What I have learned from all my Sketches

This is a free hand lettering assignment on how I feel like I have done on sketching during this summer course. I enjoyed my sketching like I said in my last post and I feel like I have improved a lot but I know there is a lot more I can learn. I found lettering to be a fun process and I like the way it looks even if you do it fast and free hand. I really enjoy all the learning on sketching and lettering this summer course.

Last of my Summer Sketches

This summer has been a world wind of sketches I personally feel like I have learned so much. We went through the idea of how a shade and a shadow and how to draw out the difference. I never have really thought about the difference between the two until now. we also spent a lot of time on different perspective especially one-point and two-point. I found the perspectives at first as a challenge to get and then once I got them I found it wasn't to difficult to understands perspectives to draw out. I feel like I have improved on my sketching and became more quicker at it. I thought it was interesting to draw a perspective on a napkin it took the ink in differently but it looked different and I enjoyed that. I am pleased on how my final sketching and skill improved during my course. 

This is my final presentation of this summers studio course. Everything we did lead up to this. On my first poster it is the introduction to my process of how my seat and shelter came to be. It all started with Dorothy Draper and learning her style. On the upper right can corner is my inspirational object, a blossom from the blossomed branch that inspired my abstractions. Also on the process poster is my object analysis, 2-D partis, 3-D partis, my abstract models,leading to a concept model to the final model. Also most importantly my concept statement on how my bench cam to be and why I did the things I did. My next poster is focused on the view of the seat and shelter. Titled with the word Delicacy because I personally feel like that fits the theme of my seat and shelter pretty well. We also had to take a photo of our bench at 9:00 AM, 12:00 PM, and 4:00PM to show where it cast the shadows. Accompanied with a two point perspective view. On the final poster I show two different elevations, plan, and a section view of the seat and shelter. Also the materials used to develop my seat and shelter. I picked out acrylic based products to give a more light airy feel I felt that something like wood or metal would be to heavy for a delicate feel. I am completely satisfied with my final product and it was worth all the long sleepless nights. Thank you for reading :)

Final Models

Final Concept Models

Final Modeled Bench

I was able to come up with my final concept model from my three concept models. What I focused on was curved lines, little vertical influance, visual texture, and an emphansis on controversy. Controversy comes from the idea of my inspired designer "I always put a controversal item in the room, it makes people take" Dorothy Draper.  Then after my concept modeled was complete I was able to piece together a final model. I used a lot of the same influences from the concept model but then i began to realize a new element to my to model. Delicacy, I found my model to give an organic natural vibe that sense to a romantic delicacy. With the controversial curls because they were something constructed out of the ordinary I saw my structure differently. So with a little humor I thought it would be funny to put a couple on the bench. This seat and shelter is my idea of a romantic delicacy, something organic, fresh,  fun, and light.

Abstract Models

Abstract models from Abstract sketches



Abstract Concept Models from Abstract Models



This by far was a challenge for me to make absrtact models. Personally I have a hard time thinking abstratly because I usually just have a set image in my head of a final idea once something is assigned to me. And to think abstractly of something in between thr proccess is difficult. I focused on an image for each abstract model and then try to let it blossem from there. Then once I had my models completed I picked an element I liked from each one and ended up with three concept models. From these three concept models I am able to piece together a final model.





Hybrid Drawing

This is my fist ever accomplishment with illustrator. We had to do a one- perspective view of a room and draw it out. It took multiple layers of drawings to get the final product. Then we transfered the drawings to illustrator. With the combination of illustrator and photoshop to get the images perfectly right, this was our final piece. Through out the process I learned that its important to watch your lines and make sure they meet so your background doesn't see through. I also learned that if you are going to do a wall paper design make sure that your images is large enough becasue it is really difficult to piece the images together, luckily my design wasn't to complicated. But enough said I am pleased with my final image. :)

Chair Views

The Starting of a New Project

We were given an assignment to find something in nature that had some relation to the style of the designer we did a project on before and I choose this flowering branch. The vibernt yellow and green with the accent white fit Drapers stylings right away. Then I took pieces of the branch and recreate them abstractly. I wanted to used curved lines, asymmetrical balance, and a controversail item. These were the three abstractions I came up with.

Painted Fruit

We had to do a still-life of three pieces of fruit and paint them with out outlines and then outline them with pen.

Photoshop Pattern

This was my fist ever whack at Photoshop and I'm happy to say I am pleased with my outcome. We used textured images from our movement on our last project manipulated them. Then cropped, lassoed, transformed, and marque-ed we got out final pattern. I love the vibrant orange monochromatic color scheme with the accent of the purple. I see this pattern as something fun and lively.