Blond Female Portrait Sketch

Beautiful work by Igor Lukyanov:

Blond Female Portrait Sketch

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pics of my work this semester

here are pics of my homework, with some reworks:




























for some reason it posted them all in reverse order .. . grrr

more artists I admire

Here's an awesome example of cross-hatching: Hendrick Goltzius' The Massacre of the Innocent


I believe this is cross-hatching also, by MC Escher, but if not then it has great perspective and line variation.


These are also by MC Escher, and show his mastery of line variation and definitely of perspective. I love how dynamic his works look just by correct cross-hatching/ shading, and the thickness of his lines or the use of different pencil strengths:





Beautiful, aren't they? He can turn ordinary things into an entirely new world. They are both mind-boggling and imaginative. I'm not one for geometrical shapes, but the way he pulls it off makes me feel less constrained and more free and chaotic, the way I like it :P Structured chaos . . . .

Last Post!

Hm my thoughts on this class . . . .
It sucked!
No actually I loved it, although I'm still not as good as I could be at drawing, I've greatly improved, and I'm so glad I took this course. Compared to my pitiful art classes in the past, I've learned so much more taking this one class than from anything else. It's always been so disappointing to me when I would try and draw, because I would see something so perfect and when I'd try and draw it, I wouldn't even know where to start, so I just stopped drawing. I also have been trying to get away from the anime-ish way of drawing people, since that's how I taught myself when I was a kid and didn't have anyone to teach me otherwise. I'm still working on getting out of this, and hopefully if I can afford to come back next semester, I'll be able to get out of this habit and learn how to really draw :p
I'm so much better at perspective than I was before, and I love how I can just change the line variation to add shadow rather than shading all of the time. This class has been a lot of work, but well worth it in my eyes. I'm still not going to miss that dark, cold room, but what I've learned from it has been rewarding. I feel so much more confident now than before, and I definitely can see my improvement. I will keep working at it until I get to the point where I feel I've found my style, then master that, whatever my style is ^.-
So thanks Jason, and all of you other kids that helped me out this semester, I needed it. Obviously I don't have much confidence just because I've disappointed myself too many times. But now that I had to force myself to do it, I'm not so afraid anymore. I think that's all I needed, someone to push me off the cliff and into the water.
I hope you guys have a great summer, I'll miss you! ^-^

What's My Medium?

I'd say I love charcoal, although pencil is always great especially for sketching. I think I love charcoal because it's so dark, however it's extremely difficult to erase, which is very bad for me . . . overall though I prefer charcoal because I love the variation and how drastic it can make an image, whereas with pencil the color isn't as intense so it's harder to see and less powerful to me. I like the strength of charcoal and to me it jumps out at me more visually. Conte is definitely too difficult for me. If they only made a Conte sharpener I think I'd be fine . . .

i see dead plants . . .

Ok so I didn't have a potted plant and there are no plants around our apartment besides trees and bushes. So, I had to borrow my friend's dead plant. It made for quite an interesting composition, I think, although the plant was so stringy that most of it came out as a bunch of lines. I sat it next to my video camera bag and my purse with a mirror behind it. I think I could've made a much more interesting composition though. I was disappointed because parts of the plant that were most interesting had fallen apart, like the super-long viney piece that I really wanted to draw. I really tried to work with my line variation and I hope it went better this time. I also hope it isn't too late to rework my midterm, I think I forgot . . .

drawing exteriors

I found out how bad I was at intuitive perspective . . . I was so focused on line variation and making my first drawing light, that I messed up on the angles of things. To make it even harder, I couldn't finish it in one sitting, so I had already drawn in some cars, and stupid me forgot that those moved . . . fortunately the same cars were there, except they had moved over one or two spaces, which really threw my perspective off. I tried to fix it, but I'd already gone over it with the 4B before I realized I'd messed up. So now my drawing has horrible perspective, and I can't draw a straight line for the life of me, so the tops of buildings and the curb look like something from an expressionist painting . . . hopefully I can get some pointers today on how to fix this.