Painting in the Style of Famous Artist Project
Reference Pictures and Sketches:
Critique:
1) Who was your referenced artist for the painting? Name 4 main ideas you used from your research to create your painting.
My artist was Matisse. Although his style varied over time, I used his use of bright colors, loose simplified forms, relatively everyday things for subject matter, and deviating from what things looks like in reality.
2) Describe the craftsmanship of your painting. (Is it neat and well executed?) Considering I have very little experience and skill with painting, I think it is relatively well executed. Other than a few exceptions my painting is also neat.
3) What was the most difficult part of this project? It was difficult trying to replicate someone else's style. I also felt limited by my lack of skills when it comes to painting. There was things I wanted to do in my head, but then my hands messed them up.
4) Describe your color choices and how they reflect the work of your chosen artist? One main components of Matisse’s style was his use of bright colors that weren’t always realistic, so I decided to include that in my painting, by using bright, simple colors and ignoring the real colors from my reference picture.
5) Describe how the style of your landscape reflects your chosen artist. I used bright colors that didn't match up with the original colors from my reference picture. I made everything much simpler than it really was. Additionally, Matisse was known for his use of yellow and I tried to incorporate that.
6) What do you think your chosen artist would say if he or she could see your painting today? I feel like Matisse would be amused by my painting because it isn't that great looking and it seems kind of juvenile/childish.
7) What would you do differently if you were to do this project again? If I were to do this project again I would probably choose a different subject and practice more with painting before beginning.
1) Who was your referenced artist for the painting? Name 4 main ideas you used from your research to create your painting.
My artist was Matisse. Although his style varied over time, I used his use of bright colors, loose simplified forms, relatively everyday things for subject matter, and deviating from what things looks like in reality.
2) Describe the craftsmanship of your painting. (Is it neat and well executed?) Considering I have very little experience and skill with painting, I think it is relatively well executed. Other than a few exceptions my painting is also neat.
3) What was the most difficult part of this project? It was difficult trying to replicate someone else's style. I also felt limited by my lack of skills when it comes to painting. There was things I wanted to do in my head, but then my hands messed them up.
4) Describe your color choices and how they reflect the work of your chosen artist? One main components of Matisse’s style was his use of bright colors that weren’t always realistic, so I decided to include that in my painting, by using bright, simple colors and ignoring the real colors from my reference picture.
5) Describe how the style of your landscape reflects your chosen artist. I used bright colors that didn't match up with the original colors from my reference picture. I made everything much simpler than it really was. Additionally, Matisse was known for his use of yellow and I tried to incorporate that.
6) What do you think your chosen artist would say if he or she could see your painting today? I feel like Matisse would be amused by my painting because it isn't that great looking and it seems kind of juvenile/childish.
7) What would you do differently if you were to do this project again? If I were to do this project again I would probably choose a different subject and practice more with painting before beginning.
Final Artwork:
Acrylic Painting Activities
Value Charts and Color Wheel:
Value Charts: For this we had to make tints and shades of red, blue, and yellow. I struggled the most with shades, as I kept adding way too much black and the yellow shades turned green.
Color Wheel: It took me a while to come up with a creative idea, and I eventually decided to make a peacock where the feathers were made out of different tints and shades of each of the colors, however I ran low on time and settled for a Christmas wreath even though it’s May. It doesn’t look that great because I did it in a hurry. I should have paced myself for all the acrylic activities so I would have had time to make something way better. If I get time I’ll do that.
Color Wheel: It took me a while to come up with a creative idea, and I eventually decided to make a peacock where the feathers were made out of different tints and shades of each of the colors, however I ran low on time and settled for a Christmas wreath even though it’s May. It doesn’t look that great because I did it in a hurry. I should have paced myself for all the acrylic activities so I would have had time to make something way better. If I get time I’ll do that.
Painting Replica:
Clay Food
Brainstorming, Reference Photos, Sketches:
In-progress Pictures:
Critique:
- Describe the craftsmanship of your sculpture. (Is it neat and well executed?) My sculpture isn't neat or well executed. When actually sculpting it, I rushed and didn't do a good job. The cookie doesn't really have a good texture, the juice carton is warped, and the pizza has no texture and is very simple. When it came time to paint my pieces, these flaws made painting difficult and then I rushed even more. When looking at my sculpture all of the messiness and rushed parts are clear. I'm not that great at sculpture or painting, but this project came out worse than it should have.
- What was the most difficult part of this project? This project combined the two things that I struggle the most with: clay and painting. Then, I struggled with my time management and ended up having to hurry to finish everything.
