Author: Joe Meiser

These drawings have dynamic compositions AND varied line weight.

Remember With Membry
Trenton Doyle Hancock
Acrylic plastic and Canvas
56″x66″

These drawings are effective because they have:

• A high level of detail (achieved by careful examination of the still life)
• Crisp edges (achieved by careful erasure and handling of the pencil and graphite stick)
• Very dark shading (achieved by making a few passes with the pencil and graphite stick–it takes time!)
• Graphite has been effectively blended with a cloth and blending stump
• Erasers were used to remove smudges from the white areas

Finished collage in color:

The collage is converted to grayscale with the copier:

After using the grid and planning lines to scale collage up to the 18×24″ drawing, value shapes are used to quickly establish a full value range. The artist avoids adding detail at this stage, focusing instead on simply approximating the value in each major area.

Then the drawing can be detailed further with the pencils and erasers…

https://mediaspace.bucknell.edu/media/Making+a+simple+collage+in+Photoshop/1_hydgxn8d

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1ucL3CFOkSHenWwqshiDReIkCWAd4ojlPOk6Mcsm_hH8/edit?usp=sharing