Category: A5: Using our hands

Posted on

Assignment 5 – Using our Hands – Jenn Richards

AT HOME

I tried to do this assignment with two different objects. The first one (the miniature camera), I realized that the item was smooth, but had an arm that bends up and down and also rotates. I tried to show the smaller dots at the back of the camera, realizing it was otherwise mostly smooth anf flat one one side. I tried to see how sticky it was and determined it wouldn’t slide. If I were to describe the feeling of this object, it would be smooth.

I realized after drawing the first object that I absolutely needed to keep my pen on the paper in order to make a better blind folded drawing. When drawing it without the blindfold  I was more focused on drawing the form than on any of the tactile elements.

 

The second item – called the “Angry Mama Microwave Cleaner” – was more challenging for me to draw because I really had no idea what it was. I noticed a lot of small details in the item but had trouble understanding their purpose.  I were to describe this object in one word, it would be “silly”

.

 

Posted on

Assignment 5: Using Our Hand – Diego Lozano

In-Class Exercise:

At-Home Exercise:

This exercise for me proved to be very difficult. Most of the objects that were handed to me were objects I could instantly recognize but once I was handed an object I was unfamiliar with the challenge became even hard.

I find my blindfolded drawings more interesting than my visual ones but I had a really hard time drawing more of the two or three drawings. I would draw the sides of the object but once I was done I didn’t know what other way to draw it. I hope to be able to try this exercise again and really practice trying to draw this in different ways while blindfolded.

Blind Folded:

Visual Drawing:

Image Photos:

Posted on

A5: Arevik Petrosyan

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.

Posted on

Adam Larsen | Assignment 5 | Using our Hands

FIRST DRAWING | CARABINER

For the in class blind drawing exercise I was given a carabiner. I tried drawing in iterations to show how I gradually collected more detail from feeling it.

SECOND DRAWING | GLUESTICKS

 

For my second attempt at blind drawing I thrusted my hand into my very messy studio desk and grabbed the first thing I didn’t immediately recognize. What is interesting about my blind drawings compared to my seen drawing is that in the seen drawing I was able to incorporate reflections, and printed graphics on the packaging. 

Posted on

5: Using Our Hands – Alwyn Rutherford

BLINDfolded DRAWING: OUTSIDE OF CLASS

I put on a blindfold and held out my hand to be given a mystery object. Then, with the blindfold still on, I felt the object with one hand while drawing in my sketchbook with the other hand.

For all of these drawings, I had no idea what the objects were before they were placed in my hand. I had no previous experience with the first two objects, so they were completely new to me. The third object I have seen before, but I never examined it or looked very closely until now.

Object #1 was a metal screw for ice climbing. The upper two images were drawn by touch only while blindfolded, followed by a regular drawing and a photo of the object.

 

Object #2 was a rope pulley that is used in mountaineering. The upper image was drawn by touch only while blindfolded, followed by a set of regular drawings, and photos of the object.

 

Object #3 was the front part of a ski binding. The upper image was drawn by touch only while blindfolded, followed by regular drawings, and photos of the object.

BLINDfolded DRAWING: IN CLASS

Blindfolded drawings of an object selected at random from a box of mystery objects. Completed in class.

 

OBJECT REVEAL: IN CLASS

 

Spam prevention powered by Akismet