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Pen and ink perspective

2/28/2017

Here I started on my street and sidewalk outline just getting everything in place. I started on the brick wall and immediately knew I’d regret it.

So I added in the other details and started stippling the alley ways in the buildings. I finished the brick wall outlining and drew in the dog and backpack with spray paint cans in two places to show some extra distance.

Stippled in the buildings some more and started outlining the rest of the piece in pen. The value is a lot darker and it makes it look better considering the building aren’t white.

Final Piece, stippling in the brick wall is what nightmares are made of. So is stippling something in completely black. For my pen and ink techniques I chose to go with stippling and hatching because they’re both simple and look nice and subtle when put together. I chose to do two techniques because I didn’t want the piece to look boring or lazy by just using one technique. maybe I’m just bad at art and couldn’t make it work with just one technique (moving on) I used Perspective in my buildings and objects, the buildings fade away into the horizon and get darker the more you go back. Perspective is important because it makes your drawing look more realistic and it’s more fun to look at than just two apples sitting side by side in 2D. Putting objects at different distances and using the right shading to represent where the light hits compliments a piece well.

Value is important if you look at the brick wall. And the alley ways. The brick wall before was just a bunch of rectangles but now they look more put together and better shaped. Adding value to a piece brings it to life a bit more. And to describe my craftsmanship.. techniqually how well is it done? the lines could be more precise and the shading could’ve come together a bit better in some areas. If I could re create my piece I would’ve just drawn some fruits chilling on a table. But really, I would add some clouds or something in the sky. Add some more decorations to the shops, add some items in the windows, and if I had a choice, add some color to it. It’s not really a fairytale, it’s just some guy chilling with his dog and some spray paint cans down town. Exploring on top of the buildings. It’s more so a drawing of what I like to do in my free time. Wish I had a dog though. This whole class is gonna cover value and perspective. They’re both really important In drawing and even sculpting. Without value everything looks kinda bland. I feel like I’ve learned patience. Thanks to that I’ll be making more art with more elaborate scenes and better shading techniques, soon enough it’ll be a breeze and I can move on to progress further in other things.

Shading shapes

2/13/2017

Here i used hatching. You can see the decrease of motivation in the strokes.

Here i used cross hatching, the light value was kinda hard to catch cause I couldn’t get the exact perspective I saw in front of me using the rules I know about perspective. In each stroke you can see an increase in self doubt.

i call it C shading cause it’s just curving your pen repeatedly (would look better as shading in a children’s book)

Stippling is very tedious but we were drawing a white ball so the shading wasn’t so strong.

Assessment drawings

2/10/2017

So. This is a tree. A poorly drawn tree. It’s how I draw trees as of now, until I learn to how to not make it look like a fuzzy lightbulb. I didnt know what shading was. I smudged it with my finger. shame.

this is a cat with sad body proportions and an asymmetrical face. Still cute though? Very cute. I tried picking an animal that had more than one texture. The nose and the mouth and fur are all different textures. I think I’ll name him fish. (the only cat that likes water)

I don’t know if a street like this exists, where you jump down an endless wall that disappears into the abyss, stuck for miles with no way out. Nothing but a street. So I drew two of my friends jumping down into it. Because they would.

I drew my hand. You know those cute hand turkeys you draw in the 5th grade? Now imagine it, but hyper realistic. Like, a hand had a baby with a turkey. Kinda disturbing, I added a butterfly to the quick sketch on the bottom.

Corner of the room

2/8/2017

I pretty much looked at a corner of the art room, tried to keep a general idea of where the vanishing points were and how the window should lay on the wall. I did a bit of shading and shadows, a small reflection of the corner of the shelf in the tv. Some of the art work in vague detail on the tables connected to the walls.

Its as if you’re in a helicopter or plane, flying dangerously close to the ground. I’m still getting the hang of letters. I liked drawing the inside ceilings and floors because it really adds depth to the drawings, and they’re all aligned with the opposite vanishing points to represent the corners of the rooms.

2 point perspective

2/7/2017

Here you’re looking at one side of a street. We start each perspective drawing with drawing the horizon, and then two point on the line. Depending on which way you want your building to face, you draw your lines to a vanishing point and throughout the drawing remember where the walls are facing and how it would look, keep your vanishing point lines in check. I was a confused with this sketch but I’m getting the hang of it.

Bottle Still-Life

2/6/2017

So these are just composition sketches for ideas I have about my bottle still-life. I finally chose the second one, it’s the most zoomed in and has the least amount of negative space.

Final piece, fabric wasn’t such a smooth transition. I made the composition so that I got in quite a few bottles by “zooming in” on the still life but not with so much negative space. I used only about 5 values. It would’ve been a smoother transition if I used all 9. Although it isn’t perfectly blended, the values helped me get a sense of where a shadow lies and the contrast of light on a surface. In some of the items I would press very lightly with the pencil over an entire area and go back to where I started pressing a bit harder so that it blended. I feel like the highlights really added the affect/texture of glass or a shiny surface and that helpled visualize the bottle. I would’ve taken more time on it to improve the piece, used a ruler on the bottles edges, and been more consistent with my shading.

1 point perspective drawing

I started with a vansishinf point and drew the horizon to build off of. I drew rectangles on the sides for the buildings and angled my ruler towards the vanishing point to show distance in the buildings. Proportions weren’t accurate so I made it a “Tiny Town” It’s an abandoned town which is why there isn’t much going on. Perfect graffiti space.

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