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Ms. Toad

(35,515 posts)
Mon Mar 11, 2024, 08:18 PM Mar 2024

Hybrid drawings - pushing my limits!

It's been a while since I posted. My daughter had a few health issues and I got a wee bit behind from dealing with her. I like drawing things as I see them - and these exercises are designed to help me move away from that.

Hybrid drawing #1: Changing form. The assignment was to draw something new - a hybrid creature that doesn't exist, something which changed forms, etc. The pavement bricks morph into the drapes. The Cozumel Iguana morphs into a 2D vase design, then un morphs back into a different 3D Cozumel Iguana.



Hybrid drawing #2: Connect the Dots: take three previous drawings (or pieces of them) which are different from each other and draw them at a distance from one another in separate 4" x 6" picture planes. Then draw a picture to connect them. The three previous drawings were the cecropia caterpillar, the bulk of the tree roots, and the seahorse. I connected it with a foggy tree and a pond to contain the seahorse.



The next thing is our midterm project - we throw all of the previous images on the floor and see what abstract connections we can make (repetition of shapes, value, line, etc.) I'm in the middle of that now. Then we make a picture using the composition components (not necessarily the images) we connected. Yikes!

This course is a really good foundation in the fundamentals of drawing, and in showing us different ways to think about drawing It isn't always comfortable - but I'm definitely thinking about things differently. But I wish my classmates were taking it seriously. It's a bit unnerving to follow the directions, show up to class (as I did today) and be the only one who actually followed the directions. I did confirm that I was doing what I was supposed to - and he acknowledged that he isn't used to having anyone actually following the directions.

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Ms. Toad

(35,515 posts)
2. Thank you!
Mon Mar 11, 2024, 08:32 PM
Mar 2024

The midterm will be even more "interesting." It's got a spiderweb morphing into bricks with drops that oand on the surface of the water over the seahorse's head - and the body of hte seahorse is made up of the hybrid vase in this thread. The ripples on the water surface from the drops will be a different ring configurations from some of the other sketchbook assignments.

Walleye

(35,658 posts)
5. Well all that sounds really difficult
Mon Mar 11, 2024, 09:18 PM
Mar 2024

I had to take my Medicare wellness test, before I went in I practiced drawing a Clock and a cube cause I’m so bad at it.

MLAA

(18,598 posts)
6. I love drawing 1 with all the morphing. You did a fantastic job on the assignment and I love the different dimensions!
Mon Mar 11, 2024, 09:26 PM
Mar 2024

Goddessartist

(2,067 posts)
8. Excellent!!!
Tue Mar 12, 2024, 08:36 AM
Mar 2024

I love them both and am impressed! I especially love the tree branch that looks like an arm and hand...and the iguana! I love it all.

Ms. Toad

(35,515 posts)
9. Thank you!
Tue Mar 12, 2024, 12:56 PM
Mar 2024

I loosely used a photo of a tree hidden in the fog as a model for that. I was trying to figure out how to tie the three picture planes together and it just seemed a foggy tree would be just the thing.

I think the iguana will end up in the midterm project (inside the seahorse belly).

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