Customize Your Island... Like a Puzzled City!

For the 12"x12" So You Think You Can('t) Draw, we had to do our custom piece in our studio kitchen as a focal point among the context of the kitchen. I fully rendered this so I could also use it for my board.

My greatest worry was about how dark the cabinetry is, but I think with the light walls and floors it looks just fine.

4 Materials-3 Mediums

Using four of our materials from our Studio kitchen project we had to create a composition of twelve 4"x4" squares zooming in on the materials and rendering them in pencil, pen, and marker. I think I was most successful when I was far away from the material details rather then zoomed in.

Materials: Quartz Caeaser Stone, 3Form Graphic, Durapalm Plywood End Grain, & Stainless Steel Backsplash.

The Man of Steel in His Kitchen

A logo design for our Studio kitchen project and yet another SYTYCD prompt. I did this solely on the computer rather than using traditional mediums I am familiar with (i.e: Watercolors). Did all the line work in the first one in Illustrator using my tablet to help me position lines and lettering and then rendered (example being the bottom design) in Photoshop via graphic tablet so I had better accuracy.

I ended up going with the line work one rather than the colored one because I thought it looked overdone and lost it's statement amongst the color. The reason for the lettering "Man in his city" is because I needed something to help identify the client that I was designing this city-like kitchen for. My client being Shaquille O'Neal has a nickname of "The Man of Steel" on the basketball court and so I played with the superman idea and Shaq having reign over his kitchen like a superhero has his own home city to defend.

Make a composition... The SIZE of a CITY!

The object was to create an 11 x 17 composition using Photoshop or Illustrator of our concept with precedent pictures and abstractions. My client in Shaquille O'Neal and my concept is city, most specifically the city of Miami pictured in the composition above. The two drawings at the bottom represent the abstractions of the city skyline and the city grid, two elements I am incorporating into my own kitchen. The look alittle washed out, but thats how I wanted them since cities tend to be hazy themselves.

My linking graphic element is the white line running in various levels of the page that is also an element of the city skyline in order to bring your eye around the page.