apcarlberg+Week+1

Week 1 - Line

Ex. 1

Here we were told to scribble on a page and then look at it to find an object where the lines intersect. I ended up with a fish eating a person. I feel if I made the lines thicker the fish would pop out more.

Ex. 2 - Shading

I feel like I am really bad at shading. I find it hard to understand where the light is coming from and where the shadow would be because of that, which is pretty much 100% of hading is. Nevertheless, here is an attempt to show light falling on a block.



Homework

I didn't have a self portrait ready so I grabbed a childhood photo of myself. I used my wacom tablet to trace it in Photoshop, then tried to shade it, curving the lines where I thought it would look best. Here is the result. I feel like I did alright. If I were to spend more time on it I could add varying degrees of light/dark to the whole image.



I decided to see how it would look if I used lines of varying thickness. I set up the brush to be pressure sensitive. Here is the result.

I feel that this is easier to look at. The bold lines are cleaner and the varying thickness is a little more interesting.