Stephen Hawking Kitchen Final Perspectives and Plan

Millwork Composition

So You Think You can Draw CD Cover Montage

Creating a story/illustration linking four totally different stories/illustrations was very challenging and fun. I have to give credit to the cover art of Blade Runner and artist Syd Mead as it was what I drew inspiration from. The most challenging aspect was in creating two different ground planes and making one turn into the sky of the other.

Materials Study

The above materials are for my Stephen Hawking kitchen design. Each material is rendered in pencil, pen and pen and marker. They are (from left to right) ultraglas, scintilla tile, kirei board and paperstone. These things were uber time consuming

Across The Street From Fishbones

This was a sketch from the Fishbones restaurant patio looking across the street at the "Filling Station" restaurant. We were there with some old hippie friends of my dad. My father's friend Danny told us about the time he and a friend raided a farmer's "mushroom" patch and were shot at. They lived.

Haybles Hearth

This is my dad's favorite restaurant. It seems to be one of the last hole- in-the-wall places left in Greensboro. Great home-cooked food and friendly folks!

Communications Class Speeches 2

It's really funny how when you draw someone (whether it truly looks like them or not) you can really see how long or wide their face is. I also feel that in each of these drawings I have captured the essence of each person. Some are shy and nervous while others aggressively bloat out what they have to say.

Tectonic Face

When I was sitting at my desk mid Saturday the sun was beginning to set behind me. My laptop sat in front of me on my desk. I looked up and in the dark screen I saw my face in a half silhouette. I've seen it many times before, but this time the light and angle was perfect to where my face was seemingly divided in half. I dropped what I was doing and sketched it out for fun. Later on I decided I could modify it to work with my current studio design concept of "Tectonic" and turn it into a logo for the "So You Think You Can Draw" contest.

We had a class vote for the logo contest, and guess what?..

I won!

Profile studies

The Sky Tower

Tectonic Composition

A point of impact breaks plates. The plates shift and where they shift and break light is created. The idea of light and weightlessness coming from such a dark, compact dense place is what I play my concept on. My kitchen space contains fragmented elements, these elements in their seeming shift make the space seem automated, progressive, and dramatic as if it is changing and going somewhere.

Rendered Entenza Axonometric View

So You Think You Can... DRAW!!

Foods Lab Perspectives

I made perspectives by taking pictures of the physical model I made. Each of the pictures are actually panoramic views made up of 5 to 6 different shots. I used the photomerge in photoshop to create the panoramic views. to do the rendered perspectives I traced the pictures and then added new people, entourage and an outside desert scene. I love the desert and whenever I do perspectives with windows I like to show desert elements to spice things up. The perspectives are also very useful in showing the wide-angle lens (positioned above the instructor station) which looks down to show the instructor's demonstration.

Venus Man Trap

I've always had a fascination with Venus Fly Traps and now that I have 2 plants at my desk window I look at them all the time. All the girls come by my desk and poke at them and act like they're scared. It's fun to imagine that the plants could grow large enough to eat us. They are also very interesting to look at in that they don't just grow straight up like most plants, they twist and turn and even lie on the ground.

While doing this project I looked at them straight on to capture the twisted extreme positions they get into. It works out well for the story I'm creating because these twisted positions make them appear to be moving, as if they are poised for attack.

Sleepless Night

A few nights ago I woke up in the middle of the night and couldn't get back to sleep. I turned on my little light and sketched the iron and the shirt sitting on my dresser. Sitting in that position up against the wall made my back hurt, so once I was done with the drawing I went to sleep pretty easy.

Kinsey Jones

I got to draw Kinsey on draw your-neighbor-day! I got her to look at the window and look pretty and my hands did the rest. Too bad I kind of made her look scared.

Junk Truk

I was waiting for Buiscuitville to open one morning so I decided to sit in the Office Depot parking lot across the street and draw this junky truck that was for sale. I decided to use my newfound pen shading technique. By shading the ground below, I kind of fixed my mistake of making the back end higher than the front. It looks like the truck is moving down a downward slope.

Tommy and Suzanne at The Green Standard

It's fun to watch people. Tommy moved around a lot and constantly put his arm around the seat next to him. Everyone has an animal that they look like- The way Tommy moved his head back and forth and the way his lip connects to his nose made me come to the conclusion that Tommy is a lizard. Because Suzanne sat in front of me I could only watch her out of the corner of my eye, she looked down a lot because she was drawing little caricatures of herself, so unfortunately I was unable to capture her true beauty or find her animal.

Texture Study

This is the texture study from class. By accident I learned how to do a light shading with pen! Because I was using a .02 micron, I turned it to its side like a piece of charcoal almost so it couldn't mark and it began to shade like a pencil! This was so cool I shaded the whole piece of wood with this technique.