Month: December 2019

Student Portrait Incomplete

charcoal sketch drawing of a face

The process of drawing the face of a college student. I’m describing the face with charcoal. I’m using charcoal because I want to sketch my features before I put some value. In this picture, Also half of the hair is drawn out. The jacket has little shapes such as the flowers to give an idea of what the jacket should look like. I try to make sure to put value with the light and shadow to try to make it as realistic at it can. Her expression is confusion around her environment. A lot of work must be done to capture the third dimension art style.

Still Life with Trash Items

This still life consisted of a hard block with a few items on top of them. The entire is covered with a white cover with the items on top of it. The items draw consisted of paper towel empty roll, crushed can, and a small white ball. The line is constructed and waved to show the image of the white cover. There are a shadow and light within the can and ball with the white sides and black charcoal. There is a shadow of the ball and paper towel on the right side of the white block. There is a small shell drawn on the downside of the block. The drawing value shading feels like it came from a dark room the drawing of a still life might need a few improvements with the light and shadow to make it a bit realistic.

Still Life with Basic Items

This is a Still Life where the whole background is the middle color with the charcoal. In this still life, we have a skull, a skeleton bone, and a wine bottle. There are a few waved lines that represented the white that is underneath the still life. The Skull has a small crack on top of the cranial area. The teeth of the skull almost look like the teeth of a cartoon character. The bone also looks like a dog bone. The back skull is shaded darker and the part that is next to the jaw. The still life might look a little better with a little touch of shadow and light from each item if the still life was at a different angle. Overall, the still life drawing has most of its features so far.

Contour Drawing of a Still-Life

A still-life of many objects, including (from left to right) a gourd, a vase, a ball, a smaller gourd in the background, and a large pumpkin that is partially visible on the side of the image.

This drawing highlights the complexity of objects through the use of contour lines, marks, and shadows. The use of contour lines and values is important to differentiate the objects from one another, despite similar coloring on a few of the objects (including the pumpkin and gourd). To create this drawing, I outlined the basic shapes of the still-life with vine charcoal and then proceeded to add some dimension and form to create a 3-D effect. After the object were all correctly placed and shaped, I continued using vine charcoal to add details in the form of contour marks and shadows on and around the objects. The drawing uses elements of basic shapes and forms, as well as contour and value.

Negative Space Still-Life

A collection of white shapes against a solid black background. The shapes include a book, a small round fan with a cord, and a pineapple. The small round fan and pineapple are stacked on top of the book, so the shapes blend together to create one larger shape.

This drawing was done of a still-life of a pineapple, small round fan (with a cord hanging off of the side), and a water bottle sitting on top of a book. Because all of the objects are placed near each other, the negative space style of the drawing makes them appear to be one large object. To create this drawing, I set up the still-life and did a rough sketch of the objects before carefully outlining the existing exterior lines of the objects. I then filled in the negative space with compressed charcoal to “black-out” the negative space of the scene. The most prominent concept in this drawing is negative and positive space, but aspects of basic shapes were also used to create the final product.

Drawing: Still Life

In this art piece I was assigned to draw the still life in front of me during class. Still life in my own words is different forms of life (objects) that is placed in a certain position with a source of light reflect off of it. In this piece I highlighted the different detects of light throughout each object. In this piece there is a cylinder object, a bottle, blocks, a circular ball, and a seashell. I used back shapes, and a biasic outline to create the physical form of each object. Then I used charcoal (2B), white Conte crayon, and vinyl charcoal to highlight the different levels of light being bounce of each object. This is why some objects are darker and lighter in certain spots. Materials: - Vinyl Charcoal - White Conte Crayon - Napkin ( smudging) - Drawing Paper Pad - White Charcoal - Vinyl Charcoal - Charcoal (2B)
In this art piece I was assigned to draw the still life in front of me during class. Still life in my own words is different forms of life (objects) that is placed in a certain position with a source of light reflect off of it. In this piece I highlighted the different detects of light throughout each object. In this piece there is a cylinder object, a bottle, blocks, a circular ball, and a seashell. I used back shapes, and a basic outline to create the physical form of each object. Then I used charcoal (2B), white Conte crayon, and vinyl charcoal to highlight the different levels of light being bounce of each object. This is why some objects are darker and lighter in certain spots.
Materials:
Vinyl Charcoal
White Conte Crayon
Napkin ( smudging)
Drawing Paper Pad
White Charcoal
Vinyl Charcoal
Charcoal (2B)

Contour Line: Hand Studies

This drawing piece demonstrates the concept of coordinating contour lines into a realistic form art. The first thing I did was place my right hand in front of me and drew a basic form (quick sketch) of my hand and fingers. Then, from that sketch I went into more detail of the shape of my fingers, nails, and the signs I formed. Finally, I used the concept of contour lines as a form of creating texture within each hand shown as: creases and cracks throughout my hand. Materials: - 2H drawing pencil - White Plastic Eraser - Drawing Paper Pad
This drawing piece demonstrates the concept of coordinating contour lines into a realistic form art. The first thing I did was place my right hand in front of me and drew a basic form (quick sketch) of my hand and fingers. Then, from that sketch I went into more detail of the shape of my fingers, nails, and the signs I formed. Finally, I used the concept of contour lines as a form of creating texture within each hand shown as: creases and cracks throughout my hand.

Materials:
2H drawing pencil
White Plastic Eraser
Drawing Paper Pad
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