- Did your color choices work together harmoniously? Within each individual piece the color choices worked relatively well. For the juice carton I repeated the same colors for different things, for the cookie I chose browns that go relatively well together, and for the pizza I used the same base color for everything. All together, the three pieces match okay.
- Is your sculpture interesting from all views? There's not much to look at from different angles. For all three of my pieces if you see it from one angle then you've pretty much seen everything to see.
- Describe the differences in constructing a sculpture and doing something 2D. For a sculpture you have to think about what it will look like from all different angles (top, bottom, side, side, other side), but for a 2D piece you don't have to do that.
- How did you create textures in your sculpture? I didn't really create any texture. In my cookie, however I did try to replicate the cookie's texture by digging ridges into the clay that I later smoothed out and by making the chocolate chips separate and pushing them into the clay like real cookie dough.
- Does your sculpture look like the actual food? How did you accomplish this? People can look at my sculpture and figure out what everything is supposed to be. Individually, one can see that the pizza is pizza, the cookie is a cookie, and that the carton of juice is a carton of juice and, when all three are arranged on a tray together they look like a school lunch. Unless they're seen from a distance none of them really look like actual food, however.
- What would you do differently if you were to do this project again? I would manage my time better and do a better job at constructing my pieces if I were to do this project again, as those are the greatest issues that I had.
Final Artwork
Pop Art Research
Warhol
Andy Warhol was a New York Artist who began his career in advertising and became a successful commercial illustrator before becoming a pioneer within Pop Art. He mostly used silk screen printing to create his pieces, which focused on everyday objects, magazines, and famous people like Marilyn Monroe and Jackie Kennedy. He focused on things that were used and/or obsessed over by the American public. Overall, Warhol was one of the principle figures within the Pop Art Movement. |
Lichtenstein
After becoming disillusioned with other art styles of the time, Roy Lichtenstein began to experiment with Pop Art and soon became a central figure within the Pop Art movement. His pieces centered around comic strips and other everyday things, using simple color schemes and Benday Dots to create them. This became a trademark of his style. Some of Lichtenstein's most notable pieces include Popeye, Whaam!, and Drowning Girl. |
Oldenburg
Claes Oldenburg's work focused on generic, everyday objects at a vastly different size and/or made out of extremely different materials while exploring the multiple identities that a single form can take. He is most famous for his "soft-sculptures", which tended to take objects that were hard and/or rigid in life and turn them soft and/or make them out of soft materials. Oldenburg and his work were key to the development of three-dimensional Pop Art. |
Clay Terms
- Ceramics: art of making objects out of clay to produce pottery and sculpture
- Clay: stiff, sticky type of earth that is used in ceramics; is wet and hardens after drying or heating
- Wedging: kneading the clay with hands to force out air pockets and create a uniform texture
- Pinch: hand building technique which uses the fingers to gently pinch the clay to shape it into a bowl or other form
- Coil Building: using the hands to roll out and rope shaped lengths of clay; coils may be any size, but must be consistent with one another; the coils are wrapped together on top of one another to form the sides of pottery
- Slab Building: a hand building technique using rolling pins to roll out sheets of clay; can be cut to form patterns and assemble into forms
- Score and Slip: joining technique where the edges to be attached are roughened up and "glued" with liquid clay (slip)
- Slip: watered down clay (becomes soft and slippery)
- Kiln: furnace or oven made of ceramic used to fire ceramic objects; may be electric, gas, or wood-burning and reach temperatures in excess of 2500 degrees
- Glaze: a thin, glossy coating fired into pottery or vases
- Plastic Stage: stage when clay is workable, pliable clay
- Leather Hard: condition of raw clay where it has lost most of its moisture but is still able to be joined or carved
- Green Ware: pottery that has not been fired
- Bisque Ware: clay that has been fired once in a kiln
- Earthen Ware (Glaze Ware): clay has been fired (low fire) a second time in a kiln
Primary Color Self-Portrait
1. Describe the craftsmanship of your portrait. (Is it neat and well executed?) I think my portrait has decent craftsmanship. It is relatively neat and reasonably executed. As I worked through my piece I tried to be careful and produce a good quality piece and I mostly achieved that.
2. Describe any difficulties you had blending and mixing your colors. It was relatively difficult to recreate a color across multiple squares, particularly when it came to the hair and my skin. It was also a bit of a process to layer the colors up enough to produce the brown color of my hair without having too much of one color. My hair still came out a little too red. Before starting my piece I was worried about using only red, yellow, and blue, especially for producing my skin tone, however in the end a majority of my colors came out fine.
