(I don’t know if I add commentary to this now or later, so this will be a placeholder until critiques.)

Photos of Area:

UPDATE: The submission box for the project was closed on carmen, so I’m uploading my essay here.

Jasper Johns

Project 1: I really like how my sort of “checkerboard” idea panned out, where I have four different squares of four different still-life drawings. Personally, I think it’s a little too clean to be emulating the work of Jasper Johns, but I think that it’s a really good start for what I want to do.

Sketchbook: I really liked the cloth drawing I did the previous week, so I stayed on that same page. I think messing with negative space is interesting when it comes to fabric because when contouring you have to portray shadows without actually shading anything, so most of the focus goes on making the folds look natural to where it seems right that a shadow would go there. For these sketches I played with continuous line contour, which made it a little more challenging to try and accurately (or rather, believably) show the shape of the cloth without there being lines everywhere.

For this week’s homework, I first tried to draw a recycle bin, but after spending some time on it I wasn’t happy with how it came out, so I decided to try and practice drawing fabric instead, since all the folds and creases make for a much more dynamic picture.

Out of the two DL drawings that I did, the headphones took up most of my time. The angle took a long time to try and get down, and since I was experimenting with the charcoal pencils, I didn’t want to focus on erasing. The headphone cord was also a pain, because I didn’t anticipate that it was going to go off the page. For my hour of drawing, I did a lineless color of a sketch, which was harder than I thought it’d be because once I put the base colors down, it was hard to find where the shadows went so the body would have some definition.