This is a drawing of my final project. As soon as I get to a different computer, I will rotate the image...I can't on this computer. I really like the layout of this drawing. The thumbnails on the bottom are different views of the archway in its ultimate location. The bigger picture is one of the thumbnails blown up and shaded a bit better.
This has been a long, but worthwhile process. One thing that I forgot to explain in the zine was the reason why I chose to do an archway as a time capsule. One can only assume that it has a symbolic meaning, and that assumption is true. I call the archway "Gateway to Gatewood." I would like for it to be placed on the walkway coming from the parking lot and up to the building. It symbolizes the students' transition period into the crazy and rewarding world of interior architecture. In this world, everyone must be as crazily creative as possible and rules (well, some rules) seem to be made only to be broken. It seems so different from other majors, so I thought that there should be more of an emphasis put upon entering the building. The archway is made out of metal. There will be lots of metal wire intertwined all around the arch to create a, if you will, metal "vine." Every student in the first year department will bring a piece of wire. The size, color, and thickness is completely to their preference. This represents the collaboration of many unique beings. Altogether, I think this is a pretty decent idea. I'm really excited to work with metal and wire.
This assignment allowed us to combine all of the techniques that we have touched on so far this year. A grad student sat in a chair up on a pedestal and we had to divide our paper into an attractive layout with four separate places for pictures. Then we drew her in those places using a different technique for each one. The outcome was really quite interesting. I like how her shoe came out.
I thought this one was going to be easy....2 pencils and a half an eraser later, I realized different. This really made me separate myself from what I saw and what I knew to be there. I knew the wall was white in the picture. But when looking at it and all of the shadow on it, only a small portion of it was actually white. It was hard to gradate towards that, while still keeping the wall looking smooth and wall-like. I still think I could have done a better job...but who doesn't think that?
With this exercise, we were to to use only two values to differentiate between the shaded areas on our still-lifes.
This is my favorite picture. I really like doing the white-on-black shading. It really makes the drawer pay attention to where the light is hitting on the object being drawn (in this case, rose petals.)
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Here is my sketchbook layout. The prompt was "What makes studio, studio?"
I surprised myself at how well these turned out. They don't necessarily look exactly like the actual people I was drawing, but the proportions look right. They actually look like people! The topmost picture is Sara Easterling and the bottom one is my roommate Sarah.
These are the rest of my people contours. So far I am not very proud of them, but I'm going to keep on trying. The only way to go is up.
For this assignment, we were asked to draw contours of people--cue scary music. We were told to put more than one person in every drawing. Technically, there is more than one person in the above drawing--two of them just happen to be in a picture behind the actual person I was drawing. Anyway, this is my roommate Jen. It looks nothing like her. I've found that people are much harder to draw than I thought. If you draw just one line wrong, then it looks like a completely different person.
This negative space drawing turned out a lot better than I thought it would. The proportions are pretty right on. I'm sad to say, though, that I now pretty much hate any and all bicycle spokes. Sigh....it's a small price to pay--comes with the territory.
This picture turned out pretty cool. again, I like how the attention is being pulled towards the building, which was what I wanted the main focus of the contour to be. I think I could have spent a little more time on the tree in the foreground, though. It looks a bit carelessly done. Overall, though, it's not that bad.
This particular drawing was fun to draw, even though I drew most of it very wrong. For starters, I picked this particular angle of Greensboro because I wanted a cool drawing with that tall building in the background in it. Although, a good ways into drawing this, I realized that the top of that very building, which is the best part of it, was not going to fit into the picture. I debated with myself whether or not to redraw it and make the parking garage a bit smaller so I could fit the building in. But I ultimately decided to keep drawing--simply to see what the outcome would be. I found that, aside from the badly drawn parking garage windows, it turned out quite lovely. I like how the attention is being drawn right to the building in the background. It is gorgeous and elegant, even without its roof showing.
This contour is my least favorite. I should have made the lines on the fence a lot straighter and darker since they are the closest thing. There isn't much detail or beauty to the picture. I'm trying to get into the frame of mind where it is okay with me to make not so okay things sometimes. Beauty lies in imperfection, right?
This is a view of the city of Greensboro from a park bench. I think this drawing turned out pretty well for the most part. I'm proud of myself that I made the little building with the funny roof look like the real thing. I was a bit skeptical when I was drawing it, but I am pleased with the outcome. Like always, though, it could be greatly improved--although what in this world cannot be?
