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Art at RISD
As part of my exploration of the art angle in the field of Design Engineering, I attended RISD Pre-College during the summer of 2025. Here, I've included pieces from the Drawing Foundations and Design Foundation classes. I also majored in Furniture Design during this program, where I made a bench. There is an entire page dedicated to that, which can be found in the menu.
My Dorm Room Door
My Dorm Room Door
At RISD, the dorm doors are made out of chalk, designed to be drawn on. As a way to introduce myself and practice drawing murals, I decided to draw this one of my door. I love drawing murals which start from the center and expand outwards. I also got to meet some new floormates as they walked by.
Drawing Foundations
Drawing Foundations
My Very First Still Life (Vine Charcoal)
My Very First Still Life (Vine Charcoal)
This 20 minute drawing was my first ever still life. The item drawn is a tall glass vase. Something to improve here was the line weight. Throughout my next few projects I experimented with that some more.
Still Life Image
Still Life Image
A tall jar, lantern, lamp, and pencil sharpener.
The Drawing Based on the Still Life (Vine Charcoal)
The Drawing Based on the Still Life (Vine Charcoal)
This was one of my first still life drawings. I learned a new strategy here to get the line angles correctly. Applying the strategy was something for me to improve on during the course.
Still Life - Three Things That Represent Me
Still Life - Three Things That Represent Me
A orchid (I love growing plants), swimming goggles (I enjoy going swimming), and a 3D printing spool (I love to 3D print)
My Still Life Drawing (Vine Charcoal)
My Still Life Drawing (Vine Charcoal)
I experimented here a lot with shadows and line weight. With the swimming goggles, you can see the darker shadows I experimented with here.
Exterior of My Sunroom at Home
Exterior of My Sunroom at Home
Interior of My Sunroom at Home
Interior of My Sunroom at Home
My Drawing (Vine Charcoal)
My Drawing (Vine Charcoal)
Butterfly Sample (Urania Ripheus)
Butterfly Sample (Urania Ripheus)
My Drawing
My Drawing
I used pencil, colored pencil, marker, and sharpie. I focused a lot on details here.
Skull Still Life Image (with black and white filter)
Skull Still Life Image (with black and white filter)
My Drawing (Vine Charcoal)
My Drawing (Vine Charcoal)
I focused a lot on getting the angle of the horns here. I think the shadow outline came a bit dark, making the outline darker could be an area to improve. I do like how the horn shape came, though.
Live Figure Drawings
Live Figure Drawings
I used vine charcoal for both of these. I particulary like the one on the left's shadows and hair texture. Something for me to improve on here is quickly capturing everything on the page and making sure it fits all of it.
Longer Live Figure Drawing
Longer Live Figure Drawing
I also used vine charcoal for this drawing. I made use of my eraser a lot more here to help with shading and I think the angles came pretty well. Some of the corners could've been a bit more rounded out.
Magzine Cutout Drawings
Magzine Cutout Drawings
Left: the cutouts from various magazines.
Right: My drawing using colored pencils.
Design Foundations
Design Foundations
Pattern Design
Pattern Design
Explored pattern making by creating a negative space name tag, and three of the same patterns but presenting them in various ways.
Color Fact Poster
Color Fact Poster
Overlapped various blue colored flags over each other to emphasize the fact that 53% of all flags in the world contain the color blue.
The Color Wheel
The Color Wheel
I learned more deeply about the color wheel by making it using watercolors.
Making My Own Color Wheel - Deep Royal
Making My Own Color Wheel - Deep Royal
Primary colors used were dark blue, dark purple, and bright red. I named each of the colors, as seen in the image.
A Turtle Sculpture Design
A Turtle Sculpture Design
I explored sculpture design by desiging an idea for a sculpture. My idea came from the image of a viral image of a turtle on the internet with a straw stuck in it's nose. This sculpture is a scaled version of that turtle, with the idea for people walking past it to be aware of the environment and not litter. The full concept is that this turtle sculpture will be places right next to the ocean, so that people will be able to walk inside it, and then take stairs to the ocean level and be able to view the live ocean as an aquarium, hopefully to spread more awareness.
The turtle itself is 3D printed, the straw is a piece of excess 3D print filament, the rest of the base and legs are also 3D printed. The ocean and the bottom piece is all made from thick mixed media paper. The lights inside are fairy lights from Amazon, and the sand is real sand glued to the surface.
This piece was also selected by the instructor to place in the final Pre-College Design + Drawing Exhibition!
Shoe Design
Shoe Design
Finally, I explored shoe design, where I made a one-eyed dragon themed shoe with detailing using hot glue. The rest is using paper and cardboard. The wings also contain tissue paper to give a more fluffy effect.
Final Day Postcards
Final Day Postcards
I created postcards for each of the students in my design class, for them to remember me. Each postcard uses inspiration from one of their pieces throughout the course.
Postcards Case
Postcards Case
I also made a case to keep all the postcards other students gave me.
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