AXO Drawing

I must admit I was a little sketchy with this since I got back into the habit of sketching everything rather than doing a ruled graphic drawing (despite the fact I did graphics in High School)

I chose to do a 1:1 scale drawing of my little Tajima Craft Knife with a side view of the inside blade and a straight view of when the blade is out one notch. I chose to do this mainly becsuse it was the first thing I found in my bagI think I may have drawen it all wrong since it looks really Graphic like but I'm actually impressed with the visual of my outcome, I forgot I could do that.

Idenity

The first task in this brief, this really started to help me improve my drawing process and display. I chose my IPod, my ruler, my USB, my locker key and my headphones as the five items (the first things I found). I experimented with placement and solid block colour a few times before I decided on this layout. the idea of using inversion and having the white space show detail of the item somehow mimmiced a simple light against shaddow which I really liked. having the headphones go off the page and come back somewhere else showed that the items have parts you sometimes can't see and filled some odd spaces which was a bonus.

Sketch

This task was really fun to do for me as I got to go a bit loose with my drawing style rather than staying in set boundaries. 

I kinda cheated with this task though, I used the sticker on my laptop to do this. I drew curves in two different thicknesses over each other to create the shape (since the sticker is a shadow) and created this etch looking outline which I keeped filling with curves to give more shape and fill. I based this from the style given to us in one of the examples (there were three different styles in this category) none of the lines physically connect, they are all curves which reach from one end to the other (they may overlap but that doesn't count)

Draw

personally, this was hard for me to do since I'm not the best drawer around and still have some Graphics habits I can't seem to get rid of.

 I decided to draw my IPod since the shape is simple and a good practice for boosting my confidence with drawing straight with pen (I usually do it in pencil first then go over in pen to avoid most mistakes)

I must admit that despite the fact I wasn't aloud to use a ruler or a pencil, I think I did an OK job. I still would rather have done this with a ruler to make it accurate and straight but that's just my bad graphics habit.

Section

This is a section of the top view of a 2GB USB Stick (an old model and rather slack in construction) I chose to use this since it already had the cover broken off and everything exposed. The drawing is in 2:1 scale since if I did it in 1:1 it would be rather hard to put in all the little details and would be hard to see.

 

I also included a section drawing of the inside of the connection port (inaccurate as that part is still intact and I couldn't see everything in it) I do realise that the letters on the board are rather rough and crooked but I still had to do this in a bit of a small scale.

Hatching

I decided to go a bit mathematical with these since I love doing geometric designs and illusions. I drew each square separately so as to give myself some freedom and demolish the risk of smudging of going over the hatch next to it. Obviously the final layout is done on Photoshop and slightly edited with brightness and scale adjustments.

This is actually my third attempt of the hatching criteria as the first looked like a map and the second got smudged to hell.

Font Design

After hours of planning and constant changes in my media choice and quote, I finally finished my font design for this project. I decided to use Nerds (flavored sugar) in creating o font which went with my quote "Give Words A Certain Colour" to try and create a mixed look in shape, colour and texture. I used two boxes of Rainbow Nerds (my parents brought them back from America) A ruler, some tweezers and a white cloth to create my letters and then rendered them on the computer using Photoshop. I then adjusted the size, brightness and even the thickness for some to create the complete letter set. The quote however was layered up fully and then rendered onto a background that matched. I also used a Poster Edge Filter with the font to help make the letters more readable and let the colours stand out.

Final Quote Poster

Full Letter Set

I decided not to include extras such as Astrix as there are a few existing fonts that do not have these (and someone kept eating my supplies) but I did include numbers (only 1 2 and 3 though) and lower case letters.