Drawing I was the one class I was most excited about this semester. I used to draw a lot at a very young age, but stopped once I broke my arm, and then got into Junior High. So, I was really eager to learn more and see where I was in my drawing skills.
The first few weeks of class were mainly dedicated to drawing still lifes. We used Vine/Willow Charcoal on Newsprint Paper.
In order for us to understand the meaning of contour and detail, Erin (my teacher) had us do a series of blind contour drawings. We had a few minutes on each drawing to study our hand, feet, and partner's face and draw the outline with the detail. Now the trick here was that we couldn't look at our paper and we couldn't pick our pen up. Meaning...it was one consistent line. All of ours looked really creepy and completely out of proportion, but nonetheless, it was kinda fun. This was done with Pen on Newprint paper.
We moved from that on to actually drawing in the contour lines to give a feeling of shape. This was done with Willow charcoal on Drawing paper.
I think the trickiest thing for me to learn was perspective. It's hard to just draw what your eye sees rather than what your brain is telling you is right. We practiced a lot on shoes at different angles. The hardest for me were the chairs. I still don't think they are right. These were done with Willow Charcoal on Drawing paper.
Next comes the part of the class that I was most excited and nervous about: Value. Erin did a really fun activity with us for the first value study. She completely blurred the picture (of the girl) and over about 6 slides unblurred the picture. It really helped me, bc it taught me how to pay attention to value rather than the picture as a whole.
This was my favorite drawing that I did. Just simply because I did so well on it. Now, I'm not normally a conceited person....but I did an amazing job on this. I was quite proud! I feel like during the process of this drawing, everything kind of clicked for me.
Then comes the part that I was dreading the most, but really wanted to learn how to do better....Portraits. I did better than I thought I would, but I know I have so much more to learn and am excited to do so in Drawing II.
This class was an absolute blast! I learned so much more than I ever expected to, and believe I am on a path to becoming a great artist.
-jleigh
No comments:
Post a Comment