Recap: We had to draw a hallway in the art building and then make it “surreal”. I don’t think that way, so my friend helped me out by coming up with a theme. I was going to have the dude there to begin with, but it all turned into this weird, horrific Halloween thingie.

Made with graphite, ebony, and charcoal, plus some red conte for effect. The orange is due to the lighting in the art room. You can see a higher-resolution shot here.

The other piece is some classwork we did. We’re now officially doing value, so we started by practicing with charcoal. Now I…I am not friend with charcoal. This is also a reductive study, so I think what I learned the most is to make my paper darker the next time I go about doing this.

Ugh, just…so bad…

This assignment was to draw a hallway in the art building and then make it into a surreal scene. I’m not much into surrealism, so really all I did was borrow the shape of the hall and then have my fun with it. With Halloween coming up, my friend suggested the theme of “vampires and creepy stuff”.

Graphite is also very shiny, so I had to burn the right side to make it more even.

I noticed that I used more broad/larger patterns, as opposed to most people in the class who used very tedious patterns…and lots of them. I dunno.

Yes, my mastery of photography is amazing. X3

Full size (1280×800) is obtainable here.

1.) Only four values allowed: Black, two greys, and white.
2.) Six positive shapes.
3.) Only ten 90-degree angles allowed.
4.) I totally forgot the last one.

During my thumbnail sketching, I ended up flaking out and doing this:

(Text says: “RAWR I AM A THUMBNAIL. With a new haircut! Sorry Blaine…”)

Required to do four pieces. Here’s what I came up with:

What? No witty commentary?! Hell no!

Proceed with your normal day.

Drawing I is what you think it is. But to me, it translates to being a freshman in high school all over again as I re-learn things I was taught when I was fourteen. However, the difference between fourteen-year-old Kat and eighteen-year-old Kat, besides three inches and shorter hair, is that I get really frustrated this time around.

What happens is that I do the assignments but do more. So then the prof gets annoyed that I do too much. And then she tells me that she doesn’t mind me doing it. I am so confused. Bah. Just need to wade through the semester.

Strangely, I don’t have many pictures of my work for this class. I wonder why.

Sorry about the crummy quality. This was hung up in the hallway, which was pretty cool. It was our first real homework assignment; doing a gesture drawing of our closets.

Project that had us focus on cubical objects and doing gesture drawings of them. Three were to be in ebony pencil, three in marker. I chose my shelves, my laptop, the corner of my Zune, the power block of my scanner, my bedpost, and a carton of cup noodles.

Still-life we were to make ourselves, to represent who we are. I sort of inverted the set up and used my cloth-object as part of the piece rather than just having it there. Objects chosen were my goggles, a katana, a DVD player, an old band t-shirt, and then having an episode of MST3K airing on the TV.

I have the class on Tuesday and Thursday nights, from 6 to 8:40. At first, it was a bit rough to adapt, which caused doodles such as these:

(L to R: Blaine, Lindsey, myself.)

Alright then, on to actual work: Our first assignment was “line”. Basically we had to make interesting pieces using just line. Yes, curves would work. Unfortunately, mine came out more as shapes, but if you stretch it…and…yeah…

The first one. I tend to use a lot of these kinds of lines – swoopy, pointed kind. They’re fun, easy, and look good.

The second. For this, I was thinking more in a traditional “road to the horizon” kind of concept.

Third one. This is a total shape, not line at all. But eh! It was voted “best technical skill” by the class, so hey. When we were hanging them up, I looked at Blaine and said “I know what you’re thinking, and I’m telling you this for five minutes in the future: Don’t say anything.”

Number four of four. Again working on the “horizon” concept, but also incorporating the swooshy lines I like.

All drawn on Stathmore 18×24 recycled drawing paper.
Colored with Sharpie markers.

]]> http://kataoi.wordpress.com/2009/10/01/its-line-gaiz/feed/ 0 Kat Its-Line-Gaiz Shapes3 Shapes4 Shapes2 Shapes1 http://kataoi.wordpress.com/2009/09/30/hello-world/ http://kataoi.wordpress.com/2009/09/30/hello-world/#comments Wed, 30 Sep 2009 20:34:25 +0000 Kat ]]> The introduction post is called “Hello world!”

Honestly, this is all I can think of:

Joel: Alright, the right lower manuel connects to the visidual column, the visidual colum connects to the newton valve, the newton valve connects to the spasmodic prosphiscator and that’s what make you proculate. Them ‘bots them ‘bots them, dry ‘bots, them ‘bots them ‘bots them, dry ‘bots, them ‘bots them ‘bots them, dry ‘bots, now hear the pan unload. Well, I’m all of white pieces, that must be it.
…
*thonk*
Crow: Maaaaaah! Waaaaaah!
Joel: That’s not right…*thonk*
Crow:  What! Ow! Hey, that hurt! Woah hey, hello world!
Joel: Hey, welcome to the Satellite of Love. I’m gonna call you Crow.
Crow: Why Crow?
Joel: Well, Crow stands for “Cybernatic Remotely Operated Woman”
…
Crow: Woah, wait a minute! I’m a woman? Hear me roar guys!

Okay, that’s enough for now.