My First Skyline

Last Saturday I went to an activity called "desayuno calle" ( street breakfast). The activity was held in a public open space that had a great view. I couldn't waste the view so i decided to draw a skyline of the building on the other side of the lagoon that was in front of us. I have never done this type of drawing but again i realized if i was waiting a place and moment to try it ,that in fact was a great place and occasion to do it.

the materials were pencil, and muji (.38mm) blackpen. the size is 17"x5.5" ( landscape global art notebook 5.5 x8.5")

Some moments in my vacations

Winter trimester was over so its time to visit places I wanted to visit or revisit, public art exhibitions ect. I also help my mom giving swimming classes in the two week break I have between trimesters, so I practiced a little when I forgot my swimsuit one day.

SKETCHING POR LA ISLA@ tren urbano

Last February we had our third meeting of “Sketching por la Isla”, this time we took the metropolitan train (tren urbano). We started the day with some “indoor” sketching, teaching some of the members how to sketch a fast perspective, then we took the train/ we stopped in nine of the 12 stations looking to draw things that captivated our eyes as architecture students. As the day ended I had different types ok sketches, from people thart I thought that looked funny of interesting , to sketcher or detailes from the stations.

It was a great sunny day for sketching , the wind  in the stations was refreshing and later the sky presented us with a wonderfull sunset.

Drawing in the "sketching" class

One of my classes this trimester is “sketching”. This class, given by one of my favorite professors in the university -Juan Carlos Velazquez- it’s offered as an open elective. In my opinion the class serves as a therapy for all the stress that it is imposed on an architecture student by all the design projects. We practice different methods of representation and medias of drawing and illustrations.

Sketching por La Isla #1

After a day of sweating through the heat and walking with friends, I managed to draw some of the architecture we saw. ”la cafeteria del jardín” is one of the proyects of the architect Jorge Rigau in collaboration with Juan Penabad and is located in “Jardín Botánico de Rio Piedras”. As I tried to understand it, I drew what I thought that was the floor plan; also in the understanding of the facade and its proportions I also drew a sketch of it. Getting away from the garden we went to old san juan, Puerto Rico’s colonial and historic city. There we went to see the military fort San Felipe Del Morro and draw the old colonial building that is now the Escuela de Artes Plásticas. I draw the floor plan to understand how proportions in the building where distributed and its relations with the proportions in the facade.

"Cafeteria del Jardín"

"Cafeteria del Jardín"

 friend's drawing of the city

"Escuela de Artes Plasticas"

Perspective of one of the plazas 

Sketch-breaK @ old-Sanjuan

Un poco de las vacaciones