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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.