I definitely messed up my initial measuring and proportions, squished the poor guy’s beard. Had a lot of fun with my shape designs. Question for others; did anyone else get lost/confused with their mid values throughout the drawing? I did my drawing over multiple sessions and the further in I got, the more I feel I lost track of my value continuity. I think I was maybe too tunnel visioned with the immediate contrasts of the shapes I was working on and possibly not cross referencing to other areas previously worked on. Something to work on in the future I guess!

Did a few drawing at first, but thought I could do better, so did another page. Still some mistakes, but a fun exercise!

Jacek Yerka Diminution - 4 Convergence - 4 Foreshortening - 1 Overlap - 2 Atmosphere - 3 MC Escher Diminution - 2 Convergence - 1 Foreshortening - 2 Overlap - 2 Atmosphere - 1 Moebius Diminution - 5 Convergence - 4 Foreshortening - 3 Overlap - 2 Atmosphere - 1 Zdislaw Beksinski Diminution - 4 Convergence - 4 Foreshortening - 2 Overlap - 1 Atmosphere - 5 It was interesting taking not of how strongly some of these perspective tricks were actually used in some of these pieces. the MC Escher one didn't seem to use much at all, I guess that's just how isometric is though.

Marshall was right, I do suck!

I definitely started this project with values that were too light. Once I established my value range, I focused on slowly adjusting my darkest lights and lightest darks. I think this helped reign in my impulses to just blast my page with graphite. Finished with the shadows then the highlight as the cherry on top. Throughout the whole drawing I felt that my eye was getting more in tune with the subtleties of values in light side of the sphere, something I found I’ve rarely focused on. Watching the Lambert’s Cosine Law helped me realise this!

I found this assignment was great for making me ignore the details and just focus on the shape design for the different compositions.