Chess Piece Class Assignment-The Fall of a King
We were given an assignment where we had to choose a chess piece, make a few thumbnail sketches, settle on an idea, then draw it out making a composition that was; thoughtful, complex, effective, using line, pattern and/or rhythm.
I am pretty proud of this drawing, and I believe that I achieved all these aspects fairly well.
It was a bit difficult at first though, my first good copy got ruined, and I was pretty sure I wouldn't be able to do it in time, or be able to make the whole drawing at all without it getting ruined again. But after a whole lot of work, it turned out good!
When it comes to realism, I'd say that was done fairly good. Despite the fact that the regular kings bottom is a bit slanted and off...though other than that, I am proud of it and I'm glad how real they both look.
The patterns in this picture are the checkerboard floor, the clouds, the cape, and the chain coming down from the top of the picture and going down to the ruined king in the back, as well as that ones ruined cape and falling crown. It took much thought to actually settle on these to make actual movement, pattern and/or rhythm. I mean, I had the original idea of the picture itself for the longest time, but I never thought about adding these things to make what I needed to put possible. The way the cape flows, and the stripes going down it, gives the feeling that this cape is blowing in the wind, as is the torn, ragged cape on the ruined king. The way I drew the ruined kings crown makes it look like its falling off, as he gets whisked away by the chain and ball coiling around him. The stripes on the actual kings cape is a slight repeating pattern, as is the checkerboard and the chains on the chain ball, since it repeats over and over to either give a sense of movement, or is there for just patterning purposes.
Throughout the entire picture, I'm sure that I used a pretty wide range of value on everything, though the value that was used almost the most, was the darker values, from the grays to the blacks, though I made sure we had brighter values in there too, so I played around with the lighter values on the king, since he's supposed to be the one in 'power', and he's in the light, though soon to fall as well. so I made it look like he was in the light in the 'kingdom' he's ruling over, since he still hasn't fallen and is still strong and powerful. as well on the floor, the white squares on the checkerboard also have a lighter value, again mostly toward the light as well, but they still have light value.
Like I said, I have had this idea in my mind for the longest time. To be honest, when I first had the idea and drew it for the first time (I have the original draft at home), it looked much different. The kings were side by side in the middle, the ruined king had actual wounds on him. He was burnt, sliced, etc, and it looked nothing like it does now. After we got this assignment, it wasn't on my mind at the time, so I jotted down so many ideas...and when it finally came to me, I had to change it as much as I could so it would meet the expectations of the assignment. So instead of having the kings in the middle, I moved them further from one another, ending up with the regular king on the left, and the ruined one in the back on the right.
It was a slight challenge to make the regular king (the chess piece) the focal point. At first it was the ruined king as the focal point, and that wasn't supposed to happen. so I had to tweak and tweak and tweak so it wasn't. I made the background darker and darker with my 2B and 6B pencil (mostly the 6B) until the ruined king blended enough. Then I worked on the regular king, erasing and using my HB pencil to make some shading lighter on it and bringing more light to him, to make him the focal point. And in the end, it turned out to be as such.
So all in all, I believe I achieved these aspects pretty well, and I'm proud of how my work turned out :)
When it comes to realism, I'd say that was done fairly good. Despite the fact that the regular kings bottom is a bit slanted and off...though other than that, I am proud of it and I'm glad how real they both look.
The patterns in this picture are the checkerboard floor, the clouds, the cape, and the chain coming down from the top of the picture and going down to the ruined king in the back, as well as that ones ruined cape and falling crown. It took much thought to actually settle on these to make actual movement, pattern and/or rhythm. I mean, I had the original idea of the picture itself for the longest time, but I never thought about adding these things to make what I needed to put possible. The way the cape flows, and the stripes going down it, gives the feeling that this cape is blowing in the wind, as is the torn, ragged cape on the ruined king. The way I drew the ruined kings crown makes it look like its falling off, as he gets whisked away by the chain and ball coiling around him. The stripes on the actual kings cape is a slight repeating pattern, as is the checkerboard and the chains on the chain ball, since it repeats over and over to either give a sense of movement, or is there for just patterning purposes.
Throughout the entire picture, I'm sure that I used a pretty wide range of value on everything, though the value that was used almost the most, was the darker values, from the grays to the blacks, though I made sure we had brighter values in there too, so I played around with the lighter values on the king, since he's supposed to be the one in 'power', and he's in the light, though soon to fall as well. so I made it look like he was in the light in the 'kingdom' he's ruling over, since he still hasn't fallen and is still strong and powerful. as well on the floor, the white squares on the checkerboard also have a lighter value, again mostly toward the light as well, but they still have light value.
Like I said, I have had this idea in my mind for the longest time. To be honest, when I first had the idea and drew it for the first time (I have the original draft at home), it looked much different. The kings were side by side in the middle, the ruined king had actual wounds on him. He was burnt, sliced, etc, and it looked nothing like it does now. After we got this assignment, it wasn't on my mind at the time, so I jotted down so many ideas...and when it finally came to me, I had to change it as much as I could so it would meet the expectations of the assignment. So instead of having the kings in the middle, I moved them further from one another, ending up with the regular king on the left, and the ruined one in the back on the right.
It was a slight challenge to make the regular king (the chess piece) the focal point. At first it was the ruined king as the focal point, and that wasn't supposed to happen. so I had to tweak and tweak and tweak so it wasn't. I made the background darker and darker with my 2B and 6B pencil (mostly the 6B) until the ruined king blended enough. Then I worked on the regular king, erasing and using my HB pencil to make some shading lighter on it and bringing more light to him, to make him the focal point. And in the end, it turned out to be as such.
So all in all, I believe I achieved these aspects pretty well, and I'm proud of how my work turned out :)
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