Works in Graphite

The first is the oldest. Figure drawing from the end of my freshman year in art school. It took about an hour or two.

The second is one of my first projects from my the beginning of my Sophomore year. We had to tell a story through a graphite drawing of hands. These are my mother's hands preparing and cutting tomatoes. I guess it's just telling the story of her providing nourishment for the family. However in reality I really just wanted practice drawing hands. I think her hands are really dramatic and awesome looking because of her nails and her long fingers. I did this in about a weekend. We had to do it in class unfortunately so it's done from a photo.

The third drawing was from my first semester of my sophomore year as well. We had to choose a reflective surface and draw our distorted reflection in it. I chose my bathroom sink because it has a ton of curves that I thought would be really interested to practice with. I HATE drawing reflective surfaces, but this (in a way) helped me out a lot in overcoming my fear of them. If you look closely there's four reflections of me that show up in the drawing. This one only took about a day and a half, but I would've liked to have more time to work on the surroundings. Done from observation.