Hand- Still Life

This is a sketch I did holding a tissue.  I think it turned out really well, mainly because I used a wide range of contrast, and added texture marks to both the tissue and my hand. This is a great exercise to improve hand eye coordination!

Cynthia Leibrock's Design

I made this poster on Cynthia Leibrock and her design process.  Leibrock’s passion is to design for the elderly and disabled, as she hopes to improve their lives through good health and good design, while keeping it contemporary.  Leibrock said, “I want people to know no matter whether they have mental or physical disabilities’ — change that word to differences — ‘they are only disabled if they can’t do what they want to do,” and that is exactly what she does in her design by making each environment she designs accessible to every type of person.

Multi Media Fruit

 

After arranging three different kinds of fruit I drew the outline of each.  Once I had done that, I got out gouache paint and started painting around it filling in textures and different shades the light left on the different surfaces of the fruit.  My favorite part of this painting out have to be the pair, because I feel the texture and color turned out great, matching the pair I had as my model. 

Stairs- Shadows

This is an image I drew of a picture of stairs.  While drawing the stairs I tried to capture the shadows that were caused from he sun light hitting the stairs.  The difficult part in drawing shadows is to trust yourself and just draw the line angles that you actually see, because when I would try to draw lines that I thought would look better it threw the whole picture off.  Overall the picture turned out pretty good, although if I were to go back and change things I would change the sidewalk lines 45 degrees to the left, for I feel the dimension of the stairs would match better with that angle and the picture overall would pop out more!

Elements & Principles of Desgin

I made this poster of different elements of design, each image having its own definition, description and sentences.  These images are all found from the Georgian period ranging from the time period of 1695-1830.  I found it hard to find some of the elements in good quality pictures, but enjoyed learning about the style of design from that time period.  

I made this poster of the different principles of design from the Georgian period 1695-1830.  Each image has its own definition, description and sentence describing it.  I liked this project, not only did it teach me different principles of design, it taught me the style of design that is a part of our history.

Digital Sketch- Palouse

This was my first attempt at digital sketching.  It was a fun experience, but surprisingly harder than I thought it was going to be.  It was like learning to type all over again looking up the whole time at where the line was actually being drawn as you drew the line on the digital sketch board below.  I liked the process of digital sketching because it allows you to take any picture that you have or may have taken on a camera and make it into a drawing of your own.  The hardest part about the digital sketching process was remembering to add layers to the image, to allow a whole new image as an end result, replacing the image that you started with.  I would recommend digital sketching to anyone who has a passion for drawing- it was a great experience!

Keys

I really enjoyed drawing 'Keys' because it allowed me to open my eyes and actually look at an object I use in my everyday life. I mean seriously when do you ever stop your busy life to look at a key even though its how you access most things you own such as your house, car, safe, locker, the list goes on and on.  When I was drawing the different keys I realized how different all keys are from one another, differentiating in their shape, size, texutre, and line.  Drawing these keys taught me definition of line, as well as the importance of detail.  On each key there were multiple lines, long ones, thick ones, skinny ones, and the more I tried to communicate the lines I saw on each key, the more the drawing came to life, along with a sense of depth and character.  

Trees- Dark vs. Light

My drawing of 'Trees-Dark Vs. Light' was a feild sketch I did, where I tried to capture the different contrasts of dark and light values on the tree from the sun.  After reviewing my drawing I can say I felt it was successful in the fact that the value of contrast within both trees is significant.  In my opinion the tree in the top left corner turned out better, because the range of value dealing with the dark to light is more distinct, which also adds demension to the tree. Overall this drawing taught me confidence is everything.  The more confident you are in yourself with your pen stroke and the amount of contrast you allow, the more your drawing will come to life!

Contour Drawing-Pablo

I believe contour drawings such as this one help your drawing skills.  They allow your hand eye cordination to improve as you are put to the test to see how well you can draw an image or object that is put in front of you.  The pre'ciseness of every mark in this drawing was crucial since it was in pen.  I found the key to a successful drawing is to look at the image or object you are drawing for reference points and consentrate on the angles of each line you draw and how they correlate to those of the image.  One thing I took away from this contour drawing was scale and proportion, which was a lot harder than I thought it would be, but overall believe my contour drawing turned out pretty well!