Colored Pencil Candy

The lollipop I chose to draw was the Fruit Punch flavored.  This was done with colored pencil.  Instead of making the wrapper white like how it was and how everyone else did it, I chose to challenge myself and made it a blue color using a darker blue and purple to show the value.  It took me a while to finish because it was really hard for me to figure out what color to put where and how to make it actually look like a wrapper.  It was difficult but the end result isn't half as bad as I had expected.

Still Life

The bottom picture is my final still life drawing. I think my drawing is less clear and defined and more blended with smudges.  I used a kneaded eraser to help blend my charcoal.  My values and shadows are realistic and I used all the ranges of value in my piece.  The values are what make this look more realistic and define what the objects are and how they are positioned. There is not a clear source of lighting that I see.  The compositional sketches we did in class before hand really helped in choosing, obviously, the composition of the piece but it showed how well it would look on the final paper and how much of the objects you could get in. I think my still life was all around more successful then I thought it was going to be.  I think the proportions are a little bit off like the vase should have been a bit bigger but the structures and perspective are correct.  I think the composition is very pleasing.  I don't think there is one thing that you look at for too long because your eyes kindof go in a circular motion and you see everything that is drawn.  I think I managed my time well in creating this drawing however I do think if I could do it again I would try and go bigger and fit more objects that were in the still life into it.  The flowers were somewhat of a challenge but I just took a little more time on them than on anything else and they ended up looking pretty great.  After drawing this still life, I've learned not to be so picky about small details but try and draw the shapes first when doing an outline and then when you go back in, you can add the details that you see.  Also drawing from life I think is much better than drawing from a photograph.  It might be more challenging but you definitely see different things in real life than you would if you looked at a picture.  It would have been a whole different drawing if I had done it from a photograph but that's just my opinion.

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.