Monday, December 10, 2012

Evan's final portrait

Here is my first self portrait.
Here is the contour self portrait.

Here is  my final self portrait.


Wednesday, November 14, 2012

Picture Plane

Here are two different views of the same crumpled, paper bag.

Paper bag-graphite 1 point perspective

Paper bag-conte crayon bird's-eye-view


Perspective- different points of view

Here are my 1, 2, and 3 point perspective drawings, as well as a bird's-eye-view and bug's-eye-view set.

1 point perspective

2 point perspective

3 point perspective

bird's-eye-view

bug's eye view


Monday, November 5, 2012

With a bow to Henri Matisse--Color

This week's drawing was inspired by the creole dancer illustration done by Henri Matisse.
http://www.henri-matisse.net/cutouts/j.html

I really liked the whimsical shape that created the dancer, and I tried to emulate that with my own illustration; Man Catching a Fish

This was done using two color schemes simultaneously. The primary color scheme is present with the yellow background, and the red and blue hues are at their most intense; this was done to draw the viewer to the man's torso and fish's body. I chose to keep the shapes of the two images similar, mostly for a symmetrical look in the middle of the painting. The remainder of the image is done in an analogous color scheme, using the area from yellow to blue. I focused on lighter value greens and blues so that the eye would focus even more on the fish and the body. The single brown line portraying the fishing rod allows the eye to go from the fisherman to his prize.

Monday, October 29, 2012

Texture part II-still life collage

Here is my value study on newsprint done with charcoal.

Here is the final collage. This was fun to do but quite hard.


Friday, October 26, 2012

Texture

Here are my rubbings.
lego plate-charcoal

wicker basket-4B graphite

burka rug-charcoal
same image-grey scale applied

alfalfa arranged underneath paper-conte crayon
Here are the prints.

pine cone side-ink

Northern white cedar leaves-ink

broccoli crown-ink

pine cone top-ink
maple tree bark-ink
all three mediums: broccoli, cedar leaf, pine cone-ink



Wednesday, October 10, 2012

Line

Part 1: Here are several gesture drawings to get warmed up, all done with a 4B graphite.




16 assorted line drawings on newsprint.
India ink
exaggerated line

quick contour

calligraphic

quick contour

Red sharpie
whimsical implied

blind contour

slow contour

implied lyrical

2B graphite
cross contour 1

implied

cross contour 2

exaggerated

Extra fine ink
cross contour1

basic contour

cross contour2

implied

Part 2: 5 drawings
Basic contour still life on newsprint

Slow contour-extra fine ink
Quick contour-india ink
Cross contour-2B
Final basic contour-extra fine ink