I would like to extend a special thanks to all of the contributors to the first ever student-based USD Drawing Blog. I had tons of fun this semester working with a great bunch of students.
Semester/Holiday Break is upon us at USD, and posting will resume in the Spring with a new group of Drawing I students providing the photos and narration.
-John Charles Cox, USD Drawing I Instructor
Sunday, December 20, 2009
Monday the 16th and Wednesday the 18th of November 2009
Although it was a rather busy week, I for one definitely learned quite a few "tricks of the trade." I honestly never would have thought that scraping charcoal onto the paper and smearing it around with a shammy or paper cloth would be the way to start out a drawing; and to not start out after that with charcoal, but with a eraser to define hard and soft edges, your lightest lights, and light sources. Then after that, you can start to put in your darkest darks, and then your shadows, and mid tones. It's a very neat effect that you get when you're done. Overall I learned a lot from these two days.
-David Yarbrough, USD Drawing I Student
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