The Colors!!!

So inspired by what I saw Suzanne working on in the computer lab one day, which can be found here , took me awhile to complete, since coloring with a mouse is hard, I've also never done this before so it probably is quite lacking but I still wanted to try it out.

Sketching in the Rain

No singing for me, its to wet for me to be doing that... probably to wet to actually be drawing out there but with how loud the rain was in the critique room I'm suprised I wasnt actually standing outside. So thank goodness its been raining the past couple of days, maybe now the weather will return to somewhat standard levels. Anyways, just wanted to throw a quick sketch I did up on ye olde blog.. hope my what I believe may be up to 4 readers appreciate it. Yes part of this sketch is a sticky note, I thought I'd add a dash of something, and plus, sticky notes are fun, they stick to Everything!

Dive right into... Shading?

Okay, so today I'm going to try to make light of this post because next to our attempts at drawing faces I'd say this assignment made me laugh the most afterwards. (Drawing faces still holds onto its title as drawings that I could not do with out laughing endlessly) But also because, thats the type of person I am and I want to see if that can translate to a blog..

So on Tuesday we were instructed to actually practice various techniques for shading with some still lifes (is that even the proper usage should it be lives??). Now granted at the time I was very frustrated and saw absolutely nothing good in any of the following drawings. Now that I've had some time to not look at them and even forget that they existed I dont HATE them, granted I dont exactly think their fantastic but I do see what the intention was. I now understand why they just as the post suggested, threw us into the pool with out our floaties so to speak. Now 2 of these 3 are actually an attempt at the same scene, that being a still life made up of a tripod, a box and a hodgepodge of other items including a shagrug, although that one disappeared quickly.

This paticular drawing was done with a combination of smudging and a diagonal method, not really sure how to describe it. My favorite part of it is the fact that I got the shadow the tripod left on the box to actually look abit like I saw it. And while something went horribly wrong with the foam thing and the clock seems to just be radiating light from an unknown source I am still glad I tried it.

Tried smudge again and it was going well until those really dark areas inside, but I'm not lying those darker areas were there! If you could read my mind right now it'd be asking you to move on to the next drawing...

Oh yes! now this one is a... its a umm, a teenagers cane? (someone actually said it looked like some sort of modern cane). Suzanne said a collapsible toothpick and while both are excellent ideas for future products and good guesses, I'm afraid that it is just a lonely leg of a tripod and then that same leg blown up to Enormous size. This was done with the diagonal hatching method Jake showed us and my only complaint with it is just the fact that not all the lines are the same size but I guess thats more my fault than his...

So did I drown or triumphantly doggy paddle my way to the side, I dont know, but I'd say either way I'm off to some sort of start, I know I'll be playing with this when the sudden urge to draw strikes again later..

Cheers!

A Zine

So My Zine is called Spaces and really is just a compilation of interior spaces that I really thought were intresting or just really well designed. All of my spaces came from Either the September and October 2007 Issues of Architectural Digest or out of Interior Design's August 2007 Issue.

Sources: Architectural Digest October 2007
Pages: 77, 104, 248, 257, 288

Architectural Digest September 2007
Pages: 184, 204

Interior Design August 2007
Pages 184, 226, 232

Another Friday of sketching

Today we had a critique on the projects we just finished, I'm not sure how I really felt about the way we handled this critique but hey. So I sat and drew alot I really was trying to get the duct work but it was really hard, I dont know what I was messing up with but I couldnt get it to a point that I liked. You should read some of the other comments I've written out on the paper.

Also Suzanne if your checking blogs, please disregard my terrible sketch of you in the lower right side of the page.. you kept moving and made it difficult to draw you.

The Metamorphosis

This project was abit challenging at first, create a hybrid of two objects, and then combine them twice over. My projects were originally done by Kelly Mc Millian and Krista Giles
Ultimately I really wanted to focus on the shapes of these 2 objects and thus adjusted mine into this hybrid

I thought it still had the triangular shapes of the all white one as well as the 2 black columns of the project by Kelly.

After completing that we had to create 2 more that consisted of a majority of each of the 2 projects.

Sketchbook Layout

On tuesday we selected a layout from a magazine that we liked, I chose an advert that I found in the April 2007 Issue of Interior Design Magazine. We were then told we had do somethig similar to it describing what studio meant to us.

A quick Post before lunch

Today the 1st year studio heard from a graduate of the program and I thought it was really great. He really tried to inspire us to be proud of what we were working on and learn to work through our exasperation if its really what we wanted to do. We also heard about the sad fact that many of those we work with will mostly likely not return after the 1st or second semester.


However this was not my intention with the post. While he was speaking I found that I had a desire to draw and so I pulled out a sketch book and pen and went to work. I really do like this drawing because I got to work with alot of layers and I also go a little practice drawing people even if it is only from the back of their heads.

A Container for A Memory

Last week we finished a project in which we designed a place to hold a memory. It could be happy or sad or anything, just a memory we had. I decided to do the following:

"In the autumn of last year my boy friend Wesley and I piled into a car for what I thought would be one of the most horrific experiences of my life. We were on our way to my families Thanksgiving weekend. Normally I do not have to worry about what my family thinks but something this big was something new for everyone. Never before had I brought my boyfriend to really meet the larger extent of my family, and a large portion of my family was not aware that I am gay. So the whole way up there and for a long time before guests even began to arrive I was nothing more than a nervous wreck. I was stressed any emotions were entirely out of sync. I thought I would die and that my family would hate me. I think Wesley understood what I was going through because he came to me and just held me long enough for me to realize that all that mattered was what he and I thought, for better or for worse we were happy. At that moment all the stress and emotional problems I had felt just seemed insignificant and melted away from me. Needless to say the weekend went very well, I had panicked for no reason but I left it with a new understanding of our relationship."

This memory was very important enough to me that I wanted to find a way to show it in my container. I wanted something layered that really showed how over time my emotions changed to the calming feeling, which is also why the colors go from solid black to a solid white. As someone told me, "It's like an onion" The Sharp angles were also intentional because I wanted to show how difficult it is for me to open up so I wanted an imposing shape that looked sharp, the Triangles really gave it that effect as well as making a unique way for it to stand.

My original prototype really seems radically different at least to me, this is largely due to the fact that it could close. I removed that from my final design because I didn't really see how it related to what I was trying to convey. So I removed it and made each piece separately.

-Cheers!