Old Artwork ... from High School and Beyond pt. 1 (Drawings)

Before I get to my more recent stuff of the past month, I thought I'd put up some of my photos of past artwork that I've done (and have photos of).  In this post, I'll share drawings and sketches that I have photos of, and in a following one I'll show paintings.  (Basically, I'm clearing out my old DeviantART webpage.)

This is me, oh so long ago, on the cover of the Cedar Rapids Museum of Art newsletter.  I used to take little summer classes there, and remember running around their exhibits, full of Grant Wood's landscapes, and Marvin Cone's clouds.  Later I did a fare share of volunteering with the Museum.

This was my first drawing in a sketchbook that I used sporadically through high school.  This is an Ariane V launch vehicle, that I remember drawing based off of an image in a science or aerospace magazine.

A completely fictitious rocket.  My high school art typically fell into one of two categories, highly detailed ink drawings like this one (and the following ones), and paintings (see further below).

The successor of the previous image, another fictional rocket.  While these drawings are good, and very detailed, I did them only with standard office ball point pens, which aren't so great.

Yet another fictional rocket, semi-inspired by 2001: A Space Odyssey, which is one of my all time favorite movies.  The imagery in that movie is really astounding, and the spacecraft and universe in that movie are really fascinating.

While not the best photograph of it, this is one of my premier 'technical drawings.'  (I took the photo of it, as it hangs on a wall at my grandparents house now.)  Basically I got my hands on some fantastic Micron Pens, and just went to town.  I started it in a random position (the lower left), and made everything up as I went on.  I actually took this piece to a couple local art shows.

Another technical drawing.  Perspective drawings are always fun.

And one more technical drawing.  Here I substituted fine details for using some really nice Prismacolor markers.

This is my recreation of the 2001 movie poster (shown here), but done on something called contrast paper.  Basically this was special, layered plastic material: the top layer is white, and using an Exacto knife, you can cut off the white layer, revealing a black lower layer.  This was used as a demonstration of working with negative space.

This is an ink drawing of the Hart Senate Building, based upon a photograph I took during a high school band trip to Washington D.C. and New York City.  (I played the Trumpet and Baritone.)  Yay Cherry blossoms.

These last three images I'll show are what are called gesture drawings.  Basically they're drawings from life, that are done rather quickly, with fast, 'gestural,' pen moves.  This one is a drawing I did while taking standardized tests.  I'd finish sections very quickly, and just sit there drawing.  (For those from my high school, this is of Dr. Drey's room.)

This is a gesture drawing of the band room, from my perspective in the back line.  I *think* I was either sick this week or didn't have an instrument, hence why I was drawing.

Lastly, this is a gesture drawing based off a photograph I took while at the University of Arizona Astronomy Camp.  This camp was probably the first time I really got to know the field of astronomy, and I think ultimately made me go into my undergraduate as an astronomy major - as opposed to aerospace engineering.

I'll continue my 'Old Artwork' in my next post, with paintings!  But now, I must get ready, for today is the first day of my last semester of my undergraduate career.