Let's Play A Game; I Spy

After we completed the constructing part of the assignment we began perspective drawing, taking simple chair styles and drawing them in relation to the horizon line. I played around with where the object sat according to the horizon line and decided on the best fit for my seat. Prior to engaging in the final drawing (image #2) I used Inda ink and a brush for some gestural drawings to better understand perspective and how other objects would fit into my final drawing. The intricacies of the front face of my chair posed a few minor issues but they were easily sorted out. Slightly more difficult perhaps was the angle at which I cut the horizontal tabs that held the vertical panels in place (~2" apart). I had cut them so that the back tabs were at about a 30 degree angle toward the ground and the front tabs so that they were about 30 degrees in the opposite direction. This is evident from teh photos, but for drawing purposes and to maintain correct perspective they are strictly perpendicular to the vertical panels. As is evident in drawing one, my first perspective drawing. There is an aspect of incorrect perspective, can you find it?... I'm sure. My error in this was taking the front most edge of the back post and taking it back to the incorrect vantage point on the left, instead of following the angle of the front and back edges of the seat to check myself. Lesson learned and the final drawing turned out well. Even with the added surprise of having to incorporate an elephant!

Here is an Elephant Song:

A Chair, of Cardboard

The cardboard chair is complete! After an all-nighter in the design studio and copious amounts of recycled paper and discarded drawings my final product turned out looking nothing like my original idea that I was just certain was fool proof. After discovering the difficulty of making a solid cardboard box to serve as the seat for a four legged stool I essentially inverted the model and added layers of inserts for the chair seat. The three posts on the back are primarily for structural stability although with more time and effort could have been fashioned into a functioning backrest, as they are certainly stable enough for that. The chair is approximately 24"x 18"x 24" (seat) and the posts are 3.5"x 3.5" x 48". During the building process I came up with a fairly simple and sturdy idea for another kind of stool ( still about 36" in height), but as it was a matter of time and supply I was unable to construct it as well.