Positive, Negative, Plane and Volume

Positive Space

Negative Space

Contour Line Drawing

of Still Life Objects

Still Life Objects

with Sharpie and charcoal

Still Life Objects

with India ink

Gesture Drawings

 

 



My Daughter laying on the floor

 

My cat (who kept moving) and my husband reading in the chair

 



Gesture Drawings

The first set of drawings is of my husband sitting at the table watching a football game on T.V.  He was intructed to strike pose for one minute then pose another way wait one minute and then pose again.  He was first leaning forward, then leaned back in the chair, then turned towards me and put his chin in his hand.  This was a fun exercise.  I had to draw fast since I knew I only had a minute.  I tried not to think about the picture I had just drawn and drew right over it with the next pose, drawing through the form.  I had to go over some of the lines again to make them dark enough to photograph, but I didn't "fix" anything. I used vine charcoal.

Next I drew my dog, Lacey.  I used vine charcoal for this as well.  First she looked out the window, then she turned and sat down, then she laid down.  She wasn't as good with the minute rule, but it worked out ;-)

 

Lastly is my daughter posing some mad ballet moves.

 

Contour Drawing

Continuous-Line Drawing

The continuous-line drawing was fun.  I used a conté crayon and drew one unbroken line.  At first it was challenging to be transparent, drawing through the spoons and spatulas.  But after practicing on the newsprint a few times, I found it a bit freeing!

Contour-Line Drawing

The end result of my contour-line drawing looks really simple.  However, I found it challenging to not look at the paper and keep my eyes focused on the cup.  I drew this cup several times on the newsprint.  The first few drawings barely even looked like a cup!  I will definitely practice this exercise to get better at keeping my eyes on the subject.  Eyes and hands are one, eyes and hands are one...  I used a 2B pencil for this drawing.

Organizational-Line Drawing

The organizational-line drawing was the most fun for me out of the three. I used pencils, 2H, 2B, and HB.   I started with the window in the background using the lightest pencil and went off one side of the page.  Then I used the darker pencils for the lamp, flower, and clock.  The clock is the darkest as it is the most upfront object.  I played with the shadowing too; mostly on the lamp base and vase and flower showing where the light was coming from.  I’m not sure I did the “sighting” right.  I closed one eye and held a pencil at arm’s length but am not sure if I measured the height and width correctly.  I guess this takes practice too.

Still Life Objects

 

This is my collection of still life objects.

• Cylinder (pringles can)
• Cube (malted milk balls container)
• Rectangular box (Shoe box)
• Cone (rolled sheet of drawing paper)
• Sphere (plastic ball)

Spatial Relationship Examples



Artist: John Pugh

Illusionistic



This is an illusionistic painting on a wall.  It is 3-dimensional and clearly has space and volume.  The shading and use of light gives it the depth needed to look like the wall has broken away and we can see the room inside.  Painting this large on the wall adds to the illusion.  The lady standing next to the wall is part of the painting.  Notice her shadow “inside the room.”





Flat

The Pepsi Logo is an example of a flat drawing as there is no depth and no overlapping.



Artist: Shigeo Fukuda

Ambiguous

I thought this was a simple example of an ambiguous drawing.  It is flat yet it also has dimensional space.  If you focus on the black, you can see men’s pant legs and shoes kicked up in the air.  When you focus on the white, you see women’s legs and high-heeled shoes.  I guess it is also an illusion…however it lacks the depth of a three dimensional drawing.

Portrait

I used HB, 2B, and 4B for the portrait.  As mentioned in a previous post, eyes are very difficult; I swear I'm not cross-eyed in real life!

Unified Drawing 3

The shape framing the picture is representative of a diamond ring and was drawn with charcoal 6B pencil.  The inside of the frame was inspired by a shirt I was wearing at the time.  I chose to use the willow vine sticks because I wanted to use something dark but not ink.

Unified Drawing 2

In the 2nd drawing I experimented with the India ink. I like using the ink; it is very smooth.  I mixed it with water to get various shades.

Unified Drawing 1

I used several mediums for the first unified drawing.  The circles were done with willow stick, vine.  I like this medium a lot.  Since it is so thin I had to break it into smaller pieces which may have reduced the flow I wanted to portray in the circular motion.  I used the conté crayon for "slashes" in middle and the overlapping z’s and n’s were made with charcoal.

 

Week 2 Assignment

Portrait of Redhead Girl by Samuel Silva http://www.demilked.com/hyper-realistic-redhead-drawing-bic-pens-samuel-silva/ I’m really drawn (no pun intended) to hyper-realistic drawings. I love the paintings and drawings that are so realistic looking that it is hard to distinguish if the art is a photograph or a drawing or painting. I chose this specific drawing because the artist completed it in 30 hours using ball point pens! It is truly amazing. Plus Samuel Silva was only 29 years old when he drew this. He is an attorney in Portugal who draws as a hobby. If you click on the link provided, you will see more up close pictures of the drawing. Although I enjoy all types of subjective and objective drawing, realism is my favorite and abstract is probably my least favorite. I enjoy all types of realism especially naturalism and photo-realism. Those are the types I tend to draw as well. Hopefully after this class I will be much better at it!