first semester is drawing to a close and i've been preparing my documentation for final crits and beginning to think about what i can do with my pieces, whether that is storage, selling it, or disposing of it. i have mixed feelings about what i've accomplished this semester, or rather mostly in drawing. i have no regrets about concept studio and i'll talk more about that class later, but i think drawing is one of those subjects that i've had, relative to my other pursuits, a lot of training in. i didn't really expect to learn a whole lot from the class and even now, i'm not really sure if i did. practice is inherently good and, if anything, the class pushed me to try new ways of drawing (line control, mediums, aesthetics, etc) and to work in larger formats. this is some work from the end of september (because i've been really bad about documentation) and i'll put up some other work later.
32" x 40"
black paper base: 22" x 30"
the top was based from a photo i took on a hike with friends back in spring of 2009 (so sophomore year of high school) and /was/ the largest drawing i've done at the time (i've worked larger for class since). the bottom is two sheets of 22" x 30" arches paper (one black, one white), where i tore up the white paper and pasted it atop the black one. the part painted on the black is an abstraction of brick buildings, whereas the part painted on the white are abstractions of cliffs. sort of playing with organic lines vs the regimented. mostly just an attempt to draw something that's not a direct depiction of something, which i have never really done before.
i'm not sure if the latter was a success, but i got positive feedback in crit and my teacher really wanted me to continue with it on a huge scale (like to fill an entire room, ie: Ellis Gallery on campus), had i the funds of course. which ... i don't haha. and i think that's the difficulty of a lot of art-making: it's generally really expensive to create and the process of creation lends itself to playing with the (expensive) material.
