People in Interior Spaces

For this assignment, we had to sketch people in interior spaces. Most of my drawings are from my trip to Asheville this 4-day weekend.

Project 3- Structure

This project was broken into two parts:

1- construct a 4"x4"x4" cube with one open end, using Briston board, articulating the edges to aid assembly and design intent.


2- design an integral structure made from plastic drinking straws that positions the cube four inches above an eight inch square base.



When I tried working with my initial idea, it didn't turn out right because I hadn't cut enough paper. However, from that mistake I came up with the design that I ended up going with. Below are two thumbnail models for that cube. The one of the left is made with regular printing paper and the one of the right is made with Bristol. The one made out of Bristol was to see if the cube design would still work since it is thicker paper.






After the thumbnails, the next step was to do it in full scale. Below is my test cube for the actual size, along with the straws. The tape was just a quick bind to get my idea across, as well as, a way to change it if something wasn't working right without having to use more Bristol. Bristol isn't expensive but it's not cheap either!



Below is my final product. My intent/theme was angles. I decided to go with a trapezoid shape for the sides. Then I used the straws to mirror the trapezoidal shape. I used purple straws because of the straw choices I had (purple, blue, yellow & orange), I was torn between blue and purple. I would have naturally gone with the blue- since it's my favorite color- but I decided against it because I didn't want my blue obsession to take over. So purple it was! For the base, I went with styrofoam because I thought it was the best choice to stick the straws in. After that I needed to design something that would help focus the viewer's eye to the opening and going with my angles theme I carved an angle right below the opening.




Once the creation of our project was done, there was a final step. That was to draw our cube. We had to include a 3-D render, a couple of orthographic drawings (plan & two elevations views), and a detail view of a joint or edge. My first drawing (below) is the 3-D render.




My next drawings include the plan view (left) and 3 detailed views (right), which include an altered drawing, a top joint and a bottom joint.

My last two drawings are the two elevation views. I chose the front view and right view.

Project 2- Intersection pt 2

After the class critique, I went back to the drawing board. I wondered what pictures could be placed in. After a few ideas, I decided to go with a photo album. I thought about how an album is made and reversed or switched how the materials would be used. So, instead of making the album cover with fabric and the "page" with paper, I used the paper (a type of poster paper) as the cover and felt as the "page." I used the thread to bind acetate to the felt so my dad's picture could be protected. I did 63 stitches to represent the age when he died. When we had desk critques- based on suggestion by Tommy- I stitched the cover title with the same thread I used to stitch the felt and acetate. This is what came out.

After the class critique when I showed my final product, I ended up doing some final refined touches . I redid the stitches around the "page," as well as, I re-stitched the cover so that the letters looked bold and the stitching on the back of the cover was neater. This is what is looked like. I can see a difference but I'm not sure if it is that visable to everyone else.

Project 2- Intersection pt 1

The assignment for this project was to: design a container for a special object using paper, fabric and thread of our choice. Above was my first idea. I had picked the picture of my dad as my special object. The idea behind my product was to recreate my camera out of paper and use the thread as the tie between the paper (camera) and fabric (camera strap). However, I wasn't using the theme of intersection properly. The theme was to intersection these materials to create the container and I had created the container with just the paper and then adding on the thread and fabric which wouldn't be missing from the big picture if you didn't know there was a strap.

Assignment 4- Pure Contour

Above are my three attempts at drawing the Foust Building. The first one I tried from the side view of the building because there would be less people and very few would have that angle. However, I realized I was becoming too anal with getting it perfectly measured that I was having trouble putting it all together.
My second attempt was during the weekend. I went to campus and since the whole class wasn't there I was able to pick a view. I think my second attempt was better but I wasn't happy with the scale of it on my page and because the small towers were displaced. So I decided to try again. It took me several hours but I was able to get it to a point where I was satisfied with it. It was a challenging building to sketch, especially for me-since I can't draw. I must say that once I was able to finally get the outline of the building done, the second toughest thing was drawing the cars!