black and white – ART 104: Drawing I, Fall 2019

Negative Space Still Life

For this drawing, I tried to use negative space and contrast to define its lines instead of harder lines, to a degree of success. At first, the canvas was full of charcoal, and slowly erased away to detail the shapes.

I think I could’ve done better on this drawing. While I’ve upped the contrast on the picture, it has some obvious lines, as well as an overall messy look. Some shapes are easily made out, but others are less defined and trickier to analyze. If I redid this, I would likely be more deliberate in what I erase.

Hand Contour Drawings

Ten contour line drawings of hands in various poses, including a finger pointing up, and a thumbs up.

This is a set of hand contour drawings I did when we were studying contour lines. My main focus was attempting to get a variety of “poses”, which I modeled on my left hand. I tried to avoid doing typical gestures to make it easier to draw from sight, and not from memory. I think I was mostly successful in this.

It was a little tricky, however, as it’s more difficult to correct mistakes in contour line without losing detail, and it’s additionally difficult to do detail in general.

I feel I did better with the smaller hands, as they look better proportioned.

Unfinished Skull

This is a drawing of a skull done in graphite. The light is coming from behind the skull the front is only partially shaded in. — This is a still life of a skull, I used woodless graphite in 2H and 6B. As the title says it is not “done” as in it is only shaded in part of the skull, the darkest part that is opposite of the light source. There is not any detailing in the fabric that dropped behind it and only a single line indicating where the fabric goes under the skull. The upper layer of teeth is shaded incorrectly and the bottom row is completely white.