This Is Kinda Sketchy

Wednesday, October 16, 2013

Texture pt 2

My class was given the assignment to create a texture with a texture, so I made the grand decision to make a finger print with fingerprints. and instead of signing... well lets just say my names all over this.

WIP

Final

Cropped

conte' foot

working with conte' sticks is hard. There is a red, white, black, and sometimes brown color, the key is mixing them all with the grey paper to create a flesh tone that doesn't look sunburned. we spent over an hour on this drawing, for only my 5th-ish venture using conte'

Sunday, October 13, 2013

Mom's Birthday

My mom loves Sunflowers, so it only follows to draw her a picture of a sunflower. I have been learning about pastels recently so I decided to give them a shot, I chose to do a monochromatic drawing using yellow as the pop color, I wish I could have had a purple ground to use complementary colors but I don't have any purple pastels, ahh budget of an artist.

This is a piece that I have chosen to sign on the back because a signature on the front would compete with the composition.

Saturday, October 12, 2013

Portraiture pt. 2

More portrait study, this time we did two face studies with pencil followed by two conte studies, Ive never worked with conte so they both are a bit rough.

It was nice to have the same model all 4 times so that I could compare and learn as I went

Friday, October 11, 2013

Portraiture

The other day in figure drawing class our teacher forgot to schedule a model, so we studied the human face and drew some portraiture.

Here is a charcoal drawing of my teacher

An Ebony pencil drawing of one of my classmates

Another Ebony pencil drawing of another one of my classmates. I have a hard time with the female face so these drawings were a good practice, I think part of it is because I am a dude and I've practiced drawing myself lots of times, but not many girls

I decided to drawing this one in a more Caricatured style since I'm more comfortable with the male face

The last drawing of the day, I decided to go back to charcoal, but this time I laid a ground first with compressed charcoal, then added the dark values with vine charcoal, and lights by erasing

Thursday, October 10, 2013

Texture Study

In Drawing class today we took a look at compiling textures from different materials to create another objects texture. I used a sponge to create the gritty, dirty, smudge look on the cow skull

india ink, and sepia ink on 18x24 paper. Im very pleased with how this piece turned out, and decided to title it "Desert Rain" The story behind this piece is that this is the only way that it rains in the desert, when a dead animal skull cries tears of dirt and sand