Library view

From the 7th floor I looked out from one of the windows and sketched what I saw:

Once I am able to add value it will give life the sketch and really make the details pop out on the page.

Digital Booklet

Here is my journey from my desk in the studio to the view from the 7th tower in the Library.

Gatewood drawings

Assignment: In sketchbook draw 4 different places in Gatewood. 

Lobby:

Stairwell: could be much darker*

Studio: more detail

Studio view/side view from desk

18"x24" of sketch: It's more finished, has more detail and value.

Turbo scan

I used the app turbo scan and printed the picture in our computer lab... I absolutely do not like the outcome. The scan only captured the black and white and could not get the grayscale.

Library lobby

Assignment: draw part of the lobby and include at least 2 people.

18"x24":

The signs were probably the hardest part to space evenly.

Library redrawing

Redrawing of library: half regulatory lines/half complete

When adding value it was hard for me to stop halfway; I wanted to be able to finish the entire drawing.

Pg. 101 drawing

We were asked to redraw the sketches on page 101 and here is a picture I the entire composition

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I really enjoyed drawing these sketches, they put into perspective how much thought goes into making everything proportional.

4.4 Exercise of clock tower and library

In this exercise I included the outline of figures but my main focus was the value of the library building.  

The clock tower was more interesting because of the details that I was able I put into the tower. Also I loved the effect it have of not putting hardly any details in the shrubs which makes the tower "pop-out"

In class practice of human drawings and Stoel's chair

After actually drawing people in person I found out it is not one of my specialities. I wouldn't draw dark enough lines because I was so hesitant and I was not confident because I did not want to mess up the drawing.

1. You can barely see half the chair on the left side and I did not even draw the strings on the chair which were a major detail of the chair and I was to afraid to draw lines without a ruler and without putting the right number of strings.

2. Drawing faces scares me. Point blank. When we did self portraits in the beginning and I made it almost all the way through the semester before I was asked to draw another one. 

4.15-4.16 human scale

The assignment was to draw someone to scale and the person happened to be me. 1ft.=1in on paper

Mau quotes

Assignment: choose 3 quotes and rewrote them using architectural lettering. Also draw a picture that represents the quote:

I love this quote because it took some time for me to realize that you really should learn to love each step of a project whether good, great or even awful! 

What we should do everyday.

My biggest thing at first was to make sure I always had a clean work space... Nowadays I just keep piling on more stuff! 

Corners

Corners: 

Here is a 18"x24" composition of the first corner on the page above. I definitely put more time into the drawing below and it definitely shows that when time is put into something it will turn out much better.

Art 101. Twig project part 3

Then we were asked to actually put the twigs together using some type of adhesive or twine.

To save my life I could not come up with anything out there and crazy... Tiny twigs does limit you to an extent

But. Then I began to twist the twigs where I bound them together and they formed other "shapes" which intrigued me

Art 101. Twig project part 4

Next, we had to take our twig composition and use a black background and use white to outline the twig form 

I made a book using only black and white materials:

There were 3 of the same image of my twig but I used different pens each time. 

1. White charcoal

2. White gel pen

3. White ink pen 

 

Here is the third picture in its insides form

Art 101. Twig project part 2

The next part included us taking the twigs and making a composition and drawing them and including our adjectives. Here is what I came up with:

It was a great thing that I picked small enough twigs to fit on this Bristol board 

It was much harder than I thought it would be to draw the twig to make an even circle in the middle but without the twigs going off the paper 

Next I added lines

Lastly I added the words and here is my finished product.

Twigy is possibly my favorite part.