3. Did you follow directions and draw each grid box separately? Why is this important? When I first began this piece I followed the directions to a T, going square by square exactly. As my piece progressed I occasionally extended a line into another square or went back to a finished square to add more layers, however overall I still went square by square. Then I got to my face and I began to draw and jump around to different squares. I think this is part of what messed up my facial features and proportions. It's important to follow directions and draw each grid box separately because this keeps the components of the image proportionate to each other and leaves less room for major errors that throw off the piece.
4. How did you create value changes with your colored pencils? In order to create value changes I applied more pressure and more layers to areas that I wanted to make darker and less pressure and less layers to areas that I wanted to make lighter.
5. Discuss how you were able to get the color you wanted from the 3 pencils? I layered varying amounts of red, blue, and/or yellow at different levels of pressure to achieve the colors that I wanted. For my hair, for instance, I lightly layered the three colors until I got a brown that I wanted. For my skin I applied a very light layer of yellow before applying a very light layer of red. Then I added more red or even a little blue to areas that I wanted to make darker. For my eyes I made the dark color of the pupil by making violet with the red and blue before adding yellow and for the iris I alternated blue and yellow to make green before adding a layer of red to make them slightly brown like my real eyes.
6. How could you improve your portrait? I could've done a lot of things to improve my portrait. To begin with a better photo of me from a better angle with a better expression on my face would have helped this piece a lot. I could've put more depth into my hair and more value into my face. I could've done a way better job with my facial features. My eyes ended up being kind of large and I messed up on my nose. I accidentally extended one of my nostrils out too large, so I made the other one match, however this just made the nose look weird and not like my actual nose. It didn't help that my face was tilted slightly upward in the photo. My forehead also somehow turned out too small. Overall this piece looks less like a self-portrait and more like my deranged twin sister's mugshot. I also have conflicting feelings about the background. I feel that I could have added more to it or gone with something more similar to the original color, however I like the way the orange looks.
7. Looking back do you feel you were prepared for this project? What part of the unit was beneficial in the success of the portrait? I feel like I was prepared for this project. By completing the color wheel using only red, blue, and yellow I was able to get used to creating a variety of colors using only the primary colors and through replicating the patterns I was able to get used to replicating things and creating various patterns with colored pencils.
8. Choose another classmate’s piece that you feel is an excellent example of mastering the techniques. Discuss why you feel this way.
I think that Tori’s piece is an excellent example. She seemed to go square by square for most of it and the way that she used the primary colors worked really well. Her values were really good and instead of matching the colors in her photo she took a more unique approach that ended up looking really good.
2. Describe any difficulties you had blending and mixing your colors. It was relatively difficult to recreate a color across multiple squares, particularly when it came to the hair and my skin. It was also a bit of a process to layer the colors up enough to produce the brown color of my hair without having too much of one color. My hair still came out a little too red. Before starting my piece I was worried about using only red, yellow, and blue, especially for producing my skin tone, however in the end a majority of my colors came out fine.
3. Did you follow directions and draw each grid box separately? Why is this important? When I first began this piece I followed the directions to a T, going square by square exactly. As my piece progressed I occasionally extended a line into another square or went back to a finished square to add more layers, however overall I still went square by square. Then I got to my face and I began to draw and jump around to different squares. I think this is part of what messed up my facial features and proportions. It's important to follow directions and draw each grid box separately because this keeps the components of the image proportionate to each other and leaves less room for major errors that throw off the piece.
4. How did you create value changes with your colored pencils? In order to create value changes I applied more pressure and more layers to areas that I wanted to make darker and less pressure and less layers to areas that I wanted to make lighter.
5. Discuss how you were able to get the color you wanted from the 3 pencils? I layered varying amounts of red, blue, and/or yellow at different levels of pressure to achieve the colors that I wanted. For my hair, for instance, I lightly layered the three colors until I got a brown that I wanted. For my skin I applied a very light layer of yellow before applying a very light layer of red. Then I added more red or even a little blue to areas that I wanted to make darker. For my eyes I made the dark color of the pupil by making violet with the red and blue before adding yellow and for the iris I alternated blue and yellow to make green before adding a layer of red to make them slightly brown like my real eyes.
6. How could you improve your portrait? I could've done a lot of things to improve my portrait. To begin with a better photo of me from a better angle with a better expression on my face would have helped this piece a lot. I could've put more depth into my hair and more value into my face. I could've done a way better job with my facial features. My eyes ended up being kind of large and I messed up on my nose. I accidentally extended one of my nostrils out too large, so I made the other one match, however this just made the nose look weird and not like my actual nose. It didn't help that my face was tilted slightly upward in the photo. My forehead also somehow turned out too small. Overall this piece looks less like a self-portrait and more like my deranged twin sister's mugshot. I also have conflicting feelings about the background. I feel that I could have added more to it or gone with something more similar to the original color, however I like the way the orange looks.
7. Looking back do you feel you were prepared for this project? What part of the unit was beneficial in the success of the portrait? I feel like I was prepared for this project. By completing the color wheel using only red, blue, and yellow I was able to get used to creating a variety of colors using only the primary colors and through replicating the patterns I was able to get used to replicating things and creating various patterns with colored pencils.
8. Choose another classmate’s piece that you feel is an excellent example of mastering the techniques. Discuss why you feel this way.
I think that Tori’s piece is an excellent example. She seemed to go square by square for most of it and the way that she used the primary colors worked really well. Her values were really good and instead of matching the colors in her photo she took a more unique approach that ended up looking really good.
Prismacolor Practice
Spheres and cones on black and gray paper and color wheel:
With these activities we had to make two spheres and two cones on black and gray paper using colored pencils. I think that mine look okay, however they have plenty of room for improvement. We also had to make a color wheel using only red, yellow, and blue. This is what we will have to do for our upcoming project. I thought that the violets were the most difficult to create has they began to get dark and somewhat muddled before I was able to produce the colors that I wanted.
Texture Practice:
For this we had to cut out examples of two fabrics, two value changes, two textures, and one hair. For the first fabric I chose (the white shirt) I messed up on the colors, so I took a more stylized approach. I think that the hair looks like hair, however I could've added more highlights and less straight. The second fabric kind of looks like a leaf in this picture, however in person more of the shading and fabric-like qualities are more visible. I still could've done a better job with it. The fur texture doesn't really look like the picture, however it does resemble fur in general. I think the rest look pretty decent. I just need more practice; Prismacolor colored pencils take some getting used to.
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Watercolor Final - Guest Artist Painting
Final Artwork: |
Critique Questions:
1) Explain the process you had to use to create the poured watercolor painting. After finding a subject matter that I liked (the pastries), I sketched it out before applying masking fluid to the areas that I wanted to keep white. Then, a layer of red, blue, and yellow watercolor was "poured" on. After letting that dry I applied more masking fluid to the areas that I wanted to preserve. This process was repeated until I was content with the layers. Then the masking fluid was peeled off. 2) Describe any difficulties you had with this process. I think one of the biggest struggles I had was patience. The process to create a poured watercolor painting takes a lot of time and patience and I kept trying to rush it, especially since I had about two less days to complete it than the rest of the class. I also had several instances in which I put too much water or didn't allow a layer to completely dry before I went to the next. 3) What were 4 things you learned from this project? I learned new watercolor techniques (masking fluid, poured watercolor), how versatile watercolor is, the importance of patience, especially in art and watercolor, and some of what it is like to be an artist as a career. 4) What would you do differently if you were to do this project again? If I were to do this project again, I would have way more patience. This goes a long with patience, but I would also add more depth, more values, and more colors. My piece ended up being kind of flat and it really only contains three distinct colors. 5) How did you use layers, textures, and color to create a successful piece? I wouldn't really consider this piece to be successful, however I did use layers to produce variations in colors and values. I also used colors to distinguish between different components of the piece and to make it resemble the picture that I used for reference. 6) Do you feel that the mini watercolor lessons were beneficial to you learning more about watercolor? I feel that the mini lessons gave me more experience and practice with watercolor. I was able to learn and use new techniques while practicing ones that weren't new to me. 7) Was having a guest artist a positive experience? It was fascinating to listen to and learn from someone who is an artist. He was also able to give us insight and advice while we were working on our projects. 8) What did you learn from the guest artist that gave you more insight into being a professional artist? The guest artist briefly went over how he works in a studio space producing artwork usually based on photographs he has taken on his own. It was interesting to learn a little bit about life as a professional artist and I was inspired to want to get more inspiration from my life in creating future art. |
Four Fruit/Vegetable Watercolor Paintings
When I look at this piece all I can think about is how much I want to burn it. Watercolor is definitely not one of my strengths, however this piece is way below the skill level that I am capable of. It didn’t help that I did it in a hurry. Redeemable qualities: Although it is hard for me to find anything positive in this piece, I guess the stems of the tomatoes look pretty decent, particularly the warm color and monochromatic ones. The shadows on the warm colors also don’t look completely terrible.
