30 August 2009

Course work: Assignment 1, Section 3, p 17. Filled a page in my A4 course sketchbook with a pencil drawing including a funnel, a spice box, a small jar, and an onion, shaded with several layers of pencil hatching. Observed and experimented with the gradations of light on a flat surface (p 18): recorded results in my course sketchbook.


Summary Observations on Tone and Form (Check and Log): I will have to do a great deal more hatching and cross-hatching to become competent at it. However, even my less-than-competent marks did produce a sense of dimensionality that improved as I worked my way through the section. I tried to observe light patterns carefully, although in one of the exercises I misplaced a shadow (probably because I was working too late at night). I had more difficulty in seeing the secondary reflected light than the primary light, but am beginning to appreciate it more clearly.

Personal sketchbook work: A page of doodles with a reed pen, just because I felt like it, as well as to get more experience with this interesting, but frustrating, implement.

Weekly thoughts on learning experience:  Much of this week was devoted to basic shapes.  I was less than happy with some of my work, in part because of poor choice of drawing medium or paper size, and in part to poor observation.  My personal sketchbook work is still less than optimal.

Total time: a bit over three hours.