Well I've been back at it, teaching and chores but before all of this I managed to squeak off a squeaky clean episode from my Japanese hotel bathtub. Watch below if this sort of thing seems interesting.
More to come from the far east in my you tube episodes.
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My summer courses at ACAD are underway and my students so far are doing great. In my drawing 1 we have already begun our studies of line, followed by shape, tone and form. Here are some of the exercises form the previous weeks class. We worked in graphite, with lit painted white shapes in order to help with understanding how to see and apply tone on paper to create a believable illusion.
The following weeks class we focused on how to construct objects in proper proportion with still life items brought in by each student in class.
We began with simple shapes as we did in the previous week, this time as f they were invisible crystal to help get their size, shape and form correctly placed in the visual space.
Even without the information of shading we can tell clearly where objects are because of their placement as well as proportion to other objects in the picture.
They are progressing well through the steps and I'm sure if classes were more than 3 hrs long each they could bring these to proper completion. However, the lessons were learned and we can move onto the next step in progressing their drawing skills.
In this episode (#7) I host from the studio rafters and show further progress on my charcoal Laocoon study.
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One of my classes has been making large strides in their improvement on a whole. Here are some studies done using dark and light tones in charcoal as discussed in my recent videos. The students lit bleached bones and worked them out on toned paper. Some are mid process and as you scroll down you can see how they developed further. Some erased a lot, others added more material, all turned out =:D
These works give a great example of what one can accomplish and become capable of after just a few of classes.
