USVGP 2013 Race 1 rear view

USVGP Alfa Racing

Long time no posting.

Apparently being a Design Director/Director of Product Development. Starting a LLC for some design projects, getting married and racing cars can turn out to be quite time consuming!

That being said I know you miss my random rants, my stupid doodles and my design for design sake. What does that mean? No I will not post daily, but I will try and start putting together a weekly post. Not sure what it is going to be about but now that I have more time I will try.

PTR

Its been a long time...

WOW. I have not posted since Nov 2012. I know you all hate me and miss my informative and fun blog posting. Or no one really cares.

Either way quick updates. I am now the Design Director/Director of Product Development for KIKKERLAND DESIGN INC. And I have founded PTR Design LLC. 

Other than that I am getting married in 20 days. As the summer accelerates I will update more often. So much to share now.

Legend of Zelda, LINK

It was time to do a video game sketch!

Iron Man on a plane

I had a nice child behind on me on flight so I did a Iron Man pen sketch for him

Disney bought Starwars

I dont like this one that much but I had to draw Mickey Skywalker

Spiderman

Now I am rolling and have been sketching lots of different stylized Super Hero. I love Spiderman, why not draw him in my own style. But you can not draw Spiderman in blocky method. I decided to make some changes in other places.

Avengers Assemble

I thought to myself that little Batman drawing came out really well. What if instead of doodling I attempted a full on super hero rendering, using all the proper design drawing methods. I had never drawn the Avengers even when I was child and drew comics all the time. I did a quick small thumbnail that came out alright but I knew I could do better so I laid it out one more time for a full on marker rendered drawing of the Avengers.

Batman and Villains

Once again a week passed and then I started sketching Batman again! It started as thumbnail but became a full out rendering.

Star Wars and misc

A couple weeks passed and I kept drawing other things including the usual cars and products, then I randomly draw a guys head on a horse shaped body and I decided I should draw Star Wars character with animal bodies.

Batman and Wolverine

It started with a casual pen sketch of Batman as no legged dog toy shape. I try and Batman all the time, I love Batman. Once Batman came out pretty good I also tried Wolverine. Both were orginally drawn in ball point pen.














Once I had the basic sketch and pen rendering I decided to add marker next.

Pop Culture Sketching

I have been sketching lots of cool figures, animals and fun character themes for dog toys recently. I decided I wanted to transition that into some pop culture drawings. I have always been a huge comic book, video game and sci-fi fan. Much of this inspiration is why I went into a creative field. I took some of the drawing styles I have been using for toy sketches and I have translated them into my own versions of famous pop culture icons. I will post some that work in several posts.

Porsche Lamp featured in DZGN magazine

I have been featured again:

http://www.dzgn.co/porsche-911-desk-lamp-by-peter-ragonetti/

Thanks DZGN

Petville Wire Cage Designs

Petville Wire Cages 2012 by Peter Ragonetti at Coroflot.com http://www.coroflot.com/RagonettiDesigns/Petville-Wire-Cages-2012

Videos from the US Vintage Grand Prix at WGI

My Qualifying lap and the fastest lap I have ever run at WGI, to put me 5th on the grid and first in class:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BI2v8kpG4h0&list=UU8mLhhaHHRFiFnD5BpJtlFQ&index=4&feature=plcp

Then the first Qualifying race in which I started 4th for, I made 2 mistakes one on the start where I tried the outside and one in the S's where I missed 5th gear, but I fought back very hard and ended up 8th:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pzxfQUtDmg&list=UU8mLhhaHHRFiFnD5BpJtlFQ&index=3&feature=plcp

Feature Race 1 was uneventful on semi-wet track early in the morning and I was under the weather, I finished 8th overall and first in class:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8BOOR2PC0t4&list=UU8mLhhaHHRFiFnD5BpJtlFQ&index=2&feature=plcp

Feature Race 2 was delayed due to a wet and oiled track. My GoPro ran out of space. But I ended up finishing 5th overall and winning my class:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vzn1LbXeD2Y&list=UU8mLhhaHHRFiFnD5BpJtlFQ&index=1&feature=plcp

For some rason I can not embed videos here because YouTube is all sorts of messed up

Lotus Super 7 Battle 2012_BFDracing

The LEGO® Story

I am first a LEGO lover and I often credit LEGO for my love of toys and toy design. As a product designer and toy designer this in one of the most incredible films I have ever seen. The video is beautifully animated and fun to watch but the content is also amazing. It first shows many different manufacturing techniques from early wood manufacturing to the birth of plastic injection molding (what almost everything is made out of now). And last it shows how through entrepreneurship a small family business can become one of the greatest toys ever invented.

The Hawk Group 2 Qualifying race, BFDracing Alfa Romeo #88

Group 2, Qualifying 3, The Hawk Road America, BFDracing 2012