Time Capsule

Thumbnails and Prototype of the Zine


This is my prototype for the zine that I made for the process of the time capsule project. The actual page in the zine changed some what.












The is a zine of my process so far on the Time Capsule project. It starts in the beginning and ends with my final idea. The final idea has a clear tube assigned to every first year student who would then write a letter to themselves on translucent paper and role it up and place it in the tube. The groups of four represent the groups that we would work in throughout the semester. The sculpture would have a ground level light installed under it that would shine up through and on the paper. The light would help show the writing and but not completely reveal it.

Drawings that have been touched up

I actually went back in and added some more contrast and now the cube actually looks as if it has a hole going all the way through.

Shadings of refined iterations

These are drawings of my refined ideas. My favorite idea is the bottom one that has the clear cylinders. The cube at the top is supposed to have a hole completely through it but this is hard to tell from the drawing.

Shadings of Cubes

I enjoy shading and for this assignment we were to use three cubes that we made and shade all of the shadows that were created on and around the cubes. The original works are much better than the scanned images.

Shading Assignments- Second Set

I chose to post all of my drawings instead of the ones that I felt were best because I appreciate seeing all of my work. Due to my shading the images here do not look the same as the originals. I found these drawings that were done in ink to be a somewhat difficult because the ink is more permanent and you have to rely on the density of the lines instead of the actual shade. Personally I still think I need more work with the hatching, cross-hatching, and random shading techniques. I do still think that I am best at the smudge technique. Before this was really what I thought that shading was but now I know that there are multiple techniques that can be used.

Shading and more shading

This was an assignment out of our text book. We were learning about different techniques of shading and the tools in which to complete them. The three different techniques shown here is hatching, cross hatching, and random. I did realize that after I had finished all the sphere, cone, and cube drawings that I did the light source in the wrong spot on the sphere. It should have been more towards the top left. We also had to try the drawings in both pencil and pen. I personally think I did better with the pencil than the pen. With the pencil you can use different leads that are available and make different tones and shades. The disadvantage of the pen is that the ink is only one color so you have to rely on the density of the strokes to create a lighter look. This was difficult for me. The only time that I have used ink for a shading assignment was in High School my sophomore year. The technique that I used was stippling. I am hoping that I will get better at shading with a pen because I think the end result of a pen and ink drawing is very neat.

Self Portraits of Many Emotions

This is a movie clip of my self portrait project. The project itself contains a total of eight self portraits of me that demonstrate different emotions at the time of creation. I felt that a video would best show my work because the physical project is about six feet tall. To help with confusion the video was filmed vertically so it might help to turn your head to the left to get the real effect. This was not my favorite project I would have to admit because I felt that my self portraits are not as good as others and they resemble me as much as they should. I am quite pleased with my design of the display unit. Having four pictures on opposite sides creates interaction with the viewers because it causes them to actually walk around the display.