Inspiration Styles

Continuing with our thumbnails from the previous post, I looked up 5 different artist's work to inspire and imitate within my own sketches. The first 5 here are other artist's work. The second 5 are my own renditions of their work, just manipulated to the sketches of the education building that I was asked to do. I am looking forward to trying out new styles for this assignment. I do not have my own style, persay, and since I am in the beginning stages of drawing, I can continue to work with different styles until I find my own.
The other artist's are as follows...
1. Samantha Zaza
2. Kurt D. Hollomon
3. Keelung
4. Barbara Weeks
5. James Hobbs .............thank you to them!

Thumbnails

For this assignment, we were asked to sketch 12 thumbnail sketches of moments in the Curry Educational Building. Here are my sketches!

Window Project

This project was huge! It took up the whole East side of the studio building and we used basically every window on that wall. We were asked to build something capturing 2 moments of light. As well as designing for our own window, we needed to keep in mind our neighbors. I think we did well as a whole. I did pretty well to, I think. I had something else going on at the beginning, but then made it better as I went along in the process. My inspiration was the Stoa. I really enjoyed the angles made by the light that came through the columns, and I wanted to replicate that. On the sides of mine (to further incorporate my individual design with the others around me), I used bond paper with cut outs to coordinate with Audra's (the diagonal) lines. I think that all of ours can make an impact on their own, but then also work together. We were asked to do a sketchup model for this project to, and I am slowly finishing. Since this is my first time using the program, I am going to need more help than I thought. The first is the physical project. The second is my first few hours attempt. And the third is my final product on sketchup.

Wearable Watercolors

For this assignment, we drew three vignettes using water color and one using both water color and a colored pencil. The vignettes were to include one accessory along with its immediate context. I choose my grandma's necklace, my sunglasses, and Michelle's scarf. I like the similarities between either side of the pages; how they each have accessories around the neck and then are pulled together with the red glasses.

2 Page Spread

Our second drawing project was to find a 2 page spread for inspiration in a magazine and then make our own rendition of it. Here is my final product. It was not supposed to be an exact replica, we were just taking the same layout and contributing 'first week back at school' things. As you can see, the original layout had grass on the left hand side and then it repeated itself in the lettering of 'hello' on the opposite side. That's what I did as well with the words from the left being transferred to my name on the right. The other things in the layout are fairly self-explanatory.

I think the main point of this assignment was to see the layout, or compostion, in an already printed format. Also, how it works in the context of the magazine. We talked about how Vogue, for example, would have a completely different style compared to Architectural Digest. For me, Vogue is more my style. Somewhat relaxed but then also classy a some points.

2 Page Important Objects

For our first drawing project, we were told first of all, to choose 5 artifacts that have importance to us. We then 'memorialized' them using a black pen and one colored pencil. We were encouraged to use words and drawings. Our main focus this semester is composition and context, so that was definitely important to incorporate it in our spread.

The New Semester

The start of a new semester! We got right into it again and we started working with watercolors. I was really excited to start! I had seen the second year's drawings with water color added and it just really adds to the drawing or sketch. This was my first go at it and I am happily suprised

that it turned out they way it did. I am proud of my first attempt...what do you think?