So here's another early sketch. I was pretty happy with the way this one came out. I think I definitely captured the essence of what these sunglasses looked like. I still could have pushed the value a bit by making the highlights pop out a little more, but overall I don't have much to say about this one.
By the way, I'd like to let you know that all of the "Sketch" posts took somewhere between 45 and 90 minutes long.
Sorry about this post being quite late, but I was really busy last week. There will be another one up tomorrow though, and hopefully school won't interfere with my update schedule again!
Hey everybody, I'm really sorry, but I'm really slammed with homework this week. I've got a 5-7 page research paper due Thursday, a sociology project due Wednesday, and about three more hours of English homework, so my next post is going to be a bit late. I'm hoping to get it up by Thursday, but it will definitely be up on Friday.
So this week I am switching it up again. These two pieces are part of my concentration for my AP Studio Art class in school. All of my pieces are centered on the theme of childhood, either things I played with while I was younger, memories, or activities that I used to do. I am also exploring in more detail the technique of using black and white charcoal on a toned background. I really like the look of this kind of medium and I enjoy the process of bringing out both shadows and highlights. I am aslo experimenting with different paper colors and the effect that it has on the overall drawing.
The first drawing consists of some trucks that I used to play with. I had to do some considerable digging in my basement to find them :P. I chose to use brown paper because I thought it would give it somewhat of a vintage feel. I'm not sure if I accomplished this, but I think it worked well anyway. I also wanted to really stress the contrast between light and dark in this piece, which I think is its strongest aspect.
The second piece is actually my twin sister, who was kind enough to model for me ;). This one is pretty self-explanatory. I used to play a lot of video games when I was younger(okay well I still play a lot of video games haha). I chose the dark colored paper because the picture was very dark, and I usually ended up playing video games with just the TV on, so I wanted to capture that dark atmosphere. I also thought it would be cool to do this piece from a very exaggerated perspective. The foot was quite tricky to draw and I still don't think I got the shape right, but overall I think this piece came out well.
These are the first two pieces that I have done so far, and I now have five, so I will be uploading those in weeks to come. These pieces are my most recent works of art, so I figured it would be interesting to compare where I am now with some of my first pieces of art. Next week I will go back to one of my early sketches, but you can expect quite a variety from here on out.
Here is one of my finished pieces, like I promised (and on time too! ;P). This was an assignment that we did in class to focus on how highlights and shadows define shape. It was also the first drawing I ever did with black and white charcoal on toned paper. I was (and still am) extremely proud of how it came out. I am very happy with the way I captured the highlights and shadows on the bow. I took nearly twice as long as most of the other people in my class to do this, but you probably know how high school art classes go (I was one of the only people there to seriously work on art).
Looking back on this piece, I probably would have added a shadow underneath the bow to give it some sense of place/ weight. I'm not sure if I left it out on purpose, or if there was just no shadow from the angle I was looking at it. It was over a year ago so I honestly can't remember haha.
Hope you enjoy this piece of art and once again, I always welcome comments and constructive criticism!
Wellll..... I am clearly not doing so well with this update schedule already, but I will definitely stick to it next week, and hopefully every week after that!
So this one is a sketch done in conte of a lemon and a pepper. It was another one of my firsts, and looking back on it I really could have pushed the value a lot more and paid more attention to the highlights, especially on the pepper (although I remember them being quite tricky). The background also needs some work, which is one thing I think I've gotten better at since then, although I still never seem to know what to do with the background in still-lifes. In this drawing though, it really does nothing to give the scene a sense of space. But hey, you've got to start somewhere, and this drawing was done almost at the very beginning of my art education. I'd have to say I've come a long way since I drew this.
So for next week, you can expect one of my more finished pieces, just to mix it up a bit. And don't forget, comments and constructive criticism are always welcome!
I've decided that I want to stick to a once-a-week update schedule, so there will be a new post every Monday. With my insanely busy life as a very involved student, I think this is the best I can manage for now. Plus, it will ensure that I don't post content faster than I can create it, as most of my work right now is done in school. Unfortunately, I don't have much time to create a whole lot of art on my own time, but that will change once I get out of school, and once I've finished my all-consuming AP Studio Art and AP Calculus classes. I've also started an online animation class through my high school and would like to add these flash animations to my posts, but I still need to figure out how to format the flash file so it can be viewed on this blog. I'm using Flash 8 right now (yes my school is still in the stone age :/) and any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!
Last year I took my first basic drawing class in school. In that class, we had to do weekly sketchbook assignments based on certain criteria. I believe this assignment was to draw a cylinder. It was one of the first that we had all year, and one of the first of many, many more to come.
