This week in Beginning Drawing we learned and played with shading and tone. On Tuesday we did different types of shading with graphite pencils - lines, cross hatching of lines, shading with and without blending and smudging and even shading using few and many tiny marks like asterisks, stars, triangles. This is the first picture below.
Yesterday we used charcoal for a fun exercise of a mosaic drawing. Everyone in class was given a small rectangle of a larger picture which none of us were allowed to see. We have to draw our piece on LARGE paper (18"x24") using charcoal and then blend, erase, smudge and get our hands very dirty. When we were done, we assembled them on the wall to see how well and different our drawings were. My assigned piece is the 2nd picture in the top row, then my drawing which used lots of interpretive dance. Then the assembled images and lastly a close up of my drawing in the bottom right corner of the mosaic.
On a side note, I am learning to NOT stress about this class. We are learning about drawing and various drawing mediums, papers, tools, and concepts and I am slowly embracing my drawings NOT being good and doing what I can; this certainly makes it much more enjoyable
Yesterday we used charcoal for a fun exercise of a mosaic drawing. Everyone in class was given a small rectangle of a larger picture which none of us were allowed to see. We have to draw our piece on LARGE paper (18"x24") using charcoal and then blend, erase, smudge and get our hands very dirty. When we were done, we assembled them on the wall to see how well and different our drawings were. My assigned piece is the 2nd picture in the top row, then my drawing which used lots of interpretive dance. Then the assembled images and lastly a close up of my drawing in the bottom right corner of the mosaic.
On a side note, I am learning to NOT stress about this class. We are learning about drawing and various drawing mediums, papers, tools, and concepts and I am slowly embracing my drawings NOT being good and doing what I can; this certainly makes it much more enjoyable
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