Time Capsule Site Drawing

Given an assignment to draw our time capsules in the site we propose them to be at, I was excited, then I actually got to doing it and began to see that it was much harder (as it often is) han I had originally anticipated. Ultimately I decided to do it over and this was the result.

I do like it, its even got some little people hanging out in it, I guess it really doesnt look that bad, it also has some thumbnails but those got cut off so I had to make them seperate images.


- Cheers!

Studio Safaris

So when I get bored, I get bored hard core and I really needed something to take my mind off all the work I'm doing so yea, I grabbed a camera and started shooting so welcome to the first ever FIRST YEAR SAFARI! So put on your best Steve Erwin Voice your safari hat and follow me! Now just as a reminder please do not feed the Iarc majors, and do not antagonize them, they are all known to attack with drawing instruments if they feel intimidated. VERY DANGEROUSSS!


Here we seemed to have stumbled upon the den of an iARC major but where could be? Perhaps this site has been abandoned.

Oh wait, heres where he must be... on the floor, yes of course, its a known fact that when iARC majors cant use their desks due to clutter they often move down to the floors of buildings or other low lying areas. Watch your step they could be anywhere. Very Dangerousss!

As you can see, iARC majors are masters of camouflage. You cant even the iARC student in the picture but if you look hard enough you might just catch a glimpse of his possible location.

AH HA! at last an interior architect in their natural habitat, and even better we seem to have caught it off guard and it hasnt noticed our presence. Sara is working hard, also on the floor, its a popular kind of place to be, honest!

Ahh now here we have a massive network of multiple iARC dens, the iARC major is a pack creature often forming smaller packs within the main pack. Very Dangeroussss!

iARC majors are kings of the urban jungle as you can see and often like to survey their territory, as you can see their kingdom is expansive and vast.

So I do hope you've enjoyed the Studio Safari, I know I did, I'd like to wager we all learned a little some thing as well. Fantastic

-Cheers for now

Tuesday Drawing

So last tuesday before the break we did one final layout and then drew another student sitting in a chair up in the crit room, well heres how mine turned out

Zine Layout

My zine layout varied from page to page but this was the basic template, a couple of images with text describing them as well as a personally created logo to go with it. fantastic!

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People Drawings (again)

Not to shabby this time, although I still have what I hate about every single one.
This drawing of my good mate, Zach is okay I guess except I ran out of time to get his face shaded in, which is what I think makes me think the drawing is rubbish since everything else seems to have a certain degree of light and then his face looks like the light source, I thought about just scribbling in some shade but I just couldn't be buggered by it and I also thought that I would only ruin the drawing more.

Now this drawing I guess inst so bad except.... TUMBLING TEXTBOOKS BATMAN! she has no feet, what devious character would steal a persons feet... Oh wait no, I just forgot to draw them, how on earth did I forget to draw her feet, how do you get so absorbed you forget some feet?? I do not know the answer to that question but other than that and her arms lack of shading (again time limits) I would say she turned out pretty good, her face does reflect the light she was receiving and all.

Thats all I have for now, so..

-Cheers!

The road to tennessee

No one told me that the road into Tennessee was going to be so bumpy I would never have attempted a drawing if someone had told me so, alas they did not so a drawing I did do.


As you can see my lines are very rough and jagged, the road was bumpy and it was also quite dark in the car we were traveling in (by the way Escalades are not as roomy as you might think still big enough to stretch out though But I was expecting a set of rolling hills in the back of the car). My original idea was to make a whole series of drawings chronicling my trip to Knoxville, however due to a mishap involving car keys and a 90 minute trip to the stadium in the pandemonium I forgot my sketchbook and thus the whole idea was scrapped. Cant say I'll do it next time because their is unfortunately not a next time. I still enjoyed the trip. Even though I got home late and had to stay up late, it was totally worth it!

-Cheers!

le corbusier

Could he have a more difficult name, I mean I havnt been this challenged by a name in a long time. Any way I have today some fantastic shading drawings from his work so I hope you all enjoy!



