Car

The other week in class we worked with cylinders and converging lines to construct cars. I'd be lying if I said this was the first car I've drawn, but it's definitely among the first that actually came out kind of looking like a car. We traced ellipses and converging lines off of a photo, then used them as construction lines for our own car. Some people drew BMWs and Corvettes, I drew a beater. First one in pencil, second one in ballpoint.

I pose a question to the photoshop-literate: I am scanning 11"x17" paper on a letter size scanner, so I do it in two parts. From there, I bring them into photoshop, align them as two layers in a single file, and mess with the levels and contrast/brightness. Is there a trick to this, so I don't get that dark line where you can see the division between the two scans?

I'm thinking I'll play around with these in the digital realm later. And upload more scans, but now I am le tired. Criticism and commenting is encouraged. g'night.

Sketches

I'm currently taking two classes at Pasadena City College: an introductory drafting class and a design sketching class. Both have been very informative and I've been enjoying my time in them, though I'm still getting used to having homework assignments again. Here are some sketches from class, hopefully we will see improvement in the future.

sketchbook assignments, pen:


big ups to dental hygiene

in-class shiny objects, pen on marker paper

Hello

I’ve been spending too much time and energy trying to think of a way to begin this blog, so this is as good a method as any.

This blog is a “head fake.” The late Randy Pausch introduces this concept in his “Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams” lecture. I’m sure there are other ways of encapsulating this concept, but this was the first time I remember it being explicitly laid out. Basically, a head fake is learning/doing something in order to accomplish something else. The example Pausch uses is having kids play sports. Parents don’t send their children to play football to learn to play football. They want to have values such as perseverance and teamwork instilled in their kids. Character building.

I will say as an aside that having the kid learn to play a sport just to have them play the sport is also valid, but in the wider focus of raising a child to be able to survive, learning to work with others is probably more important than being able to catch a ball.
That’s what I intend for this blog. The end is not a great blog with an array of well-written, focused entries, at least I don’t think it is. I want to use this space as a hub of a wheel, pulling together different spokes of what interests me, what I learn, what I do. Maybe I can learn from myself, maybe I can glean some inspiration and knowledge from the collective mind of cyberspace. Maybe the blog will turn out good in the end, anyway.

So brace yourselves randomness, obsessiveness, and shitty sketches.