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Day 2: Completed page of eyes from the Drawing Book: Pattern Prints by Agostino Carracci, I made the fullness of the eyelid too big for the 5th eye and the hatching marks from the curvature of the eyelid is too long for the 6th eye.
Week 4: Basic Principles of Light
This week we learn the laws of light, I’ve learned this before and this acted more as a review. I did the first assignment using the 3-D model and using simple 3-D forms, I tried to imagine the light as a straight line hitting the object in my mind’s eye. Using newsprint paper I felt really careful to add the values, to not tear up the drawing surface. I had trouble rendering the sphere and establishing a smooth transition from the core shadow (terminator) to the darkest half-tones, the impression mass of the sphere is found in the curvature of the form and the light should follow this. The next assignment was on household objects, initially I drew a bottle of olive oil and a measuring cup, unbeknownst to me I forgot that these were transparent objects so the laws of light wouldn’t follow what was prescribed in the assignment than if it were objects with a matte surface. So I drew two additional objects for the assignment, a lamp and a bottle of lotion, I placed the light relatively at the same angle for the objects (probably should’ve experimented more). The shadow pattern confused me the most as there was a cast shadow falling on the area behind the handle, the light coming parallel to this from the right. The lamp had lighting below it’s base resulting in the top of the main base’s surface to be knocked back into shadow, same with the actual surface of the bulb. The bottle of lotion had a sharp crease that resulted in the form going back into space then back out to create a cast shadow on the bottle itself. Work is on my ArtStation: https://www.artstation.com/artwork/8wmOrQ
Week 3: Drawing Forms in Perspective
This week focused on drawing forms using the new rules that we have learned from Chris, for the assignment I drew the 3D-forms from the 3-D models, I was a bit confused on the amount of variety we were supposed to have in the drawings of the forms since the models have a plane underneath the object. But, alas I did the assignment using the model to guess-timate where my vanishing points would be to the HL. I had trouble constructing the sphere in space because of the lack of angles, I assume you create 2 planes with an ellipse to connect the contour to create a sphere. Drawing the forms from imagination was a little tricky as I would try to place clearly defined marks that are aligned with the VPs and the same angles relative to the other lines on the boxes. I did erase unfortunately. For the cylinders, the ellipses were tricky as they always are, I haven’t drawn ellipses for awhile but I was up to the challenge, maintaining the concentration of your shoulder but also letting your motion dictate the curvature of the ellipse is a balancing act as well. I added the minor and major axes of the cylinder as well along with experimenting forms that bend and stretch. On the bottom plane of my stretched forms they look a bit off I was trying to follow the top plane since the form squeezes just ever so slightly, if someone could help with this that would be greatly appreciated. Final assignment, the household objects these were drawn from life, the objects were a staple gun, olive oil bottle, measuring cup, pliers, and a cup. I tried to add line weight to distinguish the depth of the object for the viewer, I created light lines to find my perspective for the objects and I found that the measuring objects assignment help with placing the objects on my paper. I feel that the ellipse for the measuring cup is bit off on the bottom. The full assignment is here on my ArtStation: https://www.artstation.com/artwork/LeaBOk
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