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.
Just wanted to explain the change in theme. It is essentially the same as before, except the stuff that used to be on either side of my posts (stuff like categories, search, tags) they’re now at the very bottom of the page. I think it is easier on the eyes (lower contrast and all) but please feel free to tell me what you think about the new design. Any suggestions?
I didn’t have a title for this post, because it is mainly going to consist of sketches I did in my free time.
This first piece, however, is an assignment I had for my Design and Colour Theory class. Our assignment was to make an editorial cartoon expressing our opinion. We couldn’t use any dialogue, and the only text we could use was stuff like signs (Starbucks, Safeway, etc.)
My opinion is that “Toast is the breakfast of Champions.” The image is of David standing on a conquered Goliath, eating a piece of toast.
These next sketches are for a Drawing and Perspective assignment, but they’re just practice. Our assignment is to create 20 compositions using 20 different mediums. We have to choose between fish, birds, or cats as the subject. I chose birds because you can only do so much with cats. I was going to choose fish, but we have A LOT of crows around school, and I thought it would be cool to do birds.
These two were drawn at work:
This next image was drawn at my Grandpa’s house. I was told by my Drawing and Perspective teacher that the best way to get better at drawing is to draw absolutely everything. So, sitting in my Grandpa’s house I decided to draw his Barometre.
And these last two pictures were drawn in the Starbucks at Granville and W 64th Avenue this evening. Monika and I went to Opus to get some art supplies for the aforementioned Drawing and Perspective assignment, and after that we went to Starbucks so I could work on yet another homework project (“Help, I’m drowning!”) Our assignment is to draw people in cafés. We have to draw 20 different gestures of people doing what people do in cafés. The first one I drew was a couple of women talking. The woman on the right did most of the talking, while the other woman patiently listened. And the second picture is of an Asian couple. The man is playing a game on his GameBoy, while his girlfriend/wife leans against him and watches.
The second week of school I had to pick up a folder to hand in my work (the still life) for drawing and perspective. They have acetate 9″ x 12″ folders at the book store for $1.25. But I always feel like a dick if I buy something with interac when it costs less than $5. So I picked up a 4″ x 6″ sketch book for $4.50.
I’ve been using it to sketch people on the bus. I usually try to sit in the back, take out my sketchbook and sit there with a pencil and look around for someone who looks interesting. But I’ve also sketched up some robots when there was nobody on the bus, or I didn’t feel like drawing the backs of peoples heads.
Here are a few of my projects for my drawing and perspective class. The first is a still life. We had to select items that complemented each other, arrange them and draw the basic geometric shapes. Then we had to draw the negative space, and finally put it all together and render it using a 7 tone scale. I got 90/100, because there could have been a bit more contrast to better define my objects.
Our second project was to draw a room in our house in 1 point perspective. We also had to throw in clutter and something that is not in our room of choice. The teacher’s example was of his bedroom with a dragon’s tail sticking out from under the bed. I chose to draw our living room, looking out onto the balcony with a giant toy robot walking past outside. I almost forgot about the clutter, and kinda tossed some in at the last minute. I got 85/100 on this project, because the shading was a little rushed, and kinda got sketchy.
We had to draw out all of our guidelines in one colour (using col-erase pencils) and then go over it with the good lines in a different colour. This is on 18″ x 24″ cartridge paper.
And to wrap things up, here is the project that was due today. We had to draw a mad scientist’s lab in 2 point perspective. Again this is on 18″ x 24″ cartridge paper, using col-erase pencils. I did all the rough line work in red, and used brown to finish it up.
A lot of the other students in my class went with what I would think of as an absent minded professor’s lab. Their work wasn’t bad, just not what I’d consider to be a mad scientist’s workspace. There were ones with big computers, complicated networks of test tubes, wires hanging about, but nothing that screams “mad scientist.” So I went with (what I thought was) the ultimate mad scientist.
I still had big computers, but they’re very out dated. I put in a lot of chaos, like broken test tubes, a busted chair, surgical tools strewn about the floor, one of his massive computers tipped over, and a trail of blood leading from the “operation table” in the middle of the room, to the garbage chute in the wall. There are also some things that I thought would make the viewer think that the mad scientist was truly mad. There’s a car battery, with jumper cables, by the operation table, a tally scratched into the wall by the garbage chute, and meat hooks hanging on a rod that sticks out of the wall. Anyways, I’ll shut up now, here it is:
A few things
Hey, I’m not going to attach any images to this post, I’d just like to address a few things.
First, when you hover over any of the images I upload, a little box might pop up. This is fucking annoying, so to disable it click on the little gear image at the top right of the box that pops up. Then click on Disable. Then where it says “Disable for” check off “All Sites” and click on “Save.” The next time you reload the page, it will no longer do this. However, if you delete the cache for your web browser, you’ll have to do it again. Imageshack (my image hosting website) is crap, but I don’t have to pay for it. If I exceed 50MB in uploads on WordPress I’d have to buy more space.
Secondly, everyone can comment. You don’t have to sign up, or log in to give me feedback. However, your comment will have to be approved by myself, but this is just in place so that I don’t get over run by spam. Can you believe it? People spam blogs now.
Thirdly, please give me any constructive criticism you have. If something doesn’t look right, please tell me. For example, the guitar in the one-point perspective looks kinda like it is going in to the wall. Don’t feel bad telling me that I messed something up, because then I’ll know what to work on. Just don’t be a dick about it: “Hey Corey, you suck!”
Fourthly, I’d reccommend using a browser like Firefox for viewing this blog, because there are a lot of pictures. If you’re running Firefox you can use the middle mouse button to open the images in new tabs, for faster viewing (you don’t have to look at one, click back, look at another.) I don’t know, just a suggestion.
Thanks to all who read this.
P.S. If you’d like to see me draw something, just shoot me a comment or e-mail. I need to draw as much as I can, so I’ll try anything.