07. Composite Figure Drawing

Artist Statement

For this project, we were tasked with creating a composite figure based on two randomly selected noun that we chose out of a hat. Mine being "eggplant" and "hands", I interpreted this as what I thought an eggplant with hands would look like. Begin my sketch, I really wanted to play with the scene of this project. Since the eggplant was going to have hands (and therefore also arms) I decided to give them some more human characteristics as well; that being a mouth and eyes. Jumping back and forth on a few sketches, all my eggplant creatures strangely eating something, I decided to finalize this sketch. Really loving the whole eating scene, I was excited about this piece.

The materials that I used were colored pencils and watercolor; split between different parts of the picture itself. The table, eggplant body, and food done in watercolor, I used color pencil for the arms, eyes, mouth, stem top, chair and dishes. After coloring it in I was going to outline the entire figure with black ink, but after seeing the final product, I liked how soft the colors looked; so I disregarded this idea.

I'm really happy with how this piece came out. The figure, scene, and color choice look really nice to me, though I will admit, I can work on my arm and hand proportions a little more; as the right arm, in my opinion, does look a little wonky. Still, I won't be revisiting this piece in the future. I'm happy with the overall product of this one and the cartoonish look that it took on; the colors turned out good as well!