My OSA drawing class "So You Think you Can't Draw" has come to an end. For the last session we had free reign to choose our medium and had a table of vegetables to choose from to draw. I decided to work with ink (and a few mixed media highlights) and try to do some more abstract forms.
The results were interesting and here are a couple quick pieces that results from the evening:
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Wednesday, March 17, 2010
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
(329) Charcoal Anana
Mmm fruity! Makes me want a delicious juice.
Tonight's creativity came in the form fruit. A perfect specimen to study for practicing shading and adding dimension, texture, and edible too!
I really liked the changing the focal point for an interesting outcome:
Fruit is a great subject as it is often around the house and can be complex and interesting from different angles.
Though charcoal is not my favorite medium as it is messy and does not last very long, it is cheap and quick to get an effect of a shape and depth of a subject. What I do like charcoal for is practicing concepts for more complex pieces.
If you do like working with or create a piece that you want to keep around there are some finishing sprays to keep the charcoal intact.
Tonight's creativity came in the form fruit. A perfect specimen to study for practicing shading and adding dimension, texture, and edible too!
I really liked the changing the focal point for an interesting outcome:
Fruit is a great subject as it is often around the house and can be complex and interesting from different angles.
Though charcoal is not my favorite medium as it is messy and does not last very long, it is cheap and quick to get an effect of a shape and depth of a subject. What I do like charcoal for is practicing concepts for more complex pieces.
If you do like working with or create a piece that you want to keep around there are some finishing sprays to keep the charcoal intact.
Tuesday, February 16, 2010
(332) Charcoal Flowers
Flowers, ah what can I say. One of my favorite subjects in any medium.
Tonight the focus was on contour drawing in charcoal. Cherry blossoms it was and though I am not super pleased with my results, here are my drawings for the evening:
Form study:
Quick sketch:
Concept drawing:
Sketch playing with contrast:
Playing with conte:
As you can see there are many different renditions and I could not quiet find one form I was pleased with for the cherry blossoms, but it was good to play with different concepts.
Tonight the focus was on contour drawing in charcoal. Cherry blossoms it was and though I am not super pleased with my results, here are my drawings for the evening:
Form study:
Quick sketch:
Concept drawing:
Sketch playing with contrast:
Playing with conte:
As you can see there are many different renditions and I could not quiet find one form I was pleased with for the cherry blossoms, but it was good to play with different concepts.
Tuesday, February 9, 2010
(335) Value of a Paper Bag
Tonight was Oregon Society of Artists drawing class #2 brought on the subject of paper bags. The medium was paper and pencil (Ebony).
The focus was to creating a dynamic box-like shape and add value to the shape for depth. A neat exercise to try is using a paper and pencil build a scale of dark to light using at least a seven scale in change. Even more challenging, try 10 values in pencil:
Enjoy my bags:
The focus was to creating a dynamic box-like shape and add value to the shape for depth. A neat exercise to try is using a paper and pencil build a scale of dark to light using at least a seven scale in change. Even more challenging, try 10 values in pencil:
Enjoy my bags:
Tuesday, February 2, 2010
(339) Inner and Outer Contour Drawing
This evening was the first OSA drawing class. Our drawing subject the hand. We used a technique called blind contour.
Blind contour is a technique where you focus on letting your mind interpret what the eye sees.
Try it! Grab a piece of paper, pick a subject, and start drawing. The important part - try not to look at the paper, stay focused on the subject. Let your mind do the work on the paper. You will be amazed at how your mind translates the subject onto the paper and produce some really interesting pictures.
The line quality can be very interesting. Play around with different line values (i.e light or dark variations). Perhaps use inner contour where you make the inside lines darker than the outside or outer contour where you have a dark outline of the subject with light inner lines.
Check out this blog - http://www.inkfinger.us/ they have some really interesting pieces.
Here are several I created in the class and though not perfect, it gives an idea of how the technique can produce interesting images from a fairly normal subject:
Blind Inner Contour
Blind Outer Contour
Blind contour is a technique where you focus on letting your mind interpret what the eye sees.
Try it! Grab a piece of paper, pick a subject, and start drawing. The important part - try not to look at the paper, stay focused on the subject. Let your mind do the work on the paper. You will be amazed at how your mind translates the subject onto the paper and produce some really interesting pictures.
The line quality can be very interesting. Play around with different line values (i.e light or dark variations). Perhaps use inner contour where you make the inside lines darker than the outside or outer contour where you have a dark outline of the subject with light inner lines.
Check out this blog - http://www.inkfinger.us/ they have some really interesting pieces.
Here are several I created in the class and though not perfect, it gives an idea of how the technique can produce interesting images from a fairly normal subject:
Blind Inner Contour
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