Sketching practice

Sketching practice:

I badly need to practice my shading and perspective technique when hand sketching and rendering. 

As such I tried to replicate a scene from a garden I previously designed under Charlotte Rowe Limited. It took me 45 minutes to complete and I still have a way to go before it is at Tom Stuart Smith's level. 

Once this course has been completed I may have to outsource fine art; some research suggests that fine art is a massively over saturated industry. Especially if work was to be outsourced into poorer regions of Europe an exquisite pencil vignette drawing costs as little as 65Euros/ A3 sheet. 

Construction and installing a reclaimed fountain:

Construction and installing a reclaimed fountain:

At work we are currently installing a reclaimed fountain. the image above were taken because I was fascinated by complexity of the project. It took some time to source the correct materials and even longer to arrange exactly how I was going to complete the feature for the client within budget and with a high durability and longevity factor. The above images document how we went about constructing the fountain. 

Was a shame to have to use green fibreglass. Next time I will try and source a more organic shade. Aquatic planting/ algae post completion will help to obscure the vibrancy of the colour. Still; happy client, profit, and progress for the fledgling company. 

Example of aesthetically pleasing piece of work from Y2

Second year visual work analysis:

Throughout the second year I felt that one of my weaker areas as a designer included a poor rendering technique. As such I worked to experiment with Sketchup Plug-in programmes, post modelling Photoshop manipulation and importing hand rendered textures.

The above portrays a selection of vignettes that accompanied a design for a RNLI memorial garden.

I feel that the presentation is crisp and uncluttered. It lacks warmth that could be achieved by including in-situ background images and by hand rendering after completing the images on pc.

Another problem with the images is the number of people using the space and how 2d some of the planting looks. Next time I plan not to use the 'face me' function in sketchup but cris-cross the 2d textures to create a smaller more 3d plant. Increasing the number of people using the space would make it feel more used and alive.

Colour swatch printing comparison

Colour comparisons:

Top image 16 colour swabs drawn out on cartridge paper and 60gm tracing paper. 

Bottom image printed out of inkjet printer after having scanned tracing paper and cartridge paper colour swaps into computer at 300dpi. 

Points worth nothing through completion of task:

1. Always worth cleaning heads if using an inkjet printer. Especially one that is not in regular use.
2. much easier to paste cartridge  paper onto paper than tracing paper onto paper. problem may be solved with higher weight tracing paper.
3. Easier to paste printed images into book without fear of smearing that was present with drawn colours.
4. Lemon yellow comes out much darker after being scanned in
5. Aqua marine green comes out as a blue hue after being scanned and printed out.