Online Student Show, 2010

What a Year! The Online Student Show features student drawings from six different schools in Santa Cruz and Monterey counties. The theme of the show is Drawing from Observation and Imagination. All students have drawings posted!

To see your drawings and other students: Click here

Week 9: Roundness, Proportions, Contours, Study Sketches, "Getting Squashed"

Because of scheduling, we only had two Sketchers last week. But they jumped in and churned out a lot of excellent work! We grabbed some squash and shells from the 'crate of realism' and got into sketching from real life. Aris and Lizette began to show their true artistic styles as they worked on showing roundness and contours in their study sketches.



As we meet for the last class and you prepare for the Peace Summit, I'd just like to say it's been wonderful sketching with everyone this year. All of you started by drawing the crab and then made your way through many different lessons about drawing techniques and visual art. For those of you who are graduating, I wish you the best for your future. I hope to be back next year with fun, new projects for returning students.

Keep drawing! --Rob

Aris

Your skills as an artist are really starting to shine in these study sketches, Aris!!! You've devoted a lot of time in developing your line work and it can be seen in your confident sketching style. The natural-looking curved contours of the squash are very accurately drawn. Very cool how you sketched right on top of your mistakes until you found accurate form; then finished with bold, expressive pencil strokes. Excellent you you showed the roundness of the squash while also showing the flatness of the area where the stem connects. You did a great job in depicting realistic form and textures of the shell. And your cast shadows underneath the objects are well drawn, too! Consider getting a sketchbook and practicing sketching quickly from real life. Keep it going, girl!

Lizette

This is simply superb sketching, Lizette!!! You REALLY got into the zone while drawing the shell! It was so cool to watch you quickly sketch loose, expressive lines to capture the pointed and curved contours of its form--very natural looking! Great job in using contour lines to show texture. The cast shadow underneath it looks realistic! Your study sketches of the squash are a great start in developing your artistic sketching style! Excellent how you drew on top of your mistakes as you found accurate contours showing the roundness of the squash. Keep practicing sketching from real life. And it great to see you jump right into experimenting with layering colored pencils in the sketch of the apple. Nice work. :-)

Oliver

You weren't able to stay for the whole class, but you got an excellent start in your study sketches of the pineapple!!! The guidelines for the leaves look very natural and you got a nice start in studying the pattern on the surface of the pineapple. Hope you continue to explore drawing from real life as well as the cool work that you do from your imagination. Draw on, Oliver!!