Learning: Fine Arts

Remember when I talked about learning awhile back? Well one way I've been learning this fall is through an art class. While I love design, I had little to no experience with drawing and fine arts, and that's an important thing to be able to do if you want to go to art school, which I do. The class was so very helpful and while I'm certainly no Leonardo or Picasso, I'm becoming a little more comfortable with drawing. I don't feel like this is the area I'm most gifted in, but I'm learning to be able to do it some.

So I wanted to share some of my art projects with you! I don't see them as anything approaching masterful, but I'm really glad I took this class and was able to learn a few foundational skills.

This is the first project I did in my class, a study from a pretend skeleton model. I drew the knee and lower leg and I tried to make it asymmetrical and align it on the rule of thirds grid (helpful carryover from some photography articles I've read!).

This is a chiaroscuro basketball, which means that it incorporates lights and darks. I used conte and charcoal for this which was a very new endeavor for me.

And this is a tondo (circle) project that has a texture from paper bits being glued on top of the main paper. This is in conte, too, similar to the basketball. This was a fun one to work on!

I'd love to know what you think of these and welcome all positive and negative critiques!