Value Study

This assignment was to teach us how to do a full value study of a subject and to develop a sense of shade gradation. There was a platform in the center of the room with a bunch of paper bags on it and we were to choose two of the bags to draw. This assignment was done in soft vine charcoal.

Leaf

For this assignment we had to draw the vein system of a leaf using clean conture lines. We were not allowed to have an outline of the leaf. We had to start with the main vein and work out into each branch of the main vein. The leaf I brought in had connecting veins running along the outer edges, so the shape of my leaf is very obvious even without an edge outline. The finished product is the result of 7 total hours of work.

Line Examples, cont.

More close up shots of the 30 line examples.

Line Examples

For this assignment we had to take an 18x24in drawing sheet and divide it into 30 sections and draw 30 individual, abstract examples of line drawings.