This is the homework for last week. The assignment was to draw box-like shapes. One or more could be 'copied' from original footage but some other perspectives had to be turned in your mind and drawn from imagination.

Fig 1. This is the first attempt. The top left drawing was copied from an original toaster. The image below was drawn from imagination. The object is way to long, I didn't guestimate the foreshortening well, but it was too late, I had already applied the black fine liner. I wasn't satisfied with this one and decided to continue.  

Fig 2. This is my second try. The drawing at the top left is again copied from original footage. The other two drawings were drawn by head. I quite satisfied by the end result; The sketches seem to be in good perspective and the good proportions. I like the differences in detail; the top right is very lightly drawn and the other blue pencil drawing has more contrast. The rendered drawing has more detail and more shading, which I like. I was so happy with the end result that I was afraid to put a background in it. The final result looks quite plain, but I was afraid of messing it up in the end. 

Fig 3. This is my final drawing as homework. What I like about this picture is the exploration that is going on. I was too ambitious, trying to draw this product in different perspective, because of it's complexity and curves. I made and attempt on the left but it's not high lighted, it was bad. But it doesn't matter, there's more going on; a more detailed blue sketch in the middle, some detail drawing at the top and bottom, and a final rendering at the right.  

These are drawings that we had to make in class. The assignments was to draw perspective. We had to try out birds eye perspective, perspective from eye level and frog perspective. The latter had a different name in class though. 

As a kid I had a 'How to draw perspective' book. Most I loved drawing perspective and I guess some of it never got lost. Seeing the photos of my drawings I do see some perspective errors, but as our assigner explained, drawing a lot of perspective will teach you how to see it quicker. After a lot of practice, drawing perspective will become a second nature. I do believe that the drawing book that I had as a 7 year old gives me some advantage.

There's a lot of catch up blogging to do.. Homework from two weeks ago, so here we go.

Fig 1. This is the scene that we photographed and traced. In class, we made sketches over this scene to make the scene more exciting, but the result didn't offer good concepts to ideate with. I redid the scene and highlighted the ideas.Coming up with ideas on your own is hard, the process in class was much more spontaneous and surprising.

Fig 2. The idea of a camera was chosen, a camera that would capture somebodies aura or in other words, mood on the dance floor. Some form exploration were made.

Fig 3. A big camera was designed and multiple views were drawn of one design. I noticed that I was drawing SLR's because of the big lens that was fun to draw. Such a camera wouldn't be easy in a night club scene.

Fig 4. These were the final drawings for the home work. The camera is integrated into small devices that are easy to carry around in a night club scene. The entire sheet looks dull, because there isn't much ideation going on and all the ideas are high lighted. All the sketches on itself are more illustrations than sheet of explorations. 

Fig 5. This wasn't part of the homework, but I wanted to draw multiples angles of one camera to present a design. In this picture, it clear that the drawing lacks contrast in outline. I was too afraid to add more contrast because I didn't want to overdo it. 

Part 1

Well, my first blog, here it is.
Keeping a blog up-to-date with my sketches is a part of the assignment "Exploratory Sketching". The upcoming weeks I will fill it with more sketches, reflections and other relevant stuff. There's still work to be done but the beginning is there.

Sketch Battle 1: The best ideas were highlighted with markers

Sketch battle 2: This was our homework - Make another sketch battle and highlight the best ideas

Sketch battle 3: This was the same homework

Faces 1: Home work for week 3: Practice sketching faces

Faces 2: Home work week 3:  Practice sketching faces

Faces 3: Sketches made in class

Faces 4: Sketches made in class

Figures1: A combination of little sketches and big sketches

Night club scene: We were asked to draw a scene at a night club. This was my first attempt in class.

Night club scene: This was my second attempt as part of my homework.

Postures1: We were asked to draw humans in proportion. This was my first attempt in class.

Postures2: This page was part of my homework for the third week.

Postures3: This page was part of my homework for the third week.