Ballpoint pen...

This drawing shown here is a piece by Juan Francisco Casas created using only a blue ballpoint pen. Pen ink in art is considered to be a liquid media. Although it could be perceived as a photograph, if you look closely you can see the massive amounts of cross-hatching used to create the negative space in the picture. The pen ink is also used for shadowing on the photographer's body to create the illusion of implied light as well.

-Alfonso Robles

Bob

Bob Marley ladies and gentleman.  This is an awesome capture of him and you really get the feeling of whatever song he is singing.  The shading done in the background to make it look like the stage lights are shining down on him make you feel like you are on stage with him.  The highlights in his hair also give a sense of the lights of the state as well; the values and blending of the lines in the hair help create a realistic portrait.  He is an incredible musician and this drawing captures just that.

Emily

Disney Drawing

This drawing was done by a character creator for Disney Imagineering. It was done fully in colored pencil, you can see the dark shading used for parts that were going to be darker than others. Also the negative space gives a focus to character only, although it is only a rough sketch of what might be. The use of lines is definitely apparent curved lines and straight lines were both used as the designer had to follow the contour, and the outline of the character was also drawn over multiple times to define it better.

Creek through Crayons

The piece of art that I chose for this weeks blog is one that is created by the artist John Stuart. John Stuart is of scottish descent but is now living in Tennessee as a pastor. In the picture, he decides to use dry media to create his drawing of a creek. What is special about his drawings are that although they are made of crayon, he is attempting to make chalk like drawings.  This is a process that he calls "digital glass" because he first used these chalk-like crayons to create stained glass patterns for his church.  By completing drawings in this way, they are very close to becoming 3-dimensional which even include texture. I believe that in this specific drawing, the media used truly helps the drawing appear more life like, as if the water is truly moving.

Drawing

This drawing is entitled, "Tanzerin (Dancer)" by Vaslow Nijinsky (Russian, 1917-18), and is composed of chalk, pastel and pencil on paper.
The use of the curly, curving lines shows and depicts movement of the human body through space in the art of dance. I believe by using white chalk, it created an airiness and lightness of the dancer's movements, the black pencil creating the defining lines of the arm movements and her garments; her free-flowing hair is the yellow shade, the coral line could represent the outline of her costume or dress's movement.

Eileen

Baby

 

This is a drawing made by Efcruz. It's called "Commission Portrait" and was made with a dry media (charcoal pencil) on canson paper. it's 15" x 20".  I chose to the picture on the site that had the original photo to show how realistic the drawing is. If it was done in a liquid media, I think it would not look as great as it does. The shading is just done so well that it's just amazing.

-Tara A