Work in progress

We are no on Easter Holidays, but not much of a break from work! A few of us are still meeting at College on Mondays to go through what we are doing, scanning work so far, and printing out our work. It works very well as we can give each other help on the technical aspects of Photoshop. We can also crit each other. When you are working intensely on something it really helps if someone else can give you an objective opinion.
My sequential sketches are coming on quite well. Got some good feedback today so can just tweak them and that's a tick in the box. Printed off the plan today so will spend this week rendering. Printed two copies, just in case I muck one up!
Planting plan is nearly finished, which is great. I need to get to grips with the drainage which may take some time. I need to think about it a bit first. Lighting should be ok as I know what I want to achieve, I just need to get it down on paper.
All coming on quite well, just hope I've got enough time to complete it all!!

Holidays - but still working!

We're on our Easter break now, time has flown this term.
Plenty to do to keep us busy working on the 1:200 plans and sequentials. I've written a long 'to do' list with the amount of time each item will take me. Looks like I can fit it in ok with a day or so spare which is good - I can build the website for Advanced Representation on thosse days. No break for me then!!
Still, I'm glad I did the bulk of the work during term. Got lots of good feedback from Julia and Jamie on Monday, so although my work was rough, I do now know where I'm going with it and what I need to do to get it up to standard. Hope I can manage it ok.
Off to college today with a few others to have a photoshop session with Kris. will also print out my plan so I can render it. Better make a couple of copies in case of errors!
Back soon

Getting more detail

Working very hard now towards our crit on monday. We have our 1:200 area mapped out and have been working to get the detail correct. It's amazing how much blank space seems to appear when you go from 1:5oo to 1:200!
Have spent ages working out how to plant the orchard area. Hope I've finally got it right. Really interesting researching the local heritage varieties still available. Decided to have varieties developed before 1950. That was relatively easy for apples as there seem to be lots still available. However I really struggled with the pears. Have put in one heritage variety but the rest are recent introductions. Will do some more research to try to find others; will have to see how we go.
Spent two days on Photoshop producing the sequential images. Much easier for me than drawing. Apparently I have an elevated perspective when I draw so it all looks a bit odd! Much easier in photoshop using the scale of people as a guideline.
Sections are finally beginning to look a bit better. Will print out loads today, which I know won't be perfect, but will do for the crit. I need to work out how to draw lines in Illustrator!
I think on Monday we'll get our 1:50 areas to detail so that should be another challenge!