Day #1 "Sketches and Planning" - Fabricio Guerra

Fabricio Guerra

Señor Grisbee

J-Term

8 January 2020

Sketches and Plans

The first day of our J-Term was comprised of planning. We decided that we would finish our dioramas first and then our shadow boxes. Then Mr. Grisbee gave us our “guidelines” for what our projects should be like. They were supposed to be intricate and detailed, and would be either pieces of art, something that tells a story, or something that strikes up emotion. And so our adventure began. At first I wasn’t exactly sure on what I was going to do. I was inspired by urban landscapes with mountains in the background, so I started on my first layer, which were mountains. Then I began with a tower that would be in front of the mountain. I decided I wanted my tower to be similar to the Kyoto Higashiyama tower, so I took inspiration from that. Turns out, my drawing skills aren’t superb, and it took my an absolute century just to finish the outline of what it’s supposed to be. I only did an outline because I used geometric shapes to figure draw it out, and reconstructing it in adobe flash was apparently pretty easy. After that I started on my third layer, which was going to be a point of reference drawing with a cutoff layer, and that is in my opinion the most difficult part because drawing three dimensional curves involves shading which isn’t exactly my forte. I didn’t complete planning my fourth and fifth layers, but I wanted there to be the setting sun in the background for my fourth layer and then the entire thing would be seen through a window perspective, and that would be the final layer. I got the idea of the window from the background of a music playlist on YouTube and it featured a circular window. I also thought about adding some sort of cherry blossom to one of the layers but that’s only a thought that I’m not sure will be implemented.

This is the image I took inspiration from for my final layer.

The image on the bottom left is the first layer, which is the mountain, then the second layer is on the bottom right, which is the tower, and the third layer is the perspective drawing, which is still a work in progress.