Our first unit, Artists Observe was all about observational drawing. Our first assignment was to pick any object in the room and draw it. Mine was very basic, what my teacher calls "lame" composition. Below you can see the before and after of my observational drawing. A lot changed from the first drawing to the second. First, the composition was much better. My first drawing was just kind of floating in the center, but adding a horizon line and another bottle in the background totally changed the way the picture looks. Another thing that I improved was the value and line quality. Everything was sort of the same color in the first drawing, but there were different tones and highlights in the second that made it much more realistic. In the first drawing I did, the elipses weren't quite lined up, and they were kind of on an angle. Lining them up in the second drawing really helped to make the proportions better. Something else i learned about in the artists observe unit was perspective. As the first lesson, we went into the hallway and drew what we saw. It was pretty bad. I knew nothing about vanishing points, or how everything gets smaller as it gets farther away. After we learned about perspective drawing, my perspective changed (see what I did there?) The hallway looked more 3D and everything was going to the same point on the drawing. It was a HUGE improvement. Our final project for this unit was to create one more observational drawing. We had three choices of drawings: still life, scientific drawing, or perspective drawing. I chose a still life drawing, but the hardest part for me was trying to find an object that told a story about me. Eventually I chose a mug with a teabag, because I love to drink tea in the fall time (which is my favorite season. In the final drawing, my main focus was value and line weight. The range of values made the mug and spoon look three dimensional. The different weights in line also affect how 3D the object looks, but also made the drawing look more polished. The artists observe unit taught me SO much about drawing, and made me a much better artist. I feel like it will be much easier for me to draw new things now, and I can't wait to see what else this semester will bring!
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
The BEGINNING.Here it is. The deepest, darkest depths of my high school art career. This was before I had any clue what I was doing, and marks the beginning of my journey as an artist. As a fun game, feel free to look through and then go back to my most recent art. You know, to see development and all of that. Enjoy the very beginning of my art education. Archives
January 2015
Categories |