Lyndsey Cooper's Ice Cream Cones
Kimberly Stidham's Twizlers
Courtney Howard's Kiwi
Ahsley Begley's Cheezits
Allison Jones' Animal CrackersIt's about 3:00 and I'm still plowing through midterm evaluations in order to get work back to everyone so that revisions can be made before the next out-of-class project arrives. But after a long process of looking and thinking and assessing improvements, I decided to take a little break and get some of the food images posted. The ones here are perhaps at a more resolved state, although each has some things to address as was discussed in our critique yesterday afternoon.
Lyndsey is going to work on the ribbing of the ice cream cones so they wrap the forms more spatially. Kimberly is going to being in some crisper highlights. Courtney is going to break up some of the implied lines near the edges. Ashley is going to pump up the value on some the crumbly textures. Allison is going to give more context to the animal crackers on the top and bottom edge.
These drawings, and the several others that I'll get posted after the resubmissions, enabled each artist to push their powers of observation and to more fully understand the function and strength of line, shape, value, and texture on a two-dimensional surface. They also became more aware of the expressive qualities of their drawing processes. Enjoy.
This was one of my favorite projects that I have done in any drawing class. It really teaches you to look at what you are drawing instead of using what you perceive it to look like.
ReplyDeleteI love the drawing of the ice cream cones. It has a great range of value on the depth of field is spot on. However, the ridges seem flattened. Perhaps its the way the cones are made, but I find it a bit distracting.
ReplyDeleteI also really like to cheez-its, possibly because that is what I did for my first food drawing. I think the texture is really well done.
The kiwi was dffinately my favorite out of all the projects in class. I love how she took it in a different directions by only doing the inside of the kiwi.
ReplyDeleteThe kiwi was dffiniately my favorite out of all the projects in class. I love how she took it in a different direction by only doing the inside of the fruit. I found it to be a very interesting composition.
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ReplyDeleteI think Tatum is on the right track with her comment. Drawing is a lot about learning to look and see. These projects will really help you because they force you to look at objects you know differently. The same goes for photography. I think it was a similar project to this that helped me realize you could even draw the negative space. I didn't even know it existed. Now, I usually start with the negative space in a drawing just because my mind can't be forced to recognize or assume anything. You guys did a terrific job on these. The textures are especially amazing.
ReplyDeleteI was really happy with this project and think that everyone did a great job...you can really see where people are improving and paying more attention to detail.
ReplyDeleteI like the texture on the cheezits, thought it was well done. I have a hard time reading the ice cream cones, maybe it was just me. The only other comment I would make it that I think the kiwi would be more effective if it was in a different composition, maybe showing one edge and makeing the "eye" of the fruit off center to the paper.
ReplyDeleteI really enjoy the ice cream cones drawing. Without knowing what it is it almost reminds me of something out of a movie, like The Wizard of Oz. Something really abstract. But with a closer look you realize exactly what it is and you still get lost in it.
ReplyDeleteI'm a realist when it comes to art work, especially drawing, and the cheese-its really spoke to me. I love the attention to detail within this piece. Amazing job, keep it up.
ReplyDeleteWow. The cheez-its really look nice. Seeing it on the thumbnail view actually made it easier for me to appreciate the amount of detail and texture on the crackers. Nicely done!
ReplyDeleteI looked through all the information on Claudia Hammer and her work is incredible I think her favorite portrait right now is my favorite but the pet portraits were great too. I was also amazed with the ballet shoes and how great they looked in all locations.
ReplyDeleteI can't start a thread here to ask. But, is anyone else keeping Brian out of trouble this summer? I signed up for his FINA-S200 class the first session of this summer. :)
ReplyDeleteBrian, we were so busy in class today I completely forgot to ask if you had put together our final grades on these?
ReplyDeleteI wish I knew how to start a new thread on the blog. This is off topic and it's about our next project. But, I have a question and apparently when I send E-mails Brian doesn't get them, so, this is a shout out for a reply ASAP!
ReplyDeleteI'm about to start my next drawing for class today and this question dawned on me. We have the option of graphite or charcoal again. And Brian had said that we could do rubbings like we did in class. I kind of have an idea of a rubbing I would like to add to my drawing.
I like working with the charcoal. Can you do a rubbing with charcoal? If so, is there a particular type of charcoal that you should use? Aren't some harder than others, etc....
Anyway, any input anyone can offer would be appreciated.
Sure! You all went and got a life on spring break! :) I just went with graphite. I prefer charcoal, but I really want to add a touch of a rubbing to this drawing when I'm finished and I just didn't know if I could do that with charcoal. I do think my coffee pot is turning out OK,but, since it's a camp coffee pot I think it might have looked better with charcoal. It would have gotten a bit darker.
ReplyDeleteHope you're all having fun.
Still getting caught up, Connie, sorry I missed your questions. First, use the email address that's on the syllabus, that always gets to me, the oncourse email is hit and miss.
ReplyDeleteYou can do rubbing with charcoal, but obviously your results will be less detailed. Use a hard rather than soft piece.
I can not wait to see project three on here and the results of the finished drawings. I think I have improved on this project, my shoes. I did not realize that I was so into shoes and it is funny. I have also signed up for summer session 1. Look out Brian! You thought it was over. LOL
ReplyDeleteI also have a goal of tying with Connie on the blogs. I think I can do it. I really am looking forward to the drawing class. I thought I would stick with it now that I am really getting into it and hopefully will make more progress without a break.
ReplyDeleteI loved all of these food magnifacation projects. I was really impressed by all of them. Our second projects were improved so much compared to the first. Great job everybody!:)
ReplyDeleteI really enjoyed this project. The whole idea of taking something that you see on a daily basis and magnifying it to the point where it makes you guess what it is gives a lot of interest.
ReplyDeleteI agree with Jerrye. Can't wait to see some of the pieces from project #3.
ReplyDeleteLyndsey: I love your icecream cones. They look like something you would see in the candy land game, or something like that.
ReplyDeleteThis was so difficult for me. I don't know if I have A.D.D. or what. I can't seem to focus on the realism of my subjects in this case Nutterbutters!! I love to cartoon and obviously i missed that point. Overall great job. Got pretty hungry that day in class!
ReplyDeleteI was putting my portfolio together and discovered that I am not a food drawer. I can't stand the captian crunch, it looks like a bunch of rocks.
ReplyDeletethe twizlers composition is very intriguing! i love imagery that works as both representational and abstract at the same time. the swirls and the textures draw me in even closer. good job!
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