Second day of my first real college art class and I've learned so much...

[Starfish]

Oh my lord, you guys! I am so fucking happy right now I could cry.

I started my first official college art class and it is Fundimentals of Drawing. I figured I should force myself to do something I am not familiar with and give it a go in hope to learn something to help me with my painting.

WELL! I am so happy that I took this class. I thought that taking more classes for summer school would suck, but it isn't going to. It's gonna rule.

Okay, second day and I've done some excersizes, and one real drawing.
I can't believe I did this today.
Oh, but please don't get on me aoubt choosing better subjects. I don't have a choice, and beside, the subject is not that important at this point. It is the skills I am learning that are important. Remember that when you critique this. Okay?

 

[Vilac]

Pardon the pun...but that is EGG-ceptional.

Seriously. Very very nice.

Makes me miss sketching. I've not done it in so long. Perhaps I should?

Kudos, Fishie.

V~

 

[Oilpainter]

Keep up the good work

Happy to hear your first college art class has inspired you so much. It is amazing how a fresh perspective can help with your creativity. I am taking a class from a well respected painter in my area and love it. I feel it is very important as an artist to constantly push oneself to find new muses to jar our creativity. Keep us posted on your progress.

 

[Ezarc]

Starfish,
Sometimes knowing things can impede learning different things in the same area. I am glad you are going in with an open mind. Good work by the way.
Take Care,
Ezarc

 

[Guest]

Gretchen! Glad you had a great day! Art was fun for me too!

Your drawing...

It is Stark, Surreal, yet, Minimalist in its simple form. Quite a combination of styles. I like it!





P.S.
Oh yes, it made me fucking hungry dammit! Looks big enough to make an omelet for ten!

*Chopping onions, green peppers, diced ham, ...*

 

[riff]

That's great, Starfish!

 

[Starfish]

LOL, Thank you for expressing to me that you saw something that was functional in this peice, Proofread.

Thank you all for the imput.

Definition of line is something I tend to overwork without appropriate use of value placement, making my work fall short of the demensionality it deserves. See, I am not saying that bold lines are bad, I am saying that I usually fail to add enough well defined contrast to offset the use those types of lines. So, when I would draw in the past, I never really focused on shaping things, just getting them down, and it always looked undeveloped. So often I wouldn't focus on shadow value. There is so many shades of black and grey in a single shadow. I need to learn focus on those details and get away from a sort of recognition of details without the flow of the value in those details. I almost always overwork them to the point of loosing the flow of the form. I got better with the paint at gaining depth and all, so I figured if I went in and really just started out on a clean slate mentally, that my knowledge of figure would enable to help me with drawing forms and using these things I'll be learning to get the effects I want.

I have captured THE LIGHT!!!!!!


HORRRRRRRRAAAAAAAYyyyyyyyyy!!!!

 

[riff]

Are you getting ready to show us your tits again?



I liked it the last time.

 

[Private Vasquez]

Dude! What is that??

 

[scrymettet]

le monde sommeille par manque d'imprudence

You were right when changing your way.
Continue to enjoy. The world need artists.
Thank you to be one

 

[Guest]

A perfect likeness of me... you shouldn't have.

 

[Guest]

OMIGOD! She's been resurrected from the dead.

Again.

For the 500th time.

 

[perks]

I remember drawing that egg.

It taught me to see. It taught me relativity, perspective, spaciality and that colors exist in black and white.

You have talent, fishie. I can't wait to see how your sight changes during your studies.

Your value scale is a bit dark, that can lead to muddiness in the future. Be careful of a heavy hand. It's better to layer than to sculpt drawing mediums.

 

[dreamer]

That's a nice egg sweetie. I'm still waiting for the date and place for your display!

I'm so happy for you enjoying school.

 

[Guest]

LOL, Thank you for expressing to me that you saw something that was functional in this peice, Proofread.

Thank you all for the imput.

Definition of line is something I tend to overwork without appropriate use of value placement, making my work fall short of the demensionality it deserves. See, I am not saying that bold lines are bad, I am saying that I usually fail to add enough well defined contrast to offset the use those types of lines. So, when I would draw in the past, I never really focused on shaping things, just getting them down, and it always looked undeveloped. So often I wouldn't focus on shadow value. There is so many shades of black and grey in a single shadow. I need to learn focus on those details and get away from a sort of recognition of details without the flow of the value in those details. I almost always overwork them to the point of loosing the flow of the form. I got better with the paint at gaining depth and all, so I figured if I went in and really just started out on a clean slate mentally, that my knowledge of figure would enable to help me with drawing forms and using these things I'll be learning to get the effects I want.

I have captured THE LIGHT!!!!!!


HORRRRRRRRAAAAAAAYyyyyyyyyy!!!!

___________

Honey, is that the way modern artists orgasm?

 

[Azwed]

Oh my lord, you guys! I am so fucking happy right now I could cry.

I started my first official college art class and it is Fundimentals of Drawing. I figured I should force myself to do something I am not familiar with and give it a go in hope to learn something to help me with my painting.

WELL! I am so happy that I took this class. I thought that taking more classes for summer school would suck, but it isn't going to. It's gonna rule.

Okay, second day and I've done some excersizes, and one real drawing.
I can't believe I did this today.
Oh, but please don't get on me aoubt choosing better subjects. I don't have a choice, and beside, the subject is not that important at this point. It is the skills I am learning that are important. Remember that when you critique this. Okay?

Holly shit that is good.

 

[Guest]

Awesome fishie!

I would almost believe I was looking through a dusty window and seeing the egg, sitting upon a table. Does that make sense?

I'm so happy for you.

 

[Sillyman]

Very nice. I love the shading and I've always been jealous of people who could capture it. That's really incredible. I think your subject is intresting as well, since it is round, and it's a lot harder to get down the shape on something oval than on an object involving more straight lines. Very commendable and I'm glad you are enjoying class. Extraneous emoticon.

 

[Starfish]

This is not really so much a drawing as it is that I rendered it from a coating of chalk and graphite. .


What I did was take white chalk and grate it with a razorblade onto the paper. I then smeared it over the surface of the paper very evenly and slowly to get to surface of the paper to have a coating. After blowing the excess away, I did the same thing with graphite and I smeared it all over. Then I took a soft penci and drew my elipses that are the egg and the shadow of the egg. I then drew the line that would be the edge of where the paper the egg rested on. The value of the egg was achieved by using a soft pencil and tissue to darken where needed and then I used a pink pearl eraser to remove the graphite where the highlight is. Then I used the kneading eraser to lightly draw the graphite out that needed to go. The paper was achieved by erasing too.

This only took me 30-45 minutes. Very easy, but it helped me gain some demensionality to my perspective.

I think pretty much anyone could do this.

I am going to go draw more now, before I go die for the 501st time. Later all.

 

[Guest]

reminds me of Generalisimo Fransisco France

Didn't Nostradamus have a prediction of her 509th death?

Re-enactment of one of the closing scenes from Barbarella, if I remember correctly.

 

[Starfish]

You nailed it Storm. Me and my precognitive abilities had that exact notion about the coming event, around the time when I was living out my 323rd death. That one was similar to that of the death of Postumus... gutted by the Pretorian gaurd. The resurection was slow and painful like birth, but it is always worth it. I am just glad I can keep coming back.
Hell, like when I was Janis Joplin, on my 475th. I sang the blues baby. That was the best one. Dying on drugs sucked, but then being here now was all worth it.

 

[glamorilla]

Art school was a downer.

Too many people telling me what to do and messing with my vibes.

 

[biguy69]

wow you did a great job on that egg i wish i had that kind of talent.