Shoe Drawing with Value

The first thing I did in this project was pick out the shoes I wanted to draw. I positioned the shoes so that they caught the light well and looked interesting. I outlined the shoes first once I started drawing and then continued to shade and add value to enhance the light source and the shadows. I made the right side of the project the side with the light source and the left side with the cast shadows. After I drew the shoes with details and value, I drew the tabletop line which showed where the shoes were placed when I was drawing them. I enjoyed doing this project because my favorite thing to do in art is to draw.

2 Point Perspective Letter Drawing

I chose to use these colors and letters because I felt like it really expresses my personality in a vivid way. The first thing I did was choose the letters I wanted to use in my drawing. Then I choose the color scheme I wanted to use. I used a variety of bright colors to capture the eye of my viewers. Then I choose the design for my background using the colors that I had already chosen. I used a vanishing point to make the letters in my drawing look three dimensional. To finish it off I lightly shaded my drawing with a regular pencil.

Acrylic Landscape Painting

The composition of a painting is often times very complex, however, in this particular project I found it fairly simple to organize and separate all of the elements in my acrylic painting. To enable the element of organization in my artwork, I made sure of making an extreme distinction between the foreground, middle-ground, and background. By doing this, I was able to create a sense of organization and attain a good composition. To ensure that atmospheric perspective was used in my painting, Atmospheric perspective is a technique used in art that renders distance and depth. To enhance the idea of atmospheric perspective, the background landscape was more dull and didn't have as much clarity as the middle-ground and foreground do it being farther away and harder to see in real life.  To create a light source, i made one side of the painting overall lighter than the other side and on the opposite side of where the light source was supposed to be coming from, I added cast shadows of the objects in the piece. I used an analogous color scheme with the colors: orange, yellow orange, yellow, and yellow green. Analogous means colors that are next to each other on the color wheel. During the process of painting, I used a wide variety of large and small brush strokes that gave each element in my painting a special touch and created texture. I used a fan brush for mostly textural reasons and for details and larger thicker brushes for more solid things. I used a variety of lights and darks in my painting to create value. This also plays into the use of light sources as well as cast shadows.

Pastel Still Life Project

To plan the composition for this project, I set up the projects that I was using in a way that the light was captured well and was going to be able to capture the eye of the viewer.  A thumbnail sketch is a smaller scale sketch of what you're going to draw to try and focus in on exactly what you're going to do.  The viewfinder helped me to decide my composition because it helped me as an artist to decide how much of the still-life set up I wanted to portray through this piece of artwork. I really enjoyed the whole process of this project mostly because pastels are one of my favorite types of art and also because it was so interesting to work with such a wide variety of bright colors. I made the objects in my piece to look three dimensional by adding value, as in light and dark spaces within a given area. I also made it look three dimensional by adding a light source and cast shadows of my objects.  To create a light source, i made one side lighter than the other and added certain areas of lightness where the light source was glaring on the wrappers. By creating a light source, cast shadows are also created which helps to enhance the light source itself.