Pure Contour 

Hand Holding a Rubber Band Artist Statement: 

All I did for this artwork was tried to get every single line that I could see on my hand, and try my best to copy it down on the paper. I also wanted to add more depth to the artwork than a simple hand, so I decided to make it, and the rubber band, look three-dee. And I wanted to color the rubber band orange to make it pop more since that is the item that is meant to be focused on. 

I used a basic graphite pencil to draw loose lines, and then draw darker lines without any sketch marks, and erased all the light sketched pencil lines, to have a more concrete image. And I added an orange highlighter for the rubber band. Even though it wasn't that color, of course, I did it to make it more noticeable than the rest of the image. After all, this was the assignment, and if there wasn't the different aspect of adding a rubber band into it, then it would be considered a more simple Pure Contour hand drawing.  

I originally started out by just drawing a basic outline of the palm of my hand. And once this was done I used the technique from the video and drew my fingers all segmented out into blocks. After many tries, I had a basic sketch outline. After doing this I pressed harder on the graphite mechanical pencil to create a more bold concrete line over the sketches. And once I had this I just erased the excess lines. After this, I decided to draw one of my fingernails, because it was the only one visible from my angle. I also included wrinkle lines in my palm and forearm because it is what I observed. And after all this, I colored in the three-dee rubber band to make it catch the eye of the viewer more. 

Three Views of a Shoe Artist Statement:  

The goal of all these shoe drawings was to just make the most detailed, and best draw -to scale as I could. I also tried to add a three-dee effect to make it more realistic, and also because it is of course three-dee when you look at it. Although it turned out to be more difficult than I had originally predicted. I, of course, couldn't do the three-dee aspect on the side view, because it's two-dee. And I somewhat did it on the aerial view. But I completely struggled with the front view, even though it ended up turning out decent.  I tried to incorporate different perspectives into these drawings, for example, I changed the letters on the shoe on the front angle, to make it look like the viewer was looking up at the shoe. 

I just used a basic graphite mechanical pencil to start out with the original sketches of all the shoe drawings. And then I used this same pencil to draw the more concrete darker lines over these sketch lines since it was required as a pure contour drawing.  I then erased the sketch lines that were un-needed.  

I really didn't ever change my ideas of approach on all the angles and lines of the drawings. The assignment was really straightforward. It just took me many attempts to get the angle just to write with my sketch lines and even my bold lines. All I did was just erase a lot. But I finally got them all to where I was happy with them. Another important thing to note is that I took the approach on the frontal view of the shoe to draw it kind of on the same level as the bottom, instead of a little higher viewing point. This made the lines a lot more difficult to shoe in perspective. But when you try a lot of times, you notice key things that work to make the correct tinkers so you can finally get it right.