Vad Artemiev's blog

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2011-12-13T16:32:00.000+01:00

Hey everyone!

Several weeks ago we had a bit of a revival of the "Sketch-off" topic on Cardesign.ru. There were not so many sketches posted for a long time but the BMW saved the day,- we had a decent amount of uploaded stuff after someone posted a BMW sketch. So I kind of felt inspired by the wave of inspiration that the guys on the forum had and decided to draw my own interpretation of the brand.

So here u have my BMW sketch (I actually haven't been drawing these cars for awhile!). It's not really futuristic or new in terms of design but I feel that this is how BMW's should be.

;-Ь

Cheers!

Honeydew CD jacket design

2011-10-24T17:38:00.000+02:00

Hey guys!

It's been a long time again since my last post here. And actually the reason is not because there's nothing to show,- I just think it's not time yet. I have already accumulated a decent amount of free-time sketches which hopefully will be released here soon
;-)))

And today I upload a CD jacket for the new album of a Tokyo based band called Honeydew. They are really good friends of mine. So one day their frontman/singer/guitarist Keigo asked me if I could design a jacket for their debut album. Since some of the songs have the automotive theme in them and also because they really love cars they wanted a classic Japanese car to be featured on their album cover. So we picked a really awesome Toyota 2000gt at the end.
So here u have the pics of the released CD and some merchandise t-shirts with my sketch on them
;-Ь

Here are all the links if u wanna check out the band. They are really awesome, actually!

Official website
The Japan Times album review

Still Italian but different colour

2011-04-20T17:19:00.002+02:00

Hey guys!

I recieved a link to a new cardesign blog from my friend Mihai Panaitescu (currently at Lotus; c'mon, you know this guy! ;-Ь) last week. The concept of the blog is simple,- "Weekly car designer competitions on a given theme. All designers invited!"
Here's the link, by the way:
http://cardesignsketch.tumblr.com/

Last week's assignment was the new version of the Maserati Quattroporte. Well, I really love the car so it was easy for me to get inspired!

So here's my version. My intension was to make it more sporty than the current one on the road and I also wanted some old Quattroportes to be recognized.
Anyway, it's for you, guys, to judge if it's a successful interpretation or not. I already recieved some portion of critique with which I agree (like, the hood is a bit short, the mirrors/cameras are too big etc.) but frankly speaking I'm just too lazy to fix it!
;-Ь

Peace!

La vettura rossa 2

2011-02-15T14:32:00.002+01:00

I cannot really explain why but as you can notice all the cars that I've been uploading for over a year are red. And I can assure you that I definetely use other colors too when sketching at work. But everytime I sketch for myself the vehicle is red...

I actually find two explanations for this fact,- either the cars that I sketch at work are totally different or I just miss Italy this much
;-)))
Peace!

La vettura rossa

2010-09-27T15:46:00.004+02:00

Hey everyone!!!

I'm super sorry for such a long break between my posts! It just happened that I didn't do almost anything at home just for myself starting from April (!!!). This actually never happened before & I hope it won't happen again,- I'll try to update my blog more often from now!
;-)))

I should say that a lot of things happened during these months: I finally found time to visit Kyoto and Nara, climbed Mt.Fuji together with my friends from Nissan/Renault, went home for summer vacation. & apart of that: two of my best friends got married, Spain became the winner of the World Cup (congratzzz Carlos & Aitor!), FC Zenit managed not to lose a single game in the Russian Premiere League and a super interesting F1 season has almost finished with only 4 GP's left to go!..

So the sketch that ends up these 5 (!) months of silence is a sketch of the red car which I did just for fun and relaxation!.. Nothing seriuos, guyzzz!!
;-P

Faber-Castell exercises

2010-02-04T16:15:00.003+01:00

These are some pencil sketches from August. I did those straight after coming back from my summer holidays where I obviously didn't draw a s**t. So these were done just to "get back in shape"!..
;-)))

From top to bottom:

Lancia Stratos Zero, Porsche 997, BMW E28, Alfa Romeo 8C Spider, Porsche Cayman, BMW Z4

P.S.
By the way,- Happy New Year, Merry Christmas & Happy 'Old Nu Year'* guys!!!

* - that's a tipically russian thing; my friendzzz know what I'm talking about
;-P

Lamborghini project

2009-11-16T15:10:00.003+01:00

This is the first sketch of what would hopefully become a Lamborghini 4-seater project which I was planning to start long time ago. I'd really like to do a lot of sketches & build a 3D model at the end. I plan to start working on that in couple of weekzzz, so stay tuned!..
;-)))

Kei car

2009-11-12T14:19:00.002+01:00

This is a sketch of a Kei car that was "inspired by" the Sketch fight competitions held by www.cardesign.ru. Starting from several weeks ago the website started those one-hour daily sketch fights in which I was really eager to partecipate. The only problem's that they are held at 22.00 Moscow time which was 3.00 before the 25.10 and is 4.00 after the 25th (Japan dosen't switch to summer/winter time). So it's really not doable for me to take part in those competitions unfortunately; but couple of times I did draw some sketches following the brief of those sketch fights afterwards. One of the assignments was a Japanese Kei car. "My brief!",- I thought and did this sketch the next day.

