Sticks and Cell Phones

These are photos from about a month ago. We drew so many, many, many mini sketches of a tree branch (of our choosing) and of our cell phones really focusing on contrast. Throughout 300 some sketches, we slowly combined various aspects and details from each to eventually come up with four final drawings (which looked absolutely nothing like a stick or cell phone!). I have posted here my 8 drawings, final four drawings, and then my four models. The drawings I outlined in red so you could distinguish between mine and the others. All of the drawings were black and white (great contrast), which looked absolutely awesome when displayed. On the table, you will notice, are models. Everyone made four, inspired by our final four drawings. They turned out quite interesting. When we had our discussion in class, we choose a model, sketched it, analysed it, and then tried to find the inspiration drawing. Some people actually found the inspiration one, out of all of the drawings pinned up! In case you were wondering, my teacher, Suzanne, is the woman in the one picture. This was an extremely long, drawn out process, but at the end of it all, I learned to really look and see the details of the most common things.

Scale Figures

Our assignment this week was to draw 5 interior spaces involving people. These are the product of that exercise.

Leaf sketches

This week I sketched five leaves four different ways.
1. Countour
2. Blind Contour
3. Shadow
4. Negative Space

Pure Contour Drawing

For this project, we were asked to do something completely new: draw a building on campus. It is called the Foust Building. It is a wonderfully old building, having so much architectural detail, which made it extremely difficult to sketch. I am pleased with the way it turned out though, and I am feeling that I am getting better at drawing; which is pretty great.

discovering blogs

So this happens to be my first experience with blogs. I am not sure yet if there will be much writing or not, but for now I'm just going to stick to writing, the sketches will come later. First thing, thought I would look around and see others pages....My favorite that I came across was Andrea Josephs. She has posted various art, not just sketches, but pictures and almost cartoon-like drawings as well. This is what I hope to eventually accomplish...many various forms of art..not just drawings. Her art is very believable/realistic. I mean, she drew logs that were in her house..just because. I am striving for the same 'randomness' when beginning this blog. Everyone and everything! Look for more soon :)