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When life gives you keys

When I saw this assignment, my first instinct was to look around in my pockets and see if there was anything I was able to use. While I was looking, I felt the sharp side of my keys on my finger and realized how I could use that. I put my key on the table and started rotating it to try and map out all of the possibilities. Finally, I realized that I could use the jagged edge of the key to represent a rock wall and draw a climber trying to climb it. On the bottom of the page is a cliff and the person is climbing a rocky mountain. His finger slipped and now he is dangling over the abyss, hence the “AHH!”

https://engrd101f24.davidmorgen.org/2024/08/01/sketch-2-sunday-sketches/ SK2

Lights-Up

When first starting this assignment, I had trouble finding an object that I could turn into an art piece. I looked throughout all my drawers in my dorm and finally settled on an unused lightbulb that I had once planned on using for my room. At first, I was going to turn it into a balloon, but realizing that it would be too simple, I changed my idea to a hot air balloon. The biggest trouble I had with this was figuring out the scale for the basket. In my first sketch, I made the basket too big and in the second, too small. Despite this being a drawing, I still wanted it to look as realistic as possible, and for that to be true, the balloon part of the hot air balloon needed to be significantly larger. For my final sketch, I added in some clouds and birds, further representing that this drawing was taking place in the sky.

Blinged-Out Driver

My Sunday sketch is of a car with a gold steering wheel cover, but the cover is actually one of my bracelets I wear everyday. When I sit down to complete all of my homework for the week, I always take of my gold bracelets so they aren’t too noisy when I’m typing. I had just taken them off and I was thinking of what to do for my assignment. I decided to do my sketch with them because many everyday items have a circular shape and I thought I would have more options of things to sketch given their circular shape. I incorporated elements of my hometown in the Avatar assignment and I wanted to do the same here, and as I kept thinking I thought of doing a sketch of my car. The car depicted is the car I drove all throughout high school and I used a picture from my camera roll to model it as closely as possible. The interior of the car was relatively simple to sketch, except one thing I struggled with was figuring how much detail to go into. I didn’t know if I should make a whole landscape scene out the windshield or add multiple areas of shading on the seats. I ended up deciding to go with a more simple design because I felt that it made the steering wheel cover stand out more, and that’s how my Sunday sketch was made.

sk2: Skyscrapers

Having read the assignment and admired Niemann’s beautiful work, I was quite lost on how I would be able to create anything similar to his work. While I didn’t end up making anything that looks like it would be Niemann’s, “skyscrapers” certainly is something. My brainstorming process involved listing my favorite things in different categories. My favorite movie is “Up”, so the inspiration for my composition came from that. While looking for objects around me which I could use to make the work “multimodal”, I locked eyes with the bowl of fruit in front of me. The grapes and blueberries began to look a lot like balloons in the moment, and that’s what they came out to be. Of course, a 2D house on a piece of lined paper doesn’t mean anything with some fruit attached to it on a string. So, in addition to the fruit, I crumpled up some Clorox wipes to add a cloud effect below my houses. Now, they’re really skyscrapers.
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Sketch 2: Sunday Sketches

Due: 9/9
Tag: sk2

Christoph Niemann is an illustrator, artist, and author whose work regularly appears in the New York Times, the New Yorker, and elsewhere. He’s got a mixed media series that he calls “Sunday Sketches,” in which he takes some object from his surroundings and creates a sketch on the page around it. Some of the best such works he’s included in his book entitled Sunday Sketching.

Some examples from Niemann’s Tumblr:

You can see that each of these pieces is an actual three-dimensional tangible object placed into a drawing on paper to transform that object into something new. Niemann then photographs the resulting sketch to create a two-dimensional artifact.

For your third sketch assignment, I want you to create your own Sunday sketch in a similar style.

  • Take a picture of your sketch and publish it as a post.
  • Give your post a funny or witty title.
  • Write a paragraph or two in which you explain the process whereby you came up with the idea for your Sunday sketch and the choices you made in realizing that idea as an actual sketch.
  • Include a link back to this prompt and tag it “sk2”

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