Value : sketches from today's class - Alejandra Herrera

Value is interesting, it is helping me understand more about how I perceive light and how it creates shape.

Form/Volume of Hindu God - Alejandra Herrera

I focused on the elephant god (ganesha), and worked its form and volume. This figure seems to always have movement and lots of color. Thus, in my drawing I try to show the role color and shape play in this culture.

Luiza O M Dale - Form/Volume World War II

My reference for this assignment were mainly black and white pictures and some sketches from people that were experiencing the war at the time they depicted what was around them. Everything had movement and action and because of that even form was always present, no image was flat. In my studies I tried to convey the intense grayscale and movement from my references.

The final drawing was the one I perfected the most - showing a war plane, and depicting it right flying.

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.

Punk Rock Baby - Melissa Nolan

These are my drawings for my punk rock forms.  The above -  I was playing with a scrap of paper meets scrap of poster and the whole torn and battered anti-establishment (ness?) of the punk scene - you said to get a little crazy and push the envelope - I ripped the paper and crinkled it and wrote crazy stuff on it.  The final drawing I simplified to make a shape based drawing with suggested body parts - using black and white and a child's crayon for a touch of irony on the potty chair.  Punk rock baby is taking a shit.  LOL  He doesn't give a shit because he is a punk rocker baby.  I am happy with this drawing it brings the sharp shapes and the softer shapes and the irony and rebelliousness of the punk rockers out in a way to combine with my sense of humor.  Anarchy is shit?

The old and new contrast really caught my attention at the Marlborough exhibit. For this project, I decided to explore and contrast, The Industrial Revolution.