More from my drawing foundations class. [View all]

Just for fun - a gesture drawing of a kitten crawling under a magazine rack (stalking the new kitten in the house who was hiding under the sideboard right next to the magazine rack). The idea is to capture the essence of the scene/thing without focusing on precise details. These take 30 seconds to 2 minutes. This took around a minute.



Negative space drawing of a still life. The idea is to start somewhere near the center and draw the shapes of the spaces which don't have objects, work your way out until all of the spaces which don't have objects in them. No markings at all in these spaces - so when two negative spaces cross there are no internal markings showing the cross. We're getting ready for working with charcoal. I don't think I'm going to like charcoal.



Two point perspective drawing from inside a room. Normally you think of a two point perspective as standing on a corner, looking down one side of the block toward a vanishing point on that side, then looking down the other side of the block toward a vanishing point on the other side. In this sketch, instead of looking toward something getting diminishingly small as it fades into the distance, here you are standing inside the room with the walls coming out toward you. Also my first attempt at cross-hatching for shading. I'm not thrilled with the shading on the ceiling and the wall. I started with none, since there really aren't many shadows on the wall and ceiling - but I was told to go back and add some.

The paintings on the mantel are my daughter's pictures.