PART 1 and 2
Want to hear a funny joke? This drawing took four hours to do.
I started with what turned out to be an extremely complex image with 800 thousand rocks and trees, so I ended up having to completely start over with something at least a little more coherent after a couple futile hours of drawing pebbles and boulders. I still can't visually identify and categorize values within a photograph whatsoever (not just for this sketch, but in general), so properly applying shadows and tones to objects more complex than cubes or spheres is basically a no-go. I also have no idea how to draw rocks or foliage so that wasn't helpful.
I like the graphing method for getting an accurate outline on paper (like I did with assignment 3) but for recreating a photograph I'm really not a fan. At least with me it highly encourages tunnel vision and seeing shapes, and once I stop appreciating things as three dimensional objects with planes the process ends up turning into a sloppy 2D copy-fest. If I did this again in my free time I'd definitely use the photograph as inspirational reference rather than concrete directions.
I started with what turned out to be an extremely complex image with 800 thousand rocks and trees, so I ended up having to completely start over with something at least a little more coherent after a couple futile hours of drawing pebbles and boulders. I still can't visually identify and categorize values within a photograph whatsoever (not just for this sketch, but in general), so properly applying shadows and tones to objects more complex than cubes or spheres is basically a no-go. I also have no idea how to draw rocks or foliage so that wasn't helpful.
I like the graphing method for getting an accurate outline on paper (like I did with assignment 3) but for recreating a photograph I'm really not a fan. At least with me it highly encourages tunnel vision and seeing shapes, and once I stop appreciating things as three dimensional objects with planes the process ends up turning into a sloppy 2D copy-fest. If I did this again in my free time I'd definitely use the photograph as inspirational reference rather than concrete directions.