Just for fun

I did this for fun today.  I never would have attempted this before this class.   Thanks to all. 

This was my drawing from the beginning of the year. 

Self Portrait for John Coppola
I added a scenic background.  I threw a bow and arrow in because of my like for Robin Hood and Green Arrow.   That is why the hood too.  I put the road in so that there could be a vanishing point and I tried to show the same with the trees as you go down the road.  I tried to add value in my face by drawing more with implied lines and using a grey scale to shade.   For example my nose I did not draw a nose with lines I put darker shades of grey to shape the nose.  I used the same methods around the cheeks.  The eyes I had to draw.  I usually draw each line I see this time I did not. 

portfolio

This was the week we did a collage with our grey scale.  This is my least successful,  Not a fan of cut and paste when it does not involve a mouse.   I could have done smaller pieces then possibly I could have made it work better.  

This was from earlier this semester when we were doing the unified field drawings.  I like it better than the other unified drawings that I did. 

This was an ink print using a potato that I cut into a cone shape.

Still my favorite overall picture that I have done. 

This was from our week of color, I felt like a kid in crafts time. 

We had to do rubbings, The treasure chest was my favorite.

My other rubbing that I liked too, it was a puzzle

A contour line of shapes

My one vanishing point

This was my 3 vanishing points drawing

I like how these to gesture drawings came out. 

We were asked to draw a paper bag and this is my charcoal drawing of the paper bag. 

Green Arrow
This one I did for fun, it is based on D.C. Comics Green Arrow (2001-2007) Kevin Smith, Phil Hester, and Ande Parks.  I took a close up shot from Part two of there series and tried to draw it.

Lyrical line with a marker

Grey scale with charcoal

contour line self portrait

1 comments:

john coppola said...

In this drawing that Elizabeth (My sister) did. I would say it fits in with the realism and the objective categories. Why I chose this picture is because for one I was there when she drew it. In minutes she put a very lifelike looking drawing of my daughter to paper. I wouldn't say that it is photo-realism like the image of the shoe on page 16 part one of our text. But I would ideally like to look at someone across the table from me and draw a life like resemblance of them.

That was what I picked and said at the beginning of the semester.

Now the picture that I picked from the reading of the text. 

This is image 10.12 by Alex Katz, it says it is his Homage to Frank O'Hara this is found on page 231 of the text in chapter 10.  

I chose this photo for a couple of reasons.  One it seems the most like one I would like to attempt to draw.  Two I really like the simplicity.  There is value based on the different colors like the jacket and shirt as well as the hair. This is not like value that the rabbit on page 93 has, the rabbit  looks simple and yet seems very complicated at the same time.  This is more like when we created a grey scale for our shapes and used different shades for an entire surface of an object to create depth.  Some things I like just like when I started.  This represents figure or body art.  That is what I am interested in drawing.  Weather I am drawing real people or comic book characters I mostly like the close ups of the face so Body Art is my Ideal drawing.  Though I would consider a good landscape.  In this particular drawing I am impressed with the implied chin.  Chins are not always easy to draw and the fact that there is no actual line but an implied one and you still feel like this is a person you could meet is pretty neat.   It almost looks like this is a collage of cut outs when you look at the coat and hair but I believe it is a drawing. 

Perspective drawings

This is an Ant's Eye View like the next one.  This one was drawn with Charcoal and I thought it came out a little better than the next one.  I tried to give more detail to the lower right which was closest to me in the drawing.  I had more difficulty with the ants eye than the rest I felt.  

This is my least favorite of all of my attempts.  This is the only one I did in pencil.  It is an attempt at an Ant's eye view.  I set the objects on the edge of a table and drew them looking up from the floor.

Birds Eye View,  I tried to focus mostly on the cone and therefore,
I made it larger then items that were larger than it.  I also tried to give the cone more detail.
This is different than any layout I have done.  I was able to space the objects out more like a city.   Usually I have them all tight together.

Three Vanishing points drawing.  I tried to make the ball and cone fade out like the to sides.
It was a little more difficult to pull off.

Here is my two vanishing points attempt.  I tried to draw the cylinder and ball true to size -
and fade the rest to vanishing points.  

One vanishing point.

Paper Bag

This is a paper bag drawn with a black Conte' Crayon.  

This was a paper bag drawn with Charcoal.  The corners were twisted a little for extra character.