Staying Sharp

The last several days have proven to be slow for me with not much on the horizon.  Phone calls and emails will continue to be placed to prospective clients, but in addition to the sales-end of things, lets not lose sight of the fact that whole idea of this is business is for me to design.

So with that in mind, I have given myself a proactive project to work on... an endcap display for the Sony Playstation 3.

The first step is to generate a couple of concepts, which I usually do via sketching.  This can be in the form of very rough thumbnails or in more refined hand sketches.  Which path I take depends entirely on what the deliverables are for the project and which client I'm working with.  But for this case, I am going with the assumption that I'll need to present refined hand sketches before proceeding to 3D renderings.

And so after about and hour and a half of drawing, I present my two concept sketches for my self-imposed homework assignment: