Day 1: in class practice of box drawings

Step 1: Learning to draw cubes

      

First page was a complete disaster, I didn't understand where to put my horizon line and which direction to draw from which corner. Then someone showed me below and my cubes improved tremendously:

Step 2: Drawing rectangles

Step 3: Stacked boxes

As you can tell in the picture above the 2 boxes on top needed a little help. They look as though they are balancing on one corner and yet in real life they are laying flat ontop as you can see in the 2 nd attempt below

Step 4: Bottles 

Contour walkway

After practicing sketching the walkway from the Gatewood building, we were assigned to put together six 6"x6" images but cutting an pasting however we wished. My end result showed much improvement in my line weight and showing value and it will keep gettin better.

#2. Sketchbook drawings of walkway

Here are more sketchbook drawings of the walkway outside the Gatewood building on campus. My goal for this certain practice was to have a focal point from one sketch to show up in the next sketch to follow whether it was a trash can or tree.

Number 1: 

Number 2: My teacher took this opportunity to show me how dark my lines should actually be, which is completely darker than I had ever expected but you have to draw that dark to make a bold line that stands out from at least a few feet away.

Number 3:

Number 4:

Number 5: While looking back as this sketch I notice everything wrong with my lines. The building looks abnormal and slanted rather than you can tell that I am drawing the building at an angle.

Number 6: This sketch was never finished but it was supposed to have the tree on the far right from the sketch above on the left side of the drawing (to continue the walkway affect).

The next 3 sketches I decided to draw the first 3 sketches again because I wanted to focus on my focal point which happens to be the 2 trash cans that are side by side. I also focused on the line direction and attempted to work on my line weight but that still takes a while for me to get better at but the saying is "practice makes perfect"

Number 1 again:

Number 2 again:

Number 3 again:

5"x5" squares of contour fruit

On an 18"x24" drawing pad, sketch 9 5"x5" drawings of spherical objects using the 5 different types of contour drawings at least once: 

I really need to focus on making my line weight darker, I know that while doing this assignment I was using an HB pencil and as the class went on throughout the semester I started to branch out and a 4B is now my absolute favorite... I'm becoming a pencil snob, but you kinda have to!

#1. Sketchbook drawings of walkways

Before our next big drawing project that required us to draw 6 images of a pathway I took time to sit in three different spots and practice drawing outside settings. From this practice I learned that my major issue is pencil weight and where my lines should be darker due to the placement of the light.

My very first picture: very timid 

Number 2: probably my favorite one from that day but from the picture I need to work on the line direction (straight lines especially!)

Number 3: It's crazy how you can draw something by just the outer edge and it look so different in real life 

Here are just some other examples from that day:

 

Tree outlines IARC 110

Here are the first two trees and a limb that I have ever drawn in my life. Needless to say i need to work on my pencil weight:

These pictures were drawn on August 27, 2013.

Contour drawings

Assignment: Practice drawing all 5 different types of contour drawings at least 2-3 times.

Blind and Single lined:

Negative space and Gesture:

Cross:

My favorite type of contour would had to have been the negative space contour, but little did I know at the time is that I would continually get better at cross contour drawings.

Lettering

This assignment required us to learn lettering in the very first IARC 110 class. We were asked to write this entire page on grid paper. 

Here is my first attempt:

As you can tell these first few lines my lettering with tiny and not spaced right but it continues to get better.

As I continued to practice my lettering continually got better, and finally as you can see in #11. I got the hang of the correct spacing and sizing of the letters on the grid paper.