Art 101: Session 23

Hello! This is another Art 101 post where I talk about what assignments I had to do in my college art class. We are nearing the end of these, and I also started to dislike the sessions a little bit more from here.

I would also like to acknowledge that I have not been posting as consistently as I would have liked, and some of the posts that do get posted are not finished, and I have to delete them. I’m not sure if any of you noticed that, but that is happening because I schedule posts in advance, and if I do not finish writing it by the time it is scheduled to post, it just posts.

Anyways, enough about that. Let’s talk about this art assignment.

This assignment had to do with glass and charcoal. We were supposed to do a few studies of a glass jar or something against a dark background, lit strongly from one side. I did not end up liking how my drawing turned out mostly, but the drawing of the actual glass is alright.

The first drawing that we had to do was a cross contour drawing, which means drawing the outline of all of the objects, and then putting contour lines along everything so you can see the depth.

This part turned out fine, the shadow is a little annoying just because it is flat, but besides that it’s alright. We also had to make the contour lines in the glass lighter, because this is how things through glass are supposed to appear in real life. I didn’t really see this in my reference picture, but I did it anyways to get my grade haha.

The next and final drawing that we had to do was a tonal drawing of the entire scene. I wasn’t really looking forward to this. I did get marked down for how unrealistic the shadow looks, but the rest of the drawing was fine. I also do not really like how the fabric looks in this drawing, and I wish it could’ve been more similar to the previous cross contour drawing.

Overall, I’m glad we did this session so I could further learn how to draw glass and fabric, but I do not like at all how it turned out. I was really disappointed that the cross contour and the tonal drawing looked so different, even though they were supposed to be the same scene.

I do know that I have to practice these things to get better at them and I shouldn’t expect to be great the first time I try it, but you are your greatest critic and all that. I do think I will be doing all of these sessions again soon to practice and see my progress.

Thank you all so much for reading my blog post and supporting my journey! I wouldn’t be able to do this without all of you and I appreciate every single one of you! I’ll see you guys in the (hopefully soon and more consistent) next one!

P.S. Here are the pictures of our cat, Jack, that I put at the end of every Art 101 post! I hope you enjoy them as much as I do.