19x24 Charcoal on Bristol
19x24 Charcoal on Bristol
19x24 Charcoal on Bristol
19x24 Charcoal on Bristol
4/14/10
Portraits
In the closing weeks of the drawing class we focused in on portraiture. Here are some of those and all are done in about an hour:
19x24 Charcoal on Bristol
19x24 Charcoal on Bristol
19x24 Charcoal on Bristol
19x24 Charcoal on Bristol
19x24 Charcoal on Bristol
19x24 Charcoal on Bristol
19x24 Charcoal on Bristol
19x24 Charcoal on Bristol
4/11/10
More Models
Here are the rest of the finished full body poses from last terms drawing class. All are done in about an hour.
I like this one a lot, at first I didn't care about it, but I think I handled the jeans pretty well.
19x24 charcoal on bristol
This lady was our model for several of our classes, I got a few good portraits out of her too. I like this image because of all the wrapping and drapery. I probably made the shadow too dark, but whatever.
18x24 charcoal on newsprint
We had to do a master study I chose Paul Cadmus, Untitled Nude, 1945
Here is the original
And mine
20x28 Charcoal and Graphite on blue paper
I like this one a lot, at first I didn't care about it, but I think I handled the jeans pretty well.
19x24 charcoal on bristol
This lady was our model for several of our classes, I got a few good portraits out of her too. I like this image because of all the wrapping and drapery. I probably made the shadow too dark, but whatever.
18x24 charcoal on newsprint
We had to do a master study I chose Paul Cadmus, Untitled Nude, 1945
Here is the original
And mine
20x28 Charcoal and Graphite on blue paper
4/4/10
First Model
This was our first in class model. It turned out well enough, I could have spent another hour on the drapery, but the whole piece was done in 2 hours I think.
19x24 Charcoal on Bristol
19x24 Charcoal on Bristol
3/29/10
Bones
After a week in California without internet I am anxious to finish posting all the pieces from my figure drawing class. This was done on the first and second class periods and took somewhere around 4 or 5 hours. The background was shaded at a later date and probably added another hour or two, I have been liking the use of small straight lines going in different directions to create not only the tone, but also some texture. I think it turned out well, and gave me confidence in my drawing ability, of which I was worried about not being able to compete with the rest of the intermediate drawing students. I think I held my own.
19x24 graphite on bristol
3/19/10
Two more paintings
Today was my last finale, and I picked up all my portfolios. Yay for spring break!
Here are my two finale paintings.
The first painting was a study for the finale project and was finished in two hours. I learned a lot by doing this project. I am usually a pretty slow painter, mostly because I don't feel entirely confident in my abilities. This helped me to make decisions quickly and mix colors quickly.
16x20 oil
And here is the finale 18x24
Here are my two finale paintings.
The first painting was a study for the finale project and was finished in two hours. I learned a lot by doing this project. I am usually a pretty slow painter, mostly because I don't feel entirely confident in my abilities. This helped me to make decisions quickly and mix colors quickly.
16x20 oil
And here is the finale 18x24
Attrocities of Art
I don't post everything I do. Some things are just too boring or horrid to put up on the internet for anyone to see. So I have some restraint... (but not much)
There are three pieces in particular that I did this term that are not very good, and I cringe when I look at them. I had no intention of publishing them, until I realized that all of these failures had actually taught me a lot, and in each case it improved my drawing ability, or my understanding about different media.
Against my better judgment here they are.
This term I found using pencils to be too time consuming to get everything down, so I mostly used charcoal for in class models. This allowed me to quickly lay down a mid town, put in some darks and erase to pull out some highlights.
I was really liking charcoal and I felt I should experiment more with different types to see what I liked or disliked. On this particular day I pulled out a white piece of charcoal and went to town. What resulted was a muddy gray mess of confusion. I learned that just because you have all these different kinds and colors of charcoal doesn't mean you have to jam them all into one piece.
In this second piece came from the same day as the one above. It was a very off day, but informative! In this piece I am using that horrible white charcoal, and toned paper. Which this was my first time using toned paper. The papers tone is suppose to be your mid tone. This time I didn't blend the white and black together, but left them seperate. The only problem is that the white is just out of control, and the black is like midnight. I lost all control of gradation and tone... and once again it just becomes a mess...
There are three pieces in particular that I did this term that are not very good, and I cringe when I look at them. I had no intention of publishing them, until I realized that all of these failures had actually taught me a lot, and in each case it improved my drawing ability, or my understanding about different media.
Against my better judgment here they are.
This term I found using pencils to be too time consuming to get everything down, so I mostly used charcoal for in class models. This allowed me to quickly lay down a mid town, put in some darks and erase to pull out some highlights.
