Blind Contour & Watercolors

A new blind contour but this time of my professor. This went from a morning exercise to practicing with water colors, which is much more difficult than I thought it would be. I need more practice.

Magazine Composition: FIRST WEEK BACK

Layout from InStyle magazine



The magazine that i chose had a very simple layout. On one page it had the title and on the other was a fold out page. I chose this page because I thought it was different than most layouts because of the fold out page. This drawing represent my first week back at school.

• Going to class- was a very big part of coming back o school, I had to adjust to my new schedule.


• School supplies- I had to buy a ton of school supplies which ended up costing a lot of money.


• Early morning- over the break I slept in a lot, waking up early was sort of difficult and I had to get back into my routine.


• New studio space- everyone had to change desks in studio, I lost a really good desk but I am adjusting my my new space.


• Park & ride- coming back to school means driving and parking all the way in park & ride.
  

A Team Effort

This is one of my morning exercises. Since my class was asked to get new sketchbooks we needed to break them in. Everyone was intimidated my the fresh white pages. So, as a class we all chose objects to draw then played something similar to musical sketchbooks, where we would draw the objects for a certain amount of time then switch to somebody else's sketch book. This was hard because you did not want to "mess up" in somebody else's book, but it was an inteeresting experience.

IlluminatedObjects

The instructions of this project was to draw five object that meant a lot of us with this we had to illuminat them using only one colored pencil, we could also incorporate text to express what the objects mean to us. There were many important factors to this two page spread such as the composition, the text, the color, and the hierarchy of the objects.

• For the composition I chose to draw all the objects in the center, it was away of showing this is what is the most important thing on the page.
• For the text I put a quote for each object that I thought was appropriate for how I viewed it.
• I chose to highlight my objects with red because it is my favorite color. I colored one thing on each object bright red so that it would pop out and I also filled in the negative space surrounding the object with red to make the object stand out.
• There is no real hierarchy to my objects, I mainly drew then so that they would fill in the center of the page. I focused more on composition than hierarchy.
  

Another semester back at studio and new sketchbook, I can't wait to get started!

I was practicing scale figures. It turned out to be a lot of fun. The most difficult part was making them look proportioned. These pages in my sketchbook are helpful because I am able to go back and reference them if ever I need to. This was not a sketchbook assignment I took my own time to have fun with scale figures.

Blandings Lake House Perspectives

BATHROOM
FRONT BEDROOM

These are two perspective of the interior of the Blanding's Lake House.

Blandings Lake House

PLAN
SECTIONS

ELEVATIONS

ELEVATIONS

ELEVATIONS

FIRST DRAFT OF ELEVATIONS

FIRST DRAFT OF SECTIONS FIRST DRAFT OF FLOOR PLAN

FIRST DRAFT OF FLOOR PLAN

Final Light Drawings

Section

Front Elevation

Plan

In this assignment we had to draw our our moment of pause or the light our luminair created. We could only use three colors and it had to be on a dark piece of paper. Since my luminair and the light it produced were both only white and black, I chose to use white as my bright light, dark blue as my dark light, and purple as my neutral light. I also decided to draw my light using negative space. I also made my light field much more pronounced compared to my orthographic drawings because to goal of the project was to focus on the light.

Final Light

In daylight: turned off
In daylight: turned on

In daylight: turned on

In daylight: turned on

Deatailed joint

Base

Projection on surface

Projection on surface

Projection on surface

Projection on surface

Projection on surface

Projection on surface

Projection on surface

Luminairs in dark

Luminair in dark

Luminair in dark

Luminair in dark

Luminair in dark

This is my final liminair. My inspiration came from a colorless sunset where you can see the transition from light to dark. The base is a cube made of cardboard and painted black, and the peice that showes the trasition of light it made of two peices of 24x36 bond paper, and hey are connected to each other my wooden squewers. The light bulb is incerted in the base.

Process of creating a Luminair

I was experimenting with how light shined through paper. I really liked the texture of the construction paper that you can see when the light shines through it. I was also experimenting with projecting a pattern on a surface. Which in shown in the image bellow.

When I added another start peice the patter on the ceiling became more interesting.

I wanted to make my luminair larger in order for it to show gradation in the light. I discovered that bond paper had a very similar textur to the construction paper but it allowed me to make the scale of my lunimair larger because on the size on the bond paper.

As i was working with my base I decided to make it a cube. I left the back open so that you can switch the light on and off but the light was leaking out way too much so i eventually but a flap door on in.