Fashion Ilustration

The picture on the left is one that I will be using for inspiration and am aspiring to produce drawings equivalent to this.

The picture on the right is the first of a series of fashion sketches that I am embarking on to enhance my sketching and illustrating skills. In addition to the good practice, I have am also doing these drawings for a project that I have in my Consumer Apparel class.

More Chair Cards

Chair Cards

These are chair cards that I have been required to draw for my history of Design class. I have learned a great deal about shading and drawing chairs since this project began and here is some of my work from that process.

rendering practice

lamp

Value Study

LC4 Pony Chaise by Corbusier

Chaise Lounge

Value Study

In this project we were to take pictures of places within the studio that exhibited a multitude of values. These were some of my selections and the one I chose is on the bottom left. I knew the piping would be more difficult so I chose it to further enhance my drawing a shading abilities. We'll see how it turns out.

Refresher Exercises

On our first day of drawing class we were given a list of places to find on campus and compose a contour drawing of. A few of these are the following: a place to eat, relax, and stand in line. The pictures below are my depictions of these places.

Leaves of Nine/Pictures Combined

Four our final exam in our Design Visualization class, we were asked to complete a two part drawing project. The first part of the exam consisted of each student receiving a small, approx. 1" by 1" square with an image on it; and each of us were required to draw this image on a 12" and 12" sheet of paper. Here is the Result.
The second portion of our exam was to take a leaf, and by using the various techniques we have learned over the course of this semester, produce nine drawings on a 17 1/2" square piece of paper. I have turned this project in already, however, I will borrow it soon, and have it posted shortly.

Le Corbusier Shadings

Le Corbusier was an amazing architect, and while in class the other day, we were asked to shade two of his works. After completing both shadings, I found that I really enjoyed the second of the two, for the very reason that the light and the shadows have a nice effect on the entirety of the room. It has a feeling of warmth in it.

Herman Miller Chairs

Herman Miller had an exhibit of some of their chairs in our critique room on the fourth floor. In class we had to pick two of the chair and draw them utilizing all of the techniques we have learned thus far. We had 20 minutes to complete each one and this was the result. After the fact, went back and touched up a few of the details and I will post those later on.
The chair on the left is wooden and it had two rubber buffers behind the back rest to make it the most comfortable wooden chair I have ever sat in.
The other chair really swallowed one up. You were surrounded and protected by the wings on each side. It was an entirely different feeling I have ever had before.

Mountainous Arcane Boxes

These are two of my favorite shady boxes. I like how their situation and how the light and shadow creates crevices intriguing the eye to want to see more. There are areas drawing you deep into the dark depths which is aways a mystery.

More Boxes

Here I am continuing my practice in the shading world. I really enjoy some of the effects you can create with shading. However, after a while one starts to appreciate the simplicity of a simple contour drawing.

Shady Boxes

Here are some more exercises utilizing our shading techniques on cubes in various arrangements.

Box Perspective

This was one of our initial exercises in learning how to draw boxes that are on top of and beside each other. As you will see later on, this was just our beginning in drawing boxes. We are now shading boxes over and over again.
This is not how the picture really looks, but I was playing with Photoshop again and I enjoyed the result from this gradient map.

Inverted Plants and Stairs

The more I play with Photoshop the more I am flooded with ideas for my photos and projects. These two drawings were done with pencil on white paper. However, with the nifty use of Photoshop I was able to transform these drawings into black and white drawings.

Black and white

Over the past week the IAR students have been learning different techniques in shading. Thus far, we have been shading on white paper with pencils only. Here we were required to complete a shading by observing the white values instead of the dark. I took a shading I had already done in black and white and turned it into a white value drawing. I really like the effect it gives.

Still Life