ARCH 29A Sketchbook Phillip Le
For the first two weeks, I was essentially lost on what to draw. I figured that it was an architecture class, I would draw my house. Week One, I drew my house as it stands today. Week Two, I drew the front of my house with some improvements I thought would look cool, including a rooftop deck. Below the second drawing are some sketches I did a few weeks later exploring handles and notches.
For Week Three, I drew my friends’ kitchen. Looking back, a few construction lines might have com in handy. Also, those hairy lines!
In Week Four’s sketch, I really wanted to try and get the drawer pulls from the pervious room’s cabinets right. I found it very hard for me to draw rounded objects. Everything looked so flat!
For Week Five, I wanted to try and draw this building in Noe Valley. I had just learned about construction lines and wanted to see how they would apply to a building that was build with one side facing a downward slope. I didn’t know how to construct the slope so I just eyeballed it.
For Week Six, I continued working on buildings using construction lines. The slope on the previous week’s drawing threw me for a loop so I chose another building in Noe Valley that was all straight angles so I could concentrate on getting the foundations down.
I walk across this door every day in Potrero Hill and decided that it would be great to sketch for Week Seven. I also chose it because of how angular it was and I wanted to work on my construction lines.
I continued working on doors for Week Eight. This week, I chose a slightly more ornate door and included more details and shadows.
For Week Nine, I wanted to try to tackle a facade again (since Week 2). It‘s a little different from my own house, but I’m pleased to see the improvements I’ve made so far. I feel like I was able to use shadows effectively and put in details like the siding on the ground floor.
During Week Ten, I wanted to put my quick sketch skills to the test so I did a five minute drawing of the Zoetrope building in North Beach.
Week Eleven was another quick, five minute sketch. This time, I chose City Hall. I tried to focus on details that would make the building stand out and just rushed through the more repetitive elements like windows to save time.
I got through half of Week Twelve’s drawing when I realized that I didn’t make enough construction lines. I wasn’t trying to do a “quick sketch,” but I did want to see how fast I could get through this ornate bay window so I continued working with what I had. I think the end product looks… okay. But you can totally tell the main lines are skewed or they don’t line up.
I saw this house while visiting a friend in San Rafael and knew that I wanted to sketch it for Week Thirteen. It was a cool little mid century modern house perched on a hill with a roof and windows that I fell in love with.
I knew I wanted to return home for Week Fourteen to see if all the tools I’ve learned this semester have helped me or not. Other than the house slightly leaning to the right, I think the house is a vast improvement over the previous iterations. I especially like the curtains in the windows, the front gate, how the wood paneling is a little uneven, and the texture of the stucco.