It's All About Perspective: December 2008

Thursday, December 25, 2008

Icicles

Sunday, December 21, 2008

Self-Portraits: A New Technique

This is a technique I just started using for my self-portrait. I like the simplicity of the light and dark. I've found there are certain image conditions that make a better image in this style. The white spots on my hair and clothing are falling snow. I think I'm going to use these images to practice value and shading. This technique also works good with my face because of my round cheeks, forehead and chin. I like that it gives a suggestion of facial features without all the little details (and imperfections).

Monday, December 15, 2008

Digitally Manipulating My Drawings

I discovered the fantastic technique of digitally changing my drawings. This is a quick drawing from my sketchbook.

You can see the original from a previous post.

This is a self-portrait from my sketchbook. It's half my face and half of my grandmother, Bonhist. This picture shows how my ancestors are behind everything I do and that they guide me everyday.

Another quick drawing from my sketchbook. The colors make it look like an weathered and old drawing.

Sunday, December 14, 2008

Photos from Today's Snow

Winter Apples:
The deer like to come early in the morning and feast on these winter delights.

Neighbors:
This is the view from the end of my driveway. You can see across the pasture to our neighbors.

Happy Holidays

My Cottage:
Here's my little cottage from the end of my driveway.
You can see the grape vines along the drive.

Drawings From Art Class

My favorites from my first drawing class. I really enjoyed the class and did much better than I thought I would. I had an excellent teacher and my classmates were fun and quirky like me.

Abstraction Drawing:
One of my favorite assignments in my class.
I spent over 8 hours on this drawing.
Click for better detail.

Abstract drawing from my sketchbook.

Self-Portrait: Grandma Bonhist and Shilo
I had a hard time on my self-portrait in class (Not pictured here) so on the weekend I made a self-portrait of half of my face and half of my Grandmother Bonhist's face.
I am still struggling with faces. It's hard to get the right proportion.

Unique Perspective:
This is an assignment where we were to find a unique perspective somewhere in our environment. I'm not statisfied with how it turned out. I might draw it again and draw the squares individually as per the advice of my peers. The stovepipe turned out good though.

Figure 1: Abstract Landscape:
We had a nude model the last week of class and were instructed to draw the model as an abstracted landscape. Can you see it?

Figure 2
Same model as above in a different position. The symbol on her back was her tattoo. I like how the feet turned out.

Figure 3:
this is a different model from the drawings above. This was a quick drawing and I think we only had about 7 minutes to draw. You can see I struggled with the hands and feet (as usual). My favorite part is the hair.

Figure 4:
This turned out okay and we had a lot longer to draw. Maybe next term I'll be able to add faces. I still struggle with getting all of the body on the page. Although I like the fact that the bodies have not face. We're not sure who the body belongs to and can't get wrapped up in their face.