Sadly unfinished.
Month: October 2020
Project 5 – Interior Perspective With Value
My living room, in charcoal.
I wanted to give charcoal drawing a try. Here are some takeaways:
- It’s difficult to control value. I often had to erase large portions of my work because I darkened it too much. A lot of objects had to be rendered. The lamp shade is a prime example of this.
- Precision when shading is hard to maintain. I think a lot of this had to do with my blending technique, though. For most of the project, I used a tissue wrapped around my finger. Maybe using a blending stump would have made this process a lot easier.
Exercise 6 – Gesture
This post contains thirteen gesture drawings. Several are of baseball players – the World Series was on, so I decided to draw the players. Beside that, there are a few drawings of cars, plants, and other people as well.
Sketchbook 6
These sketches follow prompt 21.
Sketchbook 5
I drew six panels that captured a day in my life, as per prompt 28.
I wanted to make something similar to this short animation that shows the day cycle at one bench in Russia:
My panels start and end with me in bed. As the day progresses, the scene gets darker until I eventually use white to designate lines on a black background to represent night in a similar fashion to Luca Buvoli.
Project 6 – Exterior Perspective Buildings in Landscape
This is the courtyard of my apartment, drawn in perspective. The real photo of this location can be seen in my post for Exercise 5.
Sketchbook 4
For this sketch, I followed prompt 23, which asked for creation of an automatic drawing. The first drawing has a lot of flowing lines, and is almost screensaver-esque. My second sketch is a lot more geometric, but also features repeating shapes.
Exercise 5 – Perspective Outdoors
I sketched two outdoor locations. The first was a courtyard in my apartment.
Scott Lab, the mechanical and aerospace engineering building, was the other location.
Project 4 – Interior Perspective
My drawing for Project 4 is of my apartment bedroom. I probably spend most of my time sitting here, either working at my computer or practicing piano, a hobby of mine. I sat in a small camp chair while drawing this, so my viewpoint is only slightly above the desk surface, which, in reality, doesn’t come up to my waist. Because of my low vantage point, the view outside my window is exclusively sky.
One point of trouble I encountered when drawing was that my vanishing points where in suboptimal positions.
Ultimately, I had to tape four pages together to capture them. This forced me to use the two pages joined lengthwise shown in the setup picture above to correctly align edges to the vanishing points. It proved to be a hassle, but I’m satisfied with the image it produced.