Hand drawing

Great chat with The two J's, (Tutors),on Friday. I need to get back to basics, but also need to get my IT annotation sorted. Bought Adobe CS pack last week and doing OK, so I can sort out In-design presentation for my next project. But. the important thing for me is to go back to the original drawing skills and not to try to be to clever with the technical skills - I don't need to. No more photoshop bucket fill. I shall render everything my hand. I also think that I shall be buying some very high quality paper for A1 studio prints. Repeat the mantra - I can draw, I can draw!

I went back to my old portfolios and took out my very first drawings from 2007, and then the ones from last year's planting design. I think I lost my way because everyone was being so technical, but as long as I have the computer stuff in my skills set too, I hope that I will not go too wrong.

These pictures are very fuzzy - my home scanner is rubbish, but I need to do this to keep me inspired.

Master Planning is over!

A few sequential sketches,(the real ones are annotated), and one section. And I passed. Whitney and I agreed that finishing masterplanning was a bit like giving birth- but longer and more painful! The benefits are that my Husband has learned to cook very well and the children are self sufficient, so I have become reduntant as a wife and mother.

Too tired now to upload the proper plan. It is on my hard drive. My Seagate is now more important to me than my mobile, my car and my house keys. We are joined at the hip and sometimes I feel that I should lock it in the safe.

Anyway, I have just had a pretty chilled couple of days before the next stage starts on Friday.

Also, the black statue people are awful, so I need to experiment with other human scale. I find people so hard.

Not Another White Out Day

Thought I had better write while I am waiting for my image to upload. It's Wednesday today and my daughter has only managed to get to school for one day in over a week, (Son not much better, but Husband is reasonable!). Welcome to Snowy Knockholt - the highest village in Kent and don't we know it. If this weather carries on over the next few years, I shall use my landscaping skills to create a small piste! We have plenty of great tobagganing hills so I just need to buy some land and build a ski lift.

The problem with all this snow, is getting out to have drawings scanned, so I can annotate and render them. I had some scanned at the local printers yesterday but then could not open them on my pc. I awoke today to visit Phil for a huge technology session at Avery Hill - then got snowed in again. Served me right for doing my History and Philosophy first!

The first 2 images are very draft sequential sketches. The 3rd is a very blurred master plan drawing. It doesn't look this bad on my screen. Better get Phil to sort it so I can annotate.

Because I have not been out to find an A1 Scanner

Been a Short While

Christmas is great, until you get fed up with it. Snow is really great, until you get fed up with it! Tinkywinks are off school and under my feet and demanding tobagganing trips, but the snowy hills look beautiful and the exercise is good for me. We dug the sturdy car out today, so Husband managed to get to the office, but I am pretty house bound. The good thing, is that the written documents are done. The bad thing is that I have not been anywhere near an A1 scanner yet, so have a bit of a catch up before the term starts next week.