Sketch Reflection

Here is a little bit of free handed drafting to describe my experience while learning how to draw perspectives and contours and the many other methods I need to practice to become a successful designer. I don't free hand very often so my hand was shaking when I was producing the strokes but over all I just need to stay consistent to make it look uniform. 

An Other Two Point Perspective

Here is an other sketch using two point perspective. This time I practiced using an exterior view rather than an interior one. I feel that I am gradually getting better at understanding how the human eye recognizes space and it is becoming easier to quickly draw such a perspective.

Two Point Corner

I am working on drawing in a two point perspective right now. I find two point a bit easier to understand that the one point. I have had more successful sketches using this method. Here is an interior corner of a building on campus to display my practice using two point perspective.

Exterior One Point Perspective

I have been working on my perspective drawings lately. This is a one point perspective sketch of one of our engineering buildings on campus. I have difficulty drawing perspectives so I have been paying close attention to my horizon line and vanishing point. The left wall of the building was the most challenging for me since it is the part of the drawing that is in most perspective. The windows started out looking warped but I managed to make the lines more vertical to match the corner to make it look more realistic.

Chair Perspective

I sketched a round chair that was in my apartment. The seat is made of a polyester, purple material.The legs of the chair are made of metal. It can fold to be put away. I drew the plan, elevation, underside, back, and perspective of the chair.

Simple Fruit

I used paint to shade and make different tones for a still life of some fruit. After I used the shades of color with the paint I used a flair pen and drew the contours of the fruit. I then added a background for color.

Monday Afternoon

These stairs are on campus near Carpenter Hall. It was around 4PM when I sketched them so the sun was still pretty high. The shadow from the railing hit the center of the staircase in a zig-zag pattern and the side wall was in the shade. I decided to sketch the stairs from an angle instead of straight on.

A Different Igor

Here is an attempt in replicating one of Picasso's works Igor but with a twist. I was replicating the image upside down as well as not looking at the image as a whole but focusing only on the lines and their movement.

Sketching in the Sun

In this sketch I was focusing on how the light hit the trees and how it reflected through the branches. This was still a contour sketch so a lot of the detail of the trees are absent.

Leaf Negative

This sketch is about understanding negative space. Although the leaves were the subject of the sketch I was more focused on the contour of the leaves and its shape rather than the detail of each leaf.