Marisa Braun's profile

Amazing Animals Project

Amazing Animals Project
Explanation

In Design Thinking 101, students were required to create one finished encyclopedic drawing, logo/iconic drawing, gesture drawing, and one amusing witty drawing (transformation drawing) of their chosen animal.
Below is the reference picture of the kangaroo used to create these 4 drawings.
In order to come up with these 4 final pieces, students were required to create 18 logo sketches, 20 gestured drawings, and 9 transformation drawings to demonstrate design thinking principles
Logo Sketches

In these logo sketches, I tried to keep in mind that these logos needed to be scaleable. I desired to use negative space, gestalt, movement, and geometric shapes to create these logo designs. I ended up vectorizing the last logo design, as I desired to take a more geometric, rugged route t a more geometric 
Gesture Drawings
 
For the 20 gesture drawings, I used quick motions using charcoal, pencil, pen, and dry brush to give the essence of a kangaroo in different ways. From cursive one line drawings, to scribbly cross hatching messes, I liked my gesture drawing in the bottom left corner for my final piece.

Transformative Sketches

For my transformative sketches, I desired to create images of kangaroos based on what they look similar to, what they are known for, and pop culture references. For my final transformative drawing I desired to combine by muscle and boxer kangaroo into one.
Encyclopedic Drawing

For my Encyclopedic drawing, I stippled, cross hatched, erased, and blended with a q-tip  to come to this result. I worked in quadrants from the arms, chest, the head, legs, stomach, back, to the tail in full detail before moving on to the next part.
Amazing Animals Project
Published:

Amazing Animals Project

Published: