High Contrast Drawing

This was a college illustration assignment.  The assignment was to draw a part of the body using a Conté Crayon and white colored pencil on black charcoal paper.  I figured if I was going to be staring at something it might as well be something that appealed to me, so I picked the chest of a very attractive man, who happens to be Justin Timberlake.

I enjoyed the assignment and I am pleased with my work on it, it was also the inspiration for the ‘N Sync drawings that I ended up doing later in the year.

‘N Sync Drawings

When I was in college I had no money so I got the bright idea to draw something for a friend of mine in place of a gift on her birthday.  After all I had all the art stuff for my art classes.  This would have been back in 2003 so it shouldn’t be shocking that she was a fan of JC Chasez from ‘N Sync and I would be lying if I said that I didn’t like the musical group myself.

So of course I couldn’t just draw one of them.  I had to draw all five but only gave my friend a print of the one she liked.   I hand drew them on black choral paper using colored pencils.  I used white and one other color in each artwork, making sure that none of them had the same color.  I was really happy with the way they turned out.  I was tweaking them one day during free time in our Portfolio Class when I instructor noticed and suggested that I use them in my portfolio.  A class mate also commented that they were among my best works.