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Cornelius Final Drawing Project

Ethan Cornelius
12/5/20

The Art of David Hockney

Perhaps the thing that stands out about the work of David Hockney is the distinct mark making style. Hockney has forayed into a large variety of media, but retains a characteristic painterly stroke throughout. His signature method of drawing revolves around sculpting his page in blocks of color, with an understanding that they will come together in the final drawing. Many of his paintings feature bold, bright color choices that manage to pop out without being jarring. Hockney also seems to take care in taking advantage of a technique not unlike pen hashing with his paintings and charcoal. As seen in his charcoal drawing, “Worldgate” (2012), he often takes advantage of white space and the gap between marks to create a difference in value. Upon close inspection many of Hockney’s drawings have solid strokes that are clearly visible, but upon taking a step back does the whole experience come together.

Hockney’s art is considered a part of the “pop art movement”, and as such is simple, but striking images of everyday scenes and items. This is a large catalyst behind his mark making as previously mentioned. Hockney’s outdoor works and portraits lean heavily into this style with their bright colors. Hockney is known to have Synthesia, and thus has a special relationship with colors and concepts. This can be seen in how his art uses colors very intentionally to portray themes.

Here is a drawing that I did of my brother trying to use some of his mark making techniques

Citations
David Hockney. 6 Dec. 2020, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Hockney.
“Synesthesia.” Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 5 Dec. 2020, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synesthesia.
www.hockney.com/home.

Big Drawing Assignment 2

Here is my final submission for my Big Drawing 2 Project. I’m overall quite happy with how it turned out, I especially like the differences between perspectives and materials, and how the 3 point piece seems to pop out.

Big Drawing Update 2

Hey, here is the groundwork for my third drawing. This one will be in ball point pen, while the first two will be in pencil and charcoal probably. I want to make this one a city scape in 3 point with some characters in it. The middle drawing in the picture will be 1 point, and the leftmost one will be 2 point. I didn’t make as much progress with this one as I would have liked as I spent time redrawing the first two this week, I will post updates as I finish drawings.

Pencil Work of my 3 point drawing

Big Drawing Progress 1

This is my first drawing using 1 point perspective. I am pretty happy with this one, I’ll adjust some of the lines to be a bit cleaner.

This is my second drawing using two point perspective, I’ll likely redo this one and get some extended paper to improve my accuracy.

Drawing Post 8 – Books on Ice

My first book is Dune, a great Sci Fi book about a desert planets. Sand worms are pretty cool.

My second book is the DND Monster Manual. This one turned out… questionably. The design on the front was rather complicated so I attempted to just replicate the general colors, but that skewed a lot of the shapes and proportions. Still fun to draw out on a picnic table though.

The third book is “Making Comics” by Scott McCloud. I actually borrowed this one from another art teacher (the HARNED sticker on front), but then COVID hit, and I never got a chance to return it. So it’s mine now. Fun to draw too.

Dream Collage Drawing

Here is my sketched version of my dream drawing. It was a lot of fun to transition it to black and white, though I didn’t have the time I needed to get some of the more midtone values correct. Overall I think it turned out well though.

Collage Part 1

This is my dream collage assembled from cut up magazines. The whole picture is a bit lucid and ill defined, but that is largely the point. I vaguely remember a dream about a volcano in a desert with a portal in front of it, this is a recreation of that.

Reflection + Revision.

Reflection:
Overall I am of medium satisfaction with my drawing project. The biggest difficulty that I had was working with Ink in particular, as controlling the values became very difficult at times. Some of the objects are hard to recognize as a result. The use of different mark making techniques definitely was an aid in that department. My biggest risk in this project was definitely adding the suitcase, and for the most part I think it turned out recognizable, and added a significant amount to the piece.

During the critique, some helpful items of feedback that I received were:
-Improve clarity of several objects
-add some sort of ground to balance the view
-provide some sort of context/setting, extend the background

If I were to do this project again, I would focus more on other mark making techniques (such as stippling) and find ways to make the background interesting, and add to the perspective of the main piece. I’d also adjust the composition of a couple of my items.

This is the revised version of my ink drawing from last week. I attempted to retain some of the unique mark making from the original, while including the setting of an airport into the image, and making things overall clearer. The drawing was done in pen.

Project 1

Here is my first project for this class. I had a lot of fun using the different brush types and different levels of water with the ink. I have several things I would do differently if I did it again, but I think it got the overall feel I was going for.