Self Portrait

A couple nights ago I sat down on the floor with a lamp, some paper and a white colored pencil, I proceeded then to draw myself, the whole point of this assignment was to give us practice drawing faces as well as practicing our shading for the first time really. I thought I liked mine at first but having seen some other peoples I am starting not to like mine quite as much, no one elses shading is really as hard as mine. But I really did it how it looked when I drew it, the light was quite hard as compared to the rest of my face. I still think it turned out well, at least I hope thats what people think, I know my first couple tries with faces, I ended up with a Frankenstein and a box shaped head and I feel that this one has broken me of those things although perhaps I am wrong, either way, here it is my self portrait done using a hard light source. Unfortunately due to the image size constraints on this blog I could not get it full size but pretty close.

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Pencil Box

A project just completed recently was a project to design a pencil box, our materials were matte board as well as glues and adhesives. Sounds funny I know but suprisingly previous projects have banned the use of glues and such. This project I really just wanted a simple box nothing really special, in fact the only real thing that I knew I really wanted was a window to view what pencils were where in the box because there is nothing more annoying than thinking you've grabbed your HB when in fact you grabbed a 3H pencil, alright maybe not the worst but it is a hassle. Many people have noted that my matte board is both black and white and I am here to say that, that was intentional. I felt having it be all black was a bit bad, where as with the white it gave the box and outline and really a sign that it existed in the world. The lid is a unique feature of it as well as I chose this area to be the only part of the box with a pattern. I felt that with all the other parts having the white outline the actual lid was a bit neglected so I added the pattern. You also will note that the lid has one stripe thinner than the others this too was intentional. I wanted the lines to get larger further down almost providing the user where the end of it was, while giving the lid a little detail that it really lacked. It has certainly come a long way from my first iteration where the top of the box was very unstable and was relatively with out details.

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More people profiles

So we did some more people profiles and I guess these turned out alot better.. still missing somethings, like eyebrows.. oops.. but yea, I espeically like the one I did of Josie mostly because its the one that looks most human... I only got to draw one in class as I was going to the review on how to do the drawings at the time.

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People oh peoples

I made 2 drawings of people for today, I dont paticularly like them I always mess up the face, to much stuff to do.. and my subjects had trouble staying still that long..

A Place for an Egg

Our first physical project in our design classes was to prepare a place for an egg using only paper. That means no adhesives, to counter this problem I decided to use some Origami styles that I learned to do really for this project. My place for an egg evolved from a huge mess of many things into the simple black base that it is today. I'm very happy with how it turned out. As for what it celebrates I went with its asymmetrical shape that still appears round, which is why the all the pieces that point up are on some kind of axis with the egg.

a final word

I was reluctant to post this one because it just looks so bollocksed up that I didnt want to even show I had done it.. and yet here we are..

STOP MOVING!!!!

So we had to start drawing people (insert scream here).. I hate hate hate, drawing people although looking at them as just shapes helped a great deal, although when people move as they often do it makes drawing them all the much harder..This was my first one, as you can see I have trouble getting the lengths of extremities correct. So my feet an legs look weird.. I really like how they layered effect kind of came into effect with this one.

This second one was drawn during studio, I noticed that it was kind of a good time to draw, again peoples arms and legs look disproportionate and incorrect but I'm still over all really satisfied with it.



This one I was in the lab and saw that their were quite a few people and I enjoyed the way the layers looked so I tried to get them. I also tried to throw in the desks and computers but mostly because they were showing the layers.