Viscomm Semester Project

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I finally finished my semester project (an analysis of Frank Lloyd Wright's Ward Willits House):

Five days and three finals away from New York City, Christmas, and the most epic reunion ever conceived.

Willits House

For our end-of-semester project in Viscomm, we were told to do an analysis of any building (complex enough) through four drawings of plans, elevations, sections, perspectives, etc. I'm doing the Ward Willits House by Frank Lloyd Wright (pending approval), and I did a preliminary perspective for the hell of it. And I wanted to draw tonight. A little messy, but that was kind of intentional.

Villa Stein de Monzie (Le Corbusier)

This is a rendering exercise from Viscomm. Started off with varied line weights to convey depth and suggest shadows, then moved on to shading of the planes based on the two same factors. Finally added the actual shadows, based off of a light source coming in at 45 degrees to the plan, and front and side elevations.

YAY ARCHITECTURE

Hands

Just a short study on (you guessed it) hands. :)

Islands

New one, loosely based on Death Cab's "Transatlanticism".

Out Of Egypt...

...Into The Great Laugh Of Mankind, And I Shake The Dirt From My Sandals As I Run.

This is an instrumental song by Sufjan Stevens, and it's really quite beautiful. I'm considering designed an animated work based on it, but for now I've got this. Just a simple doodle-ish representation of what I hear when I listen to it, sort of an ear-to-pencil translation.

Perspective of the Uffizi (Florence)

This is a perspective assignment from Viscomm that we've been working on for about a week now. Very cool, involved a whole lot of set-up and guidelines and all that. If you look close, it's actually projected over the building's plan, from which we figured out much of the perspective's details.

Thoughts on Fall

Went a little crazy with the colored pencils last night, but I really wanted to do something with these beautiful fall colors which, having lived in Texas most of my life (where seasons go to die), never cease to amaze me. This is called Thoughts on Fall:

Smirk

Yet another spontaneous work, with quite the uhh.. unique inspiration. :)

I was a bit out of my mind, but I'm satisfied regardless:

Reaching

After over a month of nearly non-stop studio work,

(and non-stop bangin' of the ladies)

(just kidding)

(not really)

(...yeah, I am)

...I finally sat down to draw out of my own free will and came up with Reaching, a rather accidental abstract study of the human form. I didn't actually realize it was starting to take the shape of a body until I turned the drawing upside down, go figure. But I'm happy with it anyway:

Nope, I still only work on architecture things.

Haha I honestly haven't dedicated a single moment of my time since I've been here to a sketch/work that hasn't had to do with Viscomm or Design. 

Except this doodle, when I was SUPER BORED during a Viscomm lecture (slightly enhanced with iPhoto):

But this is cool: we were just assigned our first design project. That building that I had to study in the post below needs to be changed (we need to make an architectural intervention). 

This is the presentation I did for the Ferguson's existing conditions.

Annddd these are a few of my design proposals for the facade:

#1:

#2:

#3:

More architecture!

In that architecture course I mentioned earlier, we were assigned a particular side of a building on campus to pick apart, analyze, sketch, put back together, re-analyze, re-sketch, so on and so forth. Basically, we live and breathe this building for the next two weeks (or maybe more).

Anyway, this is the building I was assigned:

annnddd these are a few preliminary sketches/ an elevation and plan, freehand (aside from a straightedge on the second one). decent drawings, but most likely will be drawn two or three times over, in addition to more detailed ones. yay college!

P.S.

100 views. Marvelous.

College

is amazing. I won't take up a huge amount of your time describing just how amazing it is, but yeah. It's very nice. 

Haha on that note, I have for you the first sketch (of many) that I've done for my Architectural Design course. Not exactly a product of the MacBook, but not too bad considering the new drawing technique they're having us use (new to me at least, holding the tool a little more loose), and the huge 18 x 24 pad. This lovely bas relief is positioned on the left side of the front entrance to the Pattee Library, representing knowledge I think? 

Now broadcasting from

a brand spankin' new Macbook Pro. 

Still trying to figure everything out with this, while getting things packed and ready for college. May not post a good work for awhile, but I'll definitely be back, hopefully with a product of this sexy machine. :)

Look!

For the last two months that I've been up here, I've had 15-20 beautiful, new black felt tip markers in the drawer beneath me. Lacking inspiration, I thought I'd whip one or two out and see what I could do (I've never drawn in ink before). Here's the result:



(Look! is the title)

Blue Skies, Fire, and Space

I seem to be at the point where I've run out of ideas for original titles. Take whatever meaning you like out of this one, because I've got nothin'.

NYC pics

The trip was incredible. Long story short, if I didn't already have plans to move there after college, I sure do now.

Now normally, I'd fill as much of this scrollbox as I could with every good picture I took in the city, but because this is an art blog (or at least it tries to be, god bless it), I'll post the still fairly large amount of photos I consider to be "artsy" (i.e. cool buildings, graffiti, or just decent shots). A few of these are actually from the Frank Lloyd Wright exhibit, which I narrowly avoided getting kicked out of after they were taken.

Note: if you end up looking at every single one of these pictures, please get off the computer and get some sun.

This one was just for me.