Grid-sketch potrait

This was kind of interesting-the idea was to take a preexisting "real-life" portrait of yourself and break it down into lateral grids-then to work grid-by-grid and sketch a likeness-the grids helped.

Still Life Cycle for Concepts Class-Part 2

Here is a "Finished Drawing" of the still-life.


Below is one I'm actually happy with. A "high contrast" rendition using three shades of gray marker.


Here is a "Pointillist" rendition using colored pencils-labor intensive-(I started to get carpal-tunnel" syndrome. )


Here's a detail of it:


This was a final take-I decided to take a "bird's eye" view approach.


Notice how it bears a striking resemblence to the "Martian Face" once photographed (and now totally eroded away) on the surface of Mars. Coincidence? You be the judge...

Still Life Cycle For Concepts Class

I was certainly not the only person to be slightly disoriented and taken aback when on the first day of a "hi-tech" digital production and design class we were administered sheets of blank newsprint and charcoal and instructed to engage in the perennial model sketch. But I began to recognize the fact that there was a type of "chop wood, carry water", Mr. Miyagi, zen kind of pedagogy going on along the "more will be revealed" variety.
Above is the "still life" I arranged to work from that consisted of a clock, two vases and two pieces of statuary.
The first assignment was a "gesture drawing". We were instructed to work really fast and get the general "formal gestalt".



The next is a "contour drawing", a sketch consisting of looking directly at the object without glancing back at either pad or pen.


Here is a "detail" from the Sphinx statue's head-at this point I knew that I wasn't the reincarnation of Raphael



This was a "negative space" assignment-the idea being to define the space around the object-as-such and concentrate on that .



Above is a picture of the Fantastic
Four's Reed Richards discovering the
"Negative Zone", some atlternate universe lying somewhere to the left of our own. Please don't ask me why
I'm refing this-I guess I'm just strange...

Here are some 1"x 1" minis-here the idea was to start to conceive of the space in different ways by limiting the size of the canvas.



Here's a blown-up detail of the center one:

Portrait Cycle - Media Concepts Class

Here are two portrait photos for an assignment for my Media Concepts Class. One was done well-lit and naturalistic, the other in shadowy contrast.

Media Concepts Class-Intro

Hi everyone, this is the beginning of a new semester and a new voyage. Among other things to be posted here will be (among my usual ramblings)assignments and projects for my Media Concepts Production Class.