Outside Building Sketch

This is the very first sketch we did in summer school, as a start to the sketch book we will be working on each week. It is a 2-point perspective of a building across the street from our class room. We all went outside for this, and drew the building. It was a challenging building to draw because it is not level, it is built on the side of a hill so it is built so that when your standing on the hill, the building is level with the ground. I drew some vegetation around the building to add some interest, and shaded areas of both the building and the surrounding bushes to add some dimension.

Room Sketch #1

This sketch is of my friend Michele's living room, I drew it in 2-point perspective with two vanishing points. I would like it to have more depth than what is pictured, but it is a rough sketch, and i think it turned out pretty well.

Textile Pattern

This picture was a very stressful, yet fun project to work on. The assignment was to create a quilt pattern using at least six images that we found on the internet, then changed in photo shop,then arranged in a quilt-like pattern. I used six different images, and changed aspects such as the color and the texture, and enlarged some so that it was completely different than the original image. I then cropped and rotated each image so that it fit perfectly on the quilt template I picked out. It was surprisingly hard to align all of the images properly without any gaps or overlay, and it took a considerable amount of time. I wanted the quilt pattern to be bright and colorful, which I feel I achieved pretty well. I don't like how dark the center image turned out, it was originally a picture of Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson's tribal tattoos on his arm, and when I enlarged the image it created a really interesting pattern that I wish had shown up more. In regards to the finished quilt pattern, I like how busy and bright it is, its a fun poster.

A Desk Sketch

Here is a sketch I did of a table in the interior design classroom, it is done in 2-point perspective. I showed dimension and texture by shading and hatching certain areas of the desk and its legs, as well as add its dimensions.

Value and Hatching

This is a sketch I did with cross-hatching and shading. I did a few different shapes, and experimented different values and areas of shading using hatching to give the shapes a 3-D look.

Textile Quilt Pattern

This is a textile pattern for our family's heritage. We created the pattern from images we found online, and then changed them in some way in photo shop, and created a square that could be repeated to make a quilt/blanket type result. I chose chocolate because of my Swiss family, and I made it appear as though it were melting because I'm from San Diego, where it is hot all the time. I thought this was a fun project, we got to use our family's history and be creative and make something interesting from it. All in all, I like the way the poster turned out, I think it has an interesting texture and appearance.

Process Poster

This poster represents a long term project revolving around the designer/artist we chose to research and use for inspiration for a room project. I chose Elsie De Wolfe because she is a legendary interior designer. This poster shows the finished room model, (down in the bottom right hand corner), along with all of the process work along the way. We had to choose an object from nature that represented our designer/artist, and produce sketches and drawings and eventually the abstract 3-D room model. The poster turned out pretty well, but I would have liked to do more with the background because it looks bland now that I see the end result. I would also like to make the lettering (Title and side "De Wolfe") more interesting using different fonts and colors. I do however like the way that the pictures are arranged, I think the layering and shadows behind them adds interest as well as depth to the poster.