There’s graphite and charcoal in here of various types, and they’re from various periods in the semester as well. We did a bunch of the word drawings (the one with ‘poetic’ in the top right) and this one didn’t make the final class show but every time I look at it I like the way it came out. It expresses the word really well.
This one was really awesome. It went really well in the making, I just took out an old photo and drew from that. However, drawing from a photo makes it look like a photo, at least to me. Plus, I was drawing sitting down, with my paper on the table instead of flat in front of me standing up, so when I looked at it from there it was fine, but straight on, it looks vertically squashed a bit. Lesson learned.
Graphite, 18×24 cropped to about 8×8.
This was a fun assignment. We had to chose two artists we love and make pieces in their styles. One piece per artist. I chose Banksy and Frank Frazetta, and those connections were made pretty easily when I presented. I had a lot of fun making these.
The Banksy homage piece is foamboard with newsprint rectangles glued in imperfect stacks to imitate a brick wall, then a stencil I made in Photoshop from a photo I found online. I spray-painted through it onto the wall and let it dry for a day. The red on the soldier is the Apple icon and the caption next to him says ‘Apple iPhone. Need anything else?’
The Frazetta piece is marker and pen. I sketched it out first in my sketchbook, did a larger, better pencil sketch on the drawing paper, then filled in the shapes with marker and pen. I tried using Frazetta’s line style in the bear, but couldn’t seem to get it to work in the rocks, so I took it further and filled them in but let the marker lines bring out the shape of the rocks.
Both are 18×24.
These were an open assignment, just find objects and draw them with ink, using whatever tools we wanted, on 18×24 drawing paper. Mine are a bit small on the pages, but they came out looking pretty good. I used brushes and reed pen and sumi ink.
This was a lighting exercise, but gave us an intro into very contrasty portraiture using dramatic single-source lighting. Compressed and vine charcoal on 18×24 drawing paper.
