reference photo and sketches1) I created an interesting view point by making the giraffes nose bigger than his head/his body. I do like the way it turned out but I think it could have been more successful if I exaggerated how big the nose was more.
2)It is important to understand perspective because the part of the object that you are changing really makes it stand out and chases the eye of whoever is looking at it. It is important to know how to draw it because if you don't emphasis it enough it could ruin your whole piece. 3)The color pencils exercises were important because they gave you practice on how the colors blend and how to layer them correctly. The color pencils take longer because you do have to add lots of layers but it really makes your object stand out. 4)I used layering and that takes longer but it helps blending and you can add more colors in. All blended really well except the right ear I added a lot of black first and i couldn't go over it cause I did it too dark so when your layering you definitely want to do all your lights first and then add a little of your darks last and blend. 5)I created depth showing behind the nose a little darker kind of a shadow and also on my background around the head and some of the neck I tried to add a darker green. For my background I used cool colors because my piece is mostly warm colors so I thought it would make a good contrast and really make it stand out. 6)Some obstacles using color pencils is trying to finish layering and their still be some white spots it took lots of time to get everything colored. Blending does take awhile but the colors are very bright and really make the piece stand out. 7)I feel I was prepared and practiced colored pencils a lot before this project. I think it would have been better if we had a mini practice with foreshortening before. But it didn't take long to figure out how to draw it.
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For this drawing we were given a box with a different type of glass form in it. The box was also covered with different colored construction paper so we had colors reflecting off our glass. Glass is very difficult to draw and also the vase we got didn't have that much to add with detail so it was hard to make it look realistic. I feel like I could have added another layer to make it looked more blended to together.
For these drawings we got print out pictures of each of the object and we had to draw with prisma color. This was our first activity using the prisma. They make the image a lot brighter and the colors are really easy to blend and I like that. You do have add a lot of layers and that takes awhile but in the end it looks good.
Practice sketches 1) In my drawing I used a lot of value. I tried to add lots of different lights and dark's by adding shadows and highlights to my still life. Blending helps a lot with making that process successful. Adding more dark's and lights makes the object pop more.
2) Most of the values and shadows are realistic but some i added in my drawing. I added a lot of value especially in my shoes and in the telephone. Value is very important in any drawing because it really shows the shapes indentations and shadows which those make the objects more realistic. 3) The lights were hitting off of my section I choose to draw at different angles because it was on the corner or the table. It still gave me a chance to add a good amount of my highlights and shadows. 4) The compositional sketches helped a lot with picking which section we wanted to draw and how to crop the image with adding everything in. 5) I feel like I got a lot better in the process and I also learned a lot with making it look more realistic. Also with adding as much detail as possible and with the values making them more exaggerated. By doing that it makes the shape pop more. 6) Some of my proportions are off but it was hard to get it the right size all the time by looking at it from a distance but i think my perspective was better. 7)I thought it was good placement and grouping of objects because any place that anyone chose to draw from had a good variety of different types of objects to draw with. 8) The center of interest in my drawing was probably the telephone because nothing was covering it and you could see it really well to make it stand out. 9) For this drawing I could have spent more time on this project with helping it look more realistic and fix some little things. For example my ribbon going through the top was really rushed so I didn't get much of a chance to show the curves of it and make the values make that pop. 10) The boot was really difficult for me because on most of the parts I wasn't sure how the best way to add value to it was. I ended up just making the creases darker and on the bottom of it I just used the design and made the lines darker to show it was deeper. 11) I learned from drawing a still life that it makes it a lot easier to make it look realistic because your not drawing from what you think the object looks like in your head your drawing from what you see. I also learned that it makes it easier with adding all the shadows and highlights because you just do it the way the light is shining on it. |
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