This Will Be Good For You (Senior Show)

Just a quick post of my senior show. It was a group show with Nicola Harrison. Our styles seem to work together, think the show looked pretty good.

show card

show title

A Look at the space

Nicola Harrison : Emily in disguise

oil on board

18 x 24

BCJ : Driven

charcoal on bristol

19 x 24

 Nicola : Healing

oil on canvas

36 x 48

Nicola :  No Flight

charcoal on paper

18 x 24

Nicola : Excessive Control

oil on canvas

18 x 24

BCJ : Would you Like a Grape?

Graphite on Bristol

19 x 24

oh I put two of them on here, yay I like this drawing

Nicola : Bedlum

oil on canvas

36 x 48

BCJ : Stares

charcoal on bristol

19 x 24

 BCJ : Mus-cu-lature

charcoal on bristol

19 x 24

BCJ : Judging

oil on canvas

24 x 36

Nicola : After Paul Cadmus

charcoal on toned paper

18 x 24

BCJ : Blue Curtain 

oil on canvas

30 x 40

Here are photos of them all side by side for a better flow of the show I guess, that and I took these pics so I should use them right?

Android

This drawing started out as just a posed model who was lit. We were asked to take the drawing and transform him into an android of some kind, and whenever I think of androids I think of C3PO, and Star Wars. I decided I wanted to have a whole android scrap yard environment.

 The Scrap Yard 18 x 24 Graphite on Bristol

There are some issues with light, but for a first attempt at an environment with multiple light sources I think I did alright.  I like the idea of all these small pools of light in a large room.

I think one of the coolest things was the amount of detail I found myself adding to the robots. 

 This wheel guy was pretty fun to come up with, at first he was suppose to be sitting on a scooter or something, but I couldn't draw that, or I was just too lazy.

 I chopped off his feet because I didn't want to deal with them.

Look at all the inner workings of this fine machine!!! Why would anyone just let this thing rot on some strings?

 Look at that cool looking robot behind that big thing! He has shades on!...but he is obsolete so he is worthless.

Is that a star wars-ish door or what?

I love the hanging figures and the doctors and stuff in the window. But what I love more is that the stairs are like five hundred times the size of the doctors. And why are there doctors? I mean its suppose to be a scrap yard, why do we need doctors hanging around?

Well because they are scientists who just happen to look like doctors of course!

which, I guess leads me to the next question: Why are scientists spending any sort of time doing anything with old scrap?

Lady Laura

Here are a few drawings of Laura from my Summer drawing class.

 
19 x 24 charcoal on Bristol

who knows how big this is, I jacked this drawing up by placing her too low on the paper. So I cut her out and added a black boarder because I thought that would detract from my poor choices...

This drawing is on blue paper with a light charcoal and white chalk and pencil. I have experimented in the past with white on toned paper and it always turns into a giant mess. This however, turned out to be fairly successful. I actually really like it. I don't know if it comes across as well in a picture than in real life, but I feel good having accomplished a decent drawing with toned paper, charcoal, and chalk.

22 x 24 Light Blue paper, Medium Charcoal, white chalk, Graphite, and White Color Pencil.

A couple of close ups of the body, it is slightly blurry, but I love the way her breast looks in this with that light just ever so slightly catching the top of it. I think I drew her legs pretty well, I also like the way the foot digs into the folds of the cloth

Foreshortening, Contour, and Value

Well it is official, I am done with school for the summer! The drawing class ended yesterday and now I get to sit back and enjoy life before the craziness starts all over again. In the meantime here are a few more drawings.


Foreshortened Bill
19 x 24 charcoal on bristol

Value & Contour Self Portraits
24 x 19 charcoal and graphite on bristol

Extracted Forms

For this drawing I covered my paper in a dark charcoal and then used my eraser to extract and lighten the forms. This technique seems to be a bit more like painting than drawing. I was fairly surprised how much variety in value you could get through erasing. You seem to be able to form shapes in a more fluid manner (hence why its more like painting). There are places where I erased too much and had to go back over and darken and try it again but over all this was done in one hour long sitting.


Neanderbill (because the head is a bit big looking, my fault not his, although I sort of like it):
19 x 24 charcoal

CU of the face

Recent Work

I finally have some stuff to post from my summer drawing class. These aren't the most exciting pieces but I figure I'll start with the worst of the lot and move up from there.



This was from the first day of class, the instructor wanted us to take our drawings and start drawing circles over the areas that were circles. I liked my drawing too much to just start circling crap on it so I thought I would do an overlay on top of this drawing to get the same effect. Turns out the instructor hated this idea and she gave me an F. I was slightly shocked to get an F, but whatever, at least I didn't ruin a drawing for circles.

Here is the circle drawing

and here they are combined
 so you can see the effect of the overlay





some plane studies

this class was pretty weird. We drew a model and then after we were done we were told to go add a skeletal structure underneath it. I found this difficult because the model is slightly in a sitting position. I felt that perhaps we should have had two class periods to work on this project. One of the model, and then one with a skeleton propped up in a similar position. Anyway, the hip is totally out of whack, but perhaps correctness wasn't the main purpose of the project as I didn't fail this one even though it is kind of wonky.

Liked this one, there was no time to plan a composition we were just suppose to see how it turned out and I think it works for the most part.

Hands, I really hate that super dark hand, don't ask what I was thinking....

I do, however, like this rendering of my hand.

My feet, yay...

Finale Project Jack The Ripper

So finally I am posting the finale project from my drawing class. In this project we were asked to draw ourselves as a literary character. I chose Jack the Ripper, and I am fairly proud of it. I think I accomplished the mood and atmosphere I was going for. I like it so much (and in an attempt to draw this whole thing out) I will follow this small update with some images from the process and the background of the story.

19x24 Graphite on Bristol "Would you like a grape?"

Close up Details

check out that kick ass vintage carriage!