Drawing Sketchpad

Baring a large part of myself by sharing what's in my drawing sketch pad. These are all practice from in class lessons usually from something that was set up in the room. There are a few weeks missing, but this is basically it.

Week 1 part 1

First day of class he puts this tricycle in the middle of the room on the platform and says draw it! Yeah, panic attack right there.  No help, no suggestions . . .nothing, just go at it.  Longest class period of my life!! I was so embarrassed! Heaven help me I was probably 20 different shades of red, but I muscled through it. When he just couldn't stand it anymore. . . I told him not to watch me too much or it would drive him crazy . . he finally gave us 4 tips to start any drawing.

Week 1 part 2

 This was the same day after the tricycle attempt.  Contour lines, no shading.  Much better result but still very frustrating! It's all about learning to see negative space, interpretation of angles, horizontal and vertical relationships, and visual measurements - the 4 tips from the 1st part of the day.

Week 2

 Another exercise on learning to see shapes, lines, and relationships. It's frustrating when my hand won't do what my eyes see. I'm very slow so I didn't get it finished during the class period.

Week 6

 Learned how to draw a circle.  I had so much fun with this one and was really disappointed when we didn't spend long on it.  We moved on to composition using a view finder . . . which I enjoy because of my photography experience, but creating these timed sketches was pure torture! I felt like a 2 year old. That is what my camera is for!!

week 7

 And then . . . light, shading and value. I actually got to use a couple of my other tools instead of just my small pencil and eraser.  Dark and hard scaled pencils, molding eraser and blender. This was a really fun class because the results are amazing! It was also reinforced by what I am learning in my other class. The intentional use of perspective and value in art happens during the 15th century.

week 8

 We worked on creating value with our shading and learned some techniques.  I loved this! It's all coming together now.  We use contour lines to sketch out our drawing first then add the value.  The teacher does occasionally burst out into fits of laughter when he sees what I have done. . . the neck on the smaller bottle resembled a crazy mirror at the carnival before he intervened. (He is actually very nice about it.)