In-Class Shading & Personal Best

 

In class on December 2nd we were ask to focus on shading the folds and creases in the sheets that were draped over two chairs.  While i was drawing the folds i used a variety of pencial lead weights to achieve diffrent depts and shadows created by the fabric and the fabric came to life as i was drawing it. I am very satisfied with the drawings because i believe it is one of my personal best that i have drawin in my drafting class this year.  I have learned over the semester that to create life like detail you must use diffrent line weights and qualitys in both observational drawings and is draftings. Both require a attention to detail that i did not realize at first but through many classes i learned techniques thati have put into use and have improved greatly in my abilty of drawing both.



Best Drawings

In class we were split up into groups and told to draw what we saw i decided to focus first on the outside shape then fill in the rest after the shape was in. Normally i do both as i draw but this time i really was trying to draw how i had been told and instrusted all semester.  I tryed to capture the overall emotion of my drawing but i am not compleatly sure if i did so but this excercise helped me to understand why shading and the concentration to detail is so important.  After the class finished we were ask to pin up our drawings and then told we had to pick one to take down and we had to have a reason. This was nerve racking to me since i thought all the drawings were better than mine and figured mine would be one of the first taken down, however mine stayed up for a little bit and the reason it was taken down was because i needed to add more detail to them because the rest that were up looked very realistic and mine did not.  This exercise helped me to realize that i always need to be proud of my work even if its not the best of the group and i always need to do my personal best even if my best is not the best out of the class.

Luminear Project

For our final Studio project we were assigned to take a picture of a light effect and create a laminar to portray this effect.  My light effect was a picture of light filtered through clouds and i knew off the bat i didn't want to focus on the projected light as much as a over all glow of light like the clouds produce. 

I started off this project by looking at tons of images of lighting and diffrent ways to create difrent effects and atsmophears to a room. Many of the images i looked at were so refined and i knew i would have to create a well polished piece if i wanted it to look perfessional instead of a school project. I was inspired by pictures of a side tables made from raw wood like a tree stump  and branches and adopted that idea to use in my design process.

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  So I choose to use a tree stump to shield most of the light and as a base of sorts and striped the bark and cleaned out the inside so it would look clean.  Also i drilled a hole in the back of the tree stump to recess my light fixture and wired the light myself into my tree stump, to turn on the light i wired a swich that pertrudes throught the back of my tree stump for easy acessability.

 To create the layered effect of light i used many layers of plexi glass which are held in by the natural cracks in the stump and the tension created by bending them.

First i used frosted spray paint to cloud the glass but the frosting was not blocking the light enough and i could not figure out how to create a even layer of the spray so it ended up looking uneven and not finished. So i started to play around with different ways of making the glass cloudy.  I tried to sand the glass, i tried to glue different types of paper to the glass but finally decided to use white paint and the brush strokes created by the paint brush added even more of a layered light effect.

 To demonstrate my effect more by leaving the top and bottom and side opened and unfiltered to show the strong unfiltered light through cracks in the clouds.

I was very happy with my final project and think it demonstrates my light effect how i planed for it to.  This project took  tons of research on light fixtures and just sitting around thinking about what i wanted to create it also took many hours of work in the woodshop and many hours of trying to get things to work but i finally finished and i am very pleased with its turnout.

Scale Figures

In Drafting we are learning about how including scale figures in drawings helps to inform the person reading the drawings of key infomation.  We have learned that including a scale figure helps to show what perspective the building is from. Their are many types and styles of scale figures ranging from abstract triangles to detailed contour drawings and are curently working on devoloping our own style of drawing for these figures. Scale figures do not have to be really detailed and making our own style is key to creating a understanding in our drafting projects so i am going to keep trying to devolope my own style so it inproves my drafting assigments.

Progress on Luminaire Project

So far on my project i have a giant tree stump and a light bulb and thousands of glass bulbs. Now all i have to do is put them together and recreate my light affect of layers of light, which will be a challenge since i only have 3 tree stumps to practice on.  However i know already that my light affect is focused on a wall and on the ceiling. I'm also planing to work with alcove lighting.

Sketch Book - Personal Best

I chose this drawing because it shows the joint detail and also the sides of the wood. I know this drawing is not extreamly detailed but in my option it captures something that i like about my wood project, i dont really know what is was but just the overall feeling of the drawing is what i like.

This image shows the outside countour of the drawing and helps to show the form of the object i built. This is an abstracted version of my project but i like how it is not perfect and just shows my base form of the wood.

This show a close up of the practice pieces for a studio project and demonstrated how i focused on the continual wood grain. The wood grain was a huge part of my focus and helped pull the project together and make it a structure of its own instrad of a bunch of pieced bound together by dowles.

I have been working with experamenting with diffrent teckniques of drawing some highly detailed and some with just outline and shadows.  I have not suceeded in becoming some great artist but i am improving and will keep trying to challenge myself to find a drawing style that fits what i want to represent with my drawings.

Sketch Book- Things to Adopt

Both drawings are extreamly well done and they inspire me to try to use her shading teckniques and atempt to shade using strong justures instead of blending out the shading.

Sketch's of light thru bottles by Laura Kimmel

 

Sketch of a leaf by Lindsey Grace

This drawing of a leaf by lindsey helps to show me how to improve my contour drawings not just by focusing on the outside contour but also on the inside texture of the object.