When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence. ~Ansel Adams

Maryland Summers...

"If I could tell the story in words, I wouldn't need to lug around a camera."  ~Lewis Hine

Honfest is a Baltimore tradition. Every year women gather to compete for that year's "Hon." Honfest was started to praise the hardworking women of Baltimore, and of the rest of Maryland. A true Hon dresses in 60's attire, hair reaching high to the sky, and carries the spirit of Baltimore ("Bawlmer" as the natives call it) in her heart.

The remaining shots were taken at Papermoon, a diner in Baltimore. 

Last Project Reflection

Through my own critique I learned a lot. It helps to have another eye when working, it is easy to make little mistakes, ones that could be corrected. In the future I will do field research when designing, so that I can have a better idea of how I should be designing for my client. I will also do more leg work to learn the standards. While I made a strong attempt on this project, I still have areas to work on. Over all I do not feel that I did a poor job, however, there is always room for improvement, and I will take the criticism I received and use it to better my future work.

Through observing other people's presentations we all certainly learn from our critiques and improve, thus the reason for critiques. People need to pay special attention to their board layout, make sure that they have secured things straight, spelled things right, and to not forget important elements such as dimensions and the north arrow. We need to pay closer attention to shadow when rendering, and we need to continue to work with sketchup and other computer aiding tools to better the quality of our work. Over all as first year student I feel we performed well, and we will certainly rise to the standard and quality of work as we are taught more and progress in the program.

Loading Dock

More process images to come...

Pimp My Ride...

Clue 5... Pick a car, any car! And draw it...

Clue 6 & 7...Then morph it into whatever you wish, then render using pointillism. 

For some reason after I drew the car in clue 5 I saw a stormtrooper, so that's what I did. I threw in Jabba and Leia as scale figures. Enjoy, and may the horsepower be with you! =)

Clue#2,3, &4

We were instructed to dissect an object into at least 25 pieces and render it, the object was to make geometric forms.

Clue 3...

Next we were instructed to draw a reading nook.

Clue 4...

Then we were to render it with whatever media we wished (I chose color pencil) with three color schemes.