3 Vignettes

For this assignment, we were asked to draw three vignettes where a person is interacting with an object. I decided to draw a city scene. Instead of drawing three ccompletely differnt scenes, I chose to draw the same city block. In each vignette it is a different view of this block. I had recently watched West Side Story which was my inspiration for the colors and overall look. I wanted each vignette to have a story in itself and bit of questioning to what the person might be saying on the telephone or what's written in the letter.

I like the idea of a city where there can be so many people gathered but each person is on a different mission. For this particular scene, I decided to draw the back of a man talking on the telephone. You see the mailbox in the distance which is important in the next drawing.
Here you see the telephone booth in the background. I tried drawing a side profile of a woman putting a letter in the mailbox. I tried to focus on the light hitting the mailbox as well as the girl's height being proportional to her head size and her surrounding's.
In this last vignette, I chose to draw two people conversing at cafe. Again, it's another view from the city block where you can see the mailbox in the background. Their skin color came out a little yellowish. Overall, I think I could work on minimizing the use of color and focus more on shading using watercolor. I learned that white space can sometimes be helpful in enhancing the composition.

Watercolor

In this assignment we were to focus on three of our classmates and the accessories they wear. I wanted there to be a sense of balance in the composition that would accentuate the accessory. For the earring, I chose to make it about three times the size it should so it would emphasize the detail. I also chose not to draw her entire head so there would be less focus on her and more on the earring. Coloring in the scarf was a little tricky, I didn't want it to take all the focus away but I wanted it to guide your eye which is why I chose to dramatize the length of it to cross over onto the next page. I decided not to color in the skin tone, because I wanted the accessories to pop out. I really like the way this turned out. Sometimes it is okay to exaggerate reality.

Storytelling

Architectural Record. May 2009. Vol. 197, No. 5

I chose this layout for the storytelling assignment. I liked the way the page was divided in half and how the top was reflected to something completely different.

This is the layout I came up with describing my first week back at school. I wanted it to remain simplistic like the original layout. The two halves of the page make up who I am in college. I chose to sketch scenes rather than items to show where I spent my time my first week back. The top being a movie theatre and the bottom being the art building. I chose the colors yellow and blue to represent UNCG. I liked how the two buildings came out. I tried to mimic the use of space, making the top more clustered and the bottom having more negative space. I hadn't done perspective drawing in a while, so it was fun to work on this. I think I could improve on the font and shading; but overall, I like the layout.

Illuminating

This is my very very first assignment as being an iarc student! This assignment was fun for me because I got to choose five artifacts that have importance to me. I chose my telescope which I received one Christmas. It reminds me of all the times I spent with my dad exploring nature and space. I also chose a teapot because my mom always fixes us tea every morning when I am home. It reminds me of her love and comfort. I chose my contact case because I am basically blind without my contacts. The Bible is also an artifact that is important to me. It is where I get my beliefs from and shows me the love I should mimic. My last artifact is a plastic hen about 4 inches high that my oldest sister gave to me as a going off to college present. You push her head and her wings flap out and she lays a gumball egg. She sits on my desk to remind me of my sister's silliness and love for life. I chose a layout that resembled a newspaper and used the different lines to draw your eye from one object to the next. To personalize the objects even more, I chose a quote that I like that goes along with the item. We were only allowed to choose one color to accentuate our drawing. I chose blue because my grandmother used to say "I love every color as long as it’s blue!"