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.