TEXTURE: Detail Study

Margaux Fallon

Last night students turned in portfolios and worked on texture drawings. The majority of class made detail studies of textures. The objective was to draw the texture without revealing the outer contours or identity of the object. Margaux's drawing above illustrates the amoebic-like patterns of the inside of an abalone shell. Notice how the image is divided into four arcing sections with varying amounts of detail and mark-making. The values are rich and varied in size sustaining rhythms that are complementary to the arcing flow into the upper right-hand corner.

5/8 TEXTURE: Continuous Field

Stephany Valencia

Students continued with texture drawings. We discussed the concept of a continuous field composition. A continuous field composition has no horizon line; the image extends outside the format on all four sides. Although the drawing above is not a continuous field it is an intriguing and surreal rendering of a magnolia seed pod. The combination of tone and cross-contour lines addresses the texture while adding volume and depth as well.

Homework #5 Texture Detail

In a 4 x 5 in. format, in your sketchbook, using graphite pencils draw a continuous field composition of a texture. Your image should only exhibit the details of the texture. This is basically a value assignment. In order to rendering texture in an interesting and believable way, the values must be fully developed.
Do not draw the shape of the object. The drawing above is a sponge and notice that the edges of the sponge are outside of the image area.

HOMEWORK #6 Texture Study

Old Sponge

Weathered Cardboard

In a 4 x 5 in. format, in your sketchbook, using graphite pencils draw a continuous field composition of a texture from observation. This is essentially an investigation of value.  Textures are in essence a series of light and dark values. Your image should only exhibit the texture.  There should be no horizon line and no edges to the shape of the thing the texture is on.

Tues. May 3 TEXTURE STUDIES

Students chose objects with strong textural qualities and then made "continuous field" studies of the textures alone.  A continuous field composition is one that has no top or bottom and extends off all edges of the image area.  The actual shape of the object was omitted. This gives the textures a more fantastic or otherworldly quality. Technically speaking, these are elaborate value studies that happen to be of textures. Drawings by Taylor Bihn, Michelle Phillips (in-progress) and Derek Murphy (in-progress) respectively.