Lines

My main focus this week has been to focus improving my digital sketching skills and line quality through building a portfolio piece and to design a prop/weapon concept. My initial goal was to create a concept for a crossbow and shield. However was not able to complete a crossbow due to time constraints and not full fill this deadline of one week. 

My initial target for the week was to also develop an eye to simplify forms into geometric shapes in perspective, which was considerably a struggle for me but a great learning experience and have considered to implement this practice each time i have a new assignment in future.

1. loose gesture sketch with broad charcoal like strokes ( fast to figure out general shape design

2. refined sketch (slow down to figure out rough design and proportion with aid of angles

3. geometric deconstruction of design in to basic forms in perspective and drawn with grid as best as possible (2d side front design) then 3/4 in to practice

4. refined clean line art of the subject

This assignment has given me an insight of how long i should be spending on certain tasks and to remember to organize a set to do list accordingly. If i was to revisit this assignment again i would try and extend it to 2 weeks rather than one- which i have decided to do and extend my time to create the . Hopefully designing this second man made prop will not be too time consuming since ive roughly sketch out a few concepts already with initial research. And since i have set another week till the following Sunday i shall try possibly implementing some 3D as a base to the concept for speed and quality of accuracy. 

My next set of class focus on schoolism will be value distribution with Jonathan Hardesty and do my best to complete his assignments accordingly for that week with the sunday as the deadline again.