Chair with Coat

I found today's still life to be much more easier to draw than previous weeks. It was less complicated because there were only two main items, the chair and coat. The sticks were hard to draw because there were just so many of them everywhere. The fabric was a lot different because it was loopy and all over the place. I used the skill "from general to specific" for this drawing. I started out making a rough sketch of the chair and then got more specific adding the coat and whatnot. I also shaded which is another skill we learned.

Fabric Drawings

I felt like drawing the fabric went pretty well. It was not that difficult. I knew where all the individual pieces of fabric were. The shapes of some of the fabric were not entirely exact. Drawing the fabric resulted in a more distinct picture than the sticks from last week. The sticks were just a bunch of lines jammed together.

pile of sticks

I think my drawing of the pile of sticks went well. It started out pretty general with just marks showing where the sticks were. Then as time went on, I tried to make it more specific by targeting just a few sticks. It felt very easy making this drawing. There were not many specific things in the drawing, just a bunch of sticks. I felt like the outcome was good.

The Changing Still Life

Three things I had to do to accomplish my goal was be open to change, adapt and draw quicker than usual. There were a lot of changes to the still life we we were drawing. Objects were being added and taken away constantly. That goes with being able to adapt to the new still life. Adapting is very useful when drawing a changing still life. Drawing quickly was very useful in drawing this still life

Three forms drawing

The drawing experience today felt fairly simple. We looked at three objects and drew them realistically. I felt that drawing the cup and block was very easy. The pine co on the other hand was very challenging. I felt that my block was pretty successful. I needed to work on my lighting when I was drawing the block. I should have knew that light was only hitting one side. I learned that drawing these three items was not easy although it sounded simple. There were so many factors we had to think about when we drew. 

Talk and Draw

The challenging thing about being the drawer is that you never know what your exactly drawing. You must draw from what your partner is telling you. It is even tougher when your partner is not good at giving directions... Being the describer was also challenging because you could not just name the items that you saw. Describing all the items was not simple. Some items were so abstract that it was hard to specify each part exactly. If i could do this again, I would maybe make it so that the drawer could get a general sense of what kind of items he or she are drawing.