For this assignment, I drew a sailboat on a scratchboard. Scratchboard is a black cardboard that when scraped reveals silver or white. I chose to use the scratchboard that reveals white. I chose white because I thought it would be best in capturing the highlights of the sailboat. Once I came up with an idea, I then sketched it onto the scratchboard using a white prismacolor. I then began to scrape the general outline of the boat. After that, I started making waves. For me, waves were the strangest thing to do in this entire process. It just felt weird with how waves are drawn and applying that to the scratchboard. I utilized techniques that i have learned earlier this semester such as cross hatching as seen on the mast of the sailboat. The movement of this piece can be shown in the waves and the sail is flowing and fluttering in the wind. The sailboat is also going through the water. I wanted to draw detail into the side of the boat that i thought would compliment the movement of the boat going towards the right of the paper. I did this by showing wear and detail to the side of the boat (from left to right). I added lines in the sail to show that the sail was fluttering in the air. Finding values in this was difficult because scratchboard is a new style of art for me. I was not familiar with scratchboard until starting this assignment. However, after completing this assignment, I feel much more comfortable about doing scratchboard.
For this assignment, I drew a self portrait. However, I distorted my appearance on one side of it. On the left side, I am a werewolf. On the right side, I am myself. The medium that I used was graphite pencils. Drawing the fur and background took time with graphite pencils as it was individual pencil strokes making it a very tedious and cumbersome process. I feel that the background would have been better if I had made it darker. It would have made the outline of my face, neck, shoulders, and the moon all "pop" because it would have shown a more clear contrast. I think that the ears came out really well. My drawings of the eyes also look good with the exception that one is slightly larger than the other in this piece. I feel that I could have worked more on the teeth because the teeth could have been receding using one of the perspective techniques as this would have added depth and dimension to the teeth and mouth. Overall, I think that this assignment came out well. I feel that I have grown as an artist as this semester has gone by. |
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May 2015
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