Continuous Line — first attempt. Did pre-sketch in pencil using sighting stick, then drew with thin black ink pen (05). Although everything is connected to everything else, I did lift my pen several times and in the end felt like I didn’t keep to the spirit of the assignment as well as I’d like. Will repeat later this week — thicker pen, no pre-sketchsecond attempt — thicker marker (Sharpie “Fine”) and no pre-sketch with pencil. Looser, and less accurate. More character, I think.
Jan 17: In-Class Perspective 1,2, and 3-point:
In-class 1-point perspectiveIn-Class 2-point perspectiveIn-Class 3-point perspective from aboveIn-Class 3-point persperctive from below
In-Class January 24: Perspective — Light and Shadow
In-class Drawing 1 18 x 24. graphite shading 35 minsIn-class Drawing 2 18 x 24 charcoal shading 30 minutesIn-class Drawing 3: 24 x 36 Work in progress. 40 minutes. I have retained a photo of this set-up and will work further on it. Struggled to generate an accurate line drawing on a page this large– was seated at donkey, I think I need to use easel next time to be able to step back and scale things better… no more donkeys for large format!!Drawing 3 completed at home — approx 30 minutes more. Needed to redraw some boxes. Since class I obtained pastel chalks that are in brick format not pencil — much easier to use to add colour on large paper
Homework for Jan 31: Spatial Complexity
9 perspectives on a bedroom.
In-Class Exercise January 31: Group Drawing
My panel in the group drawingThe final Group Drawing: bottom left corner for my panel. I wish I’d communicated with the artist about the panel immediately to my right — she included more of the floor in front of the door, mine would have matched better (and would be a more interesting composition) if I’d done the same, instead of sticking with the photo crop given us by Scott.
MID TERM PROJECT: Pair of Perspective Drawings: Feb 1 – 14
Early sketches included thumbnails 4 x 6 of three or four different ideas. See below
I liked the stairs in my house the best, so cut out the thumbnails and trialed different layouts before went on to make a pair of larger (6 x 9) sketches. See below, with comments:
two 6 x 9 sketches
Decision made — technical work-up included rearranging cut outs, cut and pasting the two photos and marking them up to help me visualize vanishing points. See below, the reference photos for downview and upview, the marked-up reference photo, and the work in progress on the technical perspective undersketches….
reference photo: panel one Downviewreference photo: panel 2 Upviewphoto mockup with added reference linesTech drawing 1 in processTech drawing 1 final, Feb 9. Quite light pencil marks so not easy to catch a good image, sorry.Tech drawing 2 in process: Left vanishing point was a long way away — used a 6-plus foot metal straight edge from my husband’s shop to mirror the measuring tape line,Tech drawing 2 final (Feb 10) — again, light pencil markings.
FINAL VERSION – most of the day Feb 11 and 12, and half day Feb 13 to complete shading:
