Funky Test

Northwest corner of the Natuzzi Resource Library, Gatewood Studio Building

A funky test  was sprung upon us in the midst of all the stress that comes along with the semester's end. For our test we were given one hour to map, draw, and render an interior space. Since time was of the essence I chose the Natuzzi Resource Library in our studio building (Gatewood).

Music Building Perspectives

These drawings were used in a project in IAR 102. The project was developing an environmental interface for the music building on the UNCG campus.



Scale Figures

This is an excercise in how to proportion the human body and using correct proportions in scale figures. I have used four different scales. They are : 1/2":1', 1":1', 3/4":1', 1/4":1'



Self Portraits

These are self portraits (kinda). I don't think they look like me! I found it very difficult to stare at myself in the mirror for as long as it took to draw these.

Self portraits in graphite, warm colored pencils, cool colored pencils, and ink

Monticello/Falling Water

The class went on a field trip to Monticello and Falling Water.

These are quick sketches of both places



Bedroom

For our next project we were assigned a bedroom plan. The parameters for the room was that it must contain a bed, two night stands, two dressers, two chairs, a rug, and a bench. Additionally, there had to be two windows in the room and two doorways, one through which could be seen the hall. From the plan and using knowledge from our previous grid assignments, we blocked out a two point perspective of the room. Finally, details were added and the room was rendered.

Bedroom floor plan 1/2":1'

Block Perspective

Rendered bedroom



Kitchen Plan/ Sections/Perspectives

Based on our previous assignment, we drafted a plan and two sections of a kitchen. We then used the information from the plan and sections to create a 1 point perspective and a 2 point perspective of the kitchen. The floorplan and sections had to be converted from a 1/4" scale to a 1/2" scale.

Kitchen floorplan

West and north sections of kitchen

1 point perspective of kitchen

2 point perspective of kitchen



Floor Plan, Grid, and Section

For this assignment we had to convert a floorplan from ~1/4" scale to 1/2" scale, draft it in ink, and add a grid to the floor.

This is my floorplan

West section of plan

From these drawings, we made 1 point and 2 point perspective grids that we used in other projects.

1 point perspective grid

2 point perspective grid

Blocks in Perspective

For this assignment we had to make flat squares three dimensional and in perspective using a ground line and horizon line.



Orthographic coffee cup

These are orthographic views of a coffee cup that I use on a daily basis. My cup is called a tankard. It is very large and much fatter in the middle than at the top or bottom. The first view on my drawing is from the top, the second view is actually the inside section, and the third view is from the outside.

Light Box: IAR 102 and 112

For this project we had to make a light box from white board 6x6x18. Before we made the box we had to do a light study; look at different light situations. The lighting situation I chose was sunlight reflecting off of a highly reflective/prismatic surface and on to the wall.

This is my picture of the reflective light.

This is the inside of the first light box. The interior and exterior of the box are entirely white. On this box I drilled holes in two of the sides, the light streamed in through those holes.

This is the light box from the exterior. The hole in the center seam serves as the view finder.

As part of our color week, we remade the light box using the color scheme from our 18 color study.

When we remade our light box the new dimensions were 4x4x12. On the inside of my light box I put stripes of color on the two sides of the box that did not have the holes. The colors were symmetrically laid out with the second darkest pink-red in the middle and the colors becoming more blue until they were the darkest cyan of the bottom triangle. I then adhered very highly reflective silver paper to the inside of either end of the box, this gave the illusion that the colors continue indefinitely.

This is the center of the colored light box. You can see the color gradient if you look carefully. I think this is successful because you can see the color gradient in the reflected light more than in the paper, itself.

Here is a picture down one side of the box. The gradients of cyan are very clear but all of the gradients beyond the darkest cyan are a reflection. Again, the reflected light reveals the actual paper color.

Assignment 5 : Color Week (IAR 102 and 112)

Color Week:


Color week is full of fun mini projects. We started finding middle ranges between two colors, then three colors, we chose four colors and a middle color and choose mid-ranges for all, and finally we made an eighteen color diamond shaped chart finding mid-range colors between combinations of two and three colors. The final part of this project ties to the Light Box project from IAR 102. We had to remake our light box and add color from the color scheme of our 18-color color chart.

Mid-range between yellow-green and cyan

           

          Mid-range between light yellow-green and medium violet

This is a group of four color and a center color with mid-ranges in the center corners of each large square. Doesn't it appear that you can see through the orange paper to the other four colors?

       Visual mid-range between three colors

This is my 18-color color diamond with mid-ranges and 3 way mid-ranges.

Assignment 4 : Dining Room Sections/Plan

Assignment 4 : Dining Room Sections/Plan



For this assignment we made mini sections of the dining space we designed for IAR 102. This exercise, while extremely small, really helped me to consider all the views of the space I designed.



Assignment 3:Fabric Texture

Assignment 3 : Fabric Texture


 The third assignment was to draw 9 different fabric textures. I used graphite for all of them.

Assignment 2:Wood Texture

Assignment 2 : Wood Texture




The second assignment for IAR 112. These are different wood textures drawn on cardboard. I chose to experiment with graphite, ink, and colored pencils.

 

 

Assignment 1:MLK Speech 2012

The following is my first assignment of the semester for IAR 112 (Design Visualization). It is a portion of the "I have a Dream Speech" by Martin Luther King Jr.

I don't think the pencil shows up very well on the blog.

Project 3: 1st year studio plan/section

 Updated iterations of studio plans including north and west sections

  

Here is a pic of my 3rd project in design vis. One is a plan of the first year studio, the other is a section of the studio.

This is my grey scale project for IAR 112, design vis. I used graphite for three of the scales and ink for the other three scales. Each medium is done in 11/2":1', 1":1', and 3/4":1'. Thanks for taking a look.