Author: Patrick Rogers (Page 4 of 7)

4/14/2022 – 11:06 AM

This sketchbook assignment was a bit hard, but I think my two compositions ended up looking okay. For the first composition, I took a picture of the lamp on my desk and drew and inked it. I chose my desk lamp because of the nice woven texture of the lamp shade, and the glossiness of the ceramic base of the lamp. I used cross hatching to render the lamp shade, as cross hatching mimics woven textures quite nicely. Then I used my pigma brush pen in wide curving strokes to render the glossiness of the lamp’s base. And finally I used stippling to render the shadows on the desk next to the lamp. For the second composition, I took a picture of a pair of super glossy heavy silver scissors on my desk and drew and inked them. I chose the scissors because of how unique their shape is and how glossy they are. I used my pigma brush pen in really big curvy strokes to mimic the shadows on the metal which help make the scissors look so glossy, and I made sure to include plenty of white space as that also helped to render the glossiness. To finish the composition I used long curving strokes to render the shadow of the scissors. This was the challenging part, as I had to show the lighter part of the shadow in the part of the curve of the big side of the handle, by using less and more spaced out strokes. I’m happy with how both compositions came out in the end.

For the first color composition, I chose a monochromatic scheme of only shades of orange. For the second, I chose a complementary scheme of red and green. For the third, I chose an analogous scheme of blue and green. For the fourth, I chose a monochromatic scheme of only shades of purple. I think the most successful color composition of these four is the complementary one, because red and green together is a classic combination, and one I think a lot of people love!

4/4/22, 3:18 PM

For my value studies, I chose stippling, cross hatching, stars, and swirls. And for my abstract piece, I tried to abstract an embroidery on a piece of fabric. So I started with a giant star shape with stars inside it, then added swirls like a big cloud around it with stippling around the edges. Then I finished the composition with cross hatching all around the star, to allude to the weave of a piece of fabric.