My presentation board for the cube.

My Board.

Right Side.

Binding.

Top.

3D Drawing.

Front.

I did my project board in black, white, silver, and copper tones so that it would relate back to the staples in an industrial sort of way. I feel i did very well with my first presentation board, but next time I will put all my drawings on the board and not on the white paper because there was too much contrast.

Both of these drawings below were first time sketches for my presentation board and were VERy rough, but hey, gotta start somewhere!

Sketchbook Assignment; LEAVES!

These are my drawings of the four leaves I chose. The top one is a negative space drawing, the second is a realiztic drawing, the third is a contour drawing, and the last one is a blind contour drawing. I like all of them but the negative space one because I feel the position I had the leaves arranged did not make the negative space interesting enough. This is what the leaves look like in real life:

Sketchbook.

These are a few things from my sketchbook I decided to add!

This was my first sketchbook assignment, to draw food items around my dorm. The point was to try and copy the font style.

This is an outline drawing of my Visual Design teacher, Suzanne.

This is a pepper, one of my morning assignments.

THE cube.

This is my cube! The rules of the project were to make a 4" x 4" cube, raised 4" off of an 8" base with straws, while having "eccentric sides". So this is what I came up with! I thought the circular openings on the side both enabled placement for the straws and made the sides interesting. I incorporated the circles in the base as you can see. Another big part of this project is the staples. Tommy said staples would be an interesting concept so I decided to try it. I learned that staples are NOT easy to work with. Lining them up and making them look neat is a task! I think adding staples added a new & interesting concept; similarity in contrast. Circles, to me, represent calm, tranquil concepts, while staples represent hard, and roughness. I have so many circles that it goes along with the chaos of the staples. So it is like both the staples and the circles have their own language, but similarities within the language, when used properly of course!

The top two pictures show my process. I learned from the top one that my stapled sides needed to be longer to achieve the look I wanted. In the second one, I got the look I was going for, but Rachel suggested i make the top like the other ones and have more straws going through the loop holes. I agreed with her and like the outcome much better!

Project #2

Our second project was to make a container for a special object of ours combining paper, fabric, and thread. I decided to do my special necklace I received from my grandparents for my confirmation at church. I decided to use red as my fabric because it represents elegant and love. Newspaper was my paper because it reminds me of New York and my grandparents were from New York and visit often. The top picture shows my final product opened up and the bottom shows my process.

Drawing of the Foust Building

This is my drawing of the Foust Building. I found out that intricacy is key in line drawings such as this. This has always been my favorite building on campus, so I was happy to draw it, but I still did not do it justice for its beauty.