Self portrait - edited and completed

1:35 am pacific 

The first painting didn't receive a high mark as I hoped for. The reasons were the spiral was conflicting with portrait orientation. The original spiral was horizontal on a vertical picture plane. The original yoyo was too separated from the rest of the painting so I added more blues to the orange. In addition to the spiral direction / orientation, the values were too inconsistent. The overlay had to either be all darker or all lighter than the values of the rest of the painting. I don't know for sure if I got the corrections needed fixed but hopefully it looks improved! 

Sewer - reflected perspective, line art

Hopefully this pencil lines are clear, well visible, enough to see online. Inked lines are the 'real world' while the pencil lines are the 'reflected world'. 

I wonder if I've improved my line quality ..? One reason for the bad line qualit in my previous line arts could be I'm not applying enough pressure on the pens? Therefore many of them such as the 08 or 05,03 are showing up rather light. 

Abandoned subway - 2 point shaded

2:07 am pacific

Honestly I should be sleeping but after working on two assignments up until half an hour ago, I'm wide awake. 

(And it doesn't help that I feel the need to upload images and blog posts of my work before I sleep.) 

The two assignments I was working on were both for my perspective class: shading in our 2 point perspectives and inking our reflected perspectives. I'll be making separate posts for those for the sake of linking on my Facebook page. 

Torso - attempt 1

1:48 am Pacific

It still looks off to me and I think it's because of the breasts... 

On a different but similar/related topic, I feel like I really improved with this charcoal drawing compared to when I first started out/the first drapery. Even my instructor/professor says I'm one of the most improved in the class. (As far as I overheard/know, there's another person who's also improved from the start of class this semester.)

Edge control was definitely better in the torso drawing than it was in the drapery drawings. The background is a lot smoother too but heck did I use a lot of charcoal. Two to three layers of just vine charcoal, brushed off by chamois (I hope I spelled that right) and then gone over twice with charcoal pencil. Oh and of course smoothing or smudging with my fingers. I don't trust paper towels since it leaves gray dots where the charcoal paper has that texture. (Basically, in short, it takes too much off in my opinion.) But maybe that's a good thing? So you can still see the paper texture? Or is it a bad thing because you can still see the texture?

Drapery - Attempt 2, edited

1:41 am Pacific

The drapery above is the one I had for homework for my Analysis of Form class. Similar to my first drapery, I had to fix similar issues: edge control (fuzzy vs sharp) as well as more apparent values. I spent more hours on this one, at least outside of class, than I did for the in class drapery...though if you do include class time, I feel like I spent less? Actually, let me roughly estimate /calculate that.

Three weeks of homework time for drapery

I spent around 3-4 hours per week on it plus an additional 3-5 hours the past few days since we've got a group critique this upcoming Monday. 

Rough total would be 15 - 17 hours.

Class time for drapery

if we also had 3 weeks for it, and class it around 3 hours and add around an hour today fixing up the issues...

rough total would be around 10 hours. 

Hmm, I guess I did spend more hours outside of class, which is a good thing/should be happening.

Drapery - Attempt 1, edited

1:37 am Pacific

For my Analysis of Form class, we had two drapery assignments: one in class, the other as homework. The image above is the in-class one. I had to fix the appearance of it in terms of edge control (more crisp cast shadows and sharper folds as opposed to fuzzy). In addition, I attempted to smooth the background and a gradation effect to indicate even more which direction the light was coming from. 

Abandoned subway- 2 point perspective - line art, edited

5:29 pm pacific

I fixed the left vanishing point (bringing it closer to the image's picture plane). In addition I added more realistic details such as the cracks in the glass. 

Temple of the Dragon- shading,edited

5:26 pm pacific 

I forgot I had improved the drawing and resized I didn't take a photo of it and upload. The improvements I made were on the temple and the rocks, though the rocks gradients aren't that obvious as I hoped . 

Self portrait - it's complete!!!

4:53 pm pacific