Nice sketches! Your use of marker as a quick way to show form is a great technique which will allow you to create well defined sketches quickly. Electrification of the sports car definitely has merit. As you sketch keep in mind how the removal of the traditional combustion engine and traditional grille openings needed for cooling, plus your addition of elements like solar panels allows for fresh new car proportions and design elements previously not possible in the past with the internal combustion engine. Utilize your quick technique to generate lots of ideations around this and you will create some amazing new car designs. Good luck! Keep the sketches coming!

I love the new sketches! You are definitely having a lot of fun when you sketch. I see a lot of passion in them. They are also feeling much more like a Chevrolet. I also really like your new pencil sketches of vehicle fronts. They are even fresher designs! Great improvement. Keep it up.

Ben, I love you're sketches! Congratulations on making it to the final stage!

I'm coming in with a fresh eye, and the thing that struck me immediately as a key stand-out, was your ability to illustrate your ideation process. Having that skill is extremely valuable, especially as the industry moves to a more global setting, and you aren't always able to present your work in-person. Your ideation pages from mid-December are incredible. I'd suggest circling back to those and making those a key component to your final push.

Try to make sure you have captured your key ideas in your final designs. Call-outs are fine (they're awesome!), but what we love to see happen as professionals, is those ideas influencing the final aesthetic - yes, you are telling me that it does something, but can I actually see that? How does that feature help make this car look unique? If I took away those callouts, could I still tell that there was something different about this car.....??

For example: You have a few cool ideas about folding out solar mats, and unique storage solutions forward of the occupants. Where is this mat stored when it's not in use? Can that lead to some sort of cool looking bin on the exterior or interior? How about this storage you called out (where the traditional combustion engine usually sits)......how do you access it? is there some sort of cool release handle for the lid(s) that you can incorporate into the exterior? Does removing that engine do anything for the interior, and how the driver sits/sees out? You want the final judges to look at your sketches and see something unique that will drawn them into your design story.

These are just a few ideas. I don't want you to flip your whole design upside down at this point. At the end of the day, it still needs to look like a Vette, right!? :) And this definitely does. I just think you need to close a few loops in your design story. Dan alluded to this earlier. It was great advice.

While your doing your final sketches, also keep some of the previous suggestions in mind. It was suggested that your sketches made the car look too narrow. That advice was spot-on. Corvettes need to look low and wide. (You can also over-do that, so be careful!) I'd also suggest some more contrast in your sketches - I think you're definitely up to the challenge. Your ideation sketches had great use of marker, and some of your latest sketches have great use of pen/pencil. I think you need to seal the deal with combining them both, and maybe tightening the final batch up just *a little* bit. (Don't squeeze the life out of 'em!)

Finally, I think you need to illustrate who this car is for. What adventures are they going on? What inspires them? What inspires you? A simple page or two of images and maybe just some brief verbiage (maybe pull thoughts from your thesis statement in the beginning) is all it will take to sort of set the mood.

Stay in touch. I'll be checking in.

-Steve

Ben, check out the image posted above. I did a VERY quick overlay on your rendering. Before I speak to any of it, I'd like to start by saying your rendering is really good. It's so much easier to critique someones work, when they have something solid to begin with.

So on to the overlay....
I think your design would benefit a lot from a few proportional shifts. Corvettes are all about being low and wide. you can see how I flattened your roof line a bit in this view.

I think your front wheel/tire is maybe a little too tall, so I lowered it a little bit - but mostly saw the opportunity to adjust that proportion by raising the rear shoulder and enlarging the rear wheel/tire.

Finally, I'd pull out the front driver's side corner/lamp to, again, give it more width.

These are fairly common mechanical issues that all Designers have - always easier to spot when your critiquing someone else's work with a fresh eye.

The good news is, your design is very nice, and your marker technique is coming along very, very well. Keep up the outstanding work, Ben!

Keep the good work coming! I'm looking forward to seeing what you come up with next.

One day to go!