Valerie

For this piece I started out just filling in the lights and darks of the model, Valerie.  Once getting the basics in, I went back and made sure the proportions were correct and finished off the rest of the shading and highlighting. This was one of the first drawings I did using black and white pastels. It was EXTREMELY messy but was something new and fun to work with. I liked that when using pastels you can go over the white with black or vise versa without the color showing through from the previous mark. I liked using pastels for a figure drawing, i've never done this before and I liked the way it turned out overall.

Skull Still Life

A mules skull. Again I used white and black charcoal. But for this specific drawing to give the skull value and make it appear more realistic, I followed my lines in the direction that the skull went. This by far was one of the most interesting and fun project we worked on. I loved working on this. It was nice to see how value can be created by using a line movement technique. I learned a lot by shading like this. No smudging just lines.

Finished Perspective

Finished Perspective drawing. It was difficult and time consuming but it's finally done. I enjoyed working with white charcoal for the highlights and walls. I drew on newsprint and then traced my lines using a light table and charcoal on the back of the newsprint. After tracing it I got storm gray charcoal paper and transferred the perspective drawing. Once transferred I created shadows and highlights but only using vertical and horizontal shading techniques. Long process but it turned out better than I thought it would.

perspective drawing

Perspective Drawing- not finished. Reflections are darkened so when I'm transferring it will show through better. Transferring and shading will be completed soon.

Wire Trumpet

Wire Trumpet 

Outside Proportions

Fountain (unfinished but a good hours worth of drawing in)

Master Copy

Master Copy in Progress still working on proportions