The modified contour of my hand was a lot easier to complete than the blind. I had the ability to look back to my page and understand where my pen was in relation to my eyes and the paper. It had a much more recognizable outcome. This is still teaching about drawing from life, and what I see, rather than just a photo. When drawing from life, you get better shape and line details from the subject.
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This piece is a contour drawing of my backpack. I haven't done many contour drawings, and this piece doesn't really clearly represent a contour. I should not have shaded in, and i should have tried harder to do one complete line to create texture and illusion of value. It's not a bad drawing, its just not a very good contour drawing.
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Again I should not have shaded in. I did a bit better with trying yo use one complete line. I like the way the trees and books look. If i could change it, i would have made the window and shelf shorter, because in reality they aren't that long.
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1. At first, i did not use a fluid line. I tried to go back over everything just to get a hang of not lifting my pen, and that is pretty evident because of the curved lines and imperfections.
2. I learned from my first few drawings about contouring, by not adding value and trying to create texture and shape using line. 3. An outline drawing is a drawing where you can only see the exterior shape of the figure, without texture, value, or highlight. A contour drawing highlights the importance of shape, but the shapes and folds within a figure, not only the exterior and bland shape. A contour drawing creates interest through one cohesive line. 4. Interpretation of line is very important. How you interpret line, defines how you interpret almost any other principle of art, for example shape. breaking down the room into simple lines makes the process of a contour drawing easier, and expands your understanding of a piece. 5. I learned from this piece, that contour drawings aren't about looking good or perfect- they are about creating a better understanding of line, texture, and breaking down a subject into smaller and simpler pieces. Next time, I would worry about having one complete line rather than trying to make everything perfect and straight. |
My compositional sketches were very helpful when trying to find a good section of the still life to draw. I chose to do the tea kettle, bottle, and leaves because i liked the shape and composition. I altered the actual composition a little bit, to make it better. Instead of having two objects in the middle, i moved the bottle to the left a little bit, to make the tea pot the focal point. It's kinda hard to see my drawing in the second picture, because i drew it lightly in pencil to start it off. Overall i thought at this point everything was pretty well drawn.
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I have never really worked with prismacolor that much before this study. The thing i struggled the most with, is blending colors and blending the highlights and shadows. In my pumpkin, i should have used more highlights. Despite this, i think i was really successful by using other "unseen" colors that exist in the apple and pumpkin, such as the brown, red, green, and purple. As i continued to practice, such as in my final/ practice sketch, i showed improvement.
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I really enjoyed this observational drawing. I think it turned out pretty well, especially the color choices. I like the complementary of the shades of blue and orange. The folds of the candy look nice , as well as the shadows and highlights. One thing I would have changed, was to add more value to the white stick. One thing I think is really cool, is the shadow I drew underneath the lollipop- it looks 3 dimensional.
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Drawing this Kit Kat was really cool and fun, and helped me have a better understanding for drawing candy in general. I think the shadow and highlights look really nice. The lettering is decent, and it looks 3 dimensional on the edges where the candy is inside the wrapper. If I could change anything, I would have spent more time on the lettering, as well as the ridges on the edges.
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I did not like drawing the smartie at all. The pieces of candy are not even, and I didn't do enough of them inside the wrapper, so it looks short and stubby. I do like the highlights and the "Smartie" part on the bottom. If I could change something, I would have re done the twisted wrapping part on the sides. I didn't really understand how to do those well by using just the white chalk. I did not like how the chalk got everywhere.
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Sketching all of the facial features and learning about the proportions of the face was very helpful. I really enjoyed learning how to better my skills at details in eyes, ears, lips, noses, etc. I think I did really well working on eyes and ears. I didn't really like drawing noses or hair. I enjoyed this mini unit, because I gained a lot of experience. In the past I have never done a self portrait, and I think having this practice on my belt will improve me as an artist.
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I thought this assignment was a cool idea, but I really hated how it turned out. I'm not really sure just how much smaller than the eye sockets the eyes are... so I made them too big. Same with the lips. Everything just looks off, and cartoonish. I think if I had more practice this could have been better. However this drawing helped me have a better understanding of facial structure and the placement of facial features.
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The subject of this piece is a beautiful, feathery, peacock. I chose to do a sort of "close up" on the bird, because that way I could get a lot of good details in on the face, feathers, and values. I chose to do a peacock because I thought it was pretty original, and not a ton of people did birds as their subject. I also just think peacocks are just really cool and interesting. I used texture to show the light, soft and smoothness of the peacock. I achieved this look by using a combination of hatching and cross-hatching in the direction that the feathers were going. I looked up a lot of pictures of peacocks to get the right idea of the placement and individuality of each feather. It is my opinion that the subject looks like it has depth and 3 dimensions because of my use of texture. I balanced my piece by having the head and neck of the bird being the focal point, and having the feathers fan out. On the bottom right, they had a lot of feathers bunched up into little mountain like things, which used a lot of space. I was able to balance this out on the other side by filling the entire page up with cool, unique feathers and lines. The placement of everything made this piece interesting and allowed the eyes to move all around the page. I implied movement in this piece through the placement of the feathers and head of the peacock. It's head was turned, implying that it was looking somewhere, and the feathers are not just stiff individual feathers, they move in all directions and have individual lines that make up the complete composition. In addition, the feathers were fanned out and upward, exposing their beauty, rather than being pushed back. The movement of the lines in the piece make this scratchboard very successful. I could improve my piece by doing some softer transitions between values. In some cases in this piece, I think the stylized look of the bold highlights and jet black. However in the feathers mostly I could have done a softer transition. I also think if I had more time, the piece could have looked a lot better. I used a lot of great value in this piece. I used a combination of hatching and cross-hatching to create values. I believe I used a full range of values, from bright white to pure black, and everything in-between. I found it difficult in some cases that I could not go back, however I still believe I did a great job on most everything about this piece. |