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Collage sketch style

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Botanical Ink (in class assignment)

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2 Point Perspective w/ Shading

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2 Point Perspective Room (Different View Of My 1 Point Room)

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2 Point Perspective Room (Different View Of My 1 Point Room)

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I couldn’t get him to stay and sit for a couple hours so I took a photo.

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Self Portrait exercise

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First attempt with charcoal
The proportions were hard to achieve even after following the exercise steps, but obviously it's going to take some practice in training my eye.

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Exercise #3

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Greek Bust  (marble Statue)
I am more satisfied with the result of this one because of the proportions. Also, charcoal has now become my favorite medium. Its easier to achieve results without spending hours shading like you would with a pencil.

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Exercise #2

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Exercise #1

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(Homework)

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(Mid Term)

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I went in and tried to fix his right eye shape. I also went darker with the contour shading and darkened his upper lip and softened the lip contours. I hope this is better!

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I feel better about this one because I got practice out of the in class exercise and the fabric one. I attempted this one twice.  I made the mistake of treating this medium like a pencil. Charcoal is delicate and you have to treat it as such. Thats why I struggled with the logs. If forces you to really think about what you're going to lay down first I found myself working gentler. The relationship of the orange and shell is off, but I like how the fabric turned out in this one better than the exercise.

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Still Life (Charcoal) - In Class Exercise 

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Still Life (Charcoal) - In Class Exercise 

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Fabric In A Mason Jar (Charcoal) - Fabric Exercise 

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Fabric In A Mason Jar (Charcoal) - Fabric Exercise 

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I don't know why this was so challenging. I tried 3 times over and this was the best one. This is my first time using this medium. creating texture was tough!

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In this drawing, I focused more on values and structure rather than trying to create a realistic image like my last drawing. There is minimal shading (Minus the background curtains and blinds) and more, really small cross hatching to create a shade. I noticed in my last drawing that sketchy lines created texture in my shadows, I drew a grid this time and cross hatched the little spaces and tried to smooth it out. I demonstrated gradient with cross hatch values on the bottom of the hand and inside the square vase to the right. My drawings start off really light at first and then I add in the darker values as needed.

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Im getting used to drawing on larger surfaces now. It is a lot more time consuming with rendering details and cross hatching, but it is totally worth it in the end. I am really surprising myself.

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The drawing I did for this is on our class wall.

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It took a lot of erasing to get to this point. I had to really pay attention to where the contour lines (and shadows)  fell into place. There were phases in my drawing that my fingers looked like sausages hahaha.  This is a really big change from how I used to draw hands (shown in my cartoon drawings below)

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As you can tell I LOVE color! Another one from 2008.

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Banana and Coffee Pot

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This was my first set of shapes. Was warming up and getting used to drawing again.

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...and then came the cubes. Noooooo haha.

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I just wanted to show the types of drawing I did in the past so you can see the type of artist I used to be. This was in 2008.  It was cartoony and graffiti like. Realism is something I struggled with so I drew cartoons instead. This class will help tremendously.

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I don't know why I felt nervous but I was, you can see it here. when I had time to draw the other two parts of he assignment, I felt better about it.