The class was assigned to draw a full figure drawing of our partner with the use of pencil and charcoal. This was a challenge because I haven't drawn a full figure before, and we were to use details, especially in the clothing. Would I say this is a success? Not exactly, but this was great practice. I need to skill my portions and getting them right.
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A gesture drawing is a quick drawing that basically captures the necessary gestures in a subject. The class practiced this skill using charcoal and ink. I chose my worse drawing (top) and compared it to my best (bottom). I chose these to drawings, because it shows my progress with the control I have with the material that we use. To me, it was a challenge doing a quick sketch and having my arm loose without being sloppy. The top drawing, my worse drawing, was one of the first few I drew while getting the hang of gesture drawing. I soon was starting to get the jiff of it, with controlling my medium, and soon was developing drawings as the one shown in the bottom. Though is is not the best that I can do, it is one that is a great representation of my progress, and I hope to practice further with this technique.
To enhance the skills we already had, or to pick up and learn new ones, the class learned and improved on drawing facial features such as the eyes, the nose, and the lips. This was not challenge, since I already knew how to draw these features, but making the realistic is the key. The eyes, for me, is the biggest struggle, and I am highly impressed with how these turned out. With the help from my teacher, I learned the shape of the eyes, the detail in the pupils, and the short little wisps of the lashes to make them seem more human like then cartoonish. Same for the nose, which was also something that was a bit of a struggle, with the shading to make the shape of it, and the outlining of the nostrils. The lips weren't as hard, but in order for lips to look realistic, there's a lot of details to be added which did take a lot of time, but I learned improvingly from these practices.
In this project, we were assigned to draw transparency using value to show lighting and to making it look transparent basically. I am unsatisfied with my work, but it is my fault for it was rushed. To incorporate the 'transparent' look, the class was taught to go lighter on the value when it came to the 'see through' parts of the object, and go darker were the light is showing, which was a great tip and taught me well on how to do transparency and opacity. I do wish I did my timing well when doing this project to have a neat, clean well thought out final piece, but I won't say I did entirely awful. I do need to practice more.
The class and I learned how to draw progression by drawing candy being unwrapped. This assignment wasn't a challenge, but the pace was too fast for me. I tried my best, especially with the wording, and while analyzing, it wasn't quite right. But, I did try improving it by erasing and using a bit more values, and I'm satisfied with it so far.
In this assignment, we were assigned to use Prismacolor Color pencils drawing a DumDum lollipop through our perspective. I did find this a challenge because it was a little hard trying to show shading and lighting on the wrapper through my drawing, and the use of Prismacolor compared to just regular pencil was new. But, I do like how Prismacolor is darker, it makes the picture look more realistic. While analyzing my drawing, it was hard getting the lollipop not to look so tilted, and the colors not to look so cartoonish. But, overall I tried my best.
We started experimenting with pastel chalk and pastel pencil, and were assigned to draw a picture of eggs we took ourselves. The eggs were a challenge, and took me several times to actually get something, thought the proportion is very off, I am satisfied with it. The class was told to use cold and warm colors throughout the picture so I decided to use a green, blue scheme for the eggs, and a vibrant warm orange, yellow and red scheme for the outside. I did consider these
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Author16, Junior @ Apex High School Archives
January 2016
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