Entenza perspective

Axons

These are the axonometric views of the Entenza house. This type of drawing provides a lot of information about about the layout of a building. It's kind of like a combination of a floor plan and perspective. It's easier to understand how a space flows and how rooms connect to one another. I'm particularly happy with how the shade and shadow came out on the black and white drawing. Showing gradient on surfaces is something that I'm starting to work on.

The Victorian Era

Our assignment for So You Think You Can Draw this week was to create a perspective from another era. I chose to do the Victorian age. I tried to hint at the use of patterns and all of the "clutter" people liked to show in their homes. Heavy draperies and carved furniture were also important during this time period.

Case Study Elevation

This is the elevation for of the Case Study 9 house that we have been working on. Showing line weight and shadow is important in conveying depth, especially in an elevation. These are things that I worked on with this drawing. I need to work on showing more texture to differentiate materials.

Case Study 9 Section

This is a section of the Case Study 9 house that we have been working with. We have done a rendered floor plan, elevations, and soon an axonometric view. We were able to add our own furnishings and items to the house. Just like with the other drawings, line weight is important when conveying depth. Things closer to the viewer have thicker lines than things further away.

Rendered Floor plan

Getting digital

Our 4th "So you think you can't draw" assignment was to do a contour drawing of a camera and then add color in photoshop. Even though there isn't much color on the camera itself I wanted it to pop. Therefore I added a muted green color in the background to make it stand out. I created the circular reflection in the lens and then decided to use that as a super graphic of sorts across the whole image. It's a lot easier to experiment and try different things and be able to undo instantly with photoshop.

Inspired Composition

For this project we created a composition in photoshop featuring multiple assignments over the past month. We used the floorplan, black lined perspective, photoshopped version of our rendered perspective, and the Maud Gatewood painting we got our colors from. I titled this project "Inspired Design" because the room we desgined was inspired by two different things. The very first assignment we had to draw a grid based on a perspective that inspired us. Then our rendered perspectives were inspired by the colors found in Gatewood's work. This assignment has really furthered my skills with photoshop and now the process of printing an 18' x 24' document.

Photoshop Fun #3

For the last one I adjusted the levels once again. Then I used the paintbucket tool to change colors of objects and also give it a more "cartoony" look. I was surprised at how accurate it was with staying in the lines. I used it on certain lines in the image because I thought it looked really cool. I also used it to make the ceiling lighter in order to make the room seem larger. I used the burn/dodge tool to add and take away shadows.

Photoshop Fun #2

In the next one I also used the dodge tool to lighten shadows. I adjusted the levels to get rid of unevenness on the floor, which was much easier than the technique I used in the first one. I used the clone stamp tool to fix little mistakes. I used the polygonal lasso tool to separate my scale figure from the image and darken him because I felt he was too bright. I used the lasso tool, paint brush, and the multiply option for the layers to change the colors of certain objects.