a creative journey | drawing the figure Sp'20

A sketchbook can be a daily diary, an intimate space, a creative journey when we're locked in, keeping our distance. Here you can thumb through some sample pages that informed Rulan's imagination, as our class neared its end.

An earlier Creative Sketching assignment

Self-portrait

Final Project

a sample | drawing f'19

A variety of work came out of this semester's drawing classes.

Two pages of Wendy's cat calendar

Ethan's shoe drawing

Lucila's creative drawing

Amanda's room

Ying's portrait of a friend

Charlotte's children's book

dancing | drawing f'19

Wendy and Edwin are so inspiring. After posting my own drawings to Instagram, I want to acknowledge a talented group of students, since this is their fifth and final class of figure drawing.  

Renee

Wendy

Wendy

Ava

Mekea

Renee

Yingying

Delia

start of the semester quote

"Every artist has one central story to tell, the struggle is to tell it over and over in new ways, and to challenge it - but at the core, the story remains the same: it is the defining story about who you are." 

- Gregory Crewdson, Photographer

Grace

Grace

Grace

Grace

Grace's artist statement, SIS II '19

from a loose hand to a controlled hand | drawing S'19

Ali

Ali

 Caleb

Lottie

Lottie

final project | drawing S'19

Hatching is one of the more challenging lessons, when values of light and shadow are rendered, with the even lines of a pen, or the tip of a pencil. While we begin the semester, by forming the simple surface of a cube and a cylinder, by the last class, Molly shows her determination to improve. A skillful drawing of her boss's "craggy" face, is included in the final project.

Molly

figure drawing | drawing f'18

"Art is not what you see but what you make others see." - Edgar Degas

Jinjing

Taryn

Louise

Michael

Kohdai

portraiture | SIS II '18

When drawing from life, we start traditionally, with an understanding of structure and values. Later students also have a more personal take on portraiture.

Amanda 

Chloe

Emily

Amanda

Elias