My instructor also commented on my line work, and was glad to see that I was getting some good input from people outside of school.
With that being said, here is what I am experimenting with. I went back to an old page and messed around with lineweights and the last page I’ll be posting is for next weeks assignment. On Monday I’ll post everything and there should be a huge improvement!
What do you think I can improve on the most based on the sketches I’ve been posting? I’m trying to put together a portfolio to try and transfer to CCS!
I think you need to start the transition from drawing to sketching. I know that sounds nebulous and vague, but they are actually very different conceptually. A sketch is a thought transmitted on a page, quickly, as if through a casual conversation. While a drawing is a more technical thing.
Definitely agree with you Michael. This week I cut down the time drastically on each drawing. I’m hoping to finish this weeks work in a day and spend the weekend doing my own sketches.
nice, getting in a few more levels of detail there. the microwave is particularly successful. A good sketch has three levels of detail, the overall form, the specific surface, and the fine details that make it real. Most of your sketches hover around the first level. That sketch gets down to the second level. Keep pushing yourself there and start to play with that third level of detail indication. On that sketch it would be things like details on the keypad, a subtle indication to the inside through the glass, the texture on the glass.
Voiced my concerns about illustrating vs. sketching and the master’s instructor seemed to have the same concern which lead to my instructor changing this weeks assignment on the spot!
First time really sketching with markers, but here’s about a quarter of what I’ll have to show for Monday in order of when they were sketched (Including the off sketches as well). Needed to keep everything pretty simple because this is our intro to applying marker to objects.
I don’t want to dump another 40 pages on the site, but here’s what I posted for this week! There’s 60 pages total and 36 shown in this picture. Hopefully the objects aren’t too small to see.
Overall I’m extremely pleased with the amount of work I was able to complete and I’m aiming for another 60-70 this week
This week is the start of final proposals. Since I want to be a watch or shoe designer, I chose to do a watch case (I was told a shoe is too organic to render right now). So here is what I have so far and I will post the second half on Monday. Gonna post the bad and weird stuff as well!
These are “Ideation sketches”. Definitely need to work on foreshortening the lugs correctly.