Monday, February 13, 2012

1. To develop craft with this assignment I started by taking pictures using a manual camera. We had these photos developed at a developing store. We used these developed pictures in the darkroom using the enlargers to transfer the photos to paper. With the paper we used chemicals to develop the photos, which gave us our final product.
2. The materials that I used in my process so far was a roll of film, a manual camera, an enlarger, photo paper, and chemicals. Some of the methods and tricks I have used have been to wave my hand in front of the picture, to move the photo paper mid print, and to test all of my prints on small test strips.
3. One problem I have encountered in my creation of this project was that many of the pictures that I took were taken out of focus, which turned out in out of focus final prints.
4. I solved this problem by sorting through my photos and finding a couple that were taken in focus or had portions of the picture that were in focus.

Value Drawing

1. To develop craft with this assignment I started out by using a light pencil and making outlines of the objects in the drawing. After drawing the external lines I focused on the internal lines, making all of the contour lines look exactly as I saw them. After completing the contour lines I started to focus on the value of the objects, and I am still in the process of portraying the object's values.
2. So far in the project the tools I have used are a 6B, 2B, HB, and 2H pencil and a drawing board. The main method I used with the shading of my drawing so far (I have only just begun shading) was smearing the graphite with my pencil.
3. I had a little trouble with the scale of the objects, and having everything be to scale in the drawing.
4. I solved this problem, with the help of Mr. O, by looking more deeply into the shaped and sizes of the objects in context to the other objects.