Finally, Winter Break!

Yes! My first fall quarter at SCAD is over and I get to enjoy almost a month long winter break!  Anyway, I had a good time at SCAD.  I met some talented artists, made some great friends, and learned how I can improve my artistic skills. Once again, I would like to thank my God, family, teachers, and old and new friends for encouraging me to draw, dream, and improve my art.  God, thank you for giving the spark of creativity and showing me the near infinite possibilities in human creativity.  Mom and Dad, thanks for never giving up on me and helping me to pursue  a career in art and animation.  Thank you art history Professor Leader for encouraging me to explore how understanding art history is beneficial to human society today.  Thank you drawing Professor Clifford for improving my artistic skills.

I really felt my artistic skills had improved.  I know my strengths and my weaknesses and how to improve them for the better.  Here's my drawings from the beginning of the quarter to the end:

First Line drawing!

Second  Linear line drawing with contour lines and cross contour lines.

First Ellipse drawing.

Second ellipse drawing.

Third line drawing on ellipses and studying detail and line weight.

(Not a good picture) Midterm Linear drawing on perceptive and ellipses.

Final Drawing on Value.

I am still going to talk about linear perspective next week along other helpful tools I learned this quarter.  During the break I'll continue to study over the material and apply it to my artwork.  I'm also going to take a break from fantasy art to draw and study from life for a bit, just to improve my skills.

Still life infodump

Ok, I decided to keep updates on Saturdays only because of school work.  The updates might become irregular over time as my studying and drawing for my class become more intense.

Also, I was unable to take pictures of the drawing exercises due to technical difficulties (camera won't work) but I do have thumbnails and notes as an example of what we do in Drawing 100:

Thumbnails are a helpful drawing tool used to analyze the composition.  Here I draw the still life in a few thumbnails.  The thumbnails are created by using the viewfinder, which is another drawing tool used to analyze the composition and is a smaller version of the 18x24 paper I used for the artworks.  What I look for in the thumbnails are a variety of lines (horizontal, vertical, diagonal, and curvilinear),  size of the objects, and changes in rhythm and flow in the composition.   When I'm satisfied with the thumbnail, I bisect it, draw boxes around the subjects in the drawing, and do the same to the large 18x24 paper for my final artwork.  After bisecting the large paper, I draw boxes, which can be any size according to the thumbnail, on it and begin to use sight and measuring tools to scale and draw the subject as accurately as I can.  This, the sighting and measuring process in creating the drawing, and drawing in the details takes about 10-15 hours to finish the artwork.

Here's some information on using sighting and measuring techniques on drawing still lifes.

INFODUMPMADNESS And now for something different:

Meet Briell Fetcher (name is spelled wrong in the picture).  Briell and Vistalgia and best friends for LIFE considering that Vistalgia is a deceased dragon spirit living within Briell.  Yup, this is going to be fun...

Hair styles for Briell Fetcher.  Dread locks are awesome.

Some Random Sketches

Hello!  Today some random  life sketches from last year for your viewing pleasure.  A nice change from fantasy stuff finally!

Teapot study#1.  Loads of cross-hatching...

Teapot study #2. I did pretty good on the shading here!

Teapot study #3. 

Shoe contour line drawing.

Self-portrait...incredibly difficult to do with a small mirror.