In this assignment we had to draw modified contour drawings of shoes that were payed out on the table. I accidentally did this in pencil and I had no time to redo the drawing but I thought the drawing wasn't that bad. The shoe really didn't have that much detail to it so I couldn't do too much with it. It was challenging to get the dimensions of the shoe when it wasn't facing completely left or right to me but for the most part I was fine with it. Shading would have made this shoe stand out much more but we hadn't learned about it yet. I messed up on some of the proportions of the shoe including the bottom near the heel of it. The proportions on the whole thing are off but it's hard to look at a shoe three feet away and draw the actual size of it due to depth perception. I'm the end the shoe came out better than I expected it would so that's a plus.
For this assignment we drew contour drawings of our hands and we were able to observe our hand in the process. The modified contour drawings were fairly easy due to the fact that we practiced blind contours right before we did them. It just made it feel easier and I was able to capture more detail in the hand. Although I messed up on the dimensions of the hand a little this was my best piece. Putting the lines and creases of the hand in the picture helped it to become more realistic and detailed. Shading would've also helped to do this but we hadn't done a lesson on shading before this. To me my drawings look pretty good but there is always room for improvement and one I start practicing modified contours my pictures will be even better. My experience with oil pastels was pretty good. They were a little difficult with adding value at first but it got easier the more I used them. The way I created value was by shading in the medium color i used first and then layering over it in the darker color farther away from the light source. Then I worked on the lighter color closer to the light source so it would look like the light was creating a shadow over the shape. Overlapping was crucial to shading because it provided the shape with a fluent "shadow". If you don't overlap when shading it will look like one color ends and another begins, but it's supposed to be fluent. In my draft I was just messing around and not really focusing on a specific light source for all three shapes, but for my final work I established a light source towards the upper left corner of the paper and it was pretty clear of where it was. Value is important because it provides the shape with depth. If someone didn't shade their shape would look flat and two-dimensional. Shading provides more of a life-like shape and makes it look three-dimensional. |
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May 2015
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