My 3 Messes

So these are three out of five messes that I drew. 

One sunday, I was at piney lake with Kristen doing a bunch of homework and all of my books were compiled and overlapping and I looked at it, and I was like, "hmm I kind of want to put these books in a pile" which made me realize it was a mess. I drew the contour of the books first and then added the detail a bit later.

Trash is always considered a mess, but when I looked in my trash can, it was empty. So I had to come up with some things that might be in my trash can, like the multiple kleenex I would have to use for the cold I caught that week, or the bowls that I use for my daily meal of special k and milk in the morning.

Getting hungry, I opened my refrigerator, to find organic peanut butter, which made me think of my refrigerator at home, since it's always stocked with 2 or 3 jars. My dad was constantly cleaning the fridge because my mom would keep things for days on end even after they were half rotten. So I decided to draw, from imagination, what my refrigerator at home probably looks like right now.

Blind Contour Portrait.

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My Precedent for My Twig Project

When observing my project idea, two images came to me.

The first was a forest after it had been burned in a fire. After a fire goes through, the only thing left are branches. My project resembles this as my twigs are really thin and bare, except for the pieces that branch out.

I think the second emphasizes my concept more. My aim for my project is to emphasize the shadows that the twigs create on a white board. This reminds me of winter. It's the morning after a blizzard, the sun is beating down and reflecting off of the white snow. The trees are bare, and they are creating deep shadows on the snow because of the way the sun is shining. 

Place for a Leaf: Final Project

 4 or 5 nights before our final, I got extremely frustrated weaving multiple strips through my leaf, because at this point, my leaf was completely dead and had no strength. The curls kept breaking off and I threw a couple across the room. It was obviously not meant to be. I still wanted to weave though, and somehow "cradle" the shape of the leaf. However, I had no paper that would bend that way.

I decided to weave black pieces through the leaf, as well as through the paper, and originally when the paper curled I thought it would curl around the leaf, but then when I made it, I saw how it resembled the curls in the multiple leaves. The gold was meant to give my leaf energy, and bring light to reflect off the leaves, and then used the black strips to stand out through the leaves, while still being subtle enough to not take away from it.

Hand Drawing

This was the first hand I drew that I felt satisfied with. Though the curve on the left is pretty overboard, it still looks somewhat realistic. I was pretty happy with it, and quite surprised.

Chair from Negative Space

This chair took me two tries. I liked the difference of drawing what wasn't there instead of what was. It wasn't easy, and I definitely felt uncomfortable doing it. But after drawing negative space a couple of times, it got easier.

Sketchmodel #3

This last sketchmodel was supposed to play on the way the "skin" of the twigs was shedding. So I decided  to draw scale-looking things on the paper, and stuck the peeling twigs through holes in the scales. I wanted to make the twigs "one with the scales".