a different story….

Having said all that, I would appreciate it if people ask or inform me before posting any of my designs onto another website or just give a link to the original source of information if they do so. It is extremely intolerable to post my sketches on a website and present it as his original art work. This is steal of intellectual property and in most countries that leads to consequences where legal actions are undertaken. On top of that, the fact he is using my name means he doesn’t only steal my intellectual work but my identity too! This is not acceptable not only in the Car Design industry, but everywhere…..in general!

Looking at the bright side of the things, if one decides to “shine” with my works, that means my work is well appreciated and people like it  :) Especially going as far as posting with my name and reaping the compliments of the audience. Funny enough my sketches on cardesign.ru triggered more comments than my own blog :)))) Second thing is… I was quite happy of  the fact that my work was recognized by some of the guys over there and one of them signalized about this cheeky move. I wish to thank P.B. who emailed me and then quoted my answer on the very same page.

For those of you who understand russian, here are the links:

1. http://www.cardesign.ru/portfolio/pro/13309/2918/17485/
2. http://www.cardesign.ru/portfolio/pro/13309/2918/17320/
3. http://www.cardesign.ru/portfolio/pro/13309/2910/17449/
4. http://www.cardesign.ru/portfolio/pro/13309/2910/17379/
5. http://www.cardesign.ru/portfolio/pro/13309/2910/17340/
6. http://www.cardesign.ru/portfolio/pro/13309/2910/17286/

And here is one more, the two images bellow are very good example of what you shouldn’t do. If you’re going to copy or underlay somebody’s work you better make it more successful than the author because you risk of looking stupid big time. It’s very difficult to be original with so many things already created around us, but sometimes it’s better just to mention where we got our inspiration from…. Reactions welcome :)

Here we are with the Maserati again! I am sharing with you few sketches I did – mainly concerning the front of the vehicle. I am trying to squeeze some spare time for this project and get it finished as I do not intend to invest too much of time on it. Still, I am having fun drawing this vehicle and I want to create something  that is cool….and finished too :)
What I can say now is that I am shaping my mind around few concept directions that already emerge to me and they will be better illustrated with the upcoming sketches. So far it has been fun sketching the different ideas but I could go on like this forever and it is time to put the things in order. I am a kind of tempted to start a 3D model of this, it could boost the Maserati project a lot. Anyway…more sketches and renderings coming next. I hope you like these ones for now! Thoughts anyone?

Yeah it was about time to do some work on this one…my tablet was getting dusty at home. This project could be running slow but I will finish it one day :) Now…seriously…I still look for a good theme “surface-wise” for this car and if having more time I will bring it closer to a defined concept that has something more to show. I found few potentially interesting solutions for the front wing that worth exploring. All in all when available and when having the proper mood, I will continue developing this one. I will do it! Feedback?

miro

What we’ve got here is the beautiful Maserati Merak. I tried to make a proper marker rendering for fun and exercise the old school techniques a little bit…
Everything was goign fine UNTILL the last moment when I had to pick up the white gouache/tempera paint for the details and effects. That was THE WORST white paint I’ve ever tried to work with….so greasy and absolutely no density at all. Disgusting, I’ll never use this crap again. It turned the most fun and easy moment into a nightmare… I am absolutely no happy with this and I almost lost the entire illustration…

The nex thing coming is Ferrari illustration. This time no mistakes allowed!

The saga continues with this…
Part 03

Here we are with few more sketches on the subject. My mind is getting more and more involved into this… I am still in the search of the best shape for this car. To be continued….

Part 02

Hello to all!

Here is a small update on the Maserati. The project is still in it’s initial stage where the main proportions and surfaces are to be decided. I remembered what pleasure is to work on a supercar….yeah!
More sketches coming soon! Stay tuned!

Part 01

Feedback?

yours,
miro

Hello to everyone!

Let’s kick off with something…This is my virgin sketch for the new blog. As some of you may know I am working on a Maserati Sports Car for my portfolio, so here is an update sketch on the subject. Hope you like it! Feedback is always welcome! Will post some new sketches when available.

Update!

Here is a small initial sketch…update on the maserati V12 thing..I know, it’s even more brutal and dramatic than the one bellow, but am still keen on developing this concpet into the direction alrady said….so let’s see what comes up with this. Will post more soon.

I couldn’t help myself of making another sketch…..it seems to me that will turn into a personal project for my portfolio – Maserati sports car. At the moment this one is “too cultivated & shy” i’ll look into some more aggressive & expressive in the next sketches…will post soon when I’ve got smth to show on the topic…one thing for sure, it’s gonna be mid-engined V12