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Drawing 101 Research Paper

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Every aspect of drawing is applicable in my major: Animation. I’ve learned quite a lot here in Drawing 101. And different parts of each of our projects have helped me grow as an artist. But the projects that have helped me the most are the ovoids and planes project, the still-life drawings, and the cityscape drawing.

Learning about the ovoids and planes of facial structure has helped me construct facial features more accurately than I’ve ever been able to draw. Practicing self-portraits in the mirror has helped me learn how to better contrast facial features and has shown me how the texture of skin stretches around facial features. Drawing from stone busts helped me learn how to really look for the different values to use to make the drawing more realistic. Each of these things will help me with creating different characters and making them seem more realistic in character animation.

The still life drawings have helped me refine my skills of proportioning I learned last quarter in Drawing 100. But they have also taught me how different objects of different hues and tones interact when placed next to each other. This quarter I …show more content…

While I seem to be getting the hang of using vanishing points and proportioning objects, I still can’t seem to grasp texture very well. But this last project has also challenged me to draw from my imagination, which at times is also a struggle for me because —just like writing— I can’t always seem to explain what I want to convey onto paper correctly. But this is another thing I need to practice as anything animated, while referenced off of real objects, will also require me to draw from my imagination frequently.

Facial structure, drawing from imagination, and local color are extremely important in my major. I really need to get used to creating texture, I plan on practicing a lot. But I imagine that I will learn even more next quarter when I take Life

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