Tenzin Ngawang Art Class Assignments Blog

Artist Statement on my Clear Object Drawing

When I first saw the video that Emma showed during class, I was completely sure I wouldn't be able to draw such a thing as still object drawing. I've never drawn anything like this. I've always thought only the best of the best artists know how to draw still object with all these different shadings. 

While I was drawing the pot, I was constantly stepping back because it'd give me a different perspective of the drawing.   After drawing this, I may have used almost have of my erasers. So from the start, I began with a charcoal and started shading the main part of the paper, which was the center. Then I made outlines of the glass. By darkening the edges and whitening the outside, it made the object pop out from the dull charcoal filled paper. After that, I shaded in the shadows from one lighting. 

  I've never drawn a clear object before. I knew I wasn't going to be able to make a perfect drawing when i saw Emma's video because I've taken a class at Fleisher, which was oil painting where we also had to work with shading. It was a gruel-some experience because every time we had a shadow, we'd have to darken or choose a different color with same relation. However, in this drawing, we were only using charcoal and eraser, which was easier and it looked a whole lot better than my oil painting piece. 

Artist Statement on my Figure Drawing

I can finally say I've drawn a whole body figure! I've never drawn a person's whole body, either it's a part of their body such as their face or their eyes but I never drew a whole body figure in detail. I mean obviously I've drawn stick figures but never looking at a person and noticing every bit- parts of their clothing textures, their body shape and their hairstyles. 

This is Jasmine. The way I drew her was the same angle/ way she was facing. I've not finished my final drawing because of time issues. I started off outlining her whole body, then I started adding in little detail by detail. At the end, I felt as though I did pretty good but then I'm not a perfect artist, so I do not have a master piece. It was my first time so I think I did good job for a first time. 

Figure Drawing was very difficult because it took more than I could ever imagine. When other artists in my class finished in one class, I felt stupid because I definitely needed more time. I started off drawing Sammy and I was actually really proud of where I was at but then the next thing I knew almost everyone in our class lost their drawings. So I had to redo it all over again. This time, I drew Jasmine, one of my art classmate.