Instruction
Continue adding detail to the drawings. New layout template given.
Purpose
Finalize ideas and textures, prepare for final deliverable.
My Interpretation
Using the notes from my previous progress post, I continued adding detail with new textures and perspectives. For the boot, I decided to ditch the leather texture and allow the bubbly additions be their own texture. The other drawings did not change from the previous post.
Instruction
Finalize the pattern and tiled components.
Purpose
Finish the project.
My Interpretation
See above and previous progress reports.
Instruction
Add detail and further progress towards final drawings.
Purpose
Further develop detail. Explore texture and what is added or subtracted from the form.
My Interpretation
For my boot rearrangement I decided to repeat the pattern on the heel throughout the lower post of the boot. I experimented with many leather textures but did not like any of them. I also wanted to change the perspective of the drawing to more clearly develop it’s shape. For the hair drawing, I also experimented with textures. I tried clog to upholstery to corduroy to velvet, but finally settled on that puffy coat material. I made the chair out of that material and made the back wall/remote holder a carpeted texture. Finally, for the pavilion rearrangement I also changed the perspective and added a lot more depth to build the space with it’s variety of tables and chairs and stools.
Instruction
Create a realistic, semi-complex, and essential component breakdown of three organic-like figures throughout OSU campus. Break down to only most essential details.
Purpose
Begin exploring the beginnings of abstraction and how forms can become simple shapes and can then be rearranged.
My Interpretation
For my three objects I decided to use a small flower, some small sculpture, and a mailbox. I wanted a range of organic shapes, starting with completely organic and ending with hardly organic. I also wanted to I explore different numbers of components, the sculpture having the most and the mailbox having the least.
Finding Objects
The goal of this research was to find at least six objects on OSU’s campus that had some sort of organic shape. It was necessary to take pictures of it from all or most angles or simply take a video of the subject while rotating around it.
Chosen Subjects
Walking around campus I spied for various levels of organic and semi-organic shapes. The first examples I had were a red chair shaped to the human body, and next to that was some covered outdoor heat lamps on Curl Market’s patio that also had a vague organic feel. After this on another day, I walked around and found a small structure/sculpture, a mailbox outside the journalism building, and a flower and bench just in front of Hitchcock Hall. My goal was to explore truly organic shapes found in nature (the flower) to objects that are only partially organic (the mailbox).
Instruction
With the given reference images, break down the subject by creating a realistic, semi-complex, and abstracted view of the same subject. For the final set of shapes, do the opposite, building up from abstracted components to a realistic view.
Purpose
Practice abstraction of breaking down and building up objects into a subject that was not their before. Exploration into essential components.
My Interpretation
The break down drawings are self-explanatory, but for the build up drawing I immediately saw a top shape. With that in mind, I created a semi-complex drawing, adding detail, and finally further emphasized those details in the realistic one.
Instruction
Finalize the drawings.
Purpose
Finish the project.
My Interpretation
See above and previous progress reports.
Instruction
Continue progress on the Interpreted Journey project.
Purpose
Reach towards finishing the project.
My Interpretation
Because I decided to have my scenes set at night, I knew I needed to either have extremely heavy pencil-shading or use my micron pens. I have never been a fan of shading, often preferring intense line work, so I decided to give a go at using the pens. I never used them before this project, so I spent some time drawing some very quick sketches to allow myself to explore if I wanted a black sky or not, if lights have an “aura” around them, and how light and shading is impacted by using different line weights of the pens.
Instruction
Create five or more near-16:9 drawings utilizing compositional elements as a draft.
Purpose
Finalize decisions on compositional elements should be decided. Prepare for final submission.
My Interpretation
I wanted to explore the idea of being chased by having ever-enclosing angles of the person being chased, save the last drawing. It starts with an over-the-shoulder mid-shot in hopes to set the scene and show the stakes for what is about to happen. The next drawing is a canted mid-shot to emphasize the motion in the chase, and the next is in rule of thirds and golden triangle to draw your eye to important parts of the drawing, mainly the rubbing subject (to be added). The fourth drawing is a high and slightly canted angle, again showing motion, but also allowing the subject to look small and running out of room. Next, I contrasted the previous drawing by doing a low-angle frame within a frame shot. Though the low angle makes the subject larger, the clock tower is the overbearing figure in the composition, allowing a unique big-but-still-small look on the subject. The final drawing was originally going to be a close-up but I decided to change it to birds-eye and focus on the Fibonacci spiral to frame the size of the crowd chasing down the subject, creating an overwhelming feeling of “I’ve been caught.”
Instruction
Create at least 25 thumbnails (in a 16:9 ratio) from your Journey to Treasure drawings using various compositional techniques. May use one of three themes: flying, investigating an alien planet, or being chased.
Purpose
Explore different angles, frames, and compositional devices to observe where your eye looks in the context of your Journey to Treasure drawings. Iterate many different versions.
My Interpretation
I decided to follow the “being chased” theme as I thought it seemed most fun, and I could use a lot of one-point perspective, which is one of my favorite ways to draw and show off detailed line work. I know that I want to expand my skills and try to not only use pencil shading but pen shading as well, exploring texture and shadows with darker blacks rather than different shades of gray since I wanted the drawings to take place at night.