Mason Gatner

 Assignment 5: Scribble Line Sketchbook Drawings: The first part of the assignment was to use scribbles to make drawings. I didn't understand the assignment well enough though, and ended up making contour drawings. I wish I did, cause then I could have drawn something cool, like a monster or an OC. The materials I used were pencil crayons (x2 colors), charcoal, ink pen, permanent marker, alcohol-based marker. This next aspect of the assignment was to study value and shading using scribbles. I can safely say, after learning more about what was expected from the assignment, I'm happier with the results here. Materials used were ballpoint pen, highlighter, pencil (B3), pencil (H3), and crayon. The Big Scribble This was the large project. I got the idea for this while experimenting with tape and scribbles. I originally wanted to draw something more defined and fantastical, but I think I was more interested in something simpler, like this. Of course, I still managed to add a fantast...

 Assignment 2, Monday, October 7, 2024 Contour Drawings These past few weeks, we've been learning about contour line drawing, which focuses on lines rather than shading, texture, or lighting. These are the projects. 1. Blind Contours (drawing items without looking at the paper): The items I've elected to draw consist of, in order of appearance, a chair from the U of L library, a plant from the U of L library, my headphones, a fern clipping, a Rubik's cube, a recycling bin, a bottle of hand sanitizer, a combination lock, sunglasses, and my art kit. 2. Contour Line Drawing: The same items as above, with a small difference in order. 3. The Large Drawing (18"x24"). This art piece consists of drawings of the other subjects. The goal was to bring items that remind me of my University experience so far, from items that I bought and used over COVID, such as the lock, the sunglasses, and the hand sanitizer, to items from the library, such as the plants and the chair, to my...