Final Fabric Drawing

I used several ranges of white value in this fabric drawing.  You can see in some places there is intense white and other places if fades out and where it is red that is where the dark values are.  My practice studies for value of the sheet helped in figuring out which medium I wanted to use but also how I could bring the fabric to life just by the pressure I used with my white pencil.  When I blended my pencil it created a whimsical feeling in the fabric.  Blending and transitions helped bring my fabric to life and make it look more realistic.  Since I saw the fabrics texture as being smooth, it ended up look smooth in my piece.  The way I see the fabric in my head is the way it came out on the paper.  I think if I recreated my piece, I would spend a little more time on the right side of the fabric and blending more into a softer white like I did on the left side to make it match.  I would also add some more folds and creases.

Fabric Value Study

Before we started our final fabric drawing piece we had to do three different studies using different materials so see which one we wanted to use for the final.  The very top sketch is just using pencil.  The one below it is using black charcoal and to the left is using white prisma color on red paper.  I have done a lot of drawings with charcoal and pencil so I decided to do my final drawing using red paper and white like the sketch on the left.

Ribbon Value Drawing

I drew the top ribbon using white charcoal and the bottom ribbon was done with white prisma colors.  I enjoyed the prisma colors a lot because it was easier for me to blend the different values and them come together better.

Shape Shading

Here are two examples of some shape shading we practiced in class.  The top I drew regularly and with a pencil while the bottom I drew with vine charcoal and compressed charcoal to show value.

Practice/Final Contour Line Drawing

This was my practice.

This is my final contour line drawing of the art room.  I used a fluid line in this drawing, never picking up the pen.  I think you can tell it was a fluid line by the curves you can see in it and how nothing looks sketchy.  The practice studies really helped me create this piece because it jogged my memory on how to draw while not always looking at the piece of paper your drawing on.  You just look at the thing your drawing and the rest comes together.  You can tell that the drawing isn't like an outline because while you are drawing you are showing the details.  You can really tell in the figures I drew that detail in the jacket was done without simply outlining the body but putting details in like creases in the sweatshirt, while I was drawing it.  I needed to understand what a continuous line was to be successful in capturing the room.  I also need to know that there are different widths of lines that can make something look darker and show more depth in the drawing.  Also perspective played a huge role in the success of the drawing.  I learned from this drawing that it is very hard to not lift your pen from the paper and just going with the flow.  If I did this drawing again, I would try to fix the proportions on some of the objects I drew as well as make the ceiling look more realistic.  I would also probably try to draw more figures because I liked how they turned out in this one.

Contour Lines

This is a blind contour drawing of my hand.  Contour drawings are when the artist draws something with a continuous line, never picking up their pen or pencil.  This drawing was also blind, which means I was not allowed to look at the paper as I drew.  I could only look at my hand and try to imagine the drawing on the paper.

This is modified where I was able to look at the paper while I drew. Again, it is a continuous line as I never picked my pen up from the paper.

This is another modified contour drawing of a backpack.

First Day

On the first day of Drawing, I was asked to simply draw my hand with shading and value.  This is what I came up with.