Pencil Box

This is the fold out with the pencils from the side.
This corner was made using scoring. I really like this technique because it makes your corners look very clean and precise.
This was one of my many lids. I'm glad I went back and cleaned up the lid and made the cuts thinned and cleaner.





This is my pencil box. I had numerous ideas come to me at first, but I really liked the fold out/accordian idea best. It displays the pencils very well and each pencil as it's own slot. I chose black and white because I thought that made it look very crisp. The only problem is that white gets dirty very easily. My favorite is the black striped paper. I cut rectangles into the top to give it some depth. The hardest part was making those cuts very clean. I designed the box to look boring on the outside so when you open it and get a fold out it's a complete surprise. I like things that are hidden and require attention to find out its secrets.

2 more profiles

Here are two more profiles i did. i feel pretty consistent in my work. I still need to work on getting the likeness of the person in my profiles though.

profiles

Here are two profiles i did. They turned out well, but not as good as i hoped. I really wanted to use value when drawing these, and it was hard not to. I think the triangle method works and it helps make the face more proportionate.

Here is my egg project. It's very simple and it's supposed to showcase the egg's shape/geometry. There is a triangular cut-out that i've been told looks like a film reel. The triangle is a very over exaggerated form of the egg. The "bottom" bottom of the egg is bigger than the top. The bars that separate the triangle are there for support, although I like how they look. i made a tube shape to show how oval the egg is when put against a circle.

this is my room mate brushing her teeth. she kept moving a lot so i tried to sketch her fast. i didn't draw her face because it would've been unflattering to say the least.



this one is my favorite, even though it's the simplest one. i like how she is sitting and i thnk i did an ok job of drawing her.......and no face!


i named this one perfect guy because he was pretty still and he was sitting in a perfect position head on. i tried to put a face on him and i'm glad i tried but it didn't turn out how i wanted it.


i did this one at my cubicle. the head turned out lopsided but i think you get a good feel for how the figure was positioned.


here are my four drawings of people. they were done in different places: campus, studio, starbucks, and mt apartment. i didn't draw many faces because i feel like the picasso-ish faces i draw on people when i'm in a hurry to get the figure down take away from my drawings.

Failed attempts

so i drove out to a coffee shop last night and when i got there, there was no one to draw. everyone kept getting up and leaving. it was very frustrating. this is the page in my sketchbook of failed attempts and random doodles while waiting to find someone who would sit still.

penciled in downtown

these are my four drawings of downtown. i'm surprised there isn't sweat all over them because...wow...it's really hot. it was hard not to add any value to the drawings.