A post card to Jay Lennartson

Dear Mr. Lennartson,
My thanks for your taking time to come and speak with the Interior Architecture studios. I found your lecture albeit cut short to be show the true beauty of the earth. The images taken from space really were amazing to look at and I think gave a lasting impact to how we will design in the future.

Kings Group Charette Interviews

The interviews from the charette started on friday

As apart of our research for the bus/shelter client charrette we were sent out to get the opinion that matters the most. The city bus riders. Our group set out for the nearest GTA bus stop and when we got on we asked the lady sitting next to us if we could interview her. She said "yes." but she wished to remain anonymous. Thinking she was about to get off at the next stop, Kara quickly sketched her. She had short gray hair, glasses, and appeared to been in her sixies. We found out that she rides the bus everyday to and from her job as a Gulford County School teacher. She said it takes a about an hour of waiting and riding the bus every morning. At first she seemed a little shy, but as the ride she opened up a little bit and started talking about her children. When it was time for her to get off we thanked her for her time and went on our way to the depot.

S.A.T.U.R. DAY! Night!

Right so its saturday and I'm bored so I'm working on some stuff that I started like a month or so back.. Frankly I think its all rubbish but other parties are telling me I ought to post it anyway. So off I go then... Over the summer I was lucky enough to acquire a Wacom tablet, which is a glorious invention.. anyway a friend was asking if people would attempt to draw the characters from the book he was writing.. well being that I need practice drawing people I decided to give it a go.. I read in one of my drawing books that if you want to learn to draw people you should look at comics and manga so I did and I've gone on a spat of drawing with that style.. so behold

This first image was sort of a roughing out of the characters shape and such, so I didnt really bother to get to involved in it..



This second one is a more refined idea.. I still dont really care for it but figred I'd post it anyway..

Crit Week: Conclusion

First year Critiques are over! I just finished presenting my work, however I was not just sitting around this week. I drew, quite abit actually so lets begin. Wednesday crits started and I set about to drawing my peers, projects and people



As you can see, I tried to get more people into the view this time, and I think it worked out pretty well. A few proportions out of place but all in all not a bad attempt. I didnt use any measuring technique either, a sign I may be learning to read proportion with out using my pen.

Just a few peoples projects drawn as they appeared on wednesday I've realized that my Micron pen is already running out, it seems odd to me that I should dry out so quickly, does anyone else see this problem or know of a solution?

Fridays, critiques revealed more projects with various curvy shapes. I also drew my initials in what I call Jazz Squares as they strike me as being jazzy. In no offense to others but I dont see curvy shapes when I think about jazz, I see curves just not to an extreme. There is still some geometry to them.

Also like my blue pen? I was getting bored of black and white drawings all the time. So I bought a blue pen to spice things up a little.

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.

Told you there would be drawings

I did mention I had some drawings I wanted to post.. these I did a few weeks ago during the spring holiday.. however I kept forgetting to put them on here.. I didnt do alot of drawing as I had hoped to.. I was catching up on my sleep... but here for you pleasure

not much to say about this one, I opened up deviant art and looked at some peoples photographs and then drew from those.. I chose some places in London, I believe the second one is Waterloo Station, but I cannot be certain.

Knowing that I needed to practice drawing people I set out to work on this. And actually, I think I might actually be getting something going.. no faces yet I'm afraid but they do look like people dont they!

Well thats all for now, be on the look out for the perspective assignments I'll be posting just as soon as I get them done, and they'll be in color too so thats something new.

-Cheers

The Space Between Drawings

These drawings were present on my board however they never really made it off and onto the blog, most of them are from the outside of my assigned building foust. Why outside, well because the interior was rather bland and boring and I enjoyed the exterior well enough to do those instead. Hope you can appreciate them.


The first one of these is very chaotic in a way I can appreciate that, all those lines running around giving it contrast while keeping the form intact.

The second one not so much, mostly because its an interior shot and was in fact about 3 times the size it is now, but was eventually cropped because their just wasn't a whole lot to see.. There is a guy there, guess hes reading something good.. in the corridor.

Truth be told the only one I really even like is the last one, the first one I liked up until I did the third you see before you. The lines just look more precise in all the chaos, like a careful blending of attempted precision while still keeping a loose form to it all. The only other problem I see are my scale figure sizes, they look like children... to small to be university students, they seem better suited to an primary school than a university.

Scale figures

Here are my scale figures for the assignment. I think I finally found a style I enjoyed towards the end where instead of doing lots of round shapes like people have taking more geometric route with a bit of round shapes where needed.


Certainly needs some more work but now that I have some ideas about what I like I think I can have more positive results

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!

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

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!