I really wish I had finished this one because It was turning out sort of good.....if you step back and cross your eyes! I'm not good with contour at all, but this one was pretty decent. I'm not very good with the whole keep-your-pen-on-the-paper thing. I always have to pick up my pen. It's a habit, number one, and I'm better at drawing that way, number two. Now, if you look at the picture below this, you'll notice that I spent way more time on the instrument contour than the room contour. The reason for that--like always-- is that I didn't have enough time. I only never have enough time because I take my time on things. I don't like being rushed to do things. I also don't like doing things I'm bad at PLUS being rushed. It's an awful feeling hahaha!
This was a mini lesson about shading. We learned things like figuring out where a light source is coming from, using that to make the shape look 3D, shading with the shape, shading techniques, stippling, etc.. Our assignment was to draw three shading scales in pen, charcoal and pencil and then draw three different shapes in each media. I, being a perfectionist, didn't finish all of them besides the pen one.
I think I gained skill in charcoal with this exercise. It was the only one I kind of spent time on. I really like working with charcoal any way because....say you colored a certain part darker than necessary....you can just use a kneaded eraser and almost all of it comes up! It's awesome. I think it's kind of like an undo button on a computer.
This was the bigger and more detailed piece of cloth that I had to draw. I used white charcoal and black charcoal on a brown paper and I thought that was a really good mix. I learned how to use the black charcoal very lightly with the white charcoal to get darks and lights instead of making all the darks pure black and all the lights pure white. I'm actually pretty proud of this. I didn't expect for me to to make it look as good as it came out, but it came our pretty realistic to me!!
This was the first time I've ever worked with white charcoal and I think it's no different than using black charcoal on white paper. I just like the look of white charcoal on black paper better. We had to draw the piece of paper taped on as if it was a ribbon and draw a piece of cloth that was hanging from the ceiling. I didn't really like drawing the paper ribbon, but I really enjoyed the cloth. I can actually see where the light hits and where the valleys and folds are. I'm not sure why, but I just feel like I am better at drawing a cloth or shirt than drawing a ribbon.
and I still hadn't done my hand. By the time I actually decided to stop the contour and draw the hand, I had 5 minutes left and I decided to procrastinate a little bit so that's also why the hand isn't done either! I don't feel like I gained anything from this little mission so I don't really have anything to talk about.
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