Traditional Media | Vivid Foundry https://vividfoundry.com Creativity emerges, even from structure. Sun, 28 Jan 2018 03:18:03 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.2 Architectural Illustration: 360 Degrees https://vividfoundry.com/blog/2012/11/22/architectural-illustration-360-degrees/ Thu, 22 Nov 2012 22:45:41 +0000 http://vividfoundry.com/?p=559 Part of a series of 6, these architectural illustrations pivoted on a fixed point, showing different degrees of a given space. The subject was a house under construction with plywood skeleton revealed. Prismacolour Premier coloured pencils on Stonehenge.

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]]> Semester in reflection https://vividfoundry.com/blog/2012/04/28/semester-in-reflection/ Sat, 28 Apr 2012 04:42:32 +0000 http://vividfoundry.com/?p=865 The last three and a half months for me has really been a time of rapid discovery for me, in terms of my own personal energy, my ability to visualize and imagine, and to see new positively humanistic qualities in me that I had not known before. I am referring to the environment in which […]

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]]> Pastel architectural interior: Bedroom https://vividfoundry.com/blog/2011/12/04/pastel-architectural-interior-bedroom/ Sun, 04 Dec 2011 15:40:23 +0000 http://vividfoundry.com/?p=811 This was equally a fun project as well as one that required some patience. I have only previously used pastels for figurative illustration, so it was hard to not project coloured pencils mentality onto this piece. I found myself able to do some details but not others. This particular illustration is a companion piece to […]

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]]> Drink by the pump: graphite concept drawing https://vividfoundry.com/blog/2011/12/02/stilettos-drink/ Fri, 02 Dec 2011 02:23:43 +0000 http://vividfoundry.com/?p=738   Just my take on the glossy magazines, the glamour, the end of the night… I have been doing a lot of sketches of different materials lately – marble, hardwood floors, now in the form of still life. I love this form of reconstructing and deconstructing paper through the pastiche of drawing. Execution took under […]

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]]> Lobby: Illustration https://vividfoundry.com/blog/2011/11/30/lobby-illustration/ Wed, 30 Nov 2011 00:37:21 +0000 http://vividfoundry.com/?p=716 Progress shots and final for an interior architectural illustration, 2-point perspective. Graphite pencils. So far: 2B, F, HB, B2.

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]]> Self-Portrait: Textbook Case https://vividfoundry.com/blog/2011/11/23/self-portrait-textbook-case/ Wed, 23 Nov 2011 04:17:43 +0000 http://vividfoundry.com/?p=663 Prismacolour pencils illustration on grey Stonehenge paper, sized 16″x24″. It’s supposed to mean something when I have a eureka moment, yet will I remember it as part of my identity in the tomorrows to come? This illustration “talks” about some of the key ideas that have cumulated at the forefront of one of my best […]

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]]> Lizard: Illustration https://vividfoundry.com/blog/2011/11/23/lizard-illustration/ Wed, 23 Nov 2011 02:16:59 +0000 http://vividfoundry.com/?p=636 Lizard illustration using a whole range of graphite pencils on a 16×24″ drawing paper. Drawn from photograph taken at the zoo.

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]]> Death drawing: Pastel sketches https://vividfoundry.com/blog/2011/11/23/death-drawing-pastel-sketches/ Wed, 23 Nov 2011 00:29:45 +0000 http://vividfoundry.com/?p=598 An illustration from a skeleton in life drawing class. I'll leave it up to you to pursue the irony.

Chalk pastel, Bristol board (we were being thrifty. I'm not sure why).

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]]> Wildebeest: Sketchbook series https://vividfoundry.com/blog/2011/11/22/wildebeest-sketchbook-series/ Tue, 22 Nov 2011 01:44:45 +0000 http://vividfoundry.com/?p=595 The wildebeest series. Multimedia, digital and traditional, onto sketchbook, 9×12″. I was driven to use the wildebeest as my muse by the strength of this animal, but also the bewildering and almost relentless regularity of its seasonal migrations. If there was something that said ‘herd mentality’, it was the wildebeest – but just as much, […]

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]]> Grade Six Sculpture: Rotary Amazon City https://vividfoundry.com/blog/2011/11/13/grade-six-sculpture-rotary-amazon-city/ Sun, 13 Nov 2011 03:47:45 +0000 http://vividfoundry.com/?p=640 I think I was a bit crazy as a little kid. I designed this city structure, level by level, complete with functions for the Amazonian society in each tower and area – barracks, horses, markets, and food courts (apparently). Then I used the rotary saw for the first time in my life.

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