Sketch Book Collection

 Sketch Book Collection
        
  All of the sketch books for this year have been bound in this cover. The top image that is red is the front of the sketch book, and the green and brown checkered cover is the back of the sketch book.  I like how Sketch pops out at the front cover, and how the page becomes increasingly more busy as you go down drawing your eyes to the bottom, but at the same time if I were to do this again I probably would have chosen a slightly different design for the bottom. I like how the back cover turned out. I wanted it to become an abstract of a natural object. If I were to do this one again I would have there be a border at the top and the bottom of the page. This year has taught me a lot about sketching. Although, I am nowhere near becoming a professional artist, I do believe that I improved on my skills.

Room Project

I believe that this last project was certainly the most fun to complete. It consisted of choosing a artist for inspiration and a nature object. The artist that I chose was Claude Monet, and the nature object; which I am hoping is pretty obvious is the lily pad. The idea was first to study the lily pad and to do a few hand sketches of it (those are represented in the upper left hand corner). Then, I had to come up with a few 2-D modules for the project. Unfortunately, my 2-D models were not too great. I had a difficult time thinking in the abstract, but after a while I got it down and made my abstract room. I made the room out of Styrofoam and felt to give it a soft appearance. One of the last steps was to make the poster for the room. I really liked how my poster turned out. If I were to do this project over again I would probably make some of the writing and images smaller so that I would have room for more images.  

Resume

 Creating a Resume


This project was a lot of fun to do, and it can be helpful for anyone. This Resume was created in the  In-design program. One thing I would like to improve is the green font is slightly hard to read while printed. It would have been a lot better if I used a little bit of a darker font. Another object I should have changed, is the logo. I should have made the logo a little bit smaller. I tried to add on a background image to appear behind the font, but I could not quite figure out how to make that happen, but hopefully that is a skill I will master soon. I do love the color scheme from the Resume and how the lay out look. It was a great project to do, and it is good to know when it is time to apply for jobs I have a resume all ready for the job searching process.

The Last Sketch

This Sketch deals with drawing with line weights and positive/negative space. The one on top is a sketch using different line weight; while the drawing on bottom plays with the negative and positive spaces.

Negative space chair and doorknob

The sketch on top is a sketch of a chair, where the main focus is shown as negative space.

The bottom picture is a sketch of a door knob. This sketch is drawn on black paper and has been colored in with colored pencils.

Creating a Logo

Creating a Logo

 

     This project was based on creating a logo for my initials: NCH. I started out by doing a few rough sketches of what I wanted the design to look like, and pretty quickly I decided that I wanted a more simple design that would consist of thin letters and loopy endings. After playing around with Adobe Illustrator, I realized that some strategic splashes of color would really brighten up my logo. At first, I started out with just the N and H right next to each other without being lined up, but I discovered if I hooked the two loops together it would create a C; which is my middle initial. I went with the light blue and green, and the neutral brown to give the logo a beach/ outdoors feeling. This project was a lot of fun! I had a wonderful time playing around with a sketch pad; which makes drawing designs out on the computer a whole lot easier.

Sketches Return

This picture was created by taking a piece of computer paper and tracing over it. The only way this can work is if you have light coming in from the background. I loved doing this project!!! Drawing is certainly a lot easier when you can trace an image behind it.