Sketch

Sketching a mind map helped me to develop tons of ideas in a limited time period. It is important to just let the ideas flow, writing the first word that comes to you mind and do not stop to think when plotting a mind map. This way of sketching gave me a huge variety and non-stoping thoughts, it is amazing how the idea flew from word to word especially with something that is not really related to each other. I had so much more ideas that I wanted to write but was limited by the size of the paper. This method also works when comes to design, have the central theme in the center circle, and start developing ideas, draw or write down anything that arise. You may be inspired by something you wrote.

Sketching the chair from different view helped me gain strength on drawing with scale and proportion. I had to keep in mind that the chair drawn should be in the right proportions as the way it appears with the actual object. By doing this sketch, I learned how to look at items in different view with different prospects, and generate ideas from different directions. Designers have to be able to think three dimensionally and sketches like this can help establish this skill.

This freehand drawing is done with black ink pen and napkin media, I have never drawn on something this soft. By drawing this I have to keep in mind that I should not press so hard on the napkin. Keeping a constant pressure on the napkin is really important for this sketch. Also coloring on the napkin feels completely different from when I color on paper. The color merges and spreads with the napkin strands as soon as the pen is pressed on the napkin, so I had to draw softly and move the pen faster. By drawing on napkin inspired me that a design can be created in a way that it has not been done before, we can use materials and media that have never been used before. Creating something new with new ideas is always desired. 

This is a corner of my living room sketched with graphite drawing pencils. With this sketch, line texture techniques are used showing the nature of the wall, ceiling and floor. Shade and shadow are significantly used to show the value of the room. It is important to consider three dimensional structure and angel of view when drawing a landscape like this. With Interior Design, it is important to be able to see objects in three dimension, and how one obstruct the other. Consideration of how objects overlay on each other, generating the view to the audience that the walls are perpendicular to each other, the floor and ceiling are parallel to each other are necessary for the sketch.

 This is more like a contour sketch which is traced from a picture we have taken before. This sketch gains skill on paying attention of the overall flow of the image itself, but not into small details. This is very important for design such that for every design, we would want to start from the big picture, then going into details. Working backwards will be really time consuming and will end up losing the main focus of the design too.

This is sketching a door handle on a piece of black paper. This enabled us to gain skills on how the colors match with black, since we usually tend to draw on a piece of white paper. Color appears differently on black paper, and joining different colors with black is quite important, and making sure the colors will appear will need to draw several times and each layer of color. Though the black will still see through all these colors.

 This is sketching a section of the room. The sketch on top has lighter and fewer line weights, while the one at the bottom appears to be darker with heavier line weights. This sketch is to help us gain the knowledge and hands on experience of creating value using lines. Thinner and fewer lines will create a lighter reflection of the image, where as heavier and more lines will give a darker color on to the image. This sketch has a window wall where light can come through and reflect on the object drawn, shading and making the objects light will reflect the direction of light. The first sketch shows value of the space with lines, where as the second one shows the value change in space using high contrast method. This sketch also help to gain skills on drawing consistently, the 2 sketches should be similar to each other in terms of structure and objects.

This is a sketch help us to build up skills and techniques in using cross lines to represent shade and light differently. More and heavier use of lines at the shade and lighter pencil marks at the less dark region is a great skill than can help build the effect of light hitting on the object. Where the light hits the object is the lightest when comes to drawing, and darkens are light starts to fade. This technique greatly helps the overall view of the sketch, there is a point where it is the lightest out of the entire picture. And along with this focal point, light starts to fade of and objects start getting darker.

This is a sketch from an original image of a chair from the magazine by shading the space. We start by looking at the shape of the chair based on its negative space, which is the space around the chair. By looking at various negative space of the chair, we select one to start with in the drawing. Begin the sketch by planning the space the negative space would occupy on the paper, and make sure the to give enough space for the chair. The negative spaces vary in lightness, which the light hits the object will have a lighter reflection on the drawing. It is important to consider the shadow and light, where on the floor where a shadow is casting should be darker and some area of the sketch is lighter. Start the drawing with very light lines of the basic negative space shape, making sure both negative space and chair fit in the paper. This sketch helped us to gain skill and understanding of how important negative space is in a sketch. It can build up space within a sketch.

This is a overall sketch reflection, representing the feeling and thought as we went through these sketching processes. This reflection is important in terms of conclusion and give us a overall understanding what is the purpose of all the sketches. And it also make us to review what are the types of technique applied to these drawing. Each sketch involves different types of technique application and understanding of the readings we have been doing. Drawing the sketches also helped us to gain greater strength in understanding and applying of the lecture material as well as reading materials.

(Note: Sorry I could not find my sketch 6)

Textile Pattern Design

The textile is inspired by ancient Indian art and design. After researching on several different Indian textiles, and designs, I have realized how the Indian people worship animals, especially with elephants. Therefore, I have made elephants as my central theme of the design. The background of the textile is selected from a piece of the ancient Indian carpet, which I think strongly represent their culture and history. Principles and elements are also applied and reflected by this piece of work. The textile balance is both symmetrically and asymmetrically represented. The overall flow of the textile appears to be symmetrical, since all four corners and edges are exactly the same, the bottom images are mirror images that reflect each other, which are also the same. The central image has asymmetrical balance. The circles around the central image appear to be radial symmetrical. The background has a different color tone as compare to the rest of the images, this creates contrast of the textile. The border lines and the corner images has different value. The background and the border lines are commonly used in the designs of ancient Indian carpet. The symbolism of elephant is ancient, in India, elephant was the mount of Kings, and a symbol of the highest true self. Elephant represent ancient power, strength and royalty, therefore choosing elephant as the central image can strongly represent the ancient India.

This is an overview of the repeated textile.

Geometric pattern design project

This is a project that helps me gain knowledge, strength, and skills of creating a pattern from a variety of images that were related to each other. I decided to choose to work with Ancient Indian design and create a pattern based on this historical period. I have researched and selected 10 different images to work with, and Photoshop was the most helpful tool to create the pattern. Working on this project really taught me how to use Photoshop as a design tool since this was the first time I have ever used it. It is a great tool that helped me to edit my images and change it to something that looks really cool. I joined the 10 different images I have created, and placed them into the pattern shown here.