DRAWING & SPECULATION
The project requires me to understand and analyze the city as the main product of architecture. Through research, I will use architectural documents to study and start to link images, visual literacy and design to show deeper meanings, such as social and ethical understanding. I tried to experiment with the hybrid combination mentioned in the lecture, and realized my idea through graphics and digital technology, turning my idea from oral to written.
In this project, I drew the buildings around me and used the techniques and strategies I learned in the lectures to describe the world around me. I chose Chris Ware. As an example of my study, I will copy his style and techniques, repainting and speculating about the world around me. His work shows a mixture of urban block history.
Chris Ware
Building Stories
Building Stories
Franklin Christenson Ware was born on December 28, 1967. Building Stories is a 2012 graphic novel by American cartoonist Chris Ware. Ware makes use of flat surfaces, isometric perspectives, and small fonts with regular squares or rectangles carved into its chart pages. In addition to bright primary colors and simple cartoon forms, Ware's graphic style USES symmetrical, repetitive geometric shapes and patterns, using clear lines and colors (Weldon, 2012).
I love colorful images, and I admire Chris Weir's dexterity with color and his mastery of contrasting colors.
Sample
The picture is a very important reason, another reason is the connotation of the work.
The work is called an architectural story, and the story is what the author wants to express. "Will talked about his own style: What I wanted to achieve visually was a tone, a tone akin to that of fiction, prose and biography. I don't create biographical comic strips in a deliberately synthetic way. I do it as a novel. I try to use typographical rules to govern my "painting", which keeps me at a reasonable distance from the story, and as a visual simulation of the world we remember and conceptualize. Ware gives the characters their own relationships and stories, and in the book, the reader finds a three-story Brownstone in Chicago and the disorganized narratives of the tenants who have used it as their home for years. How we perceive the world depends entirely on the order in which we choose to read the 14 comics.
My works
My works include two hand-painted drawings and two electronic drawings.
Two hand painting materials used in the manuscript is a pencil and sketch paper, the contents of the first painting far view of the building is beside me, use the perspective of the lecture professor skills, in a horizontal line left and right sides, respectively, to determine a point, and draw a vertical bar in the middle of the horizontal line, a straight line connection point and around the middle of the line, you can show a home stereo.
Then I copied Chris's style and drew pictures of the front and sides of the building.
The lower part of the picture shows some enlarged details, and the right part shows the story happening in the building. The second hand-painted sketch is mainly about a stereogram of the interior of the room and more stories in the building. I studied Chris's work, and I found that there were a lot of pictures of the interior of the room from the air, so I copied similar pictures. This is a picture of the interior of my room, painted in three dimensions, which, like Chris, can more clearly show the details of the buildings around me.
The painting tool of my electronic painting works is iPad, and the software name is Procreate. The first one is the external stereogram of the building, as well as the front and side paintings. I imitate the colors in the example, and paint with several different colors and the light and shade of these colors. I use bright colors to draw the front side to represent the light, and dark colors to draw the shadow, so as to make the contrast more obvious and make readers feel better. The second is a stereogram of the interior of the house. I used simpler colors. Paint the story with a little more color to make it look more ornamental. The second half of the picture and the right side are stories that take place in the building, and more details are amplified through the story.
I painted the story of buying clothes, I bought new clothes, I liked it very much, but I accidentally got the clothes dirty while eating the noodles, so I put the clothes into the washing machine, washed them, dried them, and then they became the same as new ones, and then hung them on the hanger. In addition, I also drew the water glass that I used all the time. Every morning, I would use the water glass to drink water or milk or whatever. I also show what I drank from a glass of water. Provide the reader with my own relationship to architecture through the stories I remember.
Reference list
Google Chris Ware, Building Stories, viewed on August 12th, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Building_Stories
Weldon Glen, 2012, Bits Of Beauty Amidst The Gloom In Building Stories, viewed on August 12th, https://www.npr.org/2012/09/27/161894262/bits-of-beauty-a midst-the-gloom-in-building-stories
