The little people arrived!!

I received my little people today.  Funny I was expecting a big bag full of these things since I ordered 50....and well ....it's quite disappointing.  One tiny little sachet of white characters didn't seem much really.......waffling....tired.....I'll move on.

I have discovered I have two means of calming myself and making me smile. (apart from the obvious cheesy grin from Max the one year old and me wife)  I have to catch the 6.45 episode of Shaun the Sheep firstly which always makes me laugh and secondly.......... I read Lissy's blog. ...

....even when she is narked off she makes her words sound beautiful and enchanting.  Every entry has something in it which enlightens you or makes the corner of your mouth raise just that little bit even when you feel like crap.  Thanks Lissy....the oracle of wise words.


Anyway.......

I've spent today re working my CAD drawings, preparing annotation for my 1:200 plan and 1:50 plan as I have been completely re sorting them.  A little worried about my sequential sketches which aren't going well for 1:50.  Wish I'd just gone straight down the boring sampled photoshop route now as I am loosing more and more confidence about my drawing skills.

Tomorrows...or later todays tasks! ...are to finish rendering my 1:50 plan and get the trace scanned in so I can titalate it a bit in photooshop.  I have to redraw and render my 1:200 plan and annotate both drawings for printing........the 8th is a painful thought.  I have almost given up hope of getting everything together, but we'll see.  I only have so many hours left.....I can only do what I can do.  If I miss getting something pinned up, I'll just have to grin and bare it and pray I get a better mark from the examiners.

Here's to the light at the ned of the tunnel.....which is just a mere spot in the distance at the moment, but I feel it geting closer.

Night all.
x.....for the ladies

Website Done!

Well the websites done.  I like what I've put together, but my branding isn't great, even though our lecturer thinks so.  But the format of the site works for me and I think I can easily build on it and add to it.  Well done to everyone else too as everyone seemed to pull it out the bag.

Here's a link to mine.  www.wix.com/pauljohnsongarden/design

Pictures of my model!!!

Needles to say the week ends weather stopped me from taking photographs until right at the end of Sunday.  Below is my 1:500 model.  All that is needed for this one is the sea, which I hope to achieve as I have in the 1:200.  So here is the 1:500....and I have to say it's not as perfect as I would have liked but I am quite proud of the outcome.

To follow is the 1:200, which if I can sound my own trumpet, I am very pleased with too.  Still want to replace the seating with white blocks rather than the wood sticks and I have some lamp posts to add...not to mention the little people on there way to me in the post as we speak.  I felt I wanted to create the model as realistic as possible as the examiners have not seen the site and it will help me explain all the different elements.

I do have a question for who ever is reading this though.  Do I need to add in the changes that I have done on my 1:50??  Not that I have the time for 8th May, but maybe for the examiners?

Hardworks and Softworks Plan

Well, I'd been working on these plans for ages.  The soft plan I have not been happy with as it was really busy, but worst of all at the crit on last Monday, I was told if I can't fit the writing in there, you've got too many plants.  I had a big isue with this comment as we are ment to be designing a fully successional planting scheme.  You can't do that with six plants......well you could I suppose, but it would be pretty boring.

Anyway here is the first pinned up planting plan which I showed at the crit.....

I don't know whether if you will be able to see the detail on the blog, but here is the refned version I made after a inspiring tutorial by Julia Fogg and my colleagues.  There is still ore to do, I need to increase my numbers and place the text into the boxed areas.  This will make things even clearer to read.

I then tackled the hardlandscape plan which I thought was there, but I realise I need to still improve a few line weight issues, add my detail markers and change the hatching to actuall paving showing how it would be laid.  so here is how it stood today befor I make these changes.

I actually really like the technical side because I like to solve design problems.  There is the nice part of creativity and pretty pictures, but knowing something is going to work and that somebody picking up your plans gets it, and can transform those ideas into reality is great.  So 'BIG UP' the technical side of things!!!

Anyway....off to upload the images of my model at the end of a very long day, yet I still have loads of drawings of plants to to scan and get onto the computer.....the night has only just begum!