Second Semester Drawing

Here I am back at home, eating delicious food and sleeping in a comfortable bed. I have dogs to pet, a car to drive, and life is good. Though I can't shake the feeling that a pile of work is waiting somewhere for me, ready to be discovered. Guess that's what RISD does to you. Anyway, I thought I'd put up some images from my drawing crit for second semester. I was given an entire studio space to put up enough work to represent the entire span of the class.
Part one of my crit space


Part two of my crit space. You actually can't see it but the wall continues for several feet on the right. I also brought three sketchbooks and several other loose drawings that I didn't put up on the wall.


John Galt
Charcoal, White-out, and Newsprint

My first drawing assignment for the Spring semester. The assignment was to take a nature lab object and create a spacial composition using several instances of the object at varying scales. I chose some sort of spiky and delicate brown seedpod. I took my inspiration from Ayn Rand's philosophy of Objectivism as demonstrated in her Atlas Shrugged. The large seedpod is an expression of the glorification of the heroic individual, while the smaller newsprint-seedpods are the "looters" and "leeches" feeding off the success of another.


Studio Composition With Figure
Vine Charcoal

One day in-studio drawing of an elaborate setup including two skeletons, a flayed man, and a nude model.



Flight
Ink and Charcoal

I already posted this, but it was a major assignment for us (our "journey" composition) so I decided to include it here as well.


The Offering
Charcoal, Chalk on Cardboard

This was my "Animal Movement" composition. We visited a nearby zoo and sketched animals during an afternoon. I chose the cotton-top tamarinds!


Cliff Dream (Working Title...)
Vine and Compressed Charcoal

This was my last assignment for drawing class. We had two classes to create a unique spatial composition using reference from the two nude models posing for us all day. I decided to go for a surrealist feel to my drawing, looking to Dali and de Chirico. There's no real meaning here, it is just an exploration in placing objects (such as the Joshua Tree) where, logically, they do not belong.

I have more pictures from my semester in drawing, but those are for another post!