Photos from Drawing I...and oh yeah, a gingerbread house.

Hi again :]

I finally got around to photographing some of my work from Drawing I. I made so much in that class that I picked only the ones that I thought were most successful. But first things first. Most of this afternoon was spent making a gingerbread house with my sister. We had absolutely NO idea what we were doing, so . . . ha ha ha. It was TOTALLY ridiculous. We started out with a plan, honest. It just . . . didn't exactly happen that way. Heh heh. :D Plus, the "smokestack" didn't work out too well (<3 you G) and now the roof is beginning to cave in. My dad says that next year he's going to get in on the architectural aspects. My sister got some pictures of this (ehem) lovely . . . structure (cough) and its various stages of progress (if you can call it that.) Oh well, it was fun. On to the pictures of my work from Drawing I. As I said, I did so much work in that class that I only picked out my favorites to photograph. At least, most of them are (my favorites that is.) I also included pictures of my "object drawing series" to demonstrate how much I improved over the course of this semester. I'm so excited; I can't wait to see where I go :D Anyways, we had to pick out an object that we would draw several times throughout the semester, including our first and final assignments. I chose Hank as my subject, who is this weird little two-headed dude that I sewed from scrap fabric a few years ago.

^ First time ever drawing Hank. 5 min. thumbnail sketches.

^ 2nd time. One hour drawing in pencil.

^ 3rd time. 2 hour drawing in pencil.

^ Aaaand this was my final ;) sitting on my easel, whose name is Dalas btw (there's a story behind that one.) Quite an improvement, wouldn't ye say? 6 hour drawing in conte on cardboard. And this one is waay bigger; 33in x 33in.

A close up of his wittle faces, just 'cause I think he's so damn cuuute. Not so, according to a guy in my drawing class: "I dunno, Hank looks pretty gross."

The next ones are inspired by Chloe Piene's style; I think her stuff is unlike anything else and totally awesome.


^ Psst. These are my absolute favorite. All three in conte.
More inspired by Chloe Piene...both in vine charcoal.



The next ones are from when the nude model was there...

^ 10 min, building on 15 sec gesture drawing. Conte.

^ The light was right in my line of view :( -value drawing, conte

^ Portrait style...value drawing, also conte (god, I love that stuff)

OK, so here is my collage project, and a drawing (or painting?) of one ink splot on it (done in ink, o' course.)


The rest are just some of dis and dat. (Can you tell that I am getting sick of doing this at the moment??? And it's getting so looonng...)

^ 3 hour self portrait; vine and compressed charcoal. I'm not so sure about the nose and mouth area...

^ Value drawing; I think compressed charcoal? Haha, mice-ies.

^ The oh-so-boring still life. Conte.

^ A skeleton. The nude model also peeled off her skin for us. Aha. Ehem. Ink.

Thank god that's done! Whooee, what a long haul. My fingers and toes are cold. So. Until next time.

Oh- BTW: by the time I was finished posting this entry, the gingerbread "house" looked like this:

Just thought ya'll would get a kick out of that.