I found these charcoal drawings in my closet. They probably should have stayed there, but oh well. These are from my very odd "Expressive Drawing" class from Fall 07. The teacher was a very avid "fine artist" who made us draw with sticks and make ink splotches and cut out things from magazines.
I liked the class well enough, but the teacher never seemed to like anything I did. He must have been able to smell the Animation/Illustration on me. :P
Anyways, he told us to take still lifes(lives?) and make it abstract as possible. Where can you go wrong?
A still life of some kind of spongy thing and a rock. They look kind of alive, don't they?
Still life using a funny little rock with a washer stuck in it, along with some barnacles.
It used to be some seaweed and a shell. Now it's... um... Expressive!
Based loosely on a dried out vertebrate of some poor mammal. I give you Spy vs. Spy, penguin-style.
The picture doesn't really do it justice. The left side is a bit washed out, but oh well. I learned so much doing this thing. I didn't get the rendering done until the night before it was due. Then it just sort of hit me how to do it. It's still off, and the shadows aren't really spot on like I wanted them to be, but I did enough.
