College of Liberal Arts

I'm working on getting better at proportions and but I really need to find some smaller buildings to draw!

Quick Copic of Langford A

Week Four Journal:

It was a pretty good week in Aggieland! We spent a lot of time in the wood shop during studio this week and I feel so much more confident in my chop saw skills now! Also, I used a nail gun for the first time, that was simultaneously super frightening and fantastic! I had help, but I have just worked a lot on my wood shop skills recently and I feel way more comfortable in shop now compared to the terrified freshman that nearly passed out during the shop walk-through!

Being in a History of Design course and the History of Modern and Contemporary design I have learned that on of my absolute favorite phrases of Art & Architecture is Art Nouveau. I already knew that I liked The Arts & Crafts style and Ancient Architecture, but Art Nouveau has been growing so much on me lately (the amount of total design in some of those buildings is ridiculous!!)! Victor Horta and Hector Guimard did amazing work and I plan to study their works more in order to figure out my style. I figure that if I make a list of the Architects that adore then it will be easier for me to define my own style based off of their styles. For example, I love the Metro entrances that Guimard designed and I like to think that I have treated the line similarly in my past projects!  

Some little Pinterest doodles

Week Three Journal:

This week I learned a very defined style is something that is very necessary for defining oneself as an Architect and just life in general. Without a personal style every portfolio, drawing, sketch, and poster just starts to blend in, but if you have a personal style people start to see things that you create and recognize it as such. I think it is just fantastic when we would pin-up all of our work in class and people could pick out who drew what just by viewing the work. 

Finding other Architects that I really admire and am inspired by is on my list of things to do because vocalizing a personal style and putting it all into words is something that I have a difficult time doing. We had a lecture on Architectural drawing this week and it really inspired me to draw more so that I can develop my drawing skills further and work on my own style. It is encouraging to see that most of the drawings that people put out are not the first version of the sketch, but at the same time I look back at the drawings that I produce and feel the need to redo all of them! Nothing left to do but practice I guess!

Scoates Hall

This is a quick field sketch I did of Scoates hall right by Langford in between classes. My proportions are off... but practice makes perfect! Also, I'm trying to figure out a good way to draw trees (as you can tell by the floating branch in the top right!)

Week Two Journal:

During my second week of class I learned in my History of Design course that furniture design really sparked during the Industrial Revolution (It makes sense because with the new extensive use of machinery people could mass produce designs much more efficiently than they ever could have previously). Because the use of machines was on the rise and there was now a middle class people could afford to have others come into their homes and help decorate, thus creating the role of the Interior Designer/Decorator! I always was overwhelmed by the ornamentation and pure amount of the furniture in Victorian settings, but I learned that the furniture companies would mass produce older styles of furniture, then people would buy as much furniture as they could afford/fit into their homes to make themselves look very blessed. It was also a form of expression due to the fact that they would buy furniture styled after their heritage. All in all, I have decided that furniture design is really interesting and something that I want to learn more about in the future.

Melbern G. Glasscock Building

Week One Journal:

During my first week of my second year of studying Architecture at Texas A&M University, I learned that everybody has a different opinion of Architecture and it is a much broader field than it appears. For as long as Architecture has been around (a.k.a. the beginning of time) everybody has had different opinions of what they think is best and what the definition of an Architect is. It makes things different and interesting and is so great, but it also means that there will always be people that disagree with what's happening. Without everybody having different opinions styles like Art Nouveau and the Arts & Crafts style would not exist (and that would be really sad). The comforting this is that there are so many different kinds of designers needed; Sustainable, Historical, Residential, Healthcare, Commercial, Teachers, Furniture, Product, and more! As of now I find sustainable designing and furniture designing the two most interesting.