umm... England?

Right so George Quan is demanding I update this blog.. so here you go... Basically my summer was spent largely on the phone, in court rooms and in other countries so I dont have much to speak of when it comes to drawing... I do however have a ton of photos from various excursions in the UK presently... But first drawing I apologize for the poor quality I do not have a scanner and couldn't make it to the uni to scan in the lab today.. but I'll try to get in there some time this week..

I had a 6 hour layover in Boston on my way to Manchester and the terminal I was in had a gorgeous view of the Harbor so I tried sketching it...



This was just a quick perspective thing I was showing the year one students at a pub during a trip to the Cheshire Plain



Last week we went out to Rivington Pike and these are just some quick sketches as we were climbing the hill and I was falling behind so their quality is... not really very good but it was really just to get an idea.



Now since I've been here we've explored the Cheshire plain and Rivington Pike, the Pike being the actual site of our current project



This image comes from the Cheshire plain, its abit foggy, as expected but way off in the distance is Manchester more specifically you can just barely make out Beetham Tower Manchester's tallest building.

The view on our Asecent up Rivington Pike. Still rainy and misty as you can see...

This is a tower at the top of the Pike, the pike is on the end of the Pennine Moors which divides the Eastern and Western parts of England. At one point the very hill was used as a stage of a beacon warning system to alert the English to an invasion by the Scots.. Just as a quick note, the view is allegedly second to none in England and on a clear day you can see Blackpool Tower and Liverpool Easily.. However the weather conspired against us and we could see only mist and more mist.. in fact at the top it was almost like being in the midst of a smoke screen as you could see absolutely nothing beyond the top of the hill.. Not really relevant but pretty funny... I've got a book to make for tuesday so I suppose I'll update again once thats finished..

Time Capsule Orthographic

Now that the time capsule construction has been completed and after making sure I got my sleeping project done (I was analyzing the construction and function of my pillow) I made an orthographic drawing of my time Capsule for use with my presentation this coming Wednesday.


The Front of course received some extra detailing with the shadow to show how the light hits and reacts to it.

Of course a shot of the side, not really much to see but shows my point.

And the top, not much to see here either, just darker lines fro the stuff that is closer, beyond that, its rather boring to see, but your not supposed to look at the top your supposed to look at the front so carry on.

Hopefully all will go well for my final critique on Wednesday and that I will survive to see another semester.

- Cheers!

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!

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 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.

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!