Design Visualization Assignments - A Recap

A quick assignment recap from the second half of the semester. 9 sketches of observations from Fallingwater and Monticello, from our trip. 

We then worked on our value skills with two pieces of a larger Fallingwater picture.

Drawing on our 2-point perspective skills that we had learned from our projects, we went out to the Music Building to practice drawing on-site.

Our next assignment involved drawing our faces.

And finally, scale-figure renderings in the correct proportion.

Funkytest!

Our Funkytest was an hour drawing in 2pt perspective, in four colors in a location of our choice. I chose a corner of the student lounge in the studio arts building, and after a quick thumbnail sketch, drew the image at the bottom. The missing subjects from the room are Claire and Michael. 

Project 2.2: Bedroom in Blocks

Project 2.1: In the kitchen with Karyn

Project S.1: plan, section, 1&2 pt perspective

Perspective [P5]

In class, we began working with perspective drawings and determining height in space. This was a particularly tricky exercise, using one vanishing point on the horizon to determine how to correctly draw cubes in space on a ground line and a 45 degree angle. My finished cubes are outlined in various colors to better distinguish which line goes where:

Light & Color: A Box Experiment

The past two weeks we explored light and color. We started by observing several natural light conditions. The three I chose were:

sunrise through the trees, reflected off the snow

light gradation on the wall during sunset

light through the window on two different surfaces

We then chose one of our images to recreate the light within a 6x6x18 box. I first started with a brainstorming page and several smaller mockups:

My final design for the light box is below. I chose the angled viewpoint to emphasize the gradation of the light on the wall next to the interior angles:

This past week we started looking at color, using coloraid paper. We explored mixing several colors:

  

 

 On the last day, we combined our lightbox concept from the previous week with a color element from the current week. I chose to maintain a similar color palate to my diamond above, but creating new reflective colors within from yellow, pink and teal paper. This 4x4x12 box reflected both peach light and a deeper violet tone in different light conditions: