spatial-assembly

The first image was my first attempt at creating each form, and the second image shows the final version with shading included.  I began with the five main line drawings of the shapes, and then chose to add in smaller versions with unique perspectives before I remembered that they needed to be shaded, so the drop shadows may be a little off due to the angle.

For my first attempt at drawing forms interacting, I wanted to combine many of them and wasn’t completely sure about how to do the shading.  After Leah’s lesson in shading, I decided to go with a simpler composition and focus on how the shadows and shapes would interact.  If I could improve it, I would take down the contrast on the leftmost shapes and increase the contrast on the sphere.

EXPLORING PERSPECTIVE

I started by using Notability to play with several different variations on dimensions and making a perspective grid:

 

PRACTICING OBJECTS IN PERSPECTIVE

I also practiced creating objects in the space using the perspective grid.  I succeeded with the couch and clock, but the table was a little weird because I created the base on the “floor” of the space and then moved it up, which meant that it did not recede to the vanishing point.

 

SELECTING DIMENSIONS AND OBJECTS

After getting an idea of what different dimensions would look like, I decided on a 14’x16’x8’ (w*d*h) room with a 3’x8’ cutout to create a nook for my desk.  When I started making the perspective grid for this design, I ran into problems because I didn’t put my special vanishing point on the same line as my regular vanishing point, but Leah and Emily helped me figure why that would create issues and I moved it to a more appropriate location.  I decided to include a trash can, lamp, clock, laptop, couch, bookshelf, and table in addition to the desk, cactus, chair, and cutout that fulfilled the requirements, although I may remove some of these items in my final drawing depending on how the process goes.  I also wanted to add lights in the ceiling to help me with shading in the future.  First, I drew a plan view of the space so I could decide where to put everything.

In the above illustration, the green line represents my sketch pad, so I know that everything will fit on the page.  My next step is to draw the space in my sketchbook.

This is the first drawing that I did, based off of my digital plan.  I chose to omit the laptop and cactus because I had a lot of difficulty drawing them and didn’t think they added much to the space.  Although not visible in this scan, the perspective grid was included, so I chose to use the light table to trace over the original without the grid.

I included both a scan and a photo of my final work because the shading did not come through well on the scan, as well as the digital plan for reference.  In my final piece, I decided to try the cactus again, but in a different style, and I was very happy with how it turned out.  I also removed some of the lights because of their awkward positioning and added a window to open up the space.  The final piece also includes shading, which took some work but ended up really enhancing the depth and perspective aspects.  One of my favorite parts was the shading on the bookshelf; I looked at shelves in our studio to see how the light would fall to guide me.