the story

As the final project for ME 110: Design Sketching, students were tasked with incorporating various lessons covering perspective use, shading, and physicality to create an illustration that represented an object, or objects, that were important to oneself. I was immediately drawn towards a group of plant pots that are my constant desk companions, both for the interesting physicality of the pots and the plants they housed, but also the human aspect of the subjects - the act of gifting and taking care of living beings.
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I treated this assignment as a stylized still life, and as such paid attention to the physicality and lighting of the forms, as well as the way that I arranged them to fill their space. By paying attention to strokes and weight, I tried to convey the unique textures and curvatures that each subject possessed. As such, I think that showing the thumbnail sketches that the final proceeded from show an arc in gaining understanding of the subject and serve to shed light on my representational process.