Wednesday, April 4, 2012

Observational Drawing

One of the classes I took before I started this blog.
Observational Drawing
I did this one online. It was about learning to draw an object in front of you, not from a secondary source like a photograph, and draw exactly what you see without changing anything. I can not draw the only way I was able to finish this class was I took a picture of what I needed to draw, converted it to a pencil drawing (or this one), and taped a piece of paper to my monitor and traced. Some fun ones
Projects included portraits, a room, gesture drawing, and drawing the same still life twice but changing the light for each drawing.
Final project was drawing a still life.


Converting picture into a drawing




Great reference websites for this class:
Drawing pencils
Value Scale and Value Finder
Creating value in pen and ink drawings
Still life inspiration
How to set up a still life 
A Gallery of Still Life Photographs.