Drawing

A look at a few Illustrations I have worked on

Drawing

To understand and explore the core concepts of what drawing is. The idea of learning shading, depth, color, the head, and the body.

Purpose

Mediums Used:

Graphite, Compressed Charcoal, Willow Charcoal, Charcoal Pencil, Colored Pencil, Micron Pen

Life Drawing

The aim of life drawing is to understand the human figure, from proportions, facial features, and the bones underneath.

Purpose

Media Used:

Graphite, Compressed Charcoal, Willow Charcoal, Charcoal Pencil

Course Statement:

My name is Aaron Figueroa, and I am majoring in Graphic Design in Animation. I’m newer to the world of art, I have been practicing on finding and creating my craft for a little over two years, but my love for art goes back far beyond that. The amount of joy I find in being able to articulate my ideas from my head down onto a piece of paper or in a digital or 3D environment is insurmountable. I found myself with all these fun and interesting ideas, but unable to express them properly. So I dove head first into art and haven’t looked back.

Prior to life drawing I haven’t had really any experience with drawing the figure but maybe once or twice for one of my animation classes to produce a character concept for a 2D and 3D character. I found the most challenging concept for life drawing is the speed it takes to create a cohesive drawing. Along with that, I also found it the most rewarding part of my experience in life drawing as well. Although I still have a long way to go to catch up to these speeds and artistic talent, it taught me to stop second guessing myself and to just go for it. I often find myself more in my head than rather touching mediums to paper and this was a major hindering factor in completing my drawings. The most valuable lesson I learned through it all is proportion sizes and what to focus on in the composition. I might not have to do formal drawing for my career path. It’s more of a sketch for concept, but either way, I still plan on continuing to develop my drawing skills for as long as I can draw.

While working through life drawing, I found myself looking back at what I’ve completed and have thought about my lack of speed, my struggle with line variation and shading. I have come a long way from when I started and I am very proud of that. There is definitely room for improvement and I plan to continue working towards it all. The medium I enjoyed the most is charcoal pencil because I felt like I had more control over my strokes line weight and that has helped me towards varying my lines. I found the class prompt about scribble drawing to be valuable, it’s really neat to see how you can convey a figure or really anything from well placed lines. A few artists I admire and follow are Alberto Mielgo and Gints Zilbalodis. I chose and arts career because it has always fascinated me what the human mind can come up with and create. I found myself one day not being able to get these ideas I’ve had out of my head and into concept, and I said no more. I’m passionate about character animation and hard surface modeling. After AC I plan on attending A&M’s Animation Program.