Drawing 020 :: Laminar Erosion Process

DELAM

Start with a blank page.

Draw two roughly parallel squiggly curves from the top center to lower left corner.

Draw progressively smoothing curves roughly parallel to the originals moving outward to the edges of the page.

Introduce slight expansions and contractions as you see fit.

No curves should cross.

Leave the space between the origin curves empty.

To the left of the left origin curve perform these operations on the sequence of laminations:  Hatch with perpendicular evenly spaced lines | Fill | Void | Void | Fill | Void | Fill | Hatch with upward slanting evenly spaced lines | Repeat in reverse | Continue with variations on this theme till end of page.

To the right of the right origin curve these operations on the sequence of laminations:  Fill | Hatch with upward slanting evenly spaced lines | Hatch with downward slanting evenly spaced lines | Fill | Void | Hatch with perpendicular evenly spaced lines | Fill | Void | Void | Fill | Void | Repeat till end of page.

Travel Documents

Scandinavia

France

The Mediterranean

Europe

Footyboots Coat of Arms

During a SkyFi (yes, that is the correct pronunciation, inspired by my time with Francois Roche) book club session last Tuesday the discussion took a tangent into travel.  It reminded me that somewhere, in a dark dark closet, in a dark dark box, in a dark dark envelope, I had a collection of patches that I picked up during my study abroad in France.  I was there for architecture and we were fortunate to have a lot of time to travel and discover.  One of the things I would always do when i got to a new place was seek out a tourist shop or town hall that sold patches.  I didn't always find them, but came away with a good collection that brought back some great memories.  After pulling all these out I felt silly for not doing it earlier since we recently completed an Identity Design project at Miscellaneous Projects that was inspired by Coat of Arms (the last photo).  Maybe we can get it turned into a patch :)

SubTerranea[N]

Designing expressive landscapes with charcoal

A quick charcoal drawing that I made during studio at Pratt.  I wanted to give the students a little change of pace and try to loosen them up with a more fluid medium after all their intense procedural mechanical drawings.  I started here with a crumpled paper bag to demonstrate building tone and highlight, then I just let the emerging forms guide a new landscape.  The result began to take the appearance of a subterranean landscape, so I threw a few figures in to bring a sense of scale to the scene.  We had a lot of fun translating the students projects into more expressive and environmental interpretations through a great messy medium, charcoal.

I Remember