Overall I think I just need more experience and more patience and I might be able to create at least average looking pieces with watercolor in the future. |
Intro to Watercolor
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Activities in order: Watercolor Techniques; quick fruit painting (the apple); cone, sphere, and cube with watercolor pencils; value charts and four forms (cone, sphere, cylinder, and cube)
I have some experience with watercolor, however not a lot, and I think it shows. I learned most of the watercolor techniques we went over in Art 1, but it was good to have a refresher and to learn a few new ones. For the apple we had to paint a fruit and I chose the apple available at my table. It looks okay, but it still has a lot of room for improvement. The forms we did with the watercolor pencils in our sketchbooks was my first time using them. I really liked using them, even better than regular watercolor. When it comes to the value charts and the four forms we had to do, all I have to say is yikes. I struggled a lot with this activity. With the value charts I was able to achieve a few decent value changes, however overall they're kind of a mess. Not even kind of; they are a mess. The cone looks okay and the sphere isn't completely bad, however the cylinder and the cube really don't have any redeemable qualities. Watercolor is definitely high up on the list of areas I need to improve upon as an artist. |
Pen & Ink Patterning Project
Brainstorming/20 Ideas, Composition Sketches, Reference Photos, Final Sketch, and In-Progress:
Critique Questions:
1) Describe how you arranged your composition. Discuss your use of the elements and principles. Is it a successful composition?
When looking at my reference photos I liked the look of one where the barn within it was situated off to the right in the middle ground with a fence in the foreground, so I arranged my piece based upon this, filling in the background with hills and a sky with clouds. When making my composition sketches I experimented with different perspectives of this same arrangement, some with the barn closer or further from where the viewer was supposed to be. Generally speaking, I think my composition ended up being successful.
2) How is texture and pattern important in your composition? Texture and pattern were important towards creating contrast and by showing the size differences between different things. I created contrast by making the barn and the fence (the parts that I wanted the most focus on) darker and comprised of more realistic and linear patterns and by making the background out of lighter, more loose and whimsical patterns. Also, textures and patterns can be made smaller or larger to make different things appear closer or further and to create depth within a composition.
3) Why is value so important in this project? Value helps to create depth, produce contrast, and place emphasis on certain things. Without value everything looks flat and nothing stands out, especially in a piece like this that uses pen.
4) Describe your craftsmanship (How well the project is crafted technically). There are many instances throughout my piece where things could've been more neat/clean, more uniform, more straight, more even. From a distance or at a quick glance, however, these flaws aren't that noticeable and I felt that I did a good job at choosing and placing patterns. I also think that the composition that I chose worked well. Overall I feel that this piece came out looking pretty good, though, like most all art, has room for improvement.
5) Explain how your knowledge and creating practice studies with value and pattern contributed to the success of your piece. Knowledge and practice of value and pattern is very important towards creating a successful piece as they help to create depth, contrast, and many other important aspects. The worksheets and activities we did in class about these were helpful in allowing me to practice creating patterns, wrapping patterns, creating different values, and being more consistent with pen. This was all very useful in the creation and success of my piece.
6) When applying the pen and ink/pattern techniques why and how is it important to make sure you understand the concepts taught in class? The concepts taught in class are very important as the different techniques, strokes, textures, and patterns that make them up are all very important when creating anything with pen and ink and/or patterns. Also, just practicing these helps one to become better and more comfortable with pen and ink and patterning.
7) As a growing artist how do you think what you have learned will guide and better your future projects. Explain. Not only will I be able to use the pen and ink specific techniques from this project in the future, but I will also be able to use and enhance what I learned about value, composition, patterns, texture, and more within the creation of other projects in the future.
8) If you could recreate your piece what would you do differently to enhance your final outcome? As I mentioned above, there were components of my piece that could've been neater. If I were to recreate this piece I would be more careful by keeping my lines and patterns straighter and more even and try to keep my hand more steady. I also wouldn't rush like I did at certain times. I would also add more value changes and shadows to create better depth.
1) Describe how you arranged your composition. Discuss your use of the elements and principles. Is it a successful composition?
When looking at my reference photos I liked the look of one where the barn within it was situated off to the right in the middle ground with a fence in the foreground, so I arranged my piece based upon this, filling in the background with hills and a sky with clouds. When making my composition sketches I experimented with different perspectives of this same arrangement, some with the barn closer or further from where the viewer was supposed to be. Generally speaking, I think my composition ended up being successful.
