Color Wheel

We've been doing painting lately in my drawing class and our first assignment with that was a color wheel. I am not very good with mixing paint colors, especially with the violets.

Still Life Value Studies

 Over the past few weeks we have been working on doing value studies in drawing class. We did 2 still lifes; one with white forms on a white background and one with black forms on a black background. My black one definitely turned out better probably because it was the second one we did so I improved from that experience. Overall, I think they turned out pretty well for not having used charcoal much at all before this class.

White Still Life

Black Still Life

Colored Lighting Grids

This project was probably one of my favorites that I've done in any class so far. This was for my 2D Design/Color class. We had to make 2 different grids of "16" photos; one using real world lighting in the studio and one using lighting that we edited in photoshop from white light images. The photos all had to be of a person or people, but other than that, the project was pretty open. We had to incorporate color schemes with monochrome, analogous, complimentary, and triadic colors. I really enjoyed experimenting with color in this assignment as we had been only working in black and white up until this point. In addition, laying out the grid was a lot of fun to me and I liked thinking about composition and how the photos worked together as a whole to draw the eye around the space.

Real Studio Lighting

Photoshop Lighting

Value Studies

I did these projects a couple of weeks ago in my drawing class. We started off with the value scale using paint to get a feel for the values from white to black.

After, we did a still life as an introduction to drawing value. The still life used white foam objects and one point lighting. Since I didn't get to spray it with fixative, the surface got slightly messed up after being jostled around in my portfolio so sorry about that!

Room Perspective Drawings

For my drawing class, we had to do five perspective drawings of our rooms. I worked with charcoal and one pencil drawing. I started out working with charcoal and then moved on to pencil in my second piece, but I found charcoal to work better for me because of the nature of the assignment as well as how large of a scale I was working in. I did the rest of my drawings in charcoal after that. Overall, I really enjoyed this assignment because I haven't really done much perspective drawing in the past and it was nice to experiment with different styles achieved from materials and using or not using a ruler.