This was my set-up. This assignment was pretty fun, had trouble keeping the t-square clean and touching the still-life by accident.

I think the above picture pretty well describes the mood of the room that day. Oh well it could have been worse, somehow. Now is the best time to draw.

Thanks for the comment on that last post Jason; I hadn't fogotten but I do have some catching up to do.

Class is really fun to me; it's not extremely tedious and not completely unrestricting so far. The assignments are reasonable and fun, it's something I look forward to when I think about all my other work. I'm wondering if we can color in our sketchboooks; based on the examples, I'd say the answer is yes. I also want to drill myself on the cylindrical ellipses we drew in class the other day. Also, a 2-point with a very low horizon line may look interesting.

On to Examples;

The sequence is 3 point, 2 point, then 1 point. It was quite hard to find something that could depict 3 point. 1 point was the easiest. I added a sketch I did of Cole on the first day for fun. Reading the assignments in the syllabus gets me excited as well.

Ingres work and use of line is especially beautiful. The eye takes what it needs; but as artist I believe we can take what we want from reality and this is what he does here. The line is especially harsh and firm as it comes down her abdomen and further more as it comes down her right arm. How the line is slightly, delicately there as it draws the cushioning of her buttocks as well is a sign of ability.

Smith has a way of making minute lines work for him; not just in his shading but in the traces of the smallest lines on her face. It's effective and careful, calculating even how sharp the lines are.

Schiele has a fury of things working in his sketch; most prominently the wild curly dark lines that can be called hair. It swirls around her and is relatively uniform in thinkness and value. In the face however is where the real power can be seen. This is why I picked this particular piece of his. This sketch can show the distinction of the lines and their qualities but as one face, it still works.