Archives
- February 2011 (4)
- January 2011 (4)
- February 2009 (16)
- January 2009 (4)
Tag Archives: shadow
Cloth study
This was the final art class project, and I’m really happy with it. The one downside is that I didn’t include any of the additional objects (there were bottles on the cloth) nor did I include the edges of the … Continue reading
Fun with gridding (and wordpress galleries)
So part of our homework was to find a painting or image that we liked, grid the thing, and then try to use that grid to replicate the original. I took a whack at it. I think I like value … Continue reading
Face drawing exercise
As part of our previous class, the teacher taught us the basic topography of the human face – the usual bits about the eyes being halfway down the head and measuring things in relation to eyeballs and all that. She … Continue reading
Value study of John Locke
I figure if I want to learn a value-heavy cartooning style, I should probably better learn how to spot value in an image and add weight to it. I grabbed a photo of John Locke, plopped it into the Gimp, … Continue reading
Still working on keeping it loose
I wasn’t putting a ton of effort into getting it completely accurate. I’m still working on keeping the pencils loose. It’s requiring a lot more discipline than I had hoped, but that just means that it will stick when I … Continue reading