El Carreton

My drawing from our field trip to El Carreton.

Elsewhere Drawings

Well I do okay... sue me.



My "moment" of the space was this door, it's no secret I was not into Elsewhere at all, but the warnings chalked on the this door were very cool to me, and ironic. The distorted perspective worked out very nicely as well, especially for a first time experiment.
A more realistic and detailed drawing of the door.
I think this drawing of the lock of that door is one of my favorite drawings of all time.

5 Things from my room

EUC presentation board

These are some of the one minute sketches we did in class. Of all of them I think the three darker ones are the most successful in the style for which I was shooting.

These are great, I love how they came out sketchy yet communicate motion, I added some notes to try and remember what it was about them that worked.
This was just something I did to try and pull it all together, it is much harder to draw them I found when you have a specified height. A vertical start and stop point for the figure adds a lot of challenge, for me at least.

Coffee shop sketches

I tried and tried to make this all work, and for some reason it just wasn't my day to draw. Eventually I got fed up with it all and started drawing lamps and chairs like the ones above. It was an incredibly bad day in just about every regard possible.

Entourage Examples

These are some of my thumbnail sketches of the EUC from earlier in this assignment, the figures were one of the most fun part to draw for me, they add a lot of perspective with their height differences.

Style exploration

The top right drawing was used as reference and was taken from the book Drawing and Designing With Confidence. Mine didn't come out quite right, the lines were not nearly sharp enough, and my markers/pens were too new; I couldn't achieve the worn out marker look that caught my eye in the inspiration image.

The image above, the one at right being used for reference, was also taken from Drawing and Designing With Confidence. For the same reasons as stated above, my picture didn't come out right. This technique isn't suited well to what I was drawing, there was not nearly enough perspective or detail to make it look right.

This page came from a book called Drawing Crime Noir, by Christopher Hart. The way you can only use two values proved to be more challenging than expected, but I think it turned out alright. It portrays the EUC as a place where you stand a fair chance of getting mugged if you aren't packing heat. This dramatic effect is just so cool to me.

serial enVisioning thumbnails of the EUC

Detail Sketches

One of my favorite parts of my 2x4 project was how I had to custom shape and trim one of the triangles so it would be tailor fitted to the spire giving it a flush fit and added stability. It was one of those problems that I ran into that got resolved nicely and was very unnoticeable, this was what did it for me, the fact that nobody noticed that it was different.

Three drawings

This is the stuff on my bathroom counter. This one was a lot of fun to draw, I really like how the brush and shaded wall came out.


For some reason my roommates have this thing with saving every beer bottle and can from which they have ever drank. It's not even good beer either, every box, can, or bottle in this picture is cheap domestic piss, and can be bought on sale at your local supermarket. They even go so far as to save the boxes for their 24 pack... wow. Like the bathroom sketch above, I highly enjoyed this one. It seems I am always looking for drawing material with drama or action, something that touches you and is worth drawing. I suppose in this case the flair and drama were provided by the irony of underage kids with delusions of refinement and taste, saving a whole lot of incriminating evidence right on the living room wall.


I will admit it was very late when this drawing was completed and I wasn't totally into it. It started out with potential to be pretty good but I don't think it turned out like I had hoped. The divisions of the shelves are not equal, and the hatching for the wire frame could be much more consistent. The perspective worked perfectly the way it changes from the top shelf to the bottom shelf though.