P Week

Professional:  A professional in my eyes is someone who is educated/taught well and uses what they have learned to their full potential at all times in a business-oriented environment.  You have to learn how to act professional too.  For example you cannot act the same with your best friends as you do when you are working for a professional business.

Here is a picture of Alexander Julian and I at HPU.  Alexander Julian is a great example of someone professional because he has been very successful in his career with designing clothes, furniture, and much more.

Here is my groups presentation board for Suzanne's class that has a professional look to it because of the way it is laid out and how it nicely organized with a contrasting black background.

Perspective:  Perspective can mean a few different things.  It can mean the view in which you draw something, or the view in which you are thinking, or looking into the view of someone else from your eyes.  We have really worked on our perspective drawings from last semester and into this semester.  There is one-point perspective, which has one vanishing point, two-point, which has two vanishing points, and three-point, which has three vanishing points.  I have a hard time with two and three-point perspectives the most.  Sometimes you get confused at exactly where the line should go so that what you are drawing looks proportionate.  When we speak in class, we try to get our ideas (perspectives) said to others so that others can see the perspective from someone else’s viewpoint.  "Peruzzi's skill as a painter is illustrated by his painted perspective view on the far wall, which seems to obliterate the solidity of the wall." (Blakemore, 100)  Peruzzi painted in Rome and all were mainly perspective drawings that blend with the wall so you think they are part of the wall.

Here is a page in my sketchbook that shows my notes on perspective drawings this week from Stoel's teachings.  

Process:  On Monday in class, we talked about how a story is related to the design process.  A story and the design process both must start out with thoughts that lead into ideas.  They both have a beginning, a middle, and an end.  Both use creativity and deep thought.  Both use writing of some sort or even drawings.  Both use many steps to get to the end, the goal.

Here is a list of ways in which a story and the design process are similar.  Writing down thoughts and brainstorming are the first steps in the writing process.  After I wrote these down, I wrote an article based from this list.

Portfolio:  All IARC students know exactly what a portfolio is and what it means!  When we hear the word portfolio, many of us IARC students gasp and roll our eyes because we know how important and significant a portfolio is.  Our portfolios hold all our drawings and drafting from the beginning of the semester and we turn them in to be graded.  They hold value to us because we are proud of our work (or at least I am).  

I drew my black portfolio that holds all my drawings.

Periphery:  Periphery is the external boundary of an area.  It gives us a sense of limit to how far we can go or separation between two different areas.  For cathedrals, the outskirts are the outside structure of the building.  It tells you that the area inside is important because it is protected by the walls of the cathedral.

I drew a view from The W Hotel in New York City of a building that shows its periphery or the outside of the building that gives boundaries to the inside of the building.

Summary:  A portfolio can be the periphery to what is inside.  What is inside includes many perspective drawings along with others that show process work from the bond practice to the vellum finals.  In the end you have what is a professional look to all your final drawings that you drew.