Final Thoughts

Drawing 1 was a new experience for me because I did not know there was a class dedicated to only lines.  I also never knew that there was so many different ways to draw a line.  Being in drawing one has helped me not only draw a straight line but also with the different values that could be implies and used in a line.  Over the semester I have learned a whole lot about not just lines but also the composition of a piece of work and the difference between negative and positive spacing and how it can work well in a piece of art work.  At the beginning of drawing 1 class I thought that I was going to be simple because drawing lines are simple but, it was more to that.  We had projects were we had to draw lines according to where the light was hitting it.  At first we started off by using the ruler.  I did not really like it at first because to me it makes things slower and takes a much longer time.  As the class progressed on I realized that when you use a ruler your art work comes out much more crisper than by free handing it.  Doing the still life drawings in class was the easiest part for me because I was use to them and I really enjoyed doing them in the class because we use different line techniques.  When we got to the middle of the semester went into contour line work.  I think that was one of my favorite things to do because we got to try using different materials.  My favorite was the ink and water color.  At the end of the semester we did these kind of drawings called finished to unfinished.   That project was changeling at times because we had to make the foreground stand out more than the background using lines weight variations.  After we worked on it a couple of times I got used to it and it became much easier for me.  This class has been easy and very understandable for me.  I have learned a lot about what I can do with just a line.  

Line into Value Still-life Drawings

Free -Hand Perspective

Contour Drawings

 

Planar Analysis Work

Urban sketching is the method of drawing a certain view from places around you.  Urban sketching is a different kind of way to discover your and other communities.  When urban sketchers draw they use it as a document to show that they have been there and seen something new.   Urban sketching is a good way to learn an environment that has always surrounded you.  I've learn while urban sketching many places and buildings that I have never come across. Living in the same city ever since you were born and seeing something that has always been there makes you want to go out and find other things you been missing out on.    

Two-Point Perspective

Mike Parr

Parr is an artist who is in the world of contour drawing. Many of his pieces where an example of blind contour drawing. 

Cross Contour Drawing is when the artist draws lines going either horizontal or vertical or both. The artist then uses the lines to describe the dept and or the roundness of an object.  In cross contour you use the lines to make the form of the object you are drawing. In some cases of cross contour the use of hatching is use to show characteristics and the mass of an object.  

                  http://englishbutlergallery.com

              http://studentwork.isabelmar.com

                Planar analysis is a way of drawing with points and lines.  Although with many planar analysis artists you can hardly tell they are doing it in their work.  In Richard Diebenkorn’s painting above, when you look at the housing the streets and the grass you can tell that he is uses planar analysis base off the line work and the block like form of everything.  It is a little harder to see that he is using it in the background on the hill that is to the right of the painting.  If you look the hill somewhat rounds at the top, but the sides just goes straight down like a straight line.  

One Point and Lines

 

 

Nighthawks

 

 

 

Edward Hopper was born on July 22, 1882.  He was an American artist known for his oil paintings.  Hopper uses perspective in almost if not all of his work.  Hopper most recognized able piece is Nighthawks painted in 1942.  In this work Hopper uses the skill of perspective to show off a diner at the end of a nicely sharp edge of a street corner.   Hopper use of perspective almost gives the viewer a frontal view of the diner.  It also lets the viewer see through both glass windows and the view of the back street, which in this case plays as the background for the customers.    The perspective of the piece also displays the view of both the counter and the chairs the customers are sitting on. 

One Point Perspective

In this video, how to draw a one point perspective is explain.  You will learn what a horizon is and what a vanishing point is.  As it is being drawn out step by step in the video there will also be someone talking it through.  The video will demonstrate both worm’s eye view and bird’s eye view so that you can see how you would draw both using one point perspective.  This one point perspective video teaches an easy way to learn how to draw basic shapes in 3 dimensional forms.  In this video drawing one point perspective will also get you use to drawing straight lines

Two Point Perspective

This video is a tutorial on how to draw with two point perspective.  It will start off as if you’re drawing a one point perspective there will be a horizon line, but instead of one vanishing point there will be two.  You will still be shown how to place each vanishing point.  In the video no one actually speaks, but the video goes slow enough so that you can catch on to what is happening and how the drawing is being done.  The video shows you three levels in which you can place your object as you draw in a two point perspective.

Three Point Perspective

This video is a video on how to draw in three point perspective.  Just like both one and two point perspective there is a horizon line and vanishing points.  This video will have three vanishing points.  It will start off showing where to place the vanishings point.  It will also explain that when drawing in three point perspectives that the lines will converge with one another instead of begin parallel.  This video will draw out each line going step by step as someone it talking you though the process. It shows you an easy way to draw three point perspective.