Homework assignment

Well, just to give a brief summary, the homework was to draw an object from a close distance, medium distance, and finally, a far distance. I chose to draw, initially a door or rather, a doorknob in the first drawing. I began sitting approximately one foot away from the "subject". Then for my subsequent drawings, I moved five, and then ten feet away from the door.

I think I was able to demonstrate the idea of distance, given by the fact that my drawings are of different scales. This is not terribly obvious with the two drawings of the doors because the scans imported into Photoshop used only the scan area over the drawing and not the whole sheet of paper (to save time and space), but I can assure you that the second door drawn was smaller than the first. I should have probably accounted for that when I initially scanned the two doors, but I guess it's really too late to cry about that now. However, my error does express the point that in order for distance to be shown, proper scale must be applied. And for proper scale, you must have a larger work area (i.e. sheet). As was mentioned in the first reading, the same sized object on a large surface as opposed to a small surface will not appear to be the same size.

Also, the fact that there are different levels of detail does add to the portrayal that there is distance between the object and me. However, that can be further accentuated through scale, as I previously mentioned.

Aside from the fact that I can't really draw (I think I've already mentioned that), I think this exercise was a success.