Tuesday, October 29, 2013

My First Drawing Of The Year

Not only have I never drawn a bike before, I decided to use colored paper to challenge myself. For this assignment, my class was instructed to take multiple pictures of a bike sitting in the middle of the room. We were instructed to draw thumbnail sketches to get used to the angles of the bike. We took pictures from all different angles and from both near and far. We used graphite pencil and learned different shading techniques to give our drawings more value. I'm not used to drawing and shading with graphite pencil so I'm pretty proud of my finished work. The colored paper that I chose to use had a very rough texture which was also a challenge for me. This drawing taught me so much about value and I was really surprised how well I made my 2-D drawing look 3-D. Overall I had a good experience with the graphite pencil and was very surprised at my first drawing of the year.