I picture my cafe on the beach somewhere with a modern and clean look. I want wood beam ceilings, blue stained concrete floors, a nice back sitting area right on the beach, open and breezy. Mahi-mahi is my favorite fish and I think it is a beautiful fish. I want my accent colors to be the color of mahi-mahi. I want lots of natural lighting and a open and breezy inside feel as well.
Wednesday, October 29, 2014
WEEK:10 Cafe
I picture my cafe on the beach somewhere with a modern and clean look. I want wood beam ceilings, blue stained concrete floors, a nice back sitting area right on the beach, open and breezy. Mahi-mahi is my favorite fish and I think it is a beautiful fish. I want my accent colors to be the color of mahi-mahi. I want lots of natural lighting and a open and breezy inside feel as well.
Tuesday, October 28, 2014
WEEK 10: Logo Sketches
The class is designing future desired design firm logo's. Right now we only have rough idea sketches. Some of them completely different ideas. I would like to design predominantly near the water, beaches, etc. So my some of mine refer to this desire. I also like very natural elements so included 2 of my favorite natural objects to be incorporated in my logos. I still have lots of altering and adjustments I wish to make to these logos to make them more successful, but I feel like I gave myself a good start. I did a lot of playing around with the letter "D" considering its my first and last initial and my profession, "designer." Danziner is an upcoming nickname my friends are giving me sometimes because I am always at school and designing.
Tuesday, October 21, 2014
WEEK 8: Furniture to Floorplans
Last week we focused on drawing/drafting correct and actual floorplans. We scaled them down and got really technical. This week we added furniture and closets and whatever else was necessary. There are certain stencils you can buy and use for floorplans that come with most furniture and already scaled objects you would draw in a floorplan space. I tried mine without a stencil and worked on getting the scale as actual as possible. I plan on getting a stencil soon because it can save time and give you a better and more precise outcome on a floorplan. I got to learn different types of doors you can draw for closets and entryways. I never knew what the dashed lines were that you see in closets or over countertops and now I know that they represent something higher in the space that are not below you drawn cut line. I like how official these floorplans look. I see that for next time however, I should use a straight edge for everything, the free handed dimension lines outside the floorplans do not look good, especially drawn next to a drafted floorplan.
Tuesday, October 14, 2014
WEEK 7: Floorplans
Floorplans are not my favorite types of drawings. They are colorless, boring, and are too actual to add your own style. They are very important though and I enjoy learning how to do them. They are lots of rules and regulations that go into these drawings, and many symbols that you need to learn and practice. I enjoy working with scale, it makes me feel more official. I'm excited to learn how to add furniture and stuff to my floorplans.
WEEK 7: Rendered shapes with shadows, and living space
The class has still been practicing rendered drawings working with shadows and lighting. In order to create this effect as best as possible, we need to blend different color markers and colored pencils as well. The clear blender marker all though not as effective on bond paper helps to blend these markers. Being limited on the amount of colors I have, I have to think and harder and spend more time playing around with blender colors on a scratch piece of paper to get the right hues and tones. These rendered drawings are still so much harder than they look, it almost looks like an elementary school kid drew this. The markers are sometimes tricky staying inside the lines due to the variety of tips on the markers.With the living space rendered drawings you are given a little more freedom. You can play around with patterns and other marker techniques. However with the objects being real you need to think of good ways to create correct textures and patterns that would suffice the space. When lighting and shadows come into play in a real living space its harder to think about how to make them look realistic. You need to study real spaces and their lighting. I really enjoy experimenting with techniques to create realistic surfaces such as wood, metal, leather, etc.
Tuesday, October 7, 2014
WEEK 6: Multiview Worksheet
These multiview practice drawings were very challenging. I am not even sure if some of these are close to being right. This worksheet was like a mind game to me, I had multiple attempts for each example til I discovered a cube that made some what sense. I think these drawings are very good for the mind, and the class should continue to challenge themselves with these. I could not really determine what was wrong with number 3, because I found that a few of my drawings did not match up. I think in these drawings there is supposed to be some subtractive space, however it is hard for me to see what space should be taken away.
WEEK 6: Still Life with Shadows
Now that everyone has been getting more familiar with contour and value drawings, we through shadows and lighting into the mix. Shadows are not very hard to see where they go and how to use them, but rather harder when actually going to find the right color and weight and technique to draw it. It was a lot harder than it looked and even if the shadows drawn are not very good they still help in defining light sources and making a drawing look more realistic. Shadowing can be very helpful to our rendered drawings for this major. When presenting an idea to a client, it is nice to be able to point out where the light sources are, and how things will be placed in a space due to lighting, as well as how things might look when light is shining on them. I thought that the class as a whole will need more practice on shadows, it is a difficult concept to capture in a drawing effectively, and it is important to have correct shadowing.
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