Hand Drawings
Here is a collection of some of my hand drawings from my first year Communication Skills course. Each of our drawings, minus our Michelangelo piece, were 16″x16″ and completed in various mediums, such as pencil, micron and charcoal. This course allowed me to pull in techniques I learned from my high school Studio Art program, an advanced art curriculum that allowed select students to learn sculpting, painting, hand and figure drawing.
Invisible Cities
This assignment required us to read and choose a city from Italo Calvino’s “Invisible Cities” and draw the city based on the description. I chose “Fedora”, which described a museum in the middle of the city that contained a snow globe in each room detailing each civilian’s version of “a perfect Fedora”. Using context clues such as the “minaret” and “medusa pond”, I concluded that the inhabitants of Fedora were possibly Muslim. Therefore, I decided to incorporate a societal aspect into my piece as well, focusing on the human conditions of their current city and their envision of their ideal utopia.
Analytique
Michelangelo
This assignment was a group collage of Michelangelo’s “The Last Judgment”. Each first year in the School of Architecture and Interior Design was assigned a small portion of the painting to duplicate in charcoal. Each individual piece was then collected and assembled together to create the full painting.
