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This drawing was for our figure drawings. it was to quickly draw a figure from life and not add too many details. we used our own things for this.
The point of this drawing was to understand how objects curve. i learned how to get curves on objects. and how you can make things look 3D just from lines.
The idea of this drawing was to look at a picture and use your senses to draw it without looking. it was very difficult because you couldnt look at the paper. it was mainly about being able to visulize the drawing without seeing it.
In this exercise, we learned how to draw out quick figures. it was learning how to get the general shape of a person. it was meant to be fast and just be able to make out the figure.
This was part of our shading exersice. we learned hatching and how to build up the darks with lines. you can curve the lines to make them fit with the shapes.
This was another part of our shading unit. we learned about cross hatching. thats where you build up the darks and lights with horizontal and vertical lines.
Some of the first things we learned about were expressive lines, and how just lines can express so many things like moods and the quality of the line. We also learned about non-representational art. That's art that isn't really aiming to be realistic or reference something from the real world. One of the artists we looked at during this time was Picasso. The big project we did for this unit was the Experimental drawing. The experimental drawing was us learning how to draw on a strange surface, the project had to include things drawn from observation. We could add some cartoon details if we wanted. The main thing I learned from this unit was that I can use lines to my advantage and use them along with different drawing surfaces to make interesting compositions.
The second unit was all about proportions and form. That's basically how you get things to look like they should. One of the artists we looked at during this was, Luca Cambiaso. And his figure drawings. We did several things for this but the two bigger projects were the parking lot drawing. Where we had to draw outside to get realistic proportions for a house drawing. And the figure in an environment drawing, this drawing was us having to draw someone in an environment. I chose to draw myself in front of my shelf. The purpose for this drawing was to get a 3D space with a person having correct proportions. I learned better how to draw 3D spaces in this unit.
The third unit was all about lights and shadows and different shading techniques. The point of most of the drawings was to draw 3D objects and draw them only with their lightest lights and darkest darks. An artist we talked about was Dave Malan and his shaded drawings. We did lots of drawings of hands in different lights, we also used lots of shading techniques. Such as; hatching, cross hatching, stippling, scumbling, blending, and black and white values only. The main thing I learned from this was how to shade, and I even applied what I learned into my personal drawings.
The fourth unit was about linear perspective. Linear perspective is basically using lines to find the vanishing point and making objects 3D. I learned that there are many different kkinds of perspective that you can draw with just lines. Theres 1-point, 2-point, 3-point, 4-point perspective and so on. It all depends on how many vanishing points you put. The main thing i learned though, is how to make a 3D space using lines.
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