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.
Contour
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.
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!
