10 A Days, 3rd day

The theme of our third set is architecture. I haven't experimented with any new styles for this round, expect for high contrast, which I think works for the image I used it on but I'm not convinced works for any image. I admire architecture but drawing this many straight lines didn't hold my attention for long. I found myself drawing the same building multiple times or drawing the same image in a multiple styles. I did find that for different subject matter I prefer different styles. For the previous two sets of ten I think the style in the first three architectural images, with a range of values works best. I venture to guess that I'll like this style for the majority of subject matter this semester but for the architecture set I think the wide range of value detracts from the angles and other interesting elements happening in the buildings. For this theme I prefer the simple thin lines in the last image and the line style of the fifth image that combines the thin lines for details and the thicker line to outline.

10 A Days, 1st and 2nd Days

These first ten studies in line drawing involved the observation of ten different objects. I chose to use a Bic crystal pen, Sharpie pen ultra fine point and Sharpie fine point markers. There were no specifications about style to use so I took the opportunity to see what my hand and eye did naturally. My process started with the Bic crystal pen because it made extremely fine lines that I felt comfortable making corrections on top of if I needed to. My favorite style became the combining each of the three mark making tools on the same illustration. The technique of directional cross-hatching fit my preference for expressing the various values in each object. These are the images I studied and style I developed:

The second set of ten illustrations was the observational study of only one subject in ten different line drawing styles. My initial plan was to isolate each of my three line widths. I drew a self portrait in isolated Bic Crystal, isolated ultra fine point Sharpie and isolated fine point Sharpie. I also solved these styles by drawing gesturally, in solid line,  controlled cross-hatching, expressive cross-hatching, broken lines and combination styles. Compared to the fist ten drawings, I felt more challenged in this study because I couldn't depend on what I knew was a successful technique that I had the chance to begin to perfect in the fist study. I had to change how I viewed the values of my subject ten times. These are the images I produced: