Textured Leaves

A little Photoshop fun with our final assignment before winter break! I really loved this drawing activity, even though it would have been a lot better in the fall when the leaves were beautiful colors and not all of them were dead. But that is the sign that the Holidays are coming! Merry Christmas to all my IARCers, I hope everyone has a wonderful break.

RonChamp & Visual Arts Center by Le Corbusier

Here are some sketches from the same afternoon of Melia and Lyndsay posing with our platonic forms (cubes).

Sketch Model Drawings

These are drawings of some ideas for our Time Capsule project. The first one is the one I will be working on. It is a sculpture with cubes that will be able to store artifacts such as a letter to ourselves in the future or sketchbooks, drawings, etc. The more uniform blocks on the left represent us coming into the program not knowing where to go and the more random blocks represent us finding our individuality and our own purpose in life. The bottom drawing was supposed to be a sculpture that you could walk under outside. I really don't like this model but i was meant to represent the 'world of IARC'. It is a little cliche and I think that a less literal approach is much more punctual and makes more of a point.

Platonic Form Shadings

Block Drawing

If you l0ok at this from the bottom my drawing gradually becomes more accurate. We've been drawing our platonic forms in class and it's a lot more difficult than it looks due to all of the angles.

Shading Techniques

Exercises 2.10-2.12
Exercise 2.9



Exercise 2.8Exercise 2.7



Exercise 2.6



Exercise 2.5


Exercise 2.4

Exercise 2.3 (still need to upload)


Ex. 2.1 & 2.2

Still Life Shading

Today we practiced different types of shading with our drawings. I have room to improve, of course, but I was pretty pleased with the outcome of my drawings.

Random Sketching

I'm starting to get better!

Perspective Drawing

Less than a week until fall break and less than 24 hours until I'm 19! This week we're working on perspective drawing. I have drastically improved on my drawing skills and I need to work on my perspective drawing so I am glad we are working on this. I really have enjoyed getting into smaller groups for our drawing class. My favorite was Suzanne's group because we got to work with magazine layouts and fonts. It was so much fun. Drafting may not be as much fun but it is something we have to do. My favorite part about being in the studio and in a program like this is that I can talk about how much I like a certain wallpaper or font type and not sound like a loser! haha. It's so refreshing to sit down and talk about design with people like it's the norm.

Light and Shadows

If you couldn't tell this is a self portrait I don't blame you. This was an interesting project that I was hoping would turn out better than it did. We had to sit in front of a mirror in a completely dark room with a light hitting one side of our face. Using black paper and white colored pencil we were supposed to focus on the highlights and shadows cast on our face. I really enjoyed doing this portrait and maybe I will go back later and try this again. I am a beginner at drawing, no doubt, so maybe next time it will turn out better.

Contour Profiles

These are contour profiles of two of my friends here at UNCG. The first one is my friend Michael. He was pleased with the outcome of my drawing of him. He then tried to draw me, and lets just say that it made me feel a lot better about my drawing skills! haha. He wasn't serious about it though. His portrait of me now hangs on my door to my dorm room. Like Tommy says, "It's so bad it's good!"
The bottom contour is of my roommate Hannah. This is the first contour I’ve done of her that actually looks somewhat like her!

Profiles

The top profile is of Megan Schwartz and the second is of my roommate Hannah. The second one was drawn at about 4 in the morning. Every Friday my roommate and I have a radio show for the college radio station from 4am to 7am. It's really hard to get up but we absolutely love working there. We get to play whatever we want, as long as it's in the station. We look pretty rough in the mornings and drawing that early doesn't help with the technique of the drawing. There is such a big difference between these two drawings and I think it's interesting because they were done in the same week, just at different times of day.

Contours of People

People are so hard to draw! Especially when they keep moving. :/

The drawing above was drawn in my philosophy class. This was one of the few days where I didn't fall asleep! haha. I had trouble with the angle of this drawing. It looks like the people are leaning over.

I really enjoyed drawing in the coffee shop at the euc. Again, the angles in this drawing make the couch look irregular.

This is one of the first drawings that I was pleased with. I think I am getting better!