This blog is about a technique shown to me ealier last week, and a lesson I learned along the way. This particular technique is all about making a simple 2 dimentional charcoal drawing pop off of the page. In class, we drew pictures of plaster heads with bits of clay worked onto the the plaster to illustrate the anatomy of a face (pictured above) My drawing turned out ok... I was actually about to trash it and start over, but my teacher told me to keep with it, showed me the few mistakes that i had made on the drawing, that was throwing it off, and it was fixed in no time with minimal lines. The drawing was still pretty much flat though. The next thing we did afterwards was the part that turned the simple flat drawing into something im actually proud of. We made a combination of half ink and water, grabbed bamboo brush, shut the lights off, and shined a small flood light over the head, casting a great shadow. All i did is paint on the drawing, Put on the darks where the dark was, and not leaving any gray area. Within 2 minutes of painting on the shadow, the simple drawing i did no longer looked like lines, and looked like a 3 d head. By far my favorite art project that i have done at the guildhall so far.
So to sum it up, The technique i learned, is how to rapidly create very 3 dimensional objects, and I did it all on something that i was about to throw away. The lesson I learned, is that no drawing is unsalvageable. If it dosent look right, take a step back, examine the problem, and then fix it! Its much easier to fix something thats mildly broken, than to try and start all over again.
