Intro to Drawing (Fall 2010)

This was probably the best art course I've ever taken. It was a huge step up from high school studio art and I feel like I learned a lot here. I also met one of my favorite art professors here, whom I would later take both Intermediate and Advanced Drawing with. The projects were great and the critiques were so helpful. I met a lot of great people here too - lots of parkies who happened to be close friends of my brother.

Cliche Skull. There's definitely a lack of depth and shadows.. I spent too much time measuring. 

For this project, we used a projector to slowly bring the image into focus. We also did it upside down, so for most of the process we had no idea what we were drawing. 

Chairs. 

I decided to start using color - don't ask what made me choose blue and yellow though. Perhaps subconsciously showing some IC pride?

More color experimentation. What did I learn? - Don't outline the body in black. Anyways, this was a fabulous model. 

Some quick gesture drawings. We got people from the class to take turns modeling. The bottom right kind of looks like the girl from "The Ring" climbing out of the TV though... 

A male model. If you haven't noticed, I suck at male models. Especially here, where I turned this man into a metallic-looking statue. 

Negative space exercise. Oh god why did I put a halo around the pumpkin stem?

The preliminary sketch for the "Hot and Cool" drawing below. 

I'm glad with how this one turned out - perhaps my favorite drawing of the semester! And it's just drawn on a ripped piece of a huge brown paper roll. 

Reductive charcoal exercise. We all made our own paper airplanes and drew them first with charcoal. Then we covered a piece of paper in charcoal and only used our erasers - which is shown here. 

Self-portrait exercise with squares - this was our mid-term project. We each had our pictures taken and then our professor cut them into squares and gave them to us. We then drew each of them on larger square pieces of paper (this is actually a pretty large piece). Let's just say I spent the majority of Thanksgiving Break working on this. Lots and lots of charcoal and spray fixative. Note to self: don't wear striped shirts when you know you're going to have to draw it. 

A typical still life - unfinished, as usual. 

A finished still life. The curves in the yellow-green object are a bit off, but hey you learn from your mistakes. 

Yet another still life. Nothing fancy, just some geometric objects. The shadows need a little work - that's what happens when you spend the majority of your time trying to make all the measurements work out.