The Egg Project

Where to begin? Well it was 3:30 in the morning the day before a previous critique, and I had a bunch of projects that really just didn't fall through right. A couple of them were thrown together without a plan, which was a big mistake first of all. I was getting ready to leave the studio and just hope for the best results the next day, and then it struck me...I was actually feeling my earing at the time and it inspired me to build this shape of course originally it didn't have the entwined circles, BUT it soon developed into that. What I was originally going for was a shell shaped structure that would cradle the egg but I had trouble making that one because the paper molding technique wasn't very efficient. This Idea, being spontaneous and all, was fun to construct and I felt like I had a lot of options to work with. The overall meaning of the structure holding the egg was symmetry and centralization. The sphere is meant to portray the curves of the egg (which is perfectly symmetrical, horizontally and vertically) and celebrate the egg by putting it in the center of a seemingly god-like structure that put the egg in a suspended position to be viewed at all sides and was untouched and protected by these entwined circles that I perceived as representing the balance of life and death. Even if one thing dies another will be born in its place and that cycle continues to infinite. (note: the curves don't stop at any point, although one circle is cut to show how the circles don't touch, which is symbolic of birth being a non-physical connection to death)


After the first critique I had learned that the project had no need of a base, but it didn't take me long to realize the solution to this problem. I designed it so that it would lay on its side...besides what really is up and down on a spherical egg? So here it is I've snapped a couple angles of the egg to show on here.

This was a shot from the top of the egg and I liked to way the light on each side cast two shadows, it was a pretty neat effect.



This is another shot taken of the egg place on the other side so that you can see how the two circles don"t actually touch each other.



This is a shot from the back, as you can see I used a lollipop stick to suspend the egg in the center of the sphere-like structure.

Negative Space Bicycle

This is a sketch that I made in class of a bicycle laying upside down on the bench in the lobby of the studio arts building. At first I was a little unsure of where to start on the sketch and as you can see I used pen so that it would display a sense of permanence to this drawing. So i started on the front tire of the bike (on the left side) and worked my way around the tire and down the frame of the bicycle. I was actually very pleased with the end result of this drawing. I feel like this may be a big improvement from my last negative space sketches.

The New Science Building

These drawings here are meant to show the contour lines of the new science building, and of course its surrounding area. Each of these pictures, notably the second attempt at drawing the building give a sense of layering to them. The trees were a big help in drawing the layers because they helped me see the picture more clearly and focus more on what I actually SAW in comparison to what I knew was there. Above is the first drawing that I made of the building, and as you can see here I had a little trouble including depth into my sketch, some of the clues would be the height of the light pole, and angle of the roof's slope.

El Carreton

This was a contour drawing of the stairway that leads up to El Carreton. This was a dificult sketch and took me a couple tries as you can see...I overshot the circle the first time soo I had to scale it down to fit the page.

Cityscape

This Sketch was fun to do, even though there wasn't much time to complete it. The task given to me in this drawing was to draw the cityscape as I saw it in front of me. The hard part was of course getting comfortable so that I wouldn't move around and have to adjust to draw at different angles. The Look to this picture seems cartoon-like. I didn't want to impose on my lack of skill in drawing, but it really has a nice touch to it. Hopefully one day I'll have enough time to color it in or something.

Blind Contours

At first when I heard about the "blind contour" I was a bit unsure of myself. When I started the blind contour I let my eyes guide my pencil. The only trouble I had was restraining my eyes from wandering off course. This "mis-guidance" would lead my pencil astray and in some of these you will notice numerous lines where there is some confusion as to where my pencil starts and stops. After doing a few I started getting the hold of it, and even though most of these are quite wretched I still appreciate the Aesthetic look to the images, not to mention the concept behind them.

In the Picture above of the Box you can see how the lines start to break away from each other. That would be a result of my rapid eye movement.

Negative Space Sketch's

Drawing Negative space is a new technique that I practiced in Design Drawing. The drawing of negative space is about the shapes you can see outside of the objects "frame" On here I posted a couple sketch's that I put together inside and outside of class to portray the negative space within a chair.