Great depth in space. I attempted to mimic Henry Moore in the first sketch. In the second, I’m uploading my first sketch of the Planes in Space project.
Pencil
Sketchbook 12 – Prompt 3
From the work of Louise Bourgeois, I drew a landscape using contour lines. In the first drawing, the mountains and hills feel two-dimensional and unconnected. I remedied that in the second drawing by drawing a smaller part of a landscape, only part of a mountain. This allowed for the ridges to be interconnected, and gave a sense of depth to the composition.
Sketchbook 11 – Prompt 19
From the artist Marisol Escobar, I drew with one color on top of another. I quickly drew the human figure, and after drawing it, I thought that it would work better with an animal silhouette. The cat also doesn’t have human hands on it, but has flora instead.
Project 10 – Cartoon
Exercise 7 – Cartoon Planning
Idea for cartoon:
Christmas-themed(ish) with two main characters.
Project 9 – Pattern
Sketchbook 9
Prompt 9 asks for a doodles, so I filled a sketchbook page.
As the documentary we watched suggested, this doodle does reveal my unconscious mind. I tend to be pretty interested in things – planes, rockets, cars – but I also drew a few more natural forms as well. Also, I experimented a little with color
Sketchbook 8
Cathy Nan Quinlan sketched small, single plants. I mimicked this by drawing in Ohio State’s Chadwick Arboretum.
Quinlan’s sketches are almost academic, but seem to be done quite quickly, mainly capturing form with only the most important detail.
Project 7 – Planes in Space
Above is my planes in space drawing. I’m quite happy with how this turned out; it was exactly as I intended. This was the first project in which I used color. I think this was a very good introduction to color because my aim wasn’t photo realism. I could color my planes without worrying about if it matched reality, giving me some leeway in that department.
Below is a picture of the under drawing and a picture of the initial concept sketch.
Sketchbook 7
Here I followed Prompt 8, in which I quickly and lightly sketched my wallet and a mason jar, then went back over them with a darker pencil a la Leonardo da Vinci. The lines from the second time over are more decisive and detailed.
