Idea for cartoon:
Christmas-themed(ish) with two main characters.
Exercises
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.
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.
Exercise 4 – Perspective Drawing
Perspective drawing is the method by which a three dimensional scene can be rendered on a two dimensional sheet of paper. This exercise served as an introduction to perspective technique. Perspective art can be categorized by its number of vanishing points. The following three pictures are examples of that.
One Point Perspective
Two Point Perspective
Three Point Perspective
Perspective technique is not limited to straight lines. Circles viewed at an angle are rendered below to explore the technique. On the paper, they are drawn as ellipses.
The trick is to mark the diagonals of a square 2/3 of the way towards the edges, then draw the ellipse through those points.
Exercise 3 – Value Chart
This exercise serves as the introduction to value. The first task was to create a value chart.
This chart has nine steps, and uses other techniques. The rest of the exercise required geometric drawings with proper shading and shadow. I found these quite difficult! I tried my best to have a smooth gradient across the sphere, but it didn’t come out as well as I would have liked. This is definitely an area where I need to practice.
Exercise 2 – Contour Drawing Objects
I drew four of the objects I intend to include in my still life project. They are a wooden spoon, towel, bag of sugar, and metal bowl.
Exercise 1 – Contour and Blind Contour Portraits
Drawings made using one line – without lifting pen from paper – are known as contour drawings. Taking that even further are blind contour drawings; they are created without ever looking at the paper. Making blind drawings forces the eyes to focus on the subject, rather than the drawing, and actually notice the subject’s details.
The following three are normal contour drawings, so I could look at the page. It’s probably pretty obvious, though!
