Kathleen's WIP drawings, sketches, illustrations

[Kathleen]

Turkey Vulture final collaborative contains chimney under-drawing by L. Chance

Birches Final collaborative contains sky color by D.Moore

Thumbnail ideas for collaborative drawings project

These are the type of drawings I would like to take further into animation....so many story possibilities!
Some recent work - hoping to have some feedback from you all!
Thanks!
Kathleen

[idragosani]

Nice! I really like the birches, lovely curved lines and dreamy colors.

[Kathleen]

Thanks, idragosani, I like the birches too, and am going to try it as a background in a drawing, here. I'll post it when I get it accomplished.

[ematecki]

Hi,

what do you mean by "collaborative" ?
Each of you painted some part ? ("contains chimney under-drawing by L. Chance")
Someone did the drawing and someone else the colors ? ("contains sky color by D.Moore")

Some more complex process going several times from one person to the other ?

A+

[ZigOtto]

pretty nice collaborative work !
keep it up ...

and as Eric above, I'm curious about how is working your "several hands" project,
can you tell us a little more about it ?

[Kathleen]

pretty nice collaborative work !
keep it up ...

and as Eric above, I'm curious about how is working your "several hands" project,
can you tell us a little more about it ?

Eric and zigotto,

These were two seperate assignments in an Advanced Drawing class I am taking:

First we were to create 20 thumbs, for idea generation.

Then, for each of the two assignments, we each began a drawing.
Then passed it across the room, to a student who put their own style, subject matter and choice of medium into the drawing.
Then it was passed again, to a third student, who then continued in their style and choice of medium and subject.

The third, and final pass ended with two seperate results:
On assignment #1, the final work was done on our original drawing.
Assignment #2, the final work was done on someone else's drawing.

In the case of the Birches, #1, I originated it, drawing the trees and landscape in graphite: then, D.Moore put in the red and blue and yellow sky in NuPastel; then another student put a big, black hole in the front birch(!); at which point the drawing came back to me and I finished drawing the picture using india ink, coloring with NuPastel, and some more graphite.

In the case of the Turkey Vulture, #2, I ended up with L. Chance's drawing, who had started with the chimney. I finished it by drawing the bird and all the rest in graphite and worked into that with water-color pencils, gesso, more graphite and a bit of Dr.pH Martin's Ink.

At each stage, we were to think of the drawing as "ours" no matter whether it was going on to someone else, or not.

I think this was a great exercise, good practice for real-work collaboration, and ideas, and a lot of fun.

Thanks for asking!
Kathleen

[ematecki]

Interesting.

I'm curious what it would give with students in computer science and their programming assignments :)

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[idragosani]

I'm curious what it would give with students in computer science and their programming assignments

It's called "software engineering"

[Kathleen]

See? Fun!

[Kathleen]

Interesting.

I'm curious what it would give with students in computer science and their programming assignments

A+

I like that A+, Eric!

[ZigOtto]

...
At each stage, we were to think of the drawing as "ours" no matter whether it was going on to someone else, or not.

Bye Bye Ego, and viva Communism !

more seriously, it looks like a very interesting experience ...

[Kathleen]

...
At each stage, we were to think of the drawing as "ours" no matter whether it was going on to someone else, or not.

Bye Bye Ego, and viva Communism !

more seriously, it looks like a very interesting experience ...

I, of course, liked my parts best!
but seriously...don't we have to, often, (Not always, one hopes) collaborate, at some stage of a piece, animation, painting, illustration, anyway? I guess I decided, from this exercise, that I could, if I absolutely had to...

[Paul Fierlinger]

This is the most bewildering exercise for a drawing class I have ever come across. Imagine a cooking, architecture, or music composition class based on such fun. I agree, Communism was the first word that crossed my mind as well, and look what they came out with in poster art, architecture and music. Artists who couldn't stomach the system were labeled individualists and sent straight to collective farms.

[idragosani]

This is the most bewildering exercise for a drawing class I have ever come across. Imagine a cooking, architecture, or music composition class based on such fun. I agree, Communism was the first word that crossed my mind as well, and look what they came out with in poster art, architecture and music. Artists who couldn't stomach the system were labeled individualists and sent straight to collective farms.

I've taken music courses where we had to collaborate with other people on specific assignments, it is great fun. I've seen animation projects that were similar, each person in the chain was responsible for, say, 5 seconds of animation, and then it gets passed on to the next person.

[Kathleen]

This is the most bewildering exercise for a drawing class I have ever come across. Imagine a cooking, architecture, or music composition class based on such fun. I agree, Communism was the first word that crossed my mind as well, and look what they came out with in poster art, architecture and music. Artists who couldn't stomach the system were labeled individualists and sent straight to collective farms.

I've taken music courses where we had to collaborate with other people on specific assignments, it is great fun. I've seen animation projects that were similar, each person in the chain was responsible for, say, 5 seconds of animation, and then it gets passed on to the next person.

It WAS fun, and not to be taken too seriously, because each of the students seemed to realize ( I know I did), that the reason I put pen,pencil,paint to paper,etc, I want to be saying what I, me, mine, my thoughts, my brain, my experience, my hopes, my dreams, my life, my ideas (you get the pic.) want to say - which is why I am not a studio,or stable (! ) artist, I guess! So if what it taught me was the coalescence of these thoughts, then it was a well-taught moment.
But it also stretched our creative muscles: to create something out of an alien ( in the sense that it did not come from one's own head) image that one could then take ownership of in the final piece.
peace.
K