10 posts tagged “drawing”
Last night/this morning I finished the big jellyfish I started over break. My 3rd term portfolio review is tomorrow and I wanted to get this done before then because they want to see us do non-school-related work (called "personal projects")and this is almost the only art I've done apart from schoolwork all year. Many Art Center students just don't DO art for themselves (because there is no time! and probably the last thing most of us want to do during the little free time we get is more art) and the higher-ups think it's important that we do. So I hope they dig this. (ie it isn't for school, but it is. It's not-for-school-ness makes it for school).
So anywho. Here's a big jellyfish drifting across some cardboard boxes:
Cutting out the top layer of the cardboard in all those sections with an exacto took the most time, was the most labor-intensive, was the most annoying, and was most definitely the messiest. I have cardboard scraps all over my floor and my bed and my clothes and basically everything. For a week I've been walking around with little brown paper scraps stuck to various spots on my body. Probably in my hair, too, but I wouldn't know. But it's cool. I'll clean it all up some day.
I like it! I think it's perdy and I'm glad I decided to paint it. It looked pretty cool when the only differences between areas were the levels of depth in the cardboard, but I like it this way.
And now back to more homework. This week has been Stress Mountain. I can't wait until Thursday afternoon.
woo midterms and portfolio review in the same week! jerks :(
I said I'd post a picture of the as-big-as-me drawing once I took one, so here it is:
What happened: I got to class about an hour early just to give me some time to erase stray pencil lines, re-ink some spots, and generally clean it up before critique. I worked on it a little bit and everything went fine. But then 5 minutes before class was to start, I was putting my supplies away and cleaning up my area when I grabbed my nearly-full bottle of blue ink by the not-actually-screwed-on cap and spilled the whole thing onto the table, the floor, and the right edge of the drawing. Disaster! My frantic 2-second solution was to cut the figure free from the now-stained surrounding paper and add some more color splotches to make it look intentional. I think that cutting it out was a positive change.
As far as the drawing goes... it is about things like the beauty of the human body, starvation, protest, veganism, efficiency, body temperature, thermography, maps, and size.
I wish I had a place to put it.
FIRST: IF ANYONE HAS AN EXTRA ADOBE ILLUSTRATOR CODE ON THEIR HANDS AND WOULD LIKE TO HELP ME OUT IN AN ENORMOUS WAY, SEND ME A MESSAGE!
Here is what I've been doing in comp and painting, in chronological order, the one in color being the most recent. Oil paint. Most of them aren't finished because 5 hours isn't really long enough for a painting class. The ones that ARE finished are things I did at home. Most are 16"x20". (The spacing of these thumbnails is all retarded because vox is dumb).
The rest of these are from drawing concepts...
These two are from the Ugliest Person I've Ever Seen assignment. The one on the left is my interpretation of someone else's ugliest person, and the one on the right is my ugliest person. These were fun to do. I shouldn't even be posting these pictures though, as the terrible photos have killed most of the detail, which is sort of the most important thing about them. These are pretty big; 18"x24"
Um, if you'd like an explanation of this one, I will give you one.
This is most recent. We went on a field trip to downtown LA to draw the people and scenery around us, and our homework was to use those sketches as the basis for a finished drawing. This is a mash-up of things I saw at the Alamdea st market. (I demand you full-view this! Notice their hands!)
These are all (with the exception of the second guy) [terrible scans of!] drawings of fellow students. Friendmodeling for headsnhands. (I posed for others as well, and later had a bad head/eye-ache from having stared into the bright modeling lamp for 30 minutes. Now I fully understand why the models take so many eye-rubbing breaks)
Show us your hands.
Okay! Here are my homework hands from the other week.
(The non-skeleton hands are from Michaelangelo sculptures. Do you recognize David's?)
And here are some in-class hands
another week of work!
The sort of thing that would take 3 seconds to do on a computer but which takes hours to make by hand. We did it the old fashioned way.
From Heads&Hands and Composition&drawing. We just finished the skeleton [we have skinny models can you tell?] and have moved on to the muscles [this guy really is that muscular, though].
(Jesus is in there somewhere, did you find him?)
Show us your current art or crafting project
Dude. I am in the middle of so many art projects right now. Here is a bit of what I am/have been working on this past week-and-a-half...
Today I finished up a straight-lines-only drawing for Design. It looks like this:
And I recommend a full view of that because you need to fully experience the number of straight lines that I drew on that piece of paper. After doing this, I have discovered a new love for rulers, and my collection has grown rapidly.
I am currently working on the flip side of that project: a curved-lines-only drawing. It is based on the structure I made for the straight-lines project, so it is a golden spiral with real curves and oh man it is hard to construct a perfect spiral let me tell you.
I am also in the middle of my Heads And Hands homework, which is to draw 8 pages of skulls. I've done 4 pages so far, and yeah I am getting pretty familiar with the human skull. Like when I look at your face I can pretty much tell what your head looks like without skin. Neatest thing about art school so far: it gives you x-ray vision.
Here are my skulls, and also a few examples of what we do in class:
I've also done things for Composition and Design and Digital design, and I'll post those some other time.
I stayed up until 2:00 am last night slash this morning drawing Mr. Vonnegut.
Here he is:
We are working with color and flesh tone in my computerized life drawing class. I've had a square drawn on the back of my left hand for about a week now because our assignment was to do our best to replicate (in photoshop) the color of a small section of our own skin, and the square is my frame.
So here is what a 2"x2" section of skin on the back of my left hand looks like under fluorescent lighting, according to my eyes and brain and artistic ability: (bytheway: as it happens, this thumbnail is the actual size of the square section on my hand!)
kind of gross?
Anyway I kind of dig the square drawn on the back of my hand. It's pretty nice. pretty pleasing. Maybe I'll keep drawing it back on for a while.
