Irvin Rodriguez's Digital Art

Marc Chagall and the Visual Story

Chagall,who was born in Russia, lived and worked in France, created these wonderful paintings to describe events that happened in his life and from his culture. He lived through world war one in Europe and escaped to New York during World War 2. His work was influenced by other artists and styles, including Surrealism, Cubism and the colors of the Impressionists.

Look for how he uses COLOR, VALUES, and the SIZE of objects in his work to describe a story....

You can see more of his work here....

the artist...

I And The Village, 1911, this picture is over 6 feet tall!

"Birthday", 1915, celebrates his love for his wife....

"The Juggler", 1943, painted during his exile in New York. Perhaps juggling his life, work and memories of home in war ravaged Europe?

Ideas For Portrait Backgrounds

As you plan out the background for your portrait, look at these examples for inspiration... Notice how they use COLOR, VALUE and SYMBOLS, PATTERNS or Visual TEXTURES.

Van Gogh's  "Woman Rocking a Cradle", 1889

Van Gogh's Joseph-Etienne Roulin, 1889

David Hockney, Self Portrait

Gustave Klimt's, Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer

Gustave Klimt sketch

Durer's Self Portrait

Great Portrait Examples

Check out this link for some photoshop Portrait examples..... Notice how you can see the brush marks in some of them, and how they use the HIGHLIGHTS to make the face "pop"!

See more @ http://abduzeedo.com/50-amazing-digital-painting-portraits

Portrait Drawing Set Up

Here are screen shots of how our Photoshop portrait is set up. Notice the layers, what they are named, and the "mode" they are set on....
• Under drawing is the foundation image, figure out the values first!
• color layer will "colorize" your under drawing
• Screen layer will add highlights
• Multiply layer adds shadows and darkens

The set up! Notice the swatches and layers are visible

Here is the layers pallet and the named layers living there!

STEVEN ASSAEL's classic style

Check out this skilled artist! Here are some of his drawings to show you more eyes and feature....

See more of his work here@ http://www.stevenassael.com/drawings.html

SKULL!!!!!

Some quick reference photos of the skull!!!

Look at how the shapes in the skull help make the light and shadow shapes of the face...

FACE BOOK examples

Here are some details from the "Facebook" handout I showed you in class....

Especially important is the "planes of the face"

A guide for placing the features onto the head.

Such a great example of the "planes" of the face...

Detail of the planes

another detail

HOMEWORK!!

Your homework for Monday, Nov. 3rd, is to create a series of self portrait drawings.

Drawing #1 is a "single line Drawing of the face, head, neck and shoulders..... Use one, continuous line- drawing as your eye explores the subject.

Drawing #2 is a "single VALUE Drawing of the face, head, neck and shoulders..... Block in the shapes of shadows and forms- then shade in to create solid BLACK areas on white paper.

Quick sample of eye drawings

Here's one sample eye drawing.....

check out the "scribbled" technique...

but it builds up to more details as I block it in....
I'm about half way done..... I'll get more and more "tight" as I complete the work...

Jeff's Epic Candy Drawing

I call this piece Counting Halloween Candy.

The reason called it this is because the color scheme of this piece is purple, orange, and green. It all spread out like a child counting his/her candy on halloween, the way it's all scattered out as if they are being separated by colors or rather the flavor of the colors.

I think the best part of my piece is the way I exagerated the shadows of each piece of candy. The shadow seems to engulf the background in a directional way that leads you to the most important points of the piece. Another good part of this particular piece is the glare on the wrappers of the candy and even the gunny worm and half-a-jaw-breaker.

Candy Color Remix :)

 My color scheme included the color compliments of red, yellow-green and blue-green. You can see the blue color breaking through in the large purplish pink gummy piece to create a shade and value change. The best part of the image I feel is the highlights in the background featuring very bright, vibrant hues of  blue and green.
-Katarina

Amanda's Super Fantastic Drawing of Delicious Candy

The color scheme I used for this drawing was a split complementary using purple, orange, and green. The "broken color" technique was used in my piece by layering on different colors as shown in the gum ball in the lower right corner. I made the gum ball green and then added light orange dots on top to make the broken color.

The best part of my image is the candies with the dots of color on them. They show texture, value change, and the "broken color" technique. The candy in the top right corner is very strong too. It has contrasting colors and is mellow. The candy had dots of sugar on top of it and the dots of color show that texture.

I would name my work "Colorful Chaos" because the colors I used some vibrant colors in the drawing that really pop out and get your attention. There are many shapes on the page that overlap and are shaped in a way that they lead your eye around the drawing. There are lots of places for you to look in the drawing and there is lots going on.

Jen's Colorful Candy :)

The color scheme was red, blue-green, and yellow-green. I used the broken color technique in my piece  by the background, lollipop, tootsie roll, and gummy worm. I layered up all shades of reds, blues, and greens in the lollipop. The worm has different orange-ish colors and some blue-greens. The tootsie roll has layers of reds and greens. 

I think the best part of my work is the background, lollipop, and gummy worm. The background has a lot of color in it. For the lighter part of the background, I made a brush that makes multiple dots. For the darker part of the background I used a normal brush and made the dots myself. 

I would name this piece The Land of Color. 

Cecilys Fabulous Masterpiece!

I would name my work CANDY LAND
My color scheme was violet, yellow green, and yellow orange. I used the "broken color" technique in my work by the background mostly. I used a dotted brush and used different values of greens and purples to create a broken color technique.
I believe the best part of my image/masterpiece would have to be my yellow jawbreaker in the bottom left corner. I believe this because you can see a good glare and it has good colors used for the roundness of the candy. Plus the brush I used for the rapper around it looks very good.

Posting Your Work

Please post an image (photo) of your candy set up, your digital drawing and write answers to these questions about your work....

1. What was your color scheme? How did you use the "broken color" technique in your work?
2. What is the best part of your image?
3. What would you name your work?

Sign your posting with your FIRST NAME ONLY....
Check for spelling, too :-)

DRAWING EYES

The window to the soul? Yep, the eyes are the most important part of any portrait. Let's get into the structure, form and anatomy of eyes and the surrounding face.

Use mirrors, "photobooth" and photoshop to create five sketches of eyes from observation. Look to draw their SHAPE, SHADING, and PROPORTIONS.

Here's one sample image that I was working on in Photoshop.

 

Here are some reference photos for the anatomy of the head and eye...

look how the eye socket is shaped..

drawing by M C Escher (see the skull?)

muscles of the head....

good side view of the skull..