First Art portfolio and class critique time!

Hello again!

I'm posting two blog posts today because I have actually made so much progress in my Basic Drawing course.

After turned in the first contouring portfolio, our class had a class drawing critique time to evaluate each others' art pieces. The picture below is for one of the stained life contouring pictures critique.

Class critique time was really valuable because I could get evaluated on my drawings and compare each others' drawings. I learned which part I need to improve on and which part I did really great on.

I realized that drawings can vary depending on the angle of looking at and depending on the way of people. More specifically, in general, I draw my lines very dramatically and clearly. On the other hands, some people focused more on the volumes and the shadows instead. It was interesting to compare my drawings with those of other classmates.

Overall, enjoyed it a lot and my first portfolio looks great so far! :)

On-going stained-life contouring!

Contouring is still on going!

Since the Basic Drawing course I am currently taking this semester focuses on basic skills step by step, we are more likely to focus on one specific drawing skill for several weeks. For about two months so far, I learned many different gesture drawing skills, continuous contouring, cross contouring, mass-line contouring, blind contouring and so forth. 

I spent the entire two consequent classes for my stained life contouring picture, and the purpose for this drawing skill is to grow and improve good observational skills and point out the most accurate outline drawing of the stained-life objects at the angle that you are looking at the objects.

This following picture is what I have drawn for last week.

The image to the left is the picture I drew focusing on the center bottom part of the entire objects. The image to the right is the actual objects displayed in the studio at the different angles and lights.

I used charcoal pencil as my tool of drawing this piece of contouring drawing. I could easily depict the depths and distance between the objects by changing the darkness of the lines. This stained-life contouring piece was the last contouring drawing for this course, so hooray! Almost done with contouring skills.

The following week on Wednesday, our whole class had a peer drawing critique time and I will talk about this in my next post! 

Continuous Contouring Skills

Contouring classes are still going on!

I have been taking this beginning art course this semester, Basic Drawing I. Although I would like to start learning volumes and masses ASAP, I realized that since this course is a basic drawing course so has to follow certain steps to draw professionally later on.

Last week during the classes, I still focused on contouring but in different form of contouring, specifically continuous contouring. For continuous contouring, any drawing tools can be used but for my case, I used a pen. Since It would be one of the parts of my first portfolio for this course, I had to choose specific theme for my continuous contouring, and started drawing my Art class storage room. I though it will be the perfect place to draw because of many various mediums and goods stored in there. 

However, I regretted it after I was almost half-way done with my continuous contouring because continuous contouring is supposed to be drawn without picking up the pen while drawing it. 

 

This picture above is the example image file I found from pinterest and attached for better understanding of continuous contouring. Since continuous contouring is a contouring skill without picking up the drawing tool, there are many overlaps over the drawings as it can be seen. Continuous contouring requires some patience because of these reasons, but once you are done with continuous contouring, you will end up with artsy picture right in front of you!

Drawing course week #1 and #2

During the first two weeks of Basic Drawing course, I have learned how to do a few different types of contouring. Among them, the first was continuous contouring, drawing without stopping between starting and finish line. This following image shows how you draw the continuous contouring lines. 

The second was weighted contouring. The most important concept of contouring is that you do not shade or express volumes. You can express weight by the thickness of lines or making cross sections like following images:

these two apples simply have same shape but different in the thickness of the lines. The apple in the right, however, seems to have more weight than the left because of the thicker, bold lines at the edge.

Meanwhile, weight can be expressed simply by the cross contouring lines. It means drawing many cross lines through your main object drawing. Weight can be expressed by many cross lines through the main object like the image above.