Color and Texture Drawings D
uring the next week of class we made another step forward and added colors to our drawings along with using both horizontal and vertical lines in the same drawing to give it that more realistic feeling. I made these drawings using Adobe Illustrator and a Bamboo tablet and pen. I made these drawings with straight or slightly curved horizontal and vertical lines of different thickness. If it was a color drawing then I picked a color along with different shades of that same color, so about four or five different shades to use, otherwise if it was a texture drawing I had to pick a shape (single letter or number) and use only that shape to create a background originally and then a depiction of an object with the use of different shades of the same color just like the color drawings, but I picked different colors for the background and the actual object to make it stand out more. The first step to creating a color or texture image is to find an object you want to draw then either use natural light or give your own light source to the object to give it a unique shadow feature. I then began my color drawings by picking a color that was in the medium
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