John Jenkins' Uploads

Found this while going through some old drawings, ca. 2008

Dot grid paper with more or less consistent 1 square resolution rule. Photo 2: drawing coach thinks it's good practice to anchor one's arm for maximum detail

Dot grid paper and pen

Mosaic tile w/ 7 sided center

I enjoy drawing building-like structures almost as much as tiled shapes

Finished the tesseract drawing today

Mosaic tile w/ 8 sided center

Fun drawing from about 6 months ago

This drawing contains hidden, square Kufic print in honor of Eid

First page of new sketchbook! Although there are some drawings from the last one that I'm either still working on or consider unfinished, tomorrow's sketchbook was calling last night so i had to answer

Another square tile border study w/ embellishments, as presented by life coach and drawing instructor, Chawrls D. Katt

Started this doodle with several 3, 4, 5, and 6 sided shapes and kept mucking about until it got to this point. Decided to leave a bit of blankspace this time instead of filling the whole thing in

Finished the drawing from last night. Micron 12 (0.7mm)

Irregular tiled pattern around 8 sided star

This is one of the patterns found in the Esrefoglu Mosque in Beysehir, Turkey from 1297 CE. according to Eric Broug (see: "Islamic Geometric Patterns", E. Broug, 2008, p.37). Now that I have the guide lines in place, up next I'll be erasing them and coloring in the pattern shown here. I think I am going to go with green, blue, purple, and yellow. More to come!

Color + mockup of where i'll go next with this tiled drawing that is taking longer than anticipated

Been going through old drawings looking for color inspiration for the piece i'm working on and i found this one to share: early morning, day 05: lights, check. goal: swarm of living creatures (use water?), birds in sky, dome

Offsetting the pattern by one square changes how it meets at the corners as you can see in this drawing