Project Broken: Drawing Down

Good evening fellow people. Above you will see two large charcoal drawings of trees. Some of the first drawings of the semester. The problem with the one on the left, Ben, is that he looks too 2D. I fixed that with the Orchard on the right, showing branches coming out of the front as well as sides. It was fun, but as drawing is, it was time consuming. Drawing takes way too much of my time, and I believe that is why it is my least favorite subject.

I skimped out on a bunch of landscapes, but this was one of the couple that was not complete crap. I did it over the course of two days, the first one was a perfectly normal afternoon, and the next day I was filled with angst and anger. It was not a comfortable feeling, and the tree in the middle got the grunt of the aggression. Luckily for it, I love it. I think it is one of my best pieces.

Here we have two evergreens, meant to become a series of three with my first Ben drawing. I did the blue one on top first, then this purple one. I then continued on to a bit more expression for my Theosophy project, and did the tree below. This tree is very important to me (in case you couldn't tell by me naming him Ben), and I wanted to capture it in time.

Up next was a study on horticulture. This drawing really only got 2/3rds finished, but once I did the berry branch, I wanted to move on. Our project after the Horticulture one was a series based off of previous drawings, so I chose the one I just finished. I really enjoyed drawing the berries, and I thought I could expand on that idea.

So I did the Berry Branch. I liked it but wasn't quite as pleased as I was with the other one. And I realized that that is because of the paper quality. This one is mediocre; the Horticulture one was like four dollars. So, paper is an investment.

Then there was this pink flower I randomly found and liked. Wanted to use more colour, I broke out the chalk pastels. When I was done, they looked great, but they were floating in the middle of the page. I needed to set it somewhere. So I went all contemporary and gave it this root system. I call the piece Digital Root System.

After a half a semester of pumping out landscapes, one right after the other, it was nice to finally move into some figure drawing. We got a model named Pam in, whom we worked with for a few weeks. The two drawings above were between 15 and 30 minutes long.

Then we had Emily in, who is one of my favorite models. It's nice drawing someone with a nice figure, because then you're bound to have a nice drawing in the end. Again, these two drawings were roughly 20 minutes long.

Near the end there, as per  usual, I was getting bored of our subjects. Models again. Pam again. So what do you do when you're not enjoying the medium you're working in? Start using a new medium! Chalk pastel. It was a lot of fun, and in one sitting I made a bunch of discoveries about it. I call the drawing on the top left Resting, and the one on the right is just Blue Pam.

We had a few self portraits under our belt by this point. Unfortunately all of mine were in my sketchbook, which I didn't bother taking any pictures of. But this one is one of my most recent, and one of the ones I am extremely proud of. I hope to expand on this type of drawing this semester.

One project we had to do was called a Total Information Drawing. As you can tell from the title, you're supposed to choose something and make a total info drawing based on it. I chose some of my paintbrushes because I had a really neat idea. I used ink and acrylic paint, and I am also extremely pleased with these two drawings. I was going to do three, but as is the story of my life, I got lazy. My drawing teacher didn't really like them, buuuuuut I did. And I have to decide that that's all I care about.

And last but certainly not least, my final self portraits. The project was multiple views, and I am very pleased with this one. I think that they're slightly questionable in terms of actually looking like me, but I did the entire piece in chalk pastel, putting more focus on the coours than accuracy. All the same, I think I did well.Similarly to my paintings, this drawing has layers. And it would be neat to be viewed from up close, because of how many layers I have put in this. The subtleties just made me happy.

Okee dokee everyone! Thanks for watching, hope you had fun, and I'll see you next time!

Today is the first day of classes for this semester, and I am entering in to it without a phone. Because I have lost mine, onnnnceeee again. -.-

Not the end of the world, but it makes doing the whole social media thing completely ridiculous. I'm sure I'll survive and probably won't even notice after a short while, but it's still difficult.

So until next time!