Redo of Woodland Chapel

I decided to redo my vellum trace of the Woodland Chapel because I felt I poched my original too dark. I ended up buying and using a gray marker (rather than black sharpie) for this new one so that the poche would not come out too dark. The bottom picture is the new one and the top picture is the old one. The new one shows all of the inner workings of the roof much better than the older one. 

Perspective Pictures and Drawings

My Four Perspective Drawings

It was tricky finding vanishing points as well as light sources. For the bottom right bench drawing I decided to create my own light points rather than the ones in the picture because I didn't have enough room on my drafting table (or whole table) to find them. For the clouds in the top right and bottom left drawings I decided to take a blind contour approach so that I could capture their natural qualities of disconnectedness better.  

Perspective Drafting

Desk Perspective

The desk perspective exercise was fun and easy once Kurt recommended that I make the desk small to make the depth more pronounced.

Venturi House Plan

North Arrows

I had a lot of fun coming up with different ideas for north arrows. It also made me think about designing around context. If you are for example designing for a pizza parlor you might draw a slice of pizza as your north arrow.

Cube Sections

House Elevation

This elevation was very tricky in getting measurements right. I started out drawing everything from left to right and ended up getting off on my measurements. I had to erase a lot and figure out the errors I a had made with my architectural ruler. Although it is a lot of work to do the picture, make the architectural layout, and do the lettering, a huge sigh of relief came over me once I was done. I felt like the man who hit himself in the head with a hammer.

Venturi 1st Floor Plan

The floor plans were tricky in getting walls from one end of the house to correspond/line up right with other walls. This was my first time poche'ing a plan. I liked how the walls seemed to "pop" with the poche almost looking three-dimensional.

Woodland Chapel Section

The Woodland Chapel Section was probably the hardest and most stress-inducing assignment we've had. The drawing we were to copy in 1/4" scale was so small it was nearly impossible to measure the distance in between lines. Any small mis-measure would ruin the whole section. 

One and Two Point Perspective Drawings of My Room

My room is very interesting because it is a finished attic in which the ceilings come down to meet the walls diagonally due to the roof slope. I was very entertained in exploring the ways in which I would draw this diagonal coming down and how it would interact with my vanishing point(s). Doing the 2 point perspective also helped me to realize the ways walls overlap and how an overlapping wall changes your view of what's behind.

House Plan

Making my house footprint was interesting in trying to make a box look visually interesting. Using color to mark special lines helped with making my plan interesting. Drawing the topo lines also really made me think in depth of mine and my neighbor's yards as most of us have raised yards at different heights. Making a logo for my "Smitty & Son's" company was fun too and also adds to the visual interest.

Topo Plans

Twig and Cell Phone Drawings for Suzanne

These drawings were fun but time consuming to do. The first set was a little too abstract but as I got along to the twig and cell fusions I developed my own style. I began to not just have a black background behind the objects but to have a glowing outline before the black background. Once I got to the final 8 set and 4 set I found that the "glow" effect could help with the contrast and give an electric effect as well.

Sketches For Nadia's Class

Class Portrait

Rain Boots

Contour Desk

Dog Wood