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Typical art 101

Studio Saturdays with Jacey.

This week in my Art 101, I did what every art 101 student should do, I drew plants. and hands. and feet. and more plants.

Drawing class this week was very cool, and very cardiovascular. After a haunting look from all the perfectly drawn eyes (including eyelashes) of most of everybody else's blind contour self portraits (yeah jodi, you think i cheated, i think some of them actually had eyeliner on!) we moved on to gesture drawing. Two models shifting poses every 30 seconds while we sketched and erased, sketched and erased. It was great fun, though I may have been the only one to think so. Then we moved on to plants scenes, typical art student fare, eh? Still gesture drawing with my Prof. changing their postions. Then on to more detailed drawings from the gesture drawings. and on. and on.

For my weekend assignment, I had to arrange 2 plants, sketch them from 3 different views, pick one, do a blind contour of it on newsprint half as big as me. Then switch to slightly nicer paper (same biggie size) and do a gesture drawing followed by some detailing of it. She wanted to be able to see lines more than just the drawing, it's history, if you will. I like that idea. Below are my drawings, first the blind contour (which didn't translate to the computer well), then the other (which I'm proud of as my first real-life-like-ish drawing). I'd like to draw your attention to the single detail that makes me happy -- in the left drawing, to the far right, right about in the middle, one of the leaves of the ivy is backwards. I didn't know I could do that shit!

I also did a few hands and feet in my sketch book, we've gotta have 50 of each by the end. Here's a few of the ones I liked -- my feet (yeah, i know), and b-ill's hand abstraction.

Yarn update tomorrow, lotso knitting tonight. Speed knitting, in fact. Secret speed knitting.

Posted by jacey at September 10, 2005 07:33 PM