Here's the link to the current sketch fight fase which is about to be over on Saturday:
http://www.cardesign.ru/articles/konkursy_i_seminary/2009/11/11/3455/
It becomes more & more interesting! The sketch level's going up. And since several days ago Mr.D.Zyubyairov (http://zyubyairov.blogspot.com) started to take part in the fights, the only thing I can say is: BEWARE!!!
;-P

Deutschland 'o9

2009-11-10T16:03:00.003+01:00

Hey everyone!!!

I feel really bad for almost abandoning my blog for several months!!! I'm sorry for that!!

Well, first of all, I was a bit ill in the end of July so I was obviously not thinking bout posting anything on my blog.

Then I went home to St.Petersburg for almost 3 weeks. Well, it's not me who has to tell you that home is the worst place to do any kind of work even if it's drawing sketches for yourself! Everytime when I go home I'm bringing some pencils, a sharpener, some paper etc., cuz I always plan to do something...and I never manage to!.. The same thing happened this august,- not a single sketch at home.
;-P

Then I had some period of travels: I went to the Frankfurt Motor Show (that's where the pictures in this post are from), the F1 Japanese GP and finally Okinawa. Pretty intense schedule, I should say!

So finally I'm back with my posts!!! I should say that starting from this week there are some sketchezzz to come.
;-)))

"KAMAZ Truck for Dakar Race in year 2022" competition entry

2009-07-04T11:11:00.008+02:00

These are the sketches that I did for the competition organized by Cardesign.ru and Simkom.com. The brief was to draw a Kamaz racing truck for the year 2022.

I actually highly recommend you to check out other entries!.. You'll find some REALLY AWESOME works:
http://www.cardesign.ru/contests/67/

Jaguar E-Type, 1961-1967

2009-06-04T15:52:00.004+02:00

Those sketches are made with my beloved pencil and capture the legendary and all-time classic really cool Jaguar E-Type!..
I actually found one occasionally in my album. That was the one made in March. So I thought that posting just one view is not enough and drew the 3/4 back in addition to the front view.

Love this car! Why no one makes objects like this nowadays?!!

April time-spending and some sketch development advice-asking

2009-05-03T15:25:00.006+02:00

It's been awhile since I made my last post. Well, I've got some reasons for that. The main reason's that I've been settling down in Tokyo. I finally moved into my apartment (which's situated in Takanawa district with Shirokanedai across the street & has got an awesome view!) and installed all the furniture already!..
Starting from the 29th of April the Golden week started! This means no work and just holidays up to 6th of May!!! "Spare time!", I thought. "Maybe some sketchin'!!!" The answer was "no!", because one of my best friends Andrey Gusev (http://carcreator.blogspot.com/) came to visit me to Tokyo from Nagoya for the whole Golden week... So it turnes out that we live some kind of "european-time-life" wakin' up at 16.00 and going to sleep at around 7.00. Tokyo night life's pretty intense, I should say!!!
:-)))
Obviously there's no time for sketchin', as you can imagine!..

Well, that's not the point of this post, actually!.. The point is the sketch I did in February of a small Alfa. I completely forgot about that and found it in my computer recently.
So I actually want to know yours, guys, opinion,- do you thing it's worth making Photoshop sketches out of that or should it remain as just pencil doodles?!!
;-P

February/March spare time explanation

2009-04-04T06:02:00.004+02:00

I still remember that I had to explain the reason of having so much spare time in Feb/Mar that I could work for my own projects. The reason's simple,- I was changing the place of work. I finished with the Stile Bertone recently and joined the Honda Tokyo studio team starting from April 1st!..
;-)))
I'm pretty sure it'll be a really cool experience!!!

I'd love to thank everyone who I worked with in the Stile Bertone and all my friends from Pininfarina, FIAT, IED etc. That was a magnificent time that we spent in Turin!.. I really hope to have a chance to come back to this splendid city again!!!

A presto!!!
;-P

BMW X-Series teaser

2008-12-15T00:43:00.006+01:00

This one is the first teaser of the BMW X-Series that was developed by me around a month ago. The problem of presenting it is...lack of time!.. I've got absolutely no time to do final sketches!.. Just to make you understand how busy I am at work: I didn't only work this Saturday but came home at 3.30 AM on Sunday. The project we are working on's a bit tough!..

