Portfolio Work

The Bank of Italy project focused on the exterior architecture and details of the building. In this project my hand-drafting skills were put into work as well as my rendering abilities. This was my first attempt at using watercolor to render; I found it to be a lot quicker than other rendering techniques. This was one of my favorite projects for the class because it opened up my eye s to another rendering style which I probably would have stayed away from because I had never practiced it. After trying it I have really grown to like watercolor because it’s pretty simple and the results look as if you spent a lot more time on it.

The Beach House was a project where we practiced our hand-drafting skills and graphite rendering. To keep the look of the rendering clean, all the pencil strokes had to be going the same way to keep it cohesive. It was also very important to not smudge and work with clean hands to keep the rest of the drawing clean. The rendering for this project was one of the easier ones for me to do because I was familiar with graphite.

The Lodge project was our final project for the class. It definitely was a lot of work and took a lot of time especially with the medium that was used. It was hand-drafted and then rendered with marker and colored pencil. It was crucial to keep all the strokes of the pencil going the same way and the pencil to always be sharp to keep a clean looking rendering. It was obviously more tedious than any of the other projects because of the size of it all. The end result of it was definitely worth it, seeing all the hard work and long hours I put into it really paid off.

The Bubbles Restaurant Project was a space planning project. We focused on the overall design of the restaurant and designed accordingly. In this project we practiced hand-drafting, marker rendering, and model making skills. The model for this project was a white model and was created using museum board and foam core. This project was very tedious, building all of the furniture pieces from scratch. Precision was very important for laying it all out. I had to make sure that all of the pieces were put in the exact right place.