sketches from class

Value studies

3 Color studies

Maquette

I accidently dropped and ruined my sculpey maquette so I ended up using a digital sculpting program to recreate what I had.

Sketches and drawings that led to my Narrative project

Transparent and opaque acrylic exercises.

While trying out transparent acrylic painting, I learned to mix a small amount of paint with with water to get transparent washes. For these exercises, I tried to keep my brush strokes to a minimum to have a smoother  gradation. For the second one I used some watercolor pencils on top of a thin acrylic wash. With the third exercise I painted more opaquely with red and green paint. With the red sphere, I used brush strokes to turn the form. For the green sphere, I used the sponge to turn the form. The sponge was a really useful tool to get a softer gradation.

Pen and Ink

Here is my pen and ink piece that I played around with. I learned how to use the crow quill pen and  the different form building and shading techniques from the handouts. The handouts showed me different techniques for stippling, cross hatching and controlling the width of the line. I also learned about gouache and its consistency for silhouettes.

Here are some fun studies that I did based on one of my favorite artists. I've always admired Yoji Shinkawa's sumi-e style and his ability to create forms with minimal detail. I used a sharpie to draw one of the characters he designed. Yoji Shinkawa normally uses ink pens so I'll use a Pentel brush pen the next time I do a study of the sumi-e style.

Welcome to my Illustration 363A weekly drawing blog. Here are some primary shapes that I was tested on. As you can see, my shapes need work and the line quality is sloppy.

 Thanks to the Famous Art School samples and refreshers on drawing the primary shapes, I improved a little with my second batch of drawings. I used 2 point and 3 point perspective for the cubes and divided the cone up to make sure they were parallel. Drawing the sphere with my arm also helped keep it from looking wobbly. I had some fun transforming some of those shapes into real world objects. I combined the sphere and cone to make ice cream cones, an apple and used a cube to draw a human head.