So as I alluded to earlier my personal circumstances have changed quite a bit. I am moving back to the windy city, and will be starting completely over from scratch. I will need to find a new job, apartment, car....everything! It's kind of a bittersweet moment for me. It's hard to have to start over again, but I look forward to what lies next along life's journey. I have an idea for a job I would like to apply for. It would allow me to travel, would cover room and board, and would have something to do with Disney :-)   I don't want to say anything more in case it doesn't work out, but we'll see what happens. The next step is to finish moving and apply for a passport. Then I will put in an application/resume and hope for the best. Keep your fingers crossed!

Henna Mehndi

This is my latest creation.I really admire tattoos, but I have none for a variety of reasons. I do enjoy henna mehndi immensely. I like how it gives me a creative outlet, that I can change as I feel.I'm still no expert, but I think I have been getting better and better.

It's been awhile...

Wow, sorry it's been awhile. It's just been a crazy few days for me. Long story short, I will be moving back to Chicago in about 2 weeks. So, I will probably be a bit lax on posting for a bit, but I will hopefully be back up and running again soon. In the meantime look me up on Pinterest for more insight into what inspire me. http://pinterest.com/megabyte2787/

Urban Glam

This is the final project for my first sketching class. The assignment was to sketch a hotel suite in a style of our choosing. This is titled Urban Glam. I originally intended to have a Damask bedding and a Damask pattern in the ceiling of the seating are, but I lacked the skills at the time to sketch it. The Audrey Hepburn graphics shown are intended to be large panels that can be moved to open up or separate the two spaces. *The pictures of Audrey Hepburn and the picture on the wall in the seating area are based on work I found on the internet. They are not my original work and I make no claims to them. I simply used them for a student project. I would love to show sources, but these pieces have been misrepresented by so many other bloggers and sites I can not determine who the actual creators are, but I applaud them for their work.

Early Sketches

Here is some more of my work in my first sketching class. You can see a bit of a transition through the class from the black and white tiled kitchen (one of the first) to the living rooms and bedroom which came later. Some of them are a bit "muddy" because I tend to be a bit heavy handed and hadn't mastered it yet. I also was trying to show value since we weren't using color but it comes out looking to grey or "muddy" as my instructor, Cory, would say.

Additional Early Furniture Sketches

After posting the daybed I found these scans of the rest of the furniture I sketched that same week. Again, these are just preliminaries with construction lines, and some of the angles are slightly skewed. You may also notice things appearing slightly off on some of this earlier work because I did not have a scanner. I took pictures using my camera phone so it may be angled a bit rather than a flat scan, and the quality isn't the greatest.

One of my first perspective sketches

When I first went to sketching class I couldn't even draw a cube correctly. My teacher, Cory Golab, had the patience of a saint. Now I can draw and render in perspective with confidence :) This is one of my first furniture sketches when perspective was just starting to click for me. There are a few things that are off, like the lines on the right are not straight, and the shadowing could be better but hey for a beginner I don't think it's too bad. This is based on the daybed sold in Ikea stores. The picture on their website shows it angled from the front, but I thought I'd challenge myself and try sketching it from another angle. This was still just a preliminary so you can see all the construction lines underneath, but I still think it looks kind of neat that way.