Look Ma I'm in College!

So now that you've seen all my early work things are about to get more serious because it's college time! By this point I had changed my major from Bio-medical Sciences to Art Education, what a big leap right? I'm currently enrolled at St. Cloud State University and I am finishing my first year of college, but lets back up and rewind to Fall 2014 my First Semester of college and my first Drawing class ever, Foundation Drawing 1

 This was the first drawing we made in this class and it was based on a still life because we all know how exciting they are (cough cough not really cough cough) but it was a good starting point since the majority of my class had never even touched charcoal.

Problem: Cover a sheet of drawing paper completely in charcoal and draw with an eraser, but you can't add any charcoal.





Solution: I used a variety of erasers ranging from the eraser of a basic school pencil to a giant pink eraser and a kneaded eraser, and as for erasing mistakes I would just rub of some charcoal from a different spot and transfer it to the area I wanted to fix.

 This was a project further down this class and it was when we were experimenting with space. I decided to create my own space for this project and it was on a staircase.

Problem: Create a drawing with charcoal that creates space.

Solution: I made my own space and used a a white conte crayon to highlight and create more constrast.

Pop Quiz!! Yes, in art pop quizzes are drawings not fill in the blank questions.

Problem: Draw 1/3 of the still life with either, pen, pencil, or charcoal with in 1 1/2 hours.

Solution: Still life in charcoal, and pencil.