Thursday, February 28, 2013

Blog Work: Interdisciplinary Arts 2-28


Please complete the following tasks by the end of today’s lab session. Submit your responses as a comment here. It is wise to complete and save this work in Word in case you encounter technical glitches when posting your work.


1. In a short paragraph, reflect upon your paper bag block-in thus far. What do you need to do to perfect today’s block-in and move toward building value?

2. Visit Mr. Kefor’s art blog and view the “Edging” YouTube link (10 minutes). Comment on: a) instruction that echoes content from our course; b) new take-aways from the clip.

3. On Mr. Kefor’s art blog and view the “Richard Morris” link (5 minutes). Comment on: a) demonstration that echoes content from our course; b) new take-aways from the clip.

4. Use your favorite search engine to peruse the internet for images of paper bag drawings. Choose one that displays exemplary block-in technique, well-developed values, and proper edging. Copy and paste this image into Word and print a non-pixellated copy to tape to your drawing board as reference/inspiration. Paste the image’s url here as confirmation of your work.

If you have extra time, visit some of the other art links on Mr. Kefor’s blog.

18 comments:

Anonymous said...

Dylan Colpritt

I think I did exceptionally well with the block-in last class. I think that I should continue to lightly sketch the wrinkles on the paper bag for today’s class. Other than that, I believe that I can start building value and shade in some of the shadows.

Anonymous said...

Mike Abdelahad
1.) The paper bag block-in has gone well so far for me. I needed to fix the scaling and certain lines, but I am now almost done. I need to add more detail and start the shading process.

Allison Goldman said...

The block in is kind of hard. It depends on how easy you make it on yourself when you crush the bag. If you don’t crush it a lot, it won’t change too much, but if you crush it a lot, a lot of lines form. My bag was in the middle. I didn’t fold it like some people, but it had lots of lines in the middle. It's a lot harder than it looks. You can’t rush. I need to take my time when doing it.

Something that we have did that it shows in the video is shading. We were told to start lightly and even when you go dark, it’s repeating light shading, not using dark pressure. Something I learned was that we never covered was that it looks better when you start with the darkest areas and work around them.

Anonymous said...

As far as blocking in the paper bag goes, I would say that I am near, if not done. There is really not much else to add onto this point as I worked pretty efficiently last class. The true challenge for me should be figuring out all the values. I need to remember what I learned from the sphere in regards to reflected light in order to achieve more realism. The block-in sketch is a pretty familiar concept to me and I should be good to move on as for me the real “perfection” lies in the value and detailing.

The video discusses a lot about contrast. It brings up the differences of hard and soft contrast in a form. What it also discusses that we have not is the way in which the brain perceives forms. It perceives values as opposed to what the shape actually is. The brain perceives sight as how light interacts with forms.

The demo shows the full process of drawing a portrait. It begins at the Block-in and demonstrates how the artist goes about marking off shadows with soft lines while gradually hardening more permanent features. What it proceeds to do is continue the portrait from beyond the block-in and shows how to make contrasting forms out of shadows. This aids in seeing how more subtle things are created in a portrait.
Seth Killingbeck

Anonymous said...

part 1 Katelyn Seetaram
On my paper bag block- in, I have created the basic frame of the bag. In today’s class I will be building the areas which has values on the actually bag. Today I will be working on the inside of the brown bag, by creating lines and steams of the bag, to make it look more realistic. In order to make it look more realistic I will be adding the shade edge in, and blending the shadows to create a more realistic bag.
A. In the Youtube video about edging the narrator talks about how the we, as people, use lines to create edges when it is actually shading and different forms of shading that we have to create contrast that we see as lines. He talks about how we can use contrast in shading to create edges, and that different values of shading can create different edges.
B. The things that were new to me was that instead of creating hard lines as edges, but to use them as a guide to get an idea of where the different values of shading should start to appear.


Anonymous said...

Dylan Colpritt Comment Part 2

In the edging video, the instructor puts emphases on the edges of an object can be drawn without having an outline and different values can determine the shapes of objects. He also recommends that artist start with light values and gradually gets darker.

In the Richard Morris video, the artist starts out with a block-in of someone’s head uses light lines to mark everything will be drawn. He also made dark lines to show where there was sharp contrast between light and dark values. The darkest areas of the drawing were also shaded in first.

Anonymous said...

When drawing a paper bag, it displays many more challenges than you run into with a sphere. To be successful with the block-in of the paper bag, you need to go slow and feel out the edges of the bag so it replicates the actual bag. The first time I tried the Block-in, I ended up making it shorter and wider and I didn’t notice until Mr. Kefor ended up correcting me on this mistake. I went back and erased the whole thing, then took mental measurements of the paper bag and went really slow and this took me to what my block-in is now. I realize that with each drawing the class, each of the three elements of drawing will become more complex which is okay to me if it is a gradual change.

Anonymous said...

Mike Abdelahad
2.) A.) The instruction that echoes content from our course is the basic shading and edging. We have learned the scale and the different contrast where the edges are. We have also learned about the reflection that is in the lips and the way something looks when light hits it.
B.) Some take-aways from the clip could be the outline then erasing to shade in. It adds a more realistic feel and the contrast and detail is better. Also, seeing the edges in something like the last thing he showed could help a lot.

Anonymous said...

When drawing a paper bag, it displays many more challenges than you run into with a sphere. To be successful with the block-in of the paper bag, you need to go slow and feel out the edges of the bag so it replicates the actual bag. The first time I tried the Block-in, I ended up making it shorter and wider and I didn’t notice until Mr. Kefor ended up correcting me on this mistake. I went back and erased the whole thing, then took mental measurements of the paper bag and went really slow and this took me to what my block-in is now. I realize that with each drawing the class, each of the three elements of drawing will become more complex which is okay to me if it is a gradual change. BY Luke Kane

Anonymous said...

