House plant collage

I wanted to collage my house plants onto the 'about me' page of my portfolio because. However, the plants are now quite large so I struggled to photograph them individually and as a collection, eventually I ran out of time and will pursue this task for my portfolio submission next year. 

I never had any house plant until 2 years ago where I began by buying my palm parlour- a very easily maintained plant. I now have 10 house plants in total with only having one die on me (figus robusta). 

I have done one of my first cuttings from my spider plant and will see how it grows.

Coming from a background with no planting knowledge, having house plants has now helped me to understand the basic processes and maintenance of shrubs/ planting in general on a much smaller scale. 

 

Asparagus Setaceus

My favourite house plant- despite it slowly invading my desk space form its position on my window sill.

I find it to be extremely sensory and calming

 

Regrading contours: a slow learning curve

As part of my sustainable technology module we had to regrade mounds and ponds.

This took me a lot of time to wrap my head around as I was unable to make the visual connection between a plan view and a 3-D outlook of the contours. 

Eventually I understood it after 3-4 days of working on it, whereas many others completed this within a day, This taught me to be patient with myself as a designer and that sometimes it is worth the struggle when you finally begin to understand something. 

I had an easy option to trace over an exemplar drawing rather than go through the struggle myself but I was determined to remain resilient and believe I have achieved this. 

Incorrect contours

Correct contours

Rendering exploration

For my portfolio I wanted my message of who I am as a designer to be very much people-based. Designing FOR people as well as the environment. 

To do this I was inspired by reports I had seen in my dissertation about designing for children, their soft and friendly approach. Many of them were illustrated rather than my usual style of sketching. 

Here is my version below:

 I enjoyed the process however it was very time consuming, taking me 2 days to draw and water colour 20 figures.