2nd Critique,
 we stated working on our 2nd big assignment. which was about texture, once agian we did one with markers,
My project consisted of 3 gords.

Finished up the project ....happy about it..

So, today at Columbus State in the Beginning Drawing class, we had a critique on this charcoal still life that we've been working on for the past two school days. 
          A critique there can consist of many things to go over such as the next chapter in the textbook, things that are liked and disliked about all of the students artwork, things and techinques that certian students need to work on and other forms of constructive critisizim. I really feel that critiques are great when it comes to all subjects, not just art. I also feel that to be good at something you have to accept other points of view and suggestions, not that you have to follow everything that everybody else tells you. Its just that, some constructive critisizim never hurt anybody.
          Now that the class is working on charcoal, I feel I have more of a grip on things since I have already dealt with a lot of charcoal drawing excersizes in the past. This class today went by rather quicly even though its lasts from 8:30-till 10:50. But one really good thing about this class is that theres no homework assigned after class, except sketchbook assignments, and those really don't even count.

         But besides my columbus state class, on mondays I also take a class at  Columbus Cultural Arts Center called "drawing the model". The title of the class basically describes what goes on in the class. The class consists of about 10 or 12 other people drawing a person in different gestures and postures for different amounts of time.

we finished up on some perspective excersizes where the teacher had us drawing different parts and places inside the room.

We as aclass worked on sum simple perspective excersizes in our sketchbook from the excersizes.

we watched a video on perspective..


then one on using charcoal and the deifferent techniques behind the medium.

we finished our value scale

We had our critique on the overlapping texture project.
and after that we started to make a value scale.

Todays critique was on the quick negative space excersize that we did on Thursday. The critique was also quick, because we started on the next excersize today. The next excersize was a combination of the last pieces. What we did was, placed three or four natural objects of the same type with simple distinct shapes and obvious surface patterning on a large surface for each person. We have to  pick a place on the still life to draw from that angle. We are supposed to look closely to draw the different textures, differentiate between shapes and textures, and create an illusion of depth through overlapping of shapes. This excersize is going to one that takes a little bit long than the last one. 

I picked a part of the project which is basically all flowes, so that it wont take as long. But after the project




 4th critique....(quick) .
The critique was on the negative space project that we had started on last thursday. 
After the quick critique we then worked on an over lapping still life that is in the middle of the room we did thi by takin all of our easels and picking a perspective to draw from and doing it.

-columbus cultural arts center...drawing bobachu...and slowly getting better.

Worked on the overlapping still life more.- full class.













we worked on marker for the last day.- and finished up the still life

Today we had our critique on the current excersize, and presented them as a class. I'm very pleased with mine and how it turned out. I feel that it looks rather abstract but I like it either way. The class critiques are getting more involved the further we go into the class, which is fun because I'm not talking the most anymore(there are other people that are being involved also). This excersize is most definantly going into my art portfolio like the past project(the past marker project). I really put alot of in and out of class time into it and I really like it. Other than how I feel about my project, this critique was actually pretty quick because of the fact that we're supposed to start the next project today.

The homework was rather basic, it was about chapt. 4:

* Positive shape is the subject matter that is being drawn. 
* When doing a  positive/negative space excersize excersize filling up the entire picture plane with shapes means,                           
    that you don't have to think about the composition.
* Negative space is the pace that surrounds the positive shape/object.
* Positive space is the space that is involved with the main object of concern.



We then started to work on the nagative space project and we were supposed to finish it today. I finished mine in class because project was not that difficult. We have to have a critique tomarrow on this roject so I took it home and got it ready for monday.

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