Final Self-Portrait

Self-portrait 2

Self Portrait Contour

Paper Bag

Paper bag 1 done with pencils

Paper bag 2 done with conte

Perspective

 One point perspective

 Two point perspective

 Three point perspective

 "Ant's eye" view

"Bird's eye" view

Color: complimentary

I used a complimentary color scheme of blue and orange. The background of this collage was done by ripping strips of construction paper; I wanted to hand rip the coral-like stuff in the foreground too but I ended up saving my sanity by using a pair of scissors.

Still life week 9

Collage using textures

Well I can't say I really like the result but the process was very interesting and gave me ideas for future collage type work. Since it is a little hard to discern what the objects actually are I have posted the original drawing below. If nothing else, it definately has texture!

Texture

These are some of my favorite texture experiments done by rubbing various mediums on paper over different surfaces, stamping, brushing, and scanning actual objects with texture.

This and the next were done by setting a layer of marbles in a tray and then laying paper over it and then dragging charcoal across it

Conte rubbing of my art supply box

Conte rubbing of cardboard

India ink and a knitted sock

Conte rubbing of rough wood panelling

Conte rubbing of heater grate

india ink stamping with bread...yes bread

India ink brushed on with circular felt chair leg pad

Line

 This week I focused on drawing the lines of a silver pitcher. I started off with some timed gesture drawings with pencil to warm.

This is a contour line drawings using marker; the one that follows is the same but with carcoal.

Lyrical line drawing using black marker.

Gesture/implied line drawing using india ink.

Implied line drawing using charcoal.

This is the drawing I had the most fun with this week. I used a 2B pencil, cross-contouring, and a white eraser to help with the highlights.

Still life contour

Final still life contour.

Value

For this assignment I drew from geometric shaped still life objects. With each drawing I became more and more comfortable with using the charcoal to add value and better able to complete each drawing without the use of lines.

By the time I did the final drawing I felt really at ease with the charcoal and did not miss my graphite pencil set a bit! After photographing my final composition and looking at it for a long time I decide to adjust the cone and sphere slightly so that the shadow of the cone would show up fully on the cube and rectangle.