DESIGN VISUALIZATION: A Reflection.

Here we are at the end of the semester and I can't explain in words how excited I am to finally get a break from school work. It's four in the morning and I'm still in the studio. I might as start paying rent.

However, all of my work is completed and now all I must do is reflect on Design Visualization as a whole. I think that my drawing has definitely improved this year. I've learned a lot of new information and feel like I'm taking significant steps towards my career goals. At times it was tedious, actually...it was ALWAYS tedious. I've never been so tired of lines in my life but I know it's all for the greater good.

As for my most successful drawing, that's hard to say. I guess I would have to say, again, that the Animation drawings are my favorite. Animation and cartooning are my favorite things to do, no matter how real I try and made a picture look, the cartoon always comes out.

Here is one, that I've previously posted, but really enjoy:

Scritch, Scratch, Sketch.

For Design Visualization, we were assigned two classmates from which we were to chose two of their best sketches and post them on our blog. These two sketches would be accompanied by three sketches from our own sketchbook that we consider "good."

I like to draw in cartoon. Realism is something I rarely ever do. People are really hard for me, unless they are in caricature. Anyways, here are three sketches from the depths of my very own book:

 

The first sketch is by my classmate, Hannah Kasmala. It is a self portrait, which I love. I feel like she wasn't so much concerned with picture perfect realism but rather with capturing her humorous and quirky side. And let's face it, we could all stand to have a little fun around here.

This next sketch is by my very talented classmate, Heather Williams. It is of a leaf from Brazil. I think that the detail used in this photo is very meticulous. But this attention to the details gives this sketch what it needs to cross the line from good to great. I could learn a thing or two about shadowing from Heather, that's for sure.

DRIFT. DRAFT. DRAW.

Here are a few examples of what we have been up to in our Design Visualization class. Very tedious, but I think I'm starting to finally get the hang of drafting and its countless, endless rules.

For now, excuse the terrible quality. Someone was on the scanner every time I went in there. I'll re-post them later, with better image quality.

I think the line weight is a real strong point of this but the composition could be better.

The composition is lacking in this piece, the smaller lines were really difficult to draw.

It was hard to get the lines parallel, but I think I did rather well on this one.

The angles could be slightly better but I think this is well laid out.

Noteworthy Artist: ANDY GOLDSWORTHY

 Recently we watched a film in our Design Visualization class and I have been meaning to post about it for a while. It was about a particular artist named Andy Goldsworthy. His work focuses mainly on natural elements such as ice, water, fire, rock, etc. The most inspiring thing about him though, is that 98% of his work exists only in photograph.

 

I find it so incredible, the level of dedication and determination that he puts into each and every piece. He spends hours and hours on a beautiful work of art that disappears almost as quickly as it was created.

I love that he combines natural elements together, finding pieces of the most particular details to compile into his final work. He not only pays attention to the way something looks but to how the environment around it will react to it. He counts on the changing of nature to even further beautify his pieces. 

Daily Sketchbook

 

I like flowers. 

Drawn in room 204 of the Gatewood building.

We were watching a movie and I was daydreaming.

I think it's nice, takes up the whole page. I like abstract things because they take normalcy and twist it up. As an absent minded snapshot of what is swirling around in my head, it'll do.

What Inspires Me?

If I wanted to be cliche, I would have to say that I am inspired by everything around me.