Monday, January 3, 2011

Snow Bunny (w/o snow)

Happy New Year, everyone! Here's to working toward 2011 being a productive, creative, and fun year!

But first, one last post from my past semester. This was my final for a Head Drawing class at AAU. Enjoy!



The assignment was to draw from a chosen reference pool of our fellow classmates. Since my camera sucks, most of the time I have to base my decision more on which photo isn't blurry, but luckily this particular shot came out well. How could I resist a bunny hat?



There's something I like about the simple, flat shapes in this beginning stage.



Acetone splatter!


And here was the final I turned in for class. After some critique from my instructor, and my own realization once it was up on the wall and I was feet away, there needed to be some changes made. The brightness of the hat was too stark and drew away from my desired focal point of the face (namely eyes and nose). Throw that sucker back up on the drawing board!



Here it is with corrections. I lightened up the face and darkened some areas more to enhance the contrast, hopefully negating some of that surging bright power of the white bunny hat. I'm satisfied with the drawing overall, and have come to appreciate charcoal more after this class. Of course, once I found out about splatter textures my relationship with charcoal deepened that much more. You will never take my acetone!!!




2 comments:

Jazmin Giron said...

Wow Melisa Pretty sick drawing! I love the final outcome, amazing work. The textures in the background really add to the visual joy of it all.

Melisa Des Rosiers said...

Thanks, Jazmin! We experimented with texture and charcoal and that was eye opening.. finally! a reason for me to embrace charcoal!