Clay Textures

Figure Gesture Drawings

FINAL MASK

City Escape

Neutral Ground---Blue Figures

Neutral Ground Crosshatching---Still Life

 

Forthe neutral ground/crosshatching-still luife we started with a middle ground paper, in otherword we used pencil shavings and rubbd it onto the paper. We used a kneadable eraser to identify shapes of light value, charcoal to darken the shadows , and chalk to emphasize the light values. Crosshatching was used on some areas as well.

Contour/Texture Drawing

Blck Paper/ White chalk

The media that were used were positive and negative dark light. In this drawing we had to shade the parts that were the lightest and then used different values to put emphasis on his facial features. Various color values (light, dark) were used to give the drawing more realistic features. We shaded the negative parts to make the images.

Interior (Surface) Contour Still life

 

We had to draw the still life that had grids of lines projected on it. In this drawin I used actual lines because the lines vary greatly in weight and character. It depended on where the light was more or least on, and also the darkness of the shadows. The still life figure changed the straight lines into curvilinear lines; the vase had a round surface, and the grid lines emphasized the curviness of the vase. The grid lines made us see the different surfaces the still life objects had.

Crosshatching Seated boy

This a drawing of the seated boy by George Seurat, we did crosshatching to build up the different value changes. The method for the crosshatching seated boy was to use close parallel lines to create the illusion of shade, shadow, and volume. Adding little lines  results in lighter values. In contrast, adding more parallel lines on certain areas creates darker values. The media is crosshatching, we used crosshatching to show the light, neutral, and dark values within the drawing.

Controversial Issue Drawing Journal/Reflection (using Haring like symbols)

Pos/Neg Still Life

Upside Down Picasso

 



The concept is that drawing upside down forces us to use the right side of our brain and therefore it trains us to really see the shapes and lines of the picture, instead of what the drawing is about. This will then direct us to avoid common objects and symbols like eyes, ears, arms and so forth. It makes us study the lengths, curves, distances of the lines and not the images we are familiar with. This exercise helps our minds develop the ability to distinguish lines and shapes and their connection to one another. The media is contour line drawing.

Keith Haring Drawing

Positive / Negative bird

Positive / Negative bird

 For this drawing, we had to learn between positive and negative spaces. When there are positive spaces in a drawing then there are certainly negative spaces. Without a positive shape you won’t have a negative shape,in a simpler way a positive shape automatically creates a negative shape. The main purpose of this assignment was to identify objectives as physical matter shapes rather than oral images. Furthermore to understand the shapes and spaces and spaces around an object, it helps us think what was the drawing really means. The negative spaces are around and behind the positive spaces; they are blank spaces around the positive spaces, whereas positive spaces are those spaces in the main subject of the work. I used contour lining for the gird and the media is positive and negative shading. Two of the elements of design, space and shape, were used in this assignment. I used the value of both dark and light because of several shading and to give more life to the drawing.