Portraits
The first artwork is a portrait of Kristen using value shading. The second artwork is a portrait of Mason using basic drawing and light detail.
The first artwork is a portrait of Kristen using value shading. The second artwork is a portrait of Mason using basic drawing and light detail.
I used vine charcoal to draw this picture and started by creating margins on my paper and marking the halfway and quarter way points along the edges. I used these marks to match up my drawing with what I saw using my viewfinder.
I began by mapping out and correcting the general shapes and positions of the objects with several gesture drawings, then I filled in the values of the positive space before moving on to the negative space and background.
It took me a while to draw this picture, although there are still details I missed; for example, the glass bottles had ridges on the top just below the neck that refracted the background image in interesting ways. Given more time, I would include more details like this.
To draw this still life, I first covered my page in vine charcoal, then began drawing in any shapes I saw in a darker tone than the background.
Afterward, I used a kneaded eraser to lighten parts of the drawing with a lighter value, add highlights, and blend. I used the vine charcoal to darken spots with darker values create shadows. At first, the local values of all the objects were blending together, but after emphasizing a few parts of the drawing, most of the objects became distinct. Occasionally, I saw the need to use compressed charcoal to bring out darker parts of the still life where the vine charcoal wasn’t doing the job.
The drawing shows a funnel, milk carton, book, and small ball resting in front of a draped curtain. To create this drawing, I covered the paper with vine charcoal. Then, I selectively erased to create the forms of the still life and used compressed charcoal and a white conte crayon to emphasize the lights and darks of the still-life. While this project mostly covers value, aspects basic forms and shapes are also present, as well as negative shapes.
This is a sketch of someone I drew from my Drawing I class. Vine charcoal is the main medium; A circle was the main basic for the skull and an oval for the the flesh of the face.
Sketching this way was particularly difficult in that I usually don’t draw base shapes when starting a new piece.
This is a shading of a box, teapot, and a can.
A charcoal drawing of a still life in which I used negative and positive shapes and reductive value.