Tree & Shrub Plan Outlines

I have tried to explore different ways to draw trees and shrubs in plan view. They are all simple drawings that can be drawn quickly onto plans. For the shrubs I drew a collection of random circles in pencil and then drew the outline in pen. 

Soft Pastels

I have continued using soft pastels. Today I used them for drawing quick cross sections. Firstly I tried drawing a meadow then a path. 

Figure Map

To create this I first downloaded a map of digimap which only had the building layer on. I used tools in photoshop to convert all the buildings to white to give a clean map that only showed buildings. I then used this to creat an idea of a front cover for my group survey project for which I am the editor.

North Place Logo

Our main project for the design module in semester 1 was a group survey project. My role for this is editor. For this I needed to create templates on InDesign for everyone else to use as well as a front cover. I started sketching ideas for this and came up with a logo that had a north arrow to represent the name of the survey location, North Place.

Learning Plants

Plant knowledge is something I need to keep working on throughout my course. I thought one way I could do this was every week looks at random plants in a book or a website and then draw them in my sketchbook. Every week I am going to do atleast three and try and use a different medium every time. This week I used oil pastels.

Pen sketches

My first sketch is of the lake in the gardens of a contemporary house called The Old Zoo in brockhall village. I the structure in pencil first then went over in pen and added detail. 

Next I drew an idea I had for a small fountain in an archway that acts as a focal point at the end of a path. 

I am going to try colour rendering these using watercolour.

Contextual Colour Project

Over progress week we were given the task of exploring a method of filtering out infomation, to simplify what we see. To do this we used photoshop by crystallising out images. This splits the image into random cells of only the 1 most dominant colour in the area.