I was really liking charcoal and I felt I should experiment more with different types to see what I liked or disliked. On this particular day I pulled out a white piece of charcoal and went to town. What resulted was a muddy gray mess of confusion. I learned that just because you have all these different kinds and colors of charcoal doesn't mean you have to jam them all into one piece.
In this second piece came from the same day as the one above. It was a very off day, but informative! In this piece I am using that horrible white charcoal, and toned paper. Which this was my first time using toned paper. The papers tone is suppose to be your mid tone. This time I didn't blend the white and black together, but left them seperate. The only problem is that the white is just out of control, and the black is like midnight. I lost all control of gradation and tone... and once again it just becomes a mess...
On this day I left the white charcoal and toned paper behind, and just opted for the standard old charcoal. It was during this drawing session that I realized my use of charcoal was just too elementary. From this piece I learned that I need to try to figure out how to have better gradations of tone. This drawing I think has actually made me better. After this I really tried to figure out how to get more out of my charcoal drawings.
3/10/10
Gestures
I had posted a while back some of my gesture drawings. I am not usually into posting my gestures because I think for the most part I seem to fail at capturing anything that resembles human in the short 1-5 minute sketches.
But since my last set of gestures I seem to have latched onto something and my gestures are looking more like they should. Unfortunately just when I was starting to get comfortable with my sketches we stopped doing them, and I don't think I will be taking another drawing class till next fall. I was going to take a drawing class in Spring, but I have been convinced to take two art history courses instead. Otherwise my fall term could kill me... but really we dont need to go into any of it.
But since my last set of gestures I seem to have latched onto something and my gestures are looking more like they should. Unfortunately just when I was starting to get comfortable with my sketches we stopped doing them, and I don't think I will be taking another drawing class till next fall. I was going to take a drawing class in Spring, but I have been convinced to take two art history courses instead. Otherwise my fall term could kill me... but really we dont need to go into any of it.
3/8/10
White Objects
Ever tried to paint a still life filled with nothing but white objects, and a white sheet as a background?
It is... to say the least, a challenge. Especially for someone who has little to no experience painting. I must say that doing this exercise taught me a ton about value and color mixing. The subtle shades of white eggs, sea shells, animal skulls, and cups are hard to capture.
I think I was successful in my rendering of the scene.
It is... to say the least, a challenge. Especially for someone who has little to no experience painting. I must say that doing this exercise taught me a ton about value and color mixing. The subtle shades of white eggs, sea shells, animal skulls, and cups are hard to capture.
I think I was successful in my rendering of the scene.
3/6/10
The Dark Tower Theme Park (Revisited)
By far the most popular pages on this blog are the Blaine the Mono drawing, and the Dark Tower Theme park. I get 5 - 10 hits a day just for those drawings. Not that people are searching out these drawings in particular but rather they are searching certain key phrases for the dark tower and they eventually stumble onto these in google image search. I am not complaining Ill take traffic however I can get it.
So I did a Google search of the key phrases used to find my drawings to see how far back people had to dig, and I was pleasantly surprised.
When searching:
- "Blaine the Mono" - The first two pages have my drawings on them
- "Dark Tower Theme Park" - The first thing that comes up is my drawings (yay!)
- "Stephen King Blaine the Mono" - Images in the first row
- " Dark Tower Park" - First row or two
- "The Dark Tower" - I have yet to find my drawings, I think I got bored after page sixteen thousand. How anyone finds my stuff from this search is beyond me... I mean they must have a ton of time to blow.
So, since I do get so many wandering dark tower fans, and since I changed the drawing to be closer to what I had originally envisioned. I feel an overwhelming urge to make sure people are seeing the better more complete version. There are a few things that still bug me, but I am never going to change them, so I am putting it behind glass and I am calling it done. Perhaps sometime in the future I'll revisit this idea, but it will have to be a completely new drawing. This version is done.
Finished Dark Tower Theme Park Drawing:
The Calla was finally added with the rivers off to the left
and the front gate was spiffed up a little bit
So I did a Google search of the key phrases used to find my drawings to see how far back people had to dig, and I was pleasantly surprised.
When searching:
- "Blaine the Mono" - The first two pages have my drawings on them
- "Dark Tower Theme Park" - The first thing that comes up is my drawings (yay!)
- "Stephen King Blaine the Mono" - Images in the first row
- " Dark Tower Park" - First row or two
- "The Dark Tower" - I have yet to find my drawings, I think I got bored after page sixteen thousand. How anyone finds my stuff from this search is beyond me... I mean they must have a ton of time to blow.
So, since I do get so many wandering dark tower fans, and since I changed the drawing to be closer to what I had originally envisioned. I feel an overwhelming urge to make sure people are seeing the better more complete version. There are a few things that still bug me, but I am never going to change them, so I am putting it behind glass and I am calling it done. Perhaps sometime in the future I'll revisit this idea, but it will have to be a completely new drawing. This version is done.
