charcoal dreams

I'm coming apart at the seams. Pitching myself for leads in other people's dreams. Now buzz, buzz, buzz. Doc, there's a hole where something was. Doc, there's a hole where something was.

Fell out of bed, butterfly bandage, but don't worry. You'll never remember, your head is far too blurry. Put him in the back of a squad car restrain that man he needs his head put through a catscan. Hey editor, I'm undeniable! Hey doctor, I'm certifiable!

But back to the real point of this post. I'm officially an art student now and someone asked me to post some of the stuff I've been doing in class, so I figured I could oblige. They are nothing too great, but I'm actually proud at how well they turned out. Especially since I have drawn in ages and my least favorite medium is charcoal. Its just so hard to erase and then it gets everywhere.

This is the first thing we drew in class. It was the first day and our instructor placed random items in the center of the classroom and told us to draw. It was up to us what we used and how we used it. She didn't say anything, and let us have free reign.

I'm quite happy with how it turned out. My favorite thing about the drawing is the actual table cloth. I just like how it looks like its actually moving, and it was the last thing I drew. Only took about five minutes but its my favorite thing about the piece.

Day 2. We actually had instructions for the second day. We couldn't use graphite, but were forced to use charcoal, so here is my first charcoal drawing since my eleventh grade art class. It turned out a lot better than I expected. The only thing I wish I could change are all the hard lines I made. Usually when I draw I sketch out the edges of objects and then flesh them out. This is difficult to do with charcoal, which is why a lot of the items have hard strokes in them but overall I'm happy with it.

Day 3. This piece is far from finished, but its my favorite of the three. Again she gave us specific instructions for our drawings for this day also. We had to use charcoal again, but instead of working from a white background we had to tint our paper. So basically you color the page until its some shade of gray or black and instead of drawing you erase to start forming shapes, and then you can add more black or erase more.

I like this one the most because it doesn't have all the hard edges as the other one. You can tell where the light was shining and where it wasn't. My favorite area of this piece are the two rectangle boxes on the right hand side. I spent a little time working on them, to make them be fully fleshed out.

This piece is far from done, but I had little under two hours to do it. My teacher wanted me to try and do a full piece, and get away from the geometrical shapes and cropping I usually do. So she placed a chicken figurine and a big shell bowl in my eyesight so I would have no choice to draw it. But as you can see I never got that far, but you can see a small outline of them.