Markmaking

Willem De Kooning:

Willem De Kooning was born April 24, 1904 – March 19, 1997. He was born in Rotterdam, Netherlands, then moved to the USA and became an American citizen in 1962.

His artistic style was described as 'abstract' or 'action painting' wherefore he mostly used rough charcoal lines, marks and smudges to infer the motion of the things and people he drew.

From the image above, the mediums used seem to be charcoal on paper. The lines are flowing and varying in pressure and thickness. Vague facial features can be seen as well as some form of limb. Shadow and lighting aren't really highlighted in his art style as there's mostly just an overbearing tone of grey overall and smudging of quite dark areas in the middle.

Vincent Matthews

Vincent Matthews is a modern artist who works with more of a detailed mark making art style. His works have been showcased in over a 100 different galleries over the course of 2008 - 2023 and has received many awards for his artworks.

The artwork (labeled Lazy Hound) was created using different varying thicknesses for pencils. The artist has used a technique inspired by a 14th century technique

that involved creating contour lines to create a similar likeliness of the dog's fur patterns.

The artist created the artwork observing directly from life.

My Response:

In this mark making task, I've explored different individual layers to complete my work.

Below shows a cone at which I've attempted to shade in with different dot sizes to show my dotting mark-making technique. I used smaller dots near the top and bigger and more concentrated dots at the bottom; in this way, you can show shape and shadow. This was the most time consuming task.

In this task, I used cross hatching and hatching for the square. I did only hatching for the top of the square as that was the direction in which the light was coming from and left the very left square empty. The most concentrated area was the right square in which I attempted to do very heavy cross hatching for the maximum effect of shadow portrayal. By choosing three clear tones, a 3D image of a cube can be formed.

This was the digital Line Drawing Techniques page. I started off by filling in the smaller boxes with different samples of mark making techniques; these included dashes, hatching, lines, scribbles as well as modern patterns like stitches and bricks.

Then I played around with a three toned approach on each of the 3D shapes, using a different technique per shape. Cone -stippling. Cylinder -gradient. Cube -hatching.

Lastly, I used the brush tool to make three differently toned sphere gradients -darkest to lightest.