Large piece of furniture

For my next assignment I had to draw a large piece of furniture. I chose to draw my bed. For the most part I am happy with how this came out, I wish I would have taken more time with the headboard though. To me the headboard looks flat and doesn't really fit with the rest of the drawing. This drawing was actually a lot harder than I expected it to be, trying to get the right look where the bed seemed 3 dimensional but still moved backwards in space was pretty tough. All in all I am happy with how this came out.

Texture drawing

For my next assignment I had to draw two different textures. I drew the wood grain pattern of one of my wife's baskets and the wicker pattern of another one. The wood grain was pretty straight forward and really when you think about it you don't have to draw a certain pattern, a certain style will display as wood grain. I didn't spend very long on that one because I wanted to do the wicker one and knew that one would be a lot more difficult. I was correct in my assumption of how difficult it was to get a realistic drawing of the bottom of a wicker basket. It ended up taking me twice as long as I expected and I expected it to take a long time. I am really happy with how it came out and I even ended up using that same pattern later on a much larger design for a different class. I think the main thing I learned from this class was that you have to push yourself, you have to try things that you aren't sure you can do. If you never try them then you'll never be able to do them. On the flip side of that though I sometimes find myself stretching to far and getting frustrated. So I have to find a balance for myself where I push myself each time but not too much.



hanging cloth

For this assignment I had to use a hanging cloth in some manner. I chose to use a melon because I thought it would be an interesting thing to draw. Although my cloth didn't come out as soft as I would have liked overall I am very pleased with this drawing. I learned to use a blending stump while drawing the melon and am impressed with how well it worked. I think this melon is one of the best things I have drawn so far. I used graphite for the majority of the drawing but added charcoal for the darkest shadows. Everything about this drawing class was great and I enjoyed every minute of it.