ARTS 211: Drawing I
Drapery Drawing
1
2
1
Drapery Drawing: Created with Charcoal Pencils
The parameters of this assignment was to introduce the anatomy of drapery, as well as the study of lightand shade, value shifts, and contrast. One of the drawings is to be a drawing of a piece of drapery, and the other is to be a drapery still life drawing. To begin this drawing, I lightly sketched with a lead pencil to outline the shape of the drapery. Once that was finished, I went back in with a charcoal pencil and started shading in different shades and tones. I wanted to emphasize the shadows to make the drawing look more realistic and 3-D. The second drawing was a still life drawing of different sized draperies. The purpose of these drawings was to emphasize the value shifts, and contrast of shadows.
Contour Drawings
1
2
3
1
Contour Drawings: Created using lead pencil
For this assignment, the goal was to draw three drawings, one utilizing contour lines, cross-contour lines, and a simple outline. An outline is a line of even thickness that exactly follows the outer edges of an object. Contour lines define the edges of a form and major divisions within it. Cross-Contour Lines defines the surface of a volume such as a topographic map. The drawings I chose to do were of a hand holding a flower in the three different types of lines. The drawing was drawn using a simple lead pencil on drawing paper. The purpose of showing the three different types of lines were to see how they defined form.
Upside Down Drawing
1
2
1
Upside Down Drawing: Created with lead pencil
For this assignment, we were given an image of a horse and were to recreate the image first, upright, and then the second drawing would be drawn upside down. The drawing of the horse was made using simple, singular clean lines to define its shape. Using a simple lead pencil, I went in and drew the horse in a normal state. Then, the second drawing I had to draw it upside down without flipping it around. This assignment was fun and challenging, but it was cool to what skillset I had to complete the image identical to the first.
Perspective Chair Drawing
1
2
1
Chair Perspective: Created with lead pencil
This assignment was one of my favorites to complete because we had to draw a chair in perspective. When becoming a interior designer, one skill that is nice to have is drawing objects or elevations in the right perspective. We were given two images of the chair and had to replicate the image according to its perspective. To draw the images, I used a simple lead pencil. Once the drawing is complete, I went back in and added shading in the correct places. The second image was executed the same way, just a different image of a chair. What was important to keep in mind as I was drawing, was to make sure the chair was scaled and proportioned the correct way, which the grid in the background helped me to do so.
Realism Self-Portrait
Realism Self-Portrait: Created using lead pencil
Realism is where a drawing is depicted realistic in perspective including the fine lines of hairs, and realistic shading of the face, neck, etc. For this assignment, we were asked to make a self-portrait of ourselves showing realism. First, I found an image of myself that I wanted to use. Then I went in with a a light charcoal pencil, and mapped out the facial structure onto this gridded paper. Once I had a basic facial structure, I started adding details to make this self-portrait a realism drawing. For example, I added thin, fine lines around the hairline, in front of the face, and on the back of the hair to show dimension. I also went in a added fine hair into the eyebrows and eyelashes, drawing them in a natural shape. Wherever there was shadows such as under my nose, under the chin I went in and shaded those areas. Lastly, I went in and added some fine wrinkles in the spots that had them such as the crease in my neck. The purpose of drawing the self-portrait in realism is to show its true form in a naturalistic way.
Space and Perspective Drawing
2
1
2
Space and Perspective Drawing: Created using a charcoal pencil
For this assignment, we were to create two drawings, one being a sphere and spherical object, and the second being cubic still life drawing. This assignment was to show how space and perspective can be drawn in a drawing using spherical shapes. Completing this would help develop the skills that are needed to depict spatial relations between objects effectively. The first drawing was to freehand a sphere and spherical object using a charcoal pencil. Once the drawings were completed, I went back in and shaded them to show the perspective by seeing where the light touched the object and created shadows. The second drawing was a cubic still life drawing where I setup three objects and drew them according to space and perspective. This drawing was also shaded according to linear perspective.