Chartpak Adventures :)!

Today, we colored/rendered for the first time with Chartpak markers. I've found a new love for markers. They're easier to work with than watercolors or colored pencils. And you can manipulate them easier by mixing colors or adding colored pencil to achieve your goal. Thanks, Suzanne, for a fun class today...I enjoyed 'going back to kindergarten' :).

Sketch Sketch Sketch.

More Mossman...

This week, we're supposed to have 5 sketches of details of the Mossman Building, using influences of other artists. Here's the progress of mine..

Pete Scully

Urban Sketchers

Pete Scully

I haven't added color yet...more tomorrow!

Mossman Thumbnails.

For the past week and next week or two, our project in our drawing class is on a specific building. My group is in charge of the Mossman Building. Here is my drawing assignment for the week: 12 thumbnail drawings of details of the Mossman Building.

Windows Galore...

For this project, we were each assigned a window in which we were supposed to fill it with two different light effects using cardboard and two other materials. My initial inspiration came from the clerestory windows we are studying in our History & Theory of Design class and stained glass windows, and the patterns they create. We were also told to consider our neighbors designs in our own designs. Nikki's window focused on how rain on windows effects light, so that's why I decided to place the items that represented the stained glass in a way that seemed fluid-like. I also decided to go from almost 2D to 3D to further emphasize the rain effect.

Here's my first time ever sketch up model. It's not completely accurate, but I'm still trying to figure out SketchUp and how exactly it works.

Accessories.

For this assignment, we were supposed to zoom in on accessories and begin to play with water color, and include some colored pencils as well. The bottom page was my first attempt with water color...and well, it didn't turn out as well as expected. However, with the earring...I really liked how it turned out, so I decided to play it up with a blue-green background to make it pop.

First week back?

My inspiration, folks.

I really liked this magazine layout. It was from the IIDA 'perspective' magazine Winter 2009 edition. I liked how well it represented my first week back. For those who don't know...our assignment this week was to find a magazine layout and recreate it somehow, representing our first week back at school. So I decided to pile up all of my events, to show my chaotic week, and how I've had to do things from 'a new angle'.

New semester. New sketchbook.

As our first sketchbook assignment, we were instructed to go in our rooms/studio and find 5 objects that have meaning to us and to draw them, using pen and one colored pencil. On the left page, I drew the things that were more or less ritualized to me. Like my medicine container and my room number. My medicine container holds my Topamax, which keeps the migraines away, and the room number is my home...it's where I always end up. But the things on the right are the things I take pride in, and the things that mean the most to me. Like my religion, my bible. Or my ADPi, my sorority, my best friends. Or my love and my memories. These are the things that I can't always explain, but I'll cherish for the rest of my life.