Drawing the full portrait of my class mate I learned how to control charcoal alittle better and not make a complete mess. Also that when drawing with charcoal when it comes to smaller details you have to take your time because of the shape it's not as easy as having the charcoal pencil with a small tip . When it comes to drawing I've gotten better with proportions & giving texture to fabrics . When I first started off drawing wrinkles in clothing & shading areas was difficult and took me a while to do. The charcoal helped make it easier to show the dark areas and it spreads easier than I pencil would making shading simple . Drawing the face with charcoal although was very hard and I kept messing up and is till feel like my face isn't weight but I tried . My piece is actually successful beside the face not looking exactly like the girl but my details and shading are decent and my proportions a. Little off because she's a little shorter in my drawing but this being my first time I did pretty good .
my skeleton drawing is incomplete but what I've done so far is done correctly to me . With proportioning each piece and making sure it was in the right place I would stop and look at the original picture and measure with shapes and think as if the picture was smaller to make sure my pieces weren't to big to small to close or to far away. I drew and triangle coming from the top of the head to the shoulders to make sure it was angles correctly. With each bone I carefully drew a light sketch and after I was finished I looked and made sure the bones lined up and them hen went over and made them darker and added clone . With adding volume I just shaded in the dark areas and made sure I left what showed white alone . I also had to using different techniques like dots to draw on the top of the skull and lines for areas that just showed dark lines down the bone. I think my proportions and volume are good but I could do better with my proportion even though nothing can be perfect .
this is my best gesture drawing that I think I had to draw in 1 minute . I started with the legs because of the position the person is in . With the arms being propped up on the legs I felt like starting with them would make it easier to and make sure the arms looked correctly on the body. I was able to had dark values in areas to show the movement and my make it look like a black blob you can see exactly how the body form is. This is my worst gesture drawing I can barely tell what position I was drawing I was given more time with this one because I was suppose to had detail to the drawing also. The girl was wearing a dark jacket so i messed up by just adding black and not actually trying to draw the little like arms. I think I may have started drawing the wrong area first I should've started with the legs so I could have made sure they fitted in the drawing & then worked up the upper body .
for my scratch board I decided to keep it simple and draw gears when I first started with the one in the middle I thought I was going to make just one but once I saw it I decided to make multiply ones and also give them different looks so the piece wasn't so plain . After drawing them I felt like I needed to add the little lines and to make it even more realistic make some parts whiter than the other to give it a look of a glare.
My problems with the details were making sure my lines were actually neat and not sloppy as if I was just rushing & making sure they curved correctly in the circle formation . Each little piece surrounding the gears is what I felt like I was going to mess up on badly . if you look closely you can tell that some are taller and skinner and more far apart than eachother and that's what I tried to go over and make blend together better . I did the best I could to fix them but thy still aren't very proportional. The movement lines were the hardest for me bc I didn't want them to just be thing skinny lines I wanted to make them a little thicker in areas but the knife didn't really give me much control and sometimes I would slip up and have to take away more black than I intended . Overall I think my drawing came out good . You can't really spot my mistakes as easily as I thought & I liked drawing having to use white and take the black away to create the picture . I'm always use to shading so doing this was something good to try and I hope to do more pictures like these and try things more difficult to draw . |
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