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This quarter is now over. It was harsh and I don’t think I did too great, but here’s some stuff that I did:
First up: the god damned self portraits. We had to do like one of these a week. I got so tired of drawing myself that I couldn’t even look in the mirror.
These next 6 pictures are from a single class. We had a substitute teacher cause our teacher had broken his collar bone while snowboarding. It’s awesome to note that while he was out snowboarding and having a good time, his students were at home, stressing out about getting their projects, for his class, done. Our substitute was the other teacher for concept design. Our teacher, at the beginning of the semester was given the task of teaching our class, which he had no idea how to do. So when we had our substitute teacher, and actually learned things, it was awesome.
He would give us 20 or so minutes to draw something he told us to draw. The first time we did this we had to draw: a chef, a sprinter, and a soldier. We would walk around the class after each drawing and vote for who had the best work.
Then we sat down, brainstormed some ideas, like personality traits, appearance, etc. Then we drew the same things we had drawn but with these constraints. First we did the chef, with personality and appearance traits. Then we did the runner with the same, but had to choose to base it on a football shape, a cube, a sphere or a pyramid shape. Then we did a brainstorm for a soldier, and were told at the end of the brainstorm that we had to draw a soldier without using any of the traits that were written up on the board.
Enough of my blathering on, here is the first attempts at drawing the chef, runner and solder.
And the second wave, with constraints and rules.
And this last picture is from a class. The teacher wrote on the board, “football player, water bottle, wearing no. 43, after a hard game.” And we had an hour to do 20 thumbnail sketches, 5 roughs, and 1 final image. This is the final:
Sorry I haven’t updated this in god knows how long, school has been hectic.
This quarter came at everyone straight out of left-field. Nobody expected the work load to pick up as drastically as it did as fast as it did. I ended up dropping 2 of my classes and re-enrolling as a part-time student because I couldn’t balance work and school.
I have a lot of work to upload, but I don’t have the time to look through all of it, scan it, upload it. For now I’ll post a couple of things I’ve done recently.
First is a caricature of Thom Yorke of Radiohead. We had to do this as a practice for Concept Design and Illustration class.
And this is a painting I did for a friend for an art-swap we’re doing. A group of friends and I occasionally go out to cafés and draw people. We decided to draw names from a hat, and draw something valentines day related for each other. I knew nothing about the girl whose name I drew. I asked another person there she said that she liked goats and birds.
well, the christmas break has come and gone. hope everybody had a good one. mine was nice, just a lot of relaxing and catching up on some sleep. i did a bit of drawing and i’m just going to put them here in no particular order:
this is just a bit of what i did, the rest of it isn’t really worth seeing. i started school yesterday, so i should be uploading stuff soon.
Here are some more café drawings, most of them were drawn in the Starbucks at 64th and Granville, but some are done at the Boulevard café at UBC.
And here are some superheroes that we had to draw for design and colour theory. The teacher gave us a choice of 7 or 8 different names and we had to design a character that fits the name. I chose “The World’s Most Boring Woman,” “Tacky Man,” and “Dangeroso.” These are ink and pencil crayon on paper, but the scanner butchered the colours.
Our assignment for Drawing and Perspective is to make 20 compositions using 20 different mediums. These are a few that I practiced with. These are done with ink:
Here is the finished ink composition:
Here’s a composition in watercolours (the first time I’ve seriously used watercolours, not including when I was like 10 just putting paint on a piece of paper and sprinkling salt on it):
And this one is done with pastels:
This week was pretty good in Life Drawing. We had the same model that we’ve had like 3 times now, but this time we were studying drapery and how clothing folds and such. Don’t have much else to say so here are the pictures:
Here’s a couple of pictures of a little painting I just finished. The second picture should explain why I use the word “little” to describe the painting. It is a picture of a sea turtle with a hawaiian flower in the background. Done in acrylics.
I didn’t post anything from my life drawing course last week, because I thought I did terrible. I was too pre-occupied thinking about a project that was due the next day to concentrate on what I was doing. Our model was Robin, the same woman we had for our first life drawing class.
This week we had a man named Alex for life drawing. I got bored drawing him near the end though, because ALL of his poses were reclining or laying down. Granted the lesson was on foreshortening, but there are ways of demonstrating that without just laying down the whole class.
