cg-s12-mward: Week 3-Value Drawings

Craft

During week 3 of our class we continued developing our drawing skills but now we added a few different concepts to our drawings such as different shades of greys so who ever is looking at the drawings can tell where the light source is coming from and such. I made these drawings using Adobe Illustrator and a Bamboo tablet and pen to allow my drawings appear directly onto the computer. I made these drawings with straight or slightly curved horizontal lines that range from different shades of black, white, and grey to give it a shadow affect. The first step to creating an image like this is to find an object you want to draw then either use natural light or give your own light source to the object to give it a unique shadow feature. I then began to draw my image using a lighter color on the scale and typically fill in the parts of the object that have light on them or appear to be lighter then the rest of it with horizontal lines. After that I moved to the other end of the spectra and picked a dark color and began to draw in the appears that appear dark or shadowed on the object. Then after that I used some of the different shades of color on the scale that fall between the original two colors that I used earlier, on the areas of the object that aren't at either end of the dark/light scale and have a sort of blending feature. Finally i went back with all the colors that i used and try to fill in as much white empty spots with them, but of course with the appropriate colors.

Composition

I arranged the elements (in this case the horizontal/curved lines) the way that I did to give the viewer the perspective of the object having a unique light source and giving it a different perspective then its normal view. The first thing I want the viewer to see are the light parts of the objects to understand which direction the light source was coming from. The second thing I wanted the viewer to see are the darker spots on the image to show how exactly that object was facing when the light source hit it. Thirdly I want the viewer to see how I blended the dark, light, and the in between colors to give it that sort of mixed blend look that you see between the light and shadow parts of the object. I used horizontal lines when creating these drawings because I feel they are easier to draw and use when it comes to trying to portray and image with a shadow affect on it.

Concept

Each object I drew had some sort of hole or opening on its top to give a real shadow affect and make it easier to differentiate between the light and dark parts of the object. These are my value drawings, our in class original assignment and five others.