Hope Fadiga
In this drawing, I depicted three cups and the focus of this drawing were the five basic elements of composition. To start off this project, I focused on the orientation of the paper and which direction would best fit the content of the picture. For this drawing I used an ebony drawing pencil for my drawing tool. The goals I had for this drawing were to improve my usage of composition. I think this drawing shows a good example of usage of height of the bases and and spacing. I think that the objects in this picture are evenly spaced apart making the drawing appear balanced. Another positive point in this drawing was the lack of tangents that are in the drawing. I think that this drawing is a good representation of the work I am capable of doing.
The subject matter of my drawing was a silver flower vase and a brown bottle in the still life. To begin I made a basic outline of the vase and the bottle using simple shapes, before doing this I made sure to chose the correct paper orientation. After that I began to pay attention to value. I started off with low key values and worked my way up to middle and high key values where needed. I encourparated Da Vinci's 6 parts of lights in the vase and the bottle, which were the main subjects of the picture. I used line quality in the flower when drawing the petals, I tried to avoid tangents as much as possible. I really enjoyed this drawing and I thought that I had a good variety of value. I wish we would have had more time so that I could have finished it.
This still life drawing is a camera, coffee cup, and a baseball. For the first step I focused on the composition. Line quality is not prevalent in this drawing. I thought that I used a good value scale and that there is an even value scale throughout each object. I thought that the 6 parts of light were prevalent in the coffee cup. My favorite part of this drawing was the coffee cup. This is my favorite part because it was a full value scale on a small object.
The first thing that I did when I started this one point perspective drawing was focus on the where I wanted the vanishing point to be and where I wanted to set the horizon line. After I set both of those two things I started to block in the basic shapes of my drawing. I found that the picture I chose to draw was a little complicated because there were a lot of overlapping complex shapes. Another thing that I struggled with in this drawing was linear perspective because there was so much little detail. One thing that I really liked about this drawing was that the original picture had a good light source that gave it a good value scale. On the other side of that I found it very difficult to shade some of the objects because of their shape and the way that the light was hitting them.
To start off this self portrait I outlined the basic shape of the head making sure that it was equal all the way around. After doing that I laid out the basic outlines of the facial features. After I made sure that all the facial features were proportional to each other and the head, I began to fill in the details. I first started with the eyes, filling in the detail and adding a light value. Moving on from the eyes I worked my way to the nose then finally to the mouth. After I added detail to the features I went on to add the basic shadows of the face. After that I filled in the rest of the face and moved onto the hair, eyebrows, eyelashes, and background. I laid out the basic shape of my hair then I filled in the background with a dark value. After I was finished with that I added the eyebrows and eye lashes and finished off the drawing with adding shading and detail to the hair.
To begin this two point perspective, I looked at many different reference photo's and tried to find one that had a good composition and a good light source. I thought this was one of the hardest steps because there were so many different options to chose from and I had a hard time deciding which picture would be best to use. After looking at many different images, I finally decided on one of a street corner in a small town. The first thing that I set in this two point perspective was the two vanishing points which were towards the very edges of the paper. After doing that I drew the basic outline of the buildings making sure that the horizontal lines were point to either vanishing point and that the vertical lines were perfectly vertical. After that I started to add in the details of the buildings.
The first step that I took in starting this gray paper charcoal drawing was trying to find a picture that I liked and that also had a good composition. Once I found a picture I created a grid on both my image and the gray paper. I then lightly sketched in the lighter areas with the white charcoal pencil. After the lighter areas were drawn in I went back trough and drew in the darker areas with the black pencil. As I was doing this I tried to make sure that their was division between the white and the black charcoal. Even though I did that I did notice that in some areas they did end up blending together to create gray. I then shading in everything with the appropriate color and to finish the drawing off I added details.
For my choice drawing I decided to do another gray paper grid drawing with white and black charcoal like the one before was. Before I started this drawing I looked at many different images before deciding on this one. What made me want to do this image the most was the sharp contrast between harsh black shades and harsh white shades. The only thing that the picture was missing was a clear light source, but I think I did a good job at trying to create on by putting in the shadows in the windows. I outlined most of the objects in this drawing in white because almost all of the objects had a light edging. I then went back through and layered on the black charcoal in the correct areas. This drawing is my favorite drawing that I have done in this whole class and I think that it is a great example to show how my artistic abilities have grown since the beginning of the year.
