In Class
At Home
First Object:
Second object
For the in class assignment, I was able to figure out that I had some sort of animal figure, but I didn’t know for certain if it was a gorilla or grizzly bear. I recognized the pencil sharpener after a few seconds, and I knew the ketchup packet was a packet of some sort, but thought it could be mustard or mayo or hand cream or something.
It was challenging to not know exactly what the reference object looked like, but I think more challenging to not know what I was drawing. I focused on shapes and textures, but there’s more to an object than that, and that’s not easy to represent when you don’t know what you’re doing on the page. If I “lose my spot” when touching the object, I can feel around the object to find the same spot again. With paper, no matter how much you modify the page by putting ink or graphite on the paper, it will always maintain the same uniform texture. I noticed I was avoiding picking my pencil up because I did not want to lose my spot.