Friday Sketching

Anohter chance to work with perspectives, this time back in the EUC just like last term. Took a seat in the food court and set to work sketching, the people I took very gestrally I think not really illustrating the details as frankly, they were very far away.. Overall I'm happy with it.. enough to add some color.

Summer Drawing

Right, I've been away now for.. A long time, a thick layer of dust has settled on my blog, but I'm back and I'm blowing all the dust away.. Now that I'm moved in to my new flat, as well as having a new scanner to scan in drawings I can finally get around to posting all the things I've been working on this summer.

First Up a Sketch of the Building I spent most of my time in, GSRB II on Duke Universities West Campus


A sketch of my once again messy desk, I did this one on a day when it was rainy and so I couldnt really bother to go out to draw unless I you know, wanted to be killed by rain.. But since I do not fancy death by rain I decided not to


Same day, rainy and dreary so I decided to draw the living room, the chair is the only thing I dont like about this drawing but ultimately I think it was to just keep me from being completely rusty when the new term began.



A friend and I decided to enter this drawing thing on a website and the first was to draw your favorite videogame character well I chose Joanna dark from the Game Perfect dark, unfortunately it looks like I did this drawing in the dark so lets just move on..

This drawing I spent 2 days on, really just 2 hours, because thats how long I had for lunch, its the building across from mine, and looks rather like mine, but thats MSRB I or II I cant recall, but it also houses the Human Vaccine Institute so go figure..



This was a drawing I did on my first day of work because they told me they didnt have anything I could do with out a computer and to occupy myself so I sat about and drew for abit...



This is one of the last drawings I did this summer as it was nearly time to move but its a co-worker of mine, hard at work.. I myself was not that hard at work but whatever..

100th Post! and Elsewhere

How appropriate that my post for our project as elsewhere should be the 100th post on my blog! Thats right, must mean I've posted over 100 things that I've been working on over this past, suppose I should look back and reflect but I'll save that for post 101... Anyway, over the last few weeks of my drawing lecture with Suzanne Buchanan we have been drawing the museum Elsewhere in an attempt to map out certain areas of the space. This post will contain all the drawings I have done for elsewhere.

Day one at elsewhere we took 5 sticky notes and selected 5 objects to draw, mind you with our time limit I was only able to get one drawn while I was there.. but here it is

As you can see its a big scary looking mask. It just stuck out amongst the books. So later on I took this same drawing and gave it some color just for the fun of it..

Alas our main objective at elsewhere, was not to just draw, we were supposed to map out spaces we determined with duct tape. Well I'm no cartographer, and if I were I think I would fear mapping out elsewhere, everything gets moved around, constantly. However I did not let that stop me. After 2 days of sketching I had two which I liked, I decided that since elsewhere really is just ALOT of stuff piled up, I really just wanted to show how much you can see from various perspectives. I tried to cram as much stuff on the page as I thought I could with out losing the feeling.


As you can see, the drawings I tried to create a sense for just how tightly packed everything is. If you read the text in the second one you can see just how exhausted I was when I was drawing this, as my thoughts were clearly incoherent.

Using these two drawings I wanted to try something digital for my final drawings. Using the eraser tool and drop shadows I created two very different effects and then threw in some text that I think reflects my final opinions of elsewhere.

This first one I wanted to have a blue with a black outline to really show off the hatching to show light moving around over the objects, I dont think I truly succeeded in this respect but the effect is still really cool to me.

Now my second one I think turned out really good, and I absolutely love the white outlines on some of the edges, again I thought of how light was interacting in the space, and I bent the laws of physics a little bit to get some of the stuff underneath outlined as well but who's judging.

I didnt just fall into those two as my final finals, I had a few other attempts which I will post below, I didnt select due to little things I didnt like about them, but I still feel its good to show my process..

El Careton and more!

Tuesday's class took a little excursion over to El Careton a fantastic place to get a bite to eat and a really good view from which to draw. This was the result of that adventure, as well as a few other drawings that were done earlier or later that day.

So we have here a less than happy looking woman and the Brown Music Building. I must say I think that despite my poor perspective I think it turned out well.. and dots make it look so much better, those dots will make a resurgence in drawings I did later as well..

Now these drawings are not really related to my drawing lecture but they use techniques I've learned from it so up they go..
Firstly we have a drawing of the capital building, I did not go to DC but I still ended up drawing some of its major landmarks, I think it looks pretty good, some scaling errors towards the center with the columns but turned out better than I thought it would.

Also got the Lincoln Memorial Drawn just for good measure, as it is one of the first things people think of when monuments are mentioned.

The Best Laid Plans

So I had intended to draw a lot over the holiday, then reality decided to rear its ugly head as though I had been eating a delicous albeit bland grill cheese sandwhich and someone had come up thrown the grilled cheese on the ground and proceeded to replace it with a sandwich made of peas. At least thats how I remember it, anyway I was doing just fine and dandy when suddently disaster struck, on boxing day I went shopping had a good laugh little did I know that the next night, BAM like a firetruck hitting an ostrich I had this really bad pain. Tis nothing I thought (wrong), I must just be hungry (wrong again). So after about an hour of this pain which was increasing down we went to our friendly neighborhood hospital where in I learned my appendix was rebelling against my body. Well my body being the chivilrous leader it is was not having any of that and had dispatched the Royal Army down to solve the issue but the fighting had reached a stale mate. With combat stalled we turned to our only ally the surgeon people of doctors office. the cut me open removed my appendix where it was later executed and now once more all is well in the preverbial nation that is my body. I've lost track of where I was going, OH YES! the drawings... well drawing, yes thats right entire break, only got 1 thing done but you just read my over drawn and elaborate reasoning behind it, so yea, this is just all the things I witnessed while trolling about shopping malls and restraunts and book stores on christmas. I drank a lot of tea that day by the way, in fact $25 probably went to tea alone. As you can see I tried to draw people with varying degrees of success, some people look like garden gnomes while others still look just as big as life but thats not my fault. And then there is the cheesy gift card banner, Now I dont mind recieving gift cards, but I do mind giving them out as they make me feel like I'm sort of coping out what should be a heartfelt endeavor kind of like how two people agree to lunch and then the other person sends a secretary to have lunch with you. But that panera sign just made no sense to me as when I think of holidays I'm not thinking about a gift card or anything like that but thats just me.

I think this post has already become to long and would probably be funnier to you if you actually heard me reading it but yea, thats all for now I would like some cake so..

- Cheers!