Whenever Someone Says "Let Me Put Into Perspective For You"... It's Never Good

Last Tuesday Suzanne gave us our newest assignment which was to go back to perspective drawings and we had to draw 3 perspectives and they preferably were to be outside so I went to Elm Street in Greensboro and took some photos and drew these 3 things. 

My New Pen

The BIC 4-color ballpoint pen

explains itself... right 

I Miss You Coco

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One Weird Day In Studio

So every now and then there are some stranger days in studio... and Friday definitely was one. We were up in the critique space and next thing we know Stoel just stops talking and covers his mouth, I think we thought something was wrong with him or something ha. But next thing we know people just had to start getting up walking around and explaining things that they had on their mind and I was one of these people and in the mean time nearly everyone had to get up a couple of times and write things on the blackboard and here's what our madness looked like...

I'M HERE

this is a short film that recently just released online by Spike Jonze, director/producer of things such as Jackass, Where The Wild Things Are and more. It's an awesome 30 minute short film that you should definitely check out! 

http://www.imheremovie.com/#

New Haircut...

So Tuesday along with taking some photos on Morris Road I also got a haircut and yesterday I got some self portraits from Leslie and also Kayla and apparently this is how I currently look while sporting my new style.

Leaving Studio Early... WHAT!?!

So Tuesday I got to break away from studio actually early because we had nothing due the next day for studio except some precedent images so I could do all that at home. So I happened to have my Nikon on me that day so on the way home there is this cemetery/church like a mile from my house and it's always been a cool place to take some photos so that's exactly what I did. It's good to break away from the norm every now and then and do something else I enjoy. 

¡My Ball Collection!

So my lovely wife Dajana (is from High Point... not Serbia) has decided that I like... balls. And it appears that I have began some sort of collection that sits at my desk. 

The Mossman Presentation

So in Suzanne's work we've been doing all of this work with the Mossman building as you've seen in previous post. The final part of this project was to prepare a group board, this board was actually two 32x40" pieces of mat board. And on these two large pieces of mat board had there were requirements. We had to have 12 perspectives so 4 from each member, 2 of our diagrams, 4 details, a title, a short statement about the assigned building, our members name and the class name as well. So since we had the Mossman building there were ton of bricks throughout so we chose to do a brick sort of pattern in an attempt to unify everything together. 

after our critique sort of thing we had received some advice that our center piece almost looked like the corner of a building so once we were done and Suzanne and Tracy were walking around to grade them we had decided to take it down and make it more a walk around piece almost.

Enhancing The Mossman Thumbnails

So I have meaning to blog this for some time now but simply haven't had ANY free time. But my last post for Suzanne's class was about the Mossman Administration Building and we had done 12 thumbnail drawings. So after those were complete the next part of this assignment was to take these thumbnails and take 5 of them and redo on 8.5x11" paper. But there was a twist... we had to visit Urban Sketchers and look at some of the entries on there and almost mock the artists style and let that influence our 5 drawings we chose to do. Now Urban Sketchers gets updated so much everyday that I honestly have no idea who drew these or when they were drawn. So instead of giving individual credit like I should I'm just giving the site credit which you should most definitely check out! So first I'm going to show you my inspiration photo then I'm going to show you my Mossman drawing that I attempted to shed some spotlight on the artists personal style.

Mossman Diagram

So even before the Mossman thumbnails were done we had to draw diagrams within each group. We were in charge of completing five different diagrams of our assigned building. In my group was Daniel, Krysta and Jasmine and we had to do a circulation diagram, site diagram, occupation diagram, public/private diagram and zones of personal space diagram. So out of those five I was in charge of the circulation diagram which basically depicts how people move through this particular space. And for my plan of this building I decided to experiment some more with my Chartpak AD markers and I even used marker paper that I ordered a while back.

I Usually Make Gateways Outta Cast Iron...

So our most current project that we just recently completed in studio was the task of using a material we've used quite a bit... cardboard. The majority of the classmates are in the History and Theory of Design course with Judith and this gateway we had to make was basically made by drawing inspiration from a specific time period which they assigned to us. Our location we had to build the gateway was walking into the basement area between these two brick walls and there ended up being 6 groups total each having around 6-7 people each. Cardboard was out main material but wood and other materials were also introduced into the design. In my group I worked with Jasmine, Audra, Daniel, Melanie, Anna and Kelly and the only person I had previously worked with was Daniel on our window installation project. 

the space in which we were to work

But the project started with really just gathering precedent images of our time period which in my group ended up being the 13th century but mainly focused around the Gothic era. And everything started out really literal, everyone appeared to be just making things that had arches in them and I knew that going into it I didn't want to make anything so easy to tell what it was. So initially what I did in a fast model was a took an arch and a single flying buttress and simply rotated them 90 degrees. 

standard arch with flying buttress 

rotated 90 degrees now

and I really liked this idea because it was very basic to me but it looked really cool and I could just envision myself down there walking through it and I liked that. But after our first group meeting and stuff, our ideas were all over the place so we had to do what we could and bring them together. One idea that was presented by Daniel introduced triangles and we all kept coming back to that idea, so eventually we went with his and next developed this sculpture sort of visual experience that you would walk around. 

and after that our group met again and some of us still had our concerns and then someone proposed curving the triangles so we did and it looked really awesome. So we ran with that idea for a bit and we were wanting to incorporate metal such as roof flashing or sheet metal even to play with the light or just create a completely different experience in general. So next our model started coming to it's final stages of something like this. 

and here was some photographs on how we were planning some of the joinery of the lumber and cardboard we were using throughout. Joinery was extremely important because our tallest curve thing was 10 feet tall and the next one was 8 feet so we need much support which eventually still wasn't enough...

so finally after our nice Spring break and my amazing NYC trip, come Monday we were ready to start! But we didn't get to start like most groups until the night before and it was an experience because we started out trying to use a staple gun to construct our cardboard panels. I think we ended up cutting out 138 cardboard panels which was a TON of cardboard. But the staples weren't working out because they were not closing up on the other end for some reason. So we managed to try this technique for several hours and finally about 8PM Tuesday night we gave up on that and Audra went and got nuts and bolts and let's just say once she got back this way worked SO much better! We continued to do a little bit that night until 11:30 or so and we got back early Wednesday morning and started building again. 

and before we finished and were working on the second wall and the next thing we know our 10' foot wall goes falling over, luckily no one was over there because I'm imagining it could have hurt someone. But luckily we picked it up and were able to repair what had messed up. We barely finished on time and I would definitely say that we didn't, like that nice area we left open that wasn't intentional at all. We just didn't have time to cover it up with cardboard so we left it and thankfully they ended up liking it but wish we could have been more purposeful with it. 

after that was over (major stress was relieved) we had a booklet due Friday of all our work and for it I had decided to do a Sketchup model even though it wasn't required I just felt like it could only help communicate our ideas and stuff.

after I completed all the Sketchup work Melanie compiled all of our scans into a Powerpoint to print out and bind and here our the jpegs of each page we chose to book in our process booklet. 

FINISHED!