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.