Hi, Sarah Beth and classmates!

Sarah Beth, I can’t thank you enough for helping me loosen up and have fun. I love still lifes, but I’m usually working with paint, so sometimes whimsy takes a back seat to technical material issues.

I’ve long wanted to work more graphically but always get stuck at too much realism because of how much I like the drama of paint.

This class offers a lot of actionable ideas, so thank you for that: tools! I had to do the curve-to-straight section a few times; none of this is intuitive for me. But I am psyched to keep experimenting!

So here’s my final illustration. It’s also the second one I did, because I really struggled with letting go of those organic lines. And I wanted to work with a bright pink & orange palette (which I realized from doing color palette iterations of my first illustration).

Graphic Still Life - image 1 - student project

A couple of reference photos. Graphic Still Life - image 2 - student project

The photo on the left, with the pear and mint julep cup, was originally a reference photo I took for a study—a really-organic-y oil painting.

Graphic Still Life - image 3 - student project

First drawing of the outline bones.

Graphic Still Life - image 4 - student project

Process time lapse

Warm-up drawings. And thanks for palette suggestions, Sarah Beth.

Graphic Still Life - image 5 - student project

My first attempt at this project:

Reference photograph—things lying around my house in a pile and very random because I’m moving rooms and getting rid of lots of stuff.

Graphic Still Life - image 6 - student project

Drawing of the bones.

Graphic Still Life - image 7 - student project

Graphic Still Life - image 8 - student project

And then I started back at the outline drawing with a much more ruthless sense of graphic qualities! Looking for straights and curves!

And wait—what about adding in that rolled up Mad Max poster from the reference photo?!

My first attempt at the graphic still life. It changed a lot throughout the process. I like where it ended up. And I think the color palette is very interesting (the ochre of the middle urn was the starting point for the palette.)

Graphic Still Life - image 9 - student project

Process time lapse

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FYI I did everything for this project in Procreate and took pictures with both my iPhone and a Nikon digital SLR (the pear and cup photo).

Landon Godfrey

poet & artist

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