Anyway, I plan to post some more teaser images here before New Year. But I really doubt that I'll have time to post the presentation sketches before 2009...
;-)))

P.S.

It's been changed since yesterday cause Andrey Gusev, Raffaele Gerace, Aydar Nigmatullin & Dima Zyubyairov said that it was too dark. & they were right!.. It's a bit more contrasty now.

15.12.08

Mondial de l'Automobil, Paris 2008

2008-11-02T01:17:00.003+01:00

I was lucky enough to visit the press days (and 2 (!) design nights) of the Paris motor show this year!.. I should say that it was a great pleasure for me to come to a motor show just to see the motor show without thinking about who would you like to show your portfolio!..
Anyway, the trip was awesome!.. I was really happy to finally see Paris! Unfortunately I could spend only 3 days there that's why I had no oportunity to see much!.. But this turns out to be a really cool reason to visit this marvellous city again!..

P.S.
Here are some photos of the show & the city...
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SIG'08 FIAT Multipla project

2008-09-28T13:08:00.004+02:00

I decided to partecipate in the Stile Italiano Giovani 2008 competition even before it was announced. It's a pretty cool competition for some reasons, one of which is that you don't have any strict brief & can do almost everything you want to.
The experience of getting into the top-20 2 years ago really helped me in deciding what kind of project do I have to do to be there again. It definetely had to be an italian car!.. From the other side, I had no intention to draw a sportscar, because, well..."how many more sportscars can you have in your portfolio?"... ;-)))
The idea to draw a Multipla was suggested by Dmitry Zyubyairov who actually had plans to partecipate too but "he couldn't make it..." (that was a Newcastle reference)... ;-P
Anyway, the car was drawn in trains, planes & sometimes kitchens again!.. The presentation was finished in one weekend when Spain won the Euro'08!.. (congratulations again, Carlos!!!)
Finally the project was chosen in the top-20 of SIG'08 and is currently partecipating in the Dream exhibition (http://www.torinoworlddesigncapital.it/portale/en/content_1.php?sezioneID=291&testoCompleto=1) which takes place at Torino Esposizioni. You can still see it there until the 23.11.08.
;-)))

Here's a short description of the project:

The main goal of this project was to revise the already legendary look of the Fiat Multipla but still preserve its spirit.
The concept was to keep the original seat layout formula with a new more characteristic appearance.
Compact external dimensions and huge internal space are some of the main features of the Multipla.
This feeling was ment to be preserved by making the overhangs shorter which makes the car look firm. The entrance to the cabin is facilitated by the “suicide doors” opening system with the absence of B-pillar.

FC Zenit St.Petersburg in Turin!!!

2008-09-26T20:19:00.004+02:00

6 months ago when FC Zenit St.Petersburg won the UEFA Cup I was joking telling all my friends that we'll definetely play against Juventus in the Champions so that I could see my team in Turin!.. & the funny thing is that my unserious prediction came true!!! We are in the same group with Juve!!!
& the first Zenits group game was exactly at the Stadio Olimpico!!! On the 17/09 that was!..
I obviously went to the stadium to see the game & brought my italian friend Oscar who's a true Torino supporter!..
;-)))
It's a pity we lost 0-1!.. Actually Zenit didn't deserve it!.. Most of the italians (& Juve fans too) agreed on the point that Zenit was playing better!.. The best italian comment was:"Zenit will win the group!"
Speriamo!!!

Forza Zenit!!!
Вперёд за Питер!!!
;-Р

Art school stuff

2008-09-23T19:21:00.005+02:00

These are some works I found at home that refer to my art school period. I attended the City art school of St.Petersburg for 5 years since 1997 until 2001. I cannot say precisely what were the years when these were made but that's definetely 8-10 years ago!.. I definetely have a will to start drawing & painting again!!!
:-)))

Stile Bertone Lambos

2008-07-04T20:59:00.003+02:00

I was hanging out at the Stile Bertone museum some time in May. These are couple of sketches of their magnificent Lamborghinies,- Bravo & Countach!.. Still judge Countach as the best sports car ever produced!!! Really looking forward for a day when I can affort myself one!!!
And Bravo is amazingly simple and cool!!! I have to confess that I didn't like it at all first!.. Well, I definetely love it now!..
;-P

Battle Of The Ice

2008-07-04T20:32:00.006+02:00

Really funny!.. I visited home couple of weeks ago and while looking through some old art school drawings found this one!.. That was done in my last year of that school, I think...

I remember me while being a kid always loving the episodes of the Russian history that envolved AlexanderNevsky. And I always loved drawing the russians battle the Teutonic knights!..
P.S.
Gotta scan this one properly!..
;-)))
P.P.S.
Now it's scanned!!!