Drawing the Human Figure From the Inside Out

The goals for today's drop everything and draw were to draw humans from the waist and down and up. There was a lot of scribbling used in this activity and everything connected together in a certain way. Another goal for today was to not listen to what your brain was telling you to do. For example, if someone was lying down that didn't necessarily mean that you had to turn your paper around unless that's what you actually saw. I think I achieved my goals pretty well but I have to work on not listening to what my brain was telling me to do. I was drawing Alex who was lying down and I flipped my paper around because I was at side view and that's what I saw. When drawing both Sophia and Taylor I could only see the back of their heads. This was harder for me because I didn't fully know how to create the arm without putting the arm legitimately in the middle of the back.

Shades of gray

Today in class we made charcoal drawings using different shades of gray. The goals were to make it so you could tell what everything was, have 5 different shades of gray, and make it look realistic. I think I achieved this goals pretty well. I right away got to work on different shades of gray which I like a lot because it helped show whether the object was light or dark or in between. What was hard for me was drawing a certain handle from a pitcher it wouldn't fit right and I was making it with an eraser which didn't give great curves. This was a very big challenge for me. Also, we were to make things bold and make it look like they were actually hard or made of ceramics if they were which I think I showed in my drawing as well. Overall I think I achieved all of the goals from this weeks drop everything and draw day.

What's in the Sack?

The goals for today's drawings were to create shapes out of the bags to make them look different to show whether there's liquid in it or something hard and to represent the object. For the what I believe to be a big bag of water, I shaped it so that it was not proportioned and an odd and circular shape. For the bag with the box in it I made it so that there were straight and pointy edges to show what I was trying to create. Another goal for today was to make the shadows. This was a little difficult at first, because I made the shadows dark instead of the background. Since I did this I had to go back and fix it to make the shadows lighter. One last goal was to at first go quickly and look at the still objects more then the painting. This was a little hard for me as well because I liked perfecting little things which I learned not to do during this process. These were the goals for today's drawing.

The changing still life

In order to keep up with the changing still life I had to keep my eyes on the set up almost the whole time. Also, I had to not worry as much about whether my drawing looked good and neat but more about getting all of the objects onto my paper. Lastly, I didn't really carefully draw anything I mostly just drew the obvious and didn't perfect each little thing because if I had then I would have gotten behind. When I was erasing I had to go really fast which made my drawing really messy and dirty which I truly only noticed afterwards because I was paying attention to the changing still life.