Chair

HOW did you find today's still life more or less complicated to draw than the still lives over the past few weeks (white paper, sticks, fabric)? Be specific.

HOW did you use some of the skills we've developed over the past three weeks drawing more complicated still lives to draw the chair with coat today? What are the


I thought todays drawing was harder becuase it was one big object that was neat. Most of the other things we have drawn before have been easier to draw becuase they werent so neat and we could just make some lines. To make the chair really come to life I added lightness and darkness to show the shadows. I thought the coat was also hard because it was on top of the chair and was wrinkled in different way.

Fabric Drawing

How did it go?
How did it feel to try to recreate the fabric you saw?
How did today's drawing feel different than last week's drawing of the sticks?


I thought todays drawing went well for everyone. I thought that the way that they all turned out was very nice. I realy liked how you could add shadows to the fabric to show where the light was hitting it. I thought that it actually did turn out looking like the real thing. Drawing this fabric was different then last weeks because with the fabric you had to draw bigger pieces where when you drew the sticks it was mostly lines.

Pile of sticks

Today you drew a pile of sticks.
You were asked to draw as if you were building the pile with the marks of your pencil.
You tried to make your drawing from the general to the specific.

How did it go?
How did it feel to make the drawing?
How do you feel about the outcome?


Drawing the pile of sticks today was helpful. I really liked how you could start of with just the outline and the shape of the pile. It felt good to go in and add the details to the sticks and add the little nubs and dark spots to the stick. It was easier to draw the sticks on the outside for me because you could see them more clearly and more color to them. The outcome was nice i feel because you could really see the shape and i put a lot of detail into them.

The Changing Still Life

Now looking back on what we just did i would definitely have done things differently. I most definitely would not have colored things  in dark like i did. I also would have made my objects smaller so when i erased it took all my energy. The last thing i would do differently is not shadow until i knew i was completely done. I would have done all of these things to prevent myself from having to erase almost everything on my page.

Three forms drawing

I found that todays project was very entertaining. I thought that it was really cool that it wasn't as hard to draw shadows as i thought it would be. Using only the materials we used was really a big help as well. Having limits to what you can use always tends to help an artist. Using both erasers was also very interesting because it made it look so much more real and 3D.