January 2022

Assignment 02

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In-class exercise: An analytical sketch of my room. I learned from this exercise that adding a person before adding anything else in the room makes it easier to get the relative proportions of things more accurate.

Experimenting with what the skeleton of this vase would look like, and where light hits objects. 

A field trip to Cathedral Place. I’d passed this place before but had never been inside, so it was fun discovering the courtyard. I walked around the block and inside the buildings while taking photos. I drew it partly from memory and partly from referring to my photos to see where the parts connect. It was hard to get the big picture without walking far away from the site and looking back at it. I struggled with representing this in 3D so I started by focusing more on the plan/footprints first. 

The site in 30s, 1 min, 2 min, 5 min, 15, and 30+ min. The first four show the whole block while the last two focus in on the half the block that I found most interesting. In the last drawing, I got a bit lost in the details of trying to represent the grade changes and consequently lost clarity and some of the scale was off.  Quick drawings with fewer lines seem to be more successful for conveying information with clarity and to force you to prioritize what information to include without overthinking it. What stood out to me about this site was the complex grading and repetition of sitelines that overlook archways and triangles.

Assignment 2 – Tarea Heshka

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The image on the right I learned that I need to pay attention to line angle and parallel lines in order to make the drawings more accurate. As you can see the left was me starting my cube drawings and I started doing the same thing… but adjusted once I realized.

attempt #2 at drawing the room using advice I was given in class… scale is better and lines are also more parallel.. some things still off.

I used the cube template to help me draw my glasses. Which wasn’t a great idea because I could see (but I committed already so I couldn’t change)…

Part 6 involved drawing a place near your home, however I pursued a space at my thesis site, Ontario Place. The pods were a good start to drawing in landscape for me because they are very linear and have depth (3D). I found drawing the cubes difficult in free space, but once I applied it to a real space that is designed, i was able to better draw. Safe to say I am a very visual learner.

Image 1: 1 minute (pencil to get general shapes)

Image 2: 5 minutes

Image 3: 10 minutes

Image 4: 15 minutes

  

Chris Rothery – Assignment 02

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I started A1 Early, before class because I had nothing else to do at the time.

I was in Seattle and I found this interesting little space on the University of Washington’s campus.

“9 Trees. 9Spaces.”
  
I wasn’t using the axonometric cube method before class. I found sketching the landscape, which actually leant itself really well to a cube based method, was kind of difficult for me not using the method. I found that by the 30 min drawing I was practiced enough at the shapes and reading the space, but the time was so long that I kept adding more and more details to fill the time, adding texture and etc that it came out quite busy. For better or for worse. Maybe slightly for worse.

In class sketching my room, I felt like I did pretty okay. The curves of the hammock and desk was most the most challenging part after figuring out the actual shape of the room.

I wanted to continue this method with a bit of actual landscapes, so I drew my original landscape. From memory.


I drew some more on campus. At one of the community gardens south of the landscape annex, and at the landscape annex itself.
  

Kristian Lebitania- Assignment 1 & In-Class Exercise

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In-Class Exercise

Assignment 1

practicing 1, 5, and 20 lines, and creating grids. Experimenting the effects when overlapped and drawn at angles.

Expressing emotion through single lines 

I went to Kitsilano Beach Park which is beside my apartment. I was standing on the lawn area looking out onto the water and mountains in the distance. Drawing the space using different lines, I tried to be efficient about picking the most important information that would convey the spatial experience. This is seen in the 1, 2, and 10 lines, where the trees are drawn as continuous loose lines. I thought their forms were an important part of the experience. The 20 lines drawing shows more information about what is beyond the trees and what is in the foreground.

Week 1

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Class 1 – In-class Assignment: line practice


Assignment 1
I went to the frisbee golf course across from the building that I’m staying in. Young trees are interspersed around the gradual changes in topography. There is always at least one person at any time during the day playing frisbee golf. Strip malls and the Bridger range are seen in the distance.

1line


2 lines


5 lines


10 lines


20 lines

In Class Exercises

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January 19, 2022

January 19th, 2022 – Home office

January 12, 2022

All of the drawings entitled “out the front door” trace different ways of leaving my house following a similar set of steps:

1) exiting

2) locking the door & turning around

3) walking down the steps

4) leaving the property

Out the front door: Walking heavily, racing down the steps and 2 different paths towards the east.

Out the front door: (bottom left to right) pacing back and forth on the steps, leaving normally, new wide stairs, racing off to the car. (top left & right) going to the Skytrain versus going behind the cars.

Experiments with Line

Laureen Stokes – Assignment 1

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Assignment 1: Emotions & Adjectives

Assignment 1: Lines

Landscape Studies: Trout Lake Park

Assignment 1: Single Line Landscape

Assignment 1: Two line Landscape

Assignment 1: Five line landscape

Assignment 1: 20 Line Landscape

All of the crows in East Vancouver descended on Trout Lake park.  Their bodies were hidden in trees and branches but the air was thick with the drone of their voices and punctuated with the occasional strident “CAW” and “hoot-hoot-hoot”

The fog was thick enough that it coated my skin like rain and it deadened the sound of the dogs barking and the Skytrain moving across the distance.

Looking across the lake, the fog and ice changed the lake from liquid certainty to a confusion. Birds stood on the water; the lines of shore blurred into the trees.  One crow pecked madly at the surface trying to reach something below.