Lesson 15 : Part 2 Draped Subject

Final assignment. I guess the pressure got to me. This week, for our last assignment we were to drape a person in cloth and draw them from the waist up. I thought my photo turned out really great. But try as I might, the finished product did not turn out like I had hoped. Like I said I suppose the pressure of it being the final assignment got to me. My proportions are off and I did not effectively get his facial features close enough to identify him.

Lesson 15 : Part 2 Draped Subject

Final assignment. I guess the pressure got to me. This week, for our last assignment we were to drape a person in cloth and draw them from the waist up. I thought my photo turned out really great. But try as I might, the finished product did not turn out like I had hoped. Like I said I suppose the pressure of it being the final assignment got to me. My proportions are off and I did not effectively get his facial features close enough to identify him.

Lesson 15 : Spark Post

What to say that will go with such an unusual face?

Lesson 14 : Second Portrait with expression

I know I took at least 30 photographs trying to find one that I could draw expression with. It was hard to keep making funny faces without laughing. It was far harder to pick up on some of the contortions of the face than I anticipated. But the most frustrating part was how my photograph of my drawing was so far off from my actual drawing. I do feet I did better with this portrait than with the last.

Lesson 13 : First Portrait

I don't take many selfies so finding a photo to work from proved difficult for this assignment. I jumped into this drawing with little hesitation but kept stating out loud, "Is this what I really look like?" but with little shadow on my features it was hard to drawing this with any "body" to it.

It was gradifying to at least be able to recognize the drawing as myself in the end. I was very inspired by everyones work tho.

Lesson 12 : Color Pencil

This lesson was another fun one. My finished product turned out very different than most of my classmates.

I started with my bird which I continued to revise until the last minute. It had the dimension I was looking for but not the soul of an artist expression. The boat was fun to sketch but the color was not what I had envisioned in my head. I thought it was funny that my clouds looked more like a wave but clouds in color pencil was hard.

Next I did the butterfly. I was very proud of the body but I regreted the choices I made with the wings when it was done. I wanted it to be vibrant but I also was going to realistic. If I had it to over I would have chosen different colors.

But the goldfish and I are friends. The technique I used was to bear down with the color pencils to give it almost a paint look. It took much longer than I anticipated but I thought the colors blended well and my lines flowed well. I may add more to the background so it does not appear to be floating when I can feel my fingers again. 

Lesson 11 : Landscape

This was more difficult than I anticipated. There are more fine details in nature than in a face. For the future I will leave landscapes for paint and photography not graphite and charcoal.

It still does not look like the photo but overall I think it was successful. I could have worked all semester on this one photograph alone and still not been happy with it. My rock ledge did not look exactly like the photo but I was still proud of what I was able to accomplish.