Header of My Blog

It is a header I created for this blog to express the emotions in my design and represent my style. First of all, it is simple and neat that emphasize the importance and provide a sense of refreshing. The informations hiding behind the hammer and the big rock indicate my attitude of design process is with strength and hard working. By using all my energy to break the gigantic rock, I could eventually find out the mysterious and valuable treasure inside which refer to the creative ideas. Also there would always be a sense of uncertainty to image which directions would the parts of rocks fly to and that contribute to expressing the way I think which is always trying to think wild and out side the box.

Delineation & Drafting

Delineation drafting is definitely one of the most challenging and difficult projects I have ever encountered. It is a long time project that consume a lot of time and hard work. During this project, measuring is always hard to be accurate and measuring everything in one time without missing any details is impossible. Tracing before hand really helps and easy to correct while mistakes were made. In the transforming process from trace to vellum I realized it is necessary to pay attention to the
line weight and choosing the right size of markers. Eventually, I feel great success and satisfaction while I finished than any project I have ever done.

Quilt Block

In this project of making quilt block, I was amazed by how much Photoshop can do to create variety and the feeling of extreme unusualness. I retrieved all my images from the beach and ocean to edit. You can easily feel the passion of wave and the peace but powerful sense underneath the water. After every single images to be edited by Photoshop, they became more illusional than realistic. Eventually I put them into a pattern and see for magic of mixture. During the process of this project, carving picture and putting them linear to a nice and neat edges are time consuming and requires for patient and dedication.

Color & Pattern

Painting is a very challenging but important part of design. With the varied usages of different color in different tint and shade to fill up the line pattern, this project expressed the emotion of transformation and the contrast with the horizontal direction of blue stripe. Mixing colors and try to get the right one is definitely the most challenging part of this project. Matching the color wheel really helps me a lot during the process. Also I was having hard time to keep the edges of the stripes to be neat as well as painting the color evenly without having some areas are too light, some are too dark.

Trace Figures

Drawing human figures are part of the most important elements to show the proportion between spaces. And tracing figures helps me to understand the proportion of a human body as well which is important on drawing human figures. Not too much details could also emphasis the importance of proportion than how does the human look like.

Colored Cross-section Fruits

Color is not one of my strengths. With careful object analysis and observation I used colored pencils to sketch the cross-section of an orange and a tomato. The most challenging part of using colored pencils are impossible to mix color like gouache paints. With this limitation, it is hard to get the right color I want. However color pencils are alway convenience and save time that works just fine for sketching.

Room Interior

It is a simple room interior with the walls and a few furniture appeared. With various of vanishing points, I achieved the goal to draw proportional furniture in facing different angles, as well as the book. Combining the usage of crosshatching I added several shades. However, I still need to work on managing shades on proper place. Some of the shades on this sketch is not logical.

Crosshatching

This time I crosshatching on different geometry shapes which are cube, cylinder, cone and sphere. It really helps me to analysis the distribution of shades at different areas since most of the graphic elements are the combination of geometry shapes. For example, we draw a cube before drawing a desk, we combine different human body with cones, cubes and etc. It is a good way to practice using crosshatching technique for sketching shading.