Skull: Charcoal and Gesso Drawing

Here is my last drawings for the semester. We used compressed charcoal and gesso. It was interesting using the two mediums, and I am very pleased with the final drawing.

Drawing Fundalmentals: Spring 2012

I have been taking a drawing class this semester. Even though it is more of a basic course, I am being challenged by learning new tools to draw with - material and ways of seeing things. Here are some drawings from the class.

In class drawing - you figure out the placement of objects by lining
them up with vertical and horizontal points on  other objects in the still life.

In class drawing - "Negative Space" - We drew the still life by
looking at the negative spaces instead of the object itself.

Negative Space homework

In class drawing - this was a quick scribble drawing. We scribbled
and didn't lift our pencils up to create the form/mannequin

In class drawing - Cross Hatching. As awful as this was for my rheumatoid
arthritis, it was relaxing. We used cross hatching to create volume and the shape
of each object.

Cross Hatching homework.

In class drawing - Stippling aka a lot of tiny dots!

Stippling homework

In class drawing - we looked at the highlights/where the light hit the
objects rather than the shadows. This was difficult, but I got through it!
We used white conte on black paper.

in class of the highlights.

(I will be cropping and fixing the images when I have a chance. I just wanted to get these up to share!)