Finished Dark Tower Theme Park Drawing:
Old Version:
The Calla was finally added with the rivers off to the left
and the front gate was spiffed up a little bit
2/27/10
Still Life Paintings
Finally a weekend where I am not inundated with work! Here are a few still life paintings from the beginning of the term. They aren't very exciting but what can you do? Ill have more exciting stuff to put up as the weekend goes on.
2/5/10
Self Portraits
Wow, five posts in one day, I went insane! I blame the craziness on my advanced age. I usually like to space the posts out, but I guess I just wanted to get them posted. There will be a slew of a few more when I get my paintings back, and my midterm portfolio for life drawing.
I usually have a hell of a time trying to draw myself. These aren't by any means perfect, I can see where I need to pay more attention, but I think these are pretty successful. I know I am pretty proud of them. I was so pumped while I was drawing them because things were just falling into place for me. I kept leaving the room just so I could walk in again to make sure they were actually looking like me.
I had been really nervous about drawing myself so I practiced drawing smaller versions of these every night. So when it came to getting them done I felt like I already knew the measurements and rhythm of the lines. Especially the second one, those lines evolved, Maybe Ill try to dig out a few of those.
(shoot only have one of my drawing pads, oh well)
Here is the final drawing:
One of my practice pieces for the more dramatic piece.
Close up of the left panel.
Close up of the right panel
This is my favorite part of the right panel. I love the evolution this line went through in all my drawings.
another practice piece.
I usually have a hell of a time trying to draw myself. These aren't by any means perfect, I can see where I need to pay more attention, but I think these are pretty successful. I know I am pretty proud of them. I was so pumped while I was drawing them because things were just falling into place for me. I kept leaving the room just so I could walk in again to make sure they were actually looking like me.
I had been really nervous about drawing myself so I practiced drawing smaller versions of these every night. So when it came to getting them done I felt like I already knew the measurements and rhythm of the lines. Especially the second one, those lines evolved, Maybe Ill try to dig out a few of those.
(shoot only have one of my drawing pads, oh well)
Here is the final drawing:
One of my practice pieces for the more dramatic piece.
Close up of the left panel.
Close up of the right panel
This is my favorite part of the right panel. I love the evolution this line went through in all my drawings.
another practice piece.
Dual Model
There were two drawings from this session, but the other one was turned in with my midterm. This one is less good than that one, but neither are stellar. These poses were an hour long and we were responsible for adding in as much environment detail as possible. I think I almost got that second chair in!
Little Man
Our first model in life drawing was a man. I had had troubles drawing men in the past, and my last life drawing class was during sometime in 03 or 04. There were a lot of bad attempts. This one turned out ok. I can't remember how long the pose was, half hour, an hour? oh well.
Liboon!
Our first project in life drawing was to take two animals skeletons and fuse them together (or take an existing animals skeleton and draw its skeletal or muscular system as an overlay to an Illustration of that animal).
I chose to take a baboon head and stick it on a lion. Hence Liboon!... so clever!
I kept most of the cats structure true to form, its in the shoulder, neck, and head that I morphed the baboon in.
I chose to take a baboon head and stick it on a lion. Hence Liboon!... so clever!
I kept most of the cats structure true to form, its in the shoulder, neck, and head that I morphed the baboon in.
Life Drawing: Gestures
Happy Birthday to me!
So I have some work to post from my life drawing class. We just turned in our midterm portfolio so some pieces are missing which also means I can't post them in a chronological order, but whatever. Also, I think I am going to put each piece into a separate post.
I think I will start with some gestures.
I usually have a pretty horrible time with gestures, it is almost down right embarrassing how they look, but these have a pretty good energy to them and I think for the most part they read well.
So I have some work to post from my life drawing class. We just turned in our midterm portfolio so some pieces are missing which also means I can't post them in a chronological order, but whatever. Also, I think I am going to put each piece into a separate post.
I think I will start with some gestures.
I usually have a pretty horrible time with gestures, it is almost down right embarrassing how they look, but these have a pretty good energy to them and I think for the most part they read well.
1/29/10
A digital practice piece
I don't have a tablet so I draw with my mouse (or practice drawing with my mouse). This is just a picture a friend took and I tried to sort of mimic it. The body is out of whack but in the original picture the body is almost impossible to even see. I took some liberties with buildings, trees, and sky in mine.
The picture isn't completed but it has been in this state for at least a month, so I think perhaps by default that means its done. At least for the time being.
Original:
Mine:
The picture isn't completed but it has been in this state for at least a month, so I think perhaps by default that means its done. At least for the time being.
Original:
Mine:
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