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:
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.
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:
