Art Education - Indie Study

This is my last class before I formally complete my Thesis or "Capstone" as U of Florida calls it.  I conducted research on two teaching methodologies and two design/construction project delivery methodology.  The end output will be my Capstone paper and another "manifesto" ISSUU paper - but for this class, an infographic  for each and then one that identifies the best practice commonalities of all. I'm not done with the final graphic.  The research was a lot of reading and getting it all out into a graphic that relate to each other took some pondering. I chose to color-code similar process steps.  

A Morgen, A Maren, Some Random & Her Troll

Fremont Troll 

You can really cheat with markers - just get the perspective/composition right and just mush the rest together.  Your focus will be where the darkest dark and the lightest light meet - for this I wanted the 'Bread of Life Mission' signage and the historical street light to stand out - This was a daylight sketch - but I think it's be better translated into a night seen with the streetlight and neon Mission sign burning out of the darkness.

 Selfie - beard is getting long, and a bit warm.  But I am still and amazing specimen.

Ugh - Jimi Hendrix statue - this is located directly outside the Dick Blick art supply store on Broadway on Capitol Hill (Seattle) - so there are plenty of shithead (i kid, i kid) 20 somethings running around rolling their eyes mumbling rococo rococo...

Mare-Bear 

Morgen!

Another Pergola view in Pioneer Square - Details got away from me, so it looks a bit abandoned and lifeless.  there's a couple big trees and totems that block this view - I tied to outlined them but that was unsuccessful as well. 

The original second location of Starbuck at the Pike Place Market.  There are other stores on either side but I really only wanted to draw the sign and storefront area.  This one also got a bit dark on me  - I'm trying out a new Copic marker and ink set - but I added some Montana acrylic white paint and I think it  added great expression to the drawing.  

Some more Seattle sketches

My favorite Bldg in Seattle - The Arctic Building. Some lettering.

Been trying to focus when doing lettering - picking out signs of interest is a way to practice this. 

Rachel the Pig (really a Hog for those in the know) @ Pike Place Market

That's a big Salmon!  Pike Place Market

Another signage/lettering sketch. 

Pioneer Square - Pergola

The neighborhood takes its name from a small triangular plaza near the corner of First Avenue and Yesler Way, originally known as Pioneer Place. The Pioneer Square-Skid Road Historic District, a historic district including that plaza and several surrounding blocks, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

On January 15, 2001 an eighteen-wheeler semi-truck crashed into the pergola, shattering it into thousands of pieces; it has since been restored.

Some sketches:

 I've got some thoughts on these - the darkness and jumbled detail on a fairly light structure - there some purpose and intention to that - but my Capstone Thesis project has kept me busy and editorial content will have to wait.