Final Assignment Part 2

This is my first self portrait.  I am not sure how much different it is, but I know that it is different in material and concept.  Although I have never been afraid to experiment with shapes shading.  I don't think I really had a grasp of negative and positive space and shading.  I also didn't really have a clear grasp on perspectives. 

       I chose a traditional 3 point perspective landscape with a a non traditional abstract twist.  I have become a tree.  Basically the tree of my life and what surrounds me are the leaves of my life, representing the years of my life both good and bad.  I chose to use mostly positive space, with some aspects like the sky representing a negative space background.  The shading of the tree is dark and has textured lines which create the bark to look more life like. I did this because I wanted it to stand out among the landscape background.  The tree is in the foreground, with the mountains in the back as middle ground and also provide a vanishing point. The sky of course is the background. 

      Comparing it with my first self portrait it is somewhat different, in that I would have never felt confident enough to place my self image within the picture before.  But after taking this course I have learned that this is an expression of art. My art and art can be anything an artist choses it to be, "it is all in the eyes of the beholder."

This has definitely been a challanging class and I have certainly learned a lot about art as well as my abilities to draw and understand art. 

Final Assignment Part 1

For our final assignment we are to do a self portrati of ourselves in a contour line drawing.  Here is my rendition of my self portrait in a contour line drawing.
This was my first attempt not understanding that I could do a frontal view I struggled with this first attempt at a contour line drawing of myself. 

I then tried a second attempt with a frontal view. 

Better, but not great.  So I tried a third attempt.  This one I was pleased with. 

This is my third attempt at a contour line drawing.  I really wanted to shade and create shadows, but this is what the expectations were for this particular project.  The nose gave me such a heck of a time.  I think I spent an hour on my nose alone.

 

Paper bag Part 2

Using Conte Crayon and a view finder I now focused on one specific area as I had done before, but blowing it up so that only it fit in my view finder. 

Same thing only using graphite pencils and view finder.