Drawing with salts

Art With Salt [Daft Punk] by Bashir Sultani.

From In-class Wednesday: Value and Whatnot

I've got a lot more to learn in the value and lighting department. :/ ((sigh)).  But I think I am learning how to see around the object.  A little bit.  Maybe.

Form/Volume of the Ancient Vikings

So, this time around I drew and began to see forms in the forms.  And those forms turned into other forms. And so made new forms that were recognizable! Like, when I played around in drawing one of the viking boats - the image was of a boat from a front angle a little at an angle - I condensed and expanded it and found that when I condensed it, it looked like a seashell and when I stretched it, it began to take on the form of a shoe or foot (and a couple sketches later, a letter 'G').  It's was so cool! (not to be corny :/) So I played around with the seashell shape and came out with something that looked like folded paper; I re-drew that and came up with a diamond shape with bended lines.  I revised the lines and ended up with this pretty, triangular, diamond-y shape.

I made a shield.  An abstract shield. And the colors I used attempt to reflect the livelihood of the Ancient Vikings.

Form/Volume of the Ancient Vikings

The Ancient Vikings were my subject of study.  I did a bunch of quick gestural drawings (which, I very dig doing, unfortunately.) I particularly liked drawing the boats, handgun, and axes.