An interesting detailed item i can draw for my portfolio?

Question

I am doing a portfolio for collage and i need to start with and item that i must do loads of sketches of but because i will be drawing it so much i need to have a very interesting detailed thing to draw so i wont loose interest in it i cant think of anything with a good texture my self iv tried drawing load of things but cant seem to find anything i really like.

Answer 1

Even though it sounds weird, a really good one to do is a junk drawer--everyone has one and it is filled with minute details, different textures, and is easy to find a good composition.



I wouldn't recommend landscapes, because they are way too pedestrian and unmemorable--two things you definitely don't want your portfolio to be.

Answer 2

Fruit provide a wide range of textures if you can be bothered. I imagine a pineapple would be a challenge!



Hands are a good idea - they can be so different from person to person and can be very complex. (Warts, hair, scars, wrinkles etc.)



My art teacher frequently tried to get me to sketch a glass bottle. I found it impossible, since there was the transparency, colour, reflection & the label detail to consider. Not to mention the shadows they cast. If you can master glass bottles, I salute you! (especially if the bottle's embossed with some detail or other - beastly!)



Hope this helped! Good luck!



P.S: I just saw an advert for special K - try drawing a muffin or a cake or something (consider the textures of the different components - icing, jam, the sponge - everything) Just an idea

Answer 3

What about one of these thiings:

http://www.dianasdesserts.com/news/news2005-12/Hanukkah-Image.jpg

It's called a menorah.



Or a peacock feather.

http://peacockspride.net/peacock_feather_300_rotated_small.gif



Or just a building you find around town that captures your interest. Abandoned buildings make for nice textures.



Or a bicycle, from an odd angