Sketch Reflection

Sketch 10

For this post I wanted to try a new medium. They are Sakura pen touch pens in white, sliver, and gold. The two point perspective seems a bit distorted because I made the VP point to high.

Drawing

 The other day I drew my hand holding a piece of paper. It was interesting to see how the shade and shadow looks like on my hand. 

This chair was drawn with a two point perspective. I used the pencil hand measuring to help make the image less distorted.

This was a fast drawing done of my nee and foot with a pen.

This two point perspective of a lamp in the engineering building at WSU.

Sketch 9, Shading a Two-Point space

     This image is of a corner in my living room. It was a cloudy day that day and the shadows that where being chased created an interesting look on the walls. I found that when trying to create many different types shades and shadows in a small space, it helps to smug them a little. It creates a good transition for the different shads of shadows.

Uris Giron

Sketch 8, One-point Perspective

     This was a perspective done of a sidewalk of down town Pullman. It was done free handed as you can see. I can see that I made the one-point perspective two slanted downwards, this squad the images' believably for a realistic space. I will watch out for that next time. I used markers to color the space. I hope to learn how to use these markers better in the future. They are a bit tricky but Ill get it.

Uris Giron

Sketch 7, Pen vs Pencil

 The image to left is drawn and shaded with pen, compared to the one to the right which is drawn with pencil. The image to the right seems more believable for a space compared to the other. Even the one-point perspective seems more accurate. I did erase with the pencil, it is a more forgiving medium then pen, pens for life. If I was to go back and do it again with the pen I would have used drafting style of drawing, Hit-Go-Hit, I did do a little of that style of drawing with the right image to test it out. It is a great way to draw good, clean straight lines.

Uris Giron

Drawing Details

     This diagram is of a chair in my studio class. I think it cam out well but I need to work on some of my perspective views you can see this in the legs of my chair.

The Designer on the Go, The Real Way to Design

     This drawing was done on a napkin with a flair pen. The floor plan is of my house by downtown Pullman in Washington. and the one-point perspective is of my living room. I placed a little indicator on my floor plane to show where the one-point perspective is from.My perspective is a bit off, you can tell because of my secant chair.

    I would draw on napkins when the waiters are taking forever at restaurants. It is hard to not rip the napkin but I'm getting better. 

Shade and Shadow

      The image to the right does not have velum on it, the one on the left does. I was studying the shadow of the arm bar, to see how it's shadow is cast on a set of stares. As one can see on the image to the left, how shade and shadow are two different things. Shadow being the darker space then the shade.
    I should have used a darker pencil for this piece of velum. the shadow can barely bee seen.

Uris Giron

Fruit in SPACE

     This painting was done with gouache paint. I used Light Green, Yellow, and purple to create a split complementary composition. I used the black shadow to place more attention to the other colors, an accent color. The small contour lines were done to give the image a more recognizable shape.


Uris Giron

Figure and Ground

    This is an image of a plant with leaves, around the plant is void space. The image was drawn with graphite on a piece of sketching paper, then it was cleaned up using Adobe Photoshop. Images drawn in this manner are a great way to play around with figure and ground, to see void space as an object and vice-versa. I often forget that the sky and a surrounding can be used as an object in a design, a great example of this would have to be Louis Kahn's Salk Institute in La Jolla, California. For this reason, thinking of void space as an object can help to understand more about a location than what is physically there.

     I missed quite a bit of void space that I did not cover up. I was using a pencil with a B size lead. I had to press hard on the paper to get the tone somewhat dark. I should have tried to find a softer lead of pencil. This would have made my image look more clean and vivid.
     I missed quite a bit of void space that I did not cover up. I was using a pencil with a B size lead. I had to press hard on the paper to get the tone somewhat dark. I should have tried to find a softer lead of pencil. This would have made my image look more clean and vivid.

Uris Giron  

Contour Lines

       The sketch above was drawn to represent the form of the human body when placing them in a space, in other words, the main focus was on the contour lines. After I drew the contour lines of these people I saw that I need to work more on the details and location of the body and it's parts.

       I used Photoshop to edit out the details of the image. I wanted to see how much of a difference would be made if I was to place an emphases on the contour lines of the people instead of unneeded details. I saw that less detail drawn on the people, placed most of the attention on the space and not on the people themselves. It is good to keep in mind that the details of a person is not as important as the details of a space. Some of the places humans design are meant for people, but a crudely drawn model of a person can detract from where the focus should be on a rendering.

       I gave drawing the contour line another try on my HP Touchsmart laptop. I took it slow and drew the person as just another structure in a space. I kept the idea out of my mind, that I was drawing a person. It helps to draw when you let your mind and body do its thing, without the detraction of unneeded thoughts that can distract your focus.

Uris Giron

Tree Sketch

           The other day our class went out and sketched some trees for about 15 min, one with no leaves and the other one with them. We wanted to capture the light playing off the trees. The first one I drew was the tree to the left side of the image. I wanted to capture some details with the bark of the tree, but what I put most time into was giving the tree a 3 dimensional look. The shadows that the branches created helped give the image that depth I was looking for. The tree to the right of the image was drawn in a different Style; I wanted to give it a more animated look. So I drew it with strong horizontal lines instead of free flowing lines. I did draw the tree structure free handed.

          I scanned my drawing and cleaned up any ink smudges I made, by using Adobe Photoshop, I also edited and removed the yellow color that my sketching paper had. I wanted the trees to be the main focal point in this sketch. Not a big, black ink,fingerprint smudge.

Uris Giron