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..

Detail Drawings

These detail drawings were fun I enjoyed doing them, I decided for most of mine that I would focus on the detail of the changes in value on things which is why there is so much hatching going on. I think the phone turned out especially well, my laptop display hinge looks pretty good too and I was really trying to show that detail of how that fit in so snuggly with the rest of the computer. I think it looks pretty good. The xbox controller I like simply because of the angle at which I drew it, the shadows cast by the thumb stick came out really well in my opinion and I think I showed that the buttons are not just flush with the controller but rather bubble off the surface.

My apologies on the scans, something is abit off with my scanner, I will be rescanning them when I get to studio tomorrow. I tried to edit them in photoshop unfortunately it was a no go so rescans tomorrow look for them then!

-Cheers!

Mess Drawings

All these messes came from Wesley's room, while my room has a number of messes I liked these a little better as the are kind of organized messes. They got progressively smaller because as time went on I got more and more exhausted by the drawing, it really does take alot out of you.

- Cheers

*Edit* Images cropped and cleaned up a little bit

Massive Masterpieces

Part of our final examination for our drawing class was provided on a sheet of paper only 1.75 inches squared. For the longest time I thought it was a billiard ball, that was of course what I believed it to be after I turned it on it's side. Turns out not only was it not a billiard ball it wasn't even in the States.


Look just tilt your head 90 degrees to your left and see if you cant see the billiard ball, its got a stripe and a shadow and everything. Either way in the end it turns out we created one huge picture of the Hagia Sophia located in Istanbul. I remember this from my former art history, and I thought it quite beautiful, thus when I saw that we had recreated it I was so impressed I had to snap a couple photographs of what we all did together.

See everyone's names down there, its a lot of people, so many people who all worked like dogs this semester and came together to make this. This is my second to last academic post of the semester doesn't mean I wont be drawing though, so back of peoples heads beware, I've still got my sketch book, Everywhere!

- 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!

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!