2) How is texture and pattern important in your composition? Texture and pattern were important towards creating contrast and by showing the size differences between different things. I created contrast by making the barn and the fence (the parts that I wanted the most focus on) darker and comprised of more realistic and linear patterns and by making the background out of lighter, more loose and whimsical patterns. Also, textures and patterns can be made smaller or larger to make different things appear closer or further and to create depth within a composition.
3) Why is value so important in this project? Value helps to create depth, produce contrast, and place emphasis on certain things. Without value everything looks flat and nothing stands out, especially in a piece like this that uses pen.
4) Describe your craftsmanship (How well the project is crafted technically). There are many instances throughout my piece where things could've been more neat/clean, more uniform, more straight, more even. From a distance or at a quick glance, however, these flaws aren't that noticeable and I felt that I did a good job at choosing and placing patterns. I also think that the composition that I chose worked well. Overall I feel that this piece came out looking pretty good, though, like most all art, has room for improvement.
5) Explain how your knowledge and creating practice studies with value and pattern contributed to the success of your piece. Knowledge and practice of value and pattern is very important towards creating a successful piece as they help to create depth, contrast, and many other important aspects. The worksheets and activities we did in class about these were helpful in allowing me to practice creating patterns, wrapping patterns, creating different values, and being more consistent with pen. This was all very useful in the creation and success of my piece.
6) When applying the pen and ink/pattern techniques why and how is it important to make sure you understand the concepts taught in class? The concepts taught in class are very important as the different techniques, strokes, textures, and patterns that make them up are all very important when creating anything with pen and ink and/or patterns. Also, just practicing these helps one to become better and more comfortable with pen and ink and patterning.
7) As a growing artist how do you think what you have learned will guide and better your future projects. Explain. Not only will I be able to use the pen and ink specific techniques from this project in the future, but I will also be able to use and enhance what I learned about value, composition, patterns, texture, and more within the creation of other projects in the future.
8) If you could recreate your piece what would you do differently to enhance your final outcome? As I mentioned above, there were components of my piece that could've been neater. If I were to recreate this piece I would be more careful by keeping my lines and patterns straighter and more even and try to keep my hand more steady. I also wouldn't rush like I did at certain times. I would also add more value changes and shadows to create better depth.
Final Artwork
Pen & Ink 100 Squares and Landscape
The first picture is of my pattern squares, the second picture is some darker ones I created later, and the third picture is my landscape. With the squares it was really hard to come up with that many patterns and with the landscape it was hard to curve the patterns to the hillside, however both of these should be helpful to my project.
Pen & Ink Texture and Pattern Worksheets
The first picture and the third picture are the pattern worksheets. It was kind of difficult to replicate most of the patterns, however it was neat to finish them and barely remember where the original pattern began. The second image is the patterns I made myself. The one in the bottom right turned out kind of weird and it was hard to come up with original patterns, but it was still good practice. The two other images on the right are of the texture worksheets. When I first received them my first thought was, “How am I going to replicate these?” however once I got into them most weren’t that difficult and it was also good practice for working with texture.
Pen & Ink Value Charts & Stippling Worksheet
For all of my value charts them I began with the darkest value making it as dark as I possibly could before getting lighter from there. I did something similar with the stippling worksheet starting with the darkest values of the shapes before working my way into the lighter ones and then doing the shadows, trying to match them up to the figures in the left.
Assessment Drawings - Tree in a Landscape, Animal, Street Scene, Hand
Tree - I began with the roots of the tree before working my way up and adding value. I thought that the tree was the most difficult to complete because it was hard to get the leaves to resemble leaves and the background ended up being somewhat of a mess.
Animal (Duckling) - I had to experiment with getting the fuzz to look decent, however I’m happy with the way it turned out.
Street Scene - I started by drawing the vanishing point and going outward from there, before eventually adding in details. With this one I was able to refresh myself on what I knew about one-point perspective.
Hand - I began with the basic shape of my hand before adding in more details. I probably could’ve added more value, however I still like how it came out.
Animal (Duckling) - I had to experiment with getting the fuzz to look decent, however I’m happy with the way it turned out.
Street Scene - I started by drawing the vanishing point and going outward from there, before eventually adding in details. With this one I was able to refresh myself on what I knew about one-point perspective.
Hand - I began with the basic shape of my hand before adding in more details. I probably could’ve added more value, however I still like how it came out.