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.