I need to make sure that I block-in looks realistic and keep all my lines are in the right places. I have to make sure that I keep my lines in the right relationship to each other. I also have to make sure that they are in the right proportion. I just have to draw all the lines like they are attached and one so that they look correct and realistic.
Ethan thomasson

Anonymous said...

Sean Bostrom
Period A
2/28/13



To perfect today’s block-in and move toward building value I need to focus more on my line work and the details of the bag. I have drawn the basic outline of the bag and now need to work on the edging of the bag to really show its value and make it stand out. The proportion of the bag is important also to really balance out the shading and make the drawing flow.
The video of the lips relates to our course due to the contrast. The pair of lips has a certain flow to them, for example dark to light or the lines go away. I can take away building value from this video.

Anonymous said...

Tyler Smith
Period A
February 28, 2013


To improve my paper bag I need to work on the shading and building the value by really high lighting the crease within the paper bag itself. He doesn’t draw those lines that define the dark and light shading. He sketches the background of the lips sooner then expected, to make them stand out for a better self correction style. He takes his time and really works on building his value early on in the video to get a feel of how its goin to look.

Anonymous said...

Danielle Puopolo

1. I think my paper bag block-in is going smoothly so far. At first I made the front of the bag too wide, but it was easily fixable. I haven’t struggled with any major conflicts and I think I am ready for shading after I block-in more of the inner values.

2. a. The artist applies an ellipse for where the reflective light is, as we did in class with the spheres. He fades and blends the value slowly and efficiently like the spheres as well. He states how part of the portrait is lost in the shadow as the bottom of the sphere is against the cast shadow.

b. He shows how the brain perceives the edges and the “value shapes” and how they are grouped. Once the value shapes are recognized he states that it will make drawing easier.

3. a. The artist keeps the block-in very general at first and then slowly refines it, adding more and more detail. He gradually builds value and makes a very dark cast shadow. He uses a kneaded earaser to pick up the lightest highlights.

b. The artist begins using darker marks/ darker pencils when becoming more refined with the block-in. He uses a fluffy brush to blend in the values, which I haven’t seen done before.

4.
http://a1.ec-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/29/bad6d8605578c21c9684db66b697b409/l.jpg

Anonymous said...

This video talked about edging the same way that we have learned about it. It said that the edges we see are not made of lines but by contrast of shading where the darker areas meet the lighter areas. Something new that it taught was that if you sketch the outline of what you are going to draw then erase it to see where you want your edges to be; then you can go back and make the edges by shading.
Ethan Thomasson

Anonymous said...

This video showed the block-in very accurately in the beginning. The video also showed building value and shading first by just using two values and then filling in the other in between values after. Something that I noticed was that he used a brush to blend his pencil strokes together. He also used his eraser a lot to change the value of his drawing in some places.
Ethan Thomasson

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Anonymous said...

Luke Kane
A)In his drawing he spent an exceptional amount of time working on our block-in and making sure that it was perfect.This mirrors what you have been teaching us because with the paper bag, I have spent around an hour and a half on and still trying to make it perfect.
B)The way he did the left side on the man's face was really cool, he darkened the whole left side of the face lightly and then as the portrait progressed, he erases little by little of the shading and added detail to it. I thought this was interesting because that was a way of drawing I had never seen before.

http://images.google.com/search?hl=en&site=&tbm=isch&source=hp&biw=1024&bih=559&q=paper+bag+sketches&oq=paper+bag+sketches&gs_l=img.3...2277.9574.0.9894.18.13.0.5.5.0.208.1020.12j0j1.13.0...0.0...1ac.1.5.img.1M8mcrWFl6A#imgrc=bZYz3mArE-0sjM%3A%3BYZ5YFz7q4EjmKM%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww.scaredsilly.net%252Fdarkartshome%252FART%252FPaperBag.jpg%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww.scaredsilly.net%252Fdarkartshome%252Fdrawing.html%3B388%3B600

Anonymous said...

Ashley Cibotti
My paper bag block-in is coming along nicely. I can work on the actual size of the the bag to make it more life sized. The next thing I can do is make the lines more defined and start to add more detail to it. After that I can begin to shade in the dark spots and shadows.
“Edging”
a) Contrast makes the image look a lot different, it either makes it look a lot brighter or a lot darker. It also helps emphasize the image you are trying to focus on.
b) A takeaway I got out of the video was that the shading makes lines and fills things in instead of making the distinct lines.

“Richard Morris”
a) The block-in helped construct the face and added details.
b) He uses proportion a lot by holding up his pencil to see where to make the lines, he also does the lines very lightly.

paper bag link: http://www.google.com/imgres?hl=en&biw=1270&bih=813&tbm=isch&tbnid=0N2dCn0fLQ8cxM:&imgrefurl=http://www.utdallas.edu/~mel024000/pages/2D_Design/PaperBagDrawing/PaperBag.html&docid=L2Qr6xE1bm561M&imgurl=http://www.utdallas.edu/~mel024000/pages/2D_Design/PaperBagDrawing/paperbag01.jpg&w=500&h=343&ei=49AwUfyzNJSE0QHJzYCYAw&zoom=1&iact=hc&vpx=367&vpy=134&dur=2537&hovh=186&hovw=271&tx=97&ty=57&sig=106753635277313490635&page=1&tbnh=150&tbnw=214&start=0&ndsp=37&ved=1t:429,r:3,s:0,i:89