Cheers!

I'm a bit knackered...

But I survived my trip to Tennessee, good times were had by all, although I got little to no work done and I'm so knackered I cant lay down or I will not get up until tomorow and what with a scale model due thats not really an option, either way, I tried to sketch while I was there, due to my own forgetfulness I'm afraid I only did one because I forgot to grab it on the way out the door on Saturday, but I've got plenty of stories to tell...

for now, its off to the store for more supplies!

Apples more than just food

So I totally forgot I drew this on friday while sitting in a meeting, and a little while working. I might own to many apple products but that is okay because you know what, Mac is better.. the superior computer, not nearly as many problems as with windows..

I think the shading is actually alright on this, mostly because stuff made by apple is generally only 1 of two colors, white or..... black so the shadows are quite easy to spot and I have almost no trouble finding them.

- Cheers!

Look at all the students

So Saturday it was a touring day for the future students of UNCG, so I assumed that meant no sketching for me, so I rather stupidly left my sketchbook in my room upon my arrival it was a full hour and a half before our first student groups arrived and so after that I grabbed a fistful of the handouts for students to know that parents and such would be walking about and began to try and quickly draw the people as they came and went, none to shabby I should say, but then again, there not to great either.


I dont really get a chance to draw anymore it would seem gotta work on that and hopefully will soon.

-Cheers!

I'm drowning in cubes!

No seriously, I am drowning cubes, I've got 4 sitting on my desk with not much to do, I think I'm going to make some sort of installation for my room out of them, not sure what yet, but you'll find out on here eventually. Anyway back on the subject matter at hand, cubes, they're really, square, which means they cast alot of right angles for shadows, kinda cool like that, after tuesdays fiasco in shading I was feeling pretty clue less.
As you can see I think the only redeeming part of this one is the shaft of light that comes through the small crack.

Down to what I drew last night

My first Scratch that, third attempt, April told me my first two didnt look like what I was drawing and she gave me some tips, which you can see I implemented here

Still not udnerstanding how to do any of this, I called an art major friend of mine to come and explain to me shading, he gave me some input which I then implemented into this drawing


My final drawing looks like this, none of the cubes are touching which makes them kind of nice in terms of the shadows, it also makes them very difficult to draw.

Moral of this story is that, I still do not have a lick of what I'm doing when it comes to shading, I tried reading through the book but alas no luck there.

-Cheers!

More Shading Practice

So today I come prepared with more drawings showing off my shading practice for my drawing class. So brace yourselves! I dont know what really to say about these drawings, I dont love them but I dont hate them either, the only thing I really think about them now is simply the fact that now I dont know which style I prefer drawing in, ink or pencils. I do know that I love drawing on the black paper with the colored pencil, I cant get over how cool they look when they're done.

Illustration Friday: Hats

This is my first time doing Illustration friday let alone vector, so please be nice!

So I had thought I would post my shaded pencil sketch of my boyfriends Prom King Crown but then I decided I wanted to do something different so I instead chose to try out a Vector style that I have seen alot on other websites and really just wanted to try out for myself. I think it turned out rather well, I used a Police Womans hat from West Yorkshire. I liked how it turned out, in fact the only part I really dont like is the checkerboard pattern because it was very tedious to do as each of those shapes had to be drawn individually and they still dont look very correct. I still like it and hope to continue to work with this technique in the future.

I probably should have been scanning in my shading assignment but I needed something fun to do today.. sorry! check back soon

Happy (late) Halloween

So yesterday was Halloween and only a few people dressed up in studio, so I decided to attempt a quick sketch of those elaborate costumes, Suzanne's almost came out the good, the rest look kind of poor but I can tell that I am improving my drawings of people. Might try adding abit of color to it later, I just cant get over the coloring tools in photoshop, I think I might have a problem..

Cheers!

Shading Excersize

This post contains the shading excersizes we worked on, on Tuesday, Hope I'm doing this stuff right because I don't really feel like the book is being all that clear about when to use each style or even how to do it properly.