Friday, September 30, 2011

The Hand

I have been in various drawing and art classes through out my life, and in almost every class I have had to draw hands. This semester we did more studies of the hand. There is a blind contour drawing of my hand in one of the earlier posts. 
I think that this is a pretty good representation of my hand. I was really hand, but I needed to put a little bit of the bowl into the picture to make it make sense. My hand was really stretched out, so I think it make it a little more difficult to draw. the actual hand in relation to the finger is a little smaller than it should be. But I was trying to use shading more that I have been in my other drawings. It's been a while since I've finished a drawing, but this one didn't get finished either.


Thursday, September 29, 2011

In Perspective

Perspective is an important part of making a drawing look real. With out perspective there is no real place where we would believe a scene exists.
This is an example of one point perspective. The hallway fades into one point called a vanishing point. The piece is done while sitting on the ground of the hallway, so the horizon line is fairly low. The doorways are about 8 feet tall so you can proportion everything according to that.

These objects are done using multiple points of perspective. Each object is laying in it's own planes, but they are all sitting on the same table. So if the table were to be drawn in it would have a vanishing point in between the bag and the darker box. It is necessary to use perspective to show the depth of the boxes. Although this may not be the best depiction of the perspective seeing as the box on the right seems twisted.
The boxes are both done using two point perspective because you see two of their sides.

The following few pictures are done to create an imaginary, surreal type hallway. Since when I have been taught perspective drawing I have always been made to draw hallways I thought it would be interesting to create one that was futuristic. 
This was 

These were some preliminary thumbnail sketches that I did in order to decide the shapes that I wanted to use in the final piece.
This was a first try to put all my ideas together while using perspective. 

Some more studies that I did on the shapes and connections of the hallway.

This is the final sketch that I decided to use. this is what I believed a futuristic hospital would look like. I ended up making a 3D model of it.
Everything is clean and there are barely any crevices that can collect dirt. I really enjoyed thinking in this way, but the actual making of this drove me crazy.




Tuesday, September 27, 2011

Goya

Out of the Darkness
Goya's - "El sueno de la razon produce monstruos"
The Sleep of Reason Brings Forth Monsters

Goya uses light here to emphasize the man in the front of the piece with the owls and birds and monsters that are seemingly attacking him. He also makes the background monsters darker they look farther away but also looming. Lighter color of background really helps to emphasize the immensity of monsters.

The following two images were created by using techniques of erasing, crosshatching, and burnishing.
The One on the left was of a padlock on a locker door, but I did not really like how it was turning out, we were also asked to find something from our imagination, which is very difficult for me to do, because I feel like I need something to base my work off of or it's not real.

I really like the second one, and I got much more into the erasing technique. 
I first made the gradient of the darks and lights that you can see in the background. It looked like a corner of a room to me, then I put in the girl. The girl is laying on the ground with her back facing us almost curled into a ball. Her hand is reached out with a bottle of pills on the ground. I thought I needed more of a composition so I did a close up on her hand an the pill in the center. I think that this one worked a lot better and I used the techniques in a more gratifying way. 



Saturday, September 24, 2011

Professor in Interior

Professor in Interior

First we used paint to show the darkest parts to emphasize the shadows and contrast. Then I used compressed charcoal after it dried. 
I tried to make sure that the proportions were correct. It was difficult because there was a lot of foreshortening. Also the head and torso seem larger than they should be because I was holding the paper on a table instead of on an easel. 

I think that it came out pretty well, I enjoy how the stool fits into the space and how everything seems grounded.

Tuesday, September 13, 2011

Drawings from my Sketchbook

Hand Study - Blind Contour

This is a study of my hand, using a blind contour sketch drawing technique. I know it is not finished, but my time was cut short on it. It is supposed to be just a contour so it doesn't have much of anything else going on with it. I'm pretty happy with the outcome... besides my forefinger missing...



Chair and Blanket Study

These drawings were done of a folding chair with a blanket, or rather a piece of drawing placed over them. Both are unfinished, because I didn't have as much time. The one on the left is a contour drawing, I was trying to pay attention to the folds in fabric and getting the direction of movement correct. The second was done without line, meaning I just used hatching to create lines by the tone differences. I really enjoyed this style, it felt more free than most of my drawings usually do. 

All of these sketches were done in pencil using a range of different softness. 

Thursday, September 8, 2011

Classmate Portraits

This was the figure sketch that we did in class on the first day. I am a bit rusty on figure drawing, but eventually it turned out well (the one in the upper left is the best). My friend Slava was posing for me while drawing our friend Frank who was drawing me. It was kind of difficult because we all had to keep drawing but not move.


This piece was done in compressed charcoal. Which is not my favorite medium; I ended up with a black arm due to smudging it all over the paper. Since I took a figure drawing class in high school where we were told to draw people quickly and get in their figure more than detail this method comes into my head and hand when I use charcoal. My final sketch was when I settled down into the drawing, and I wish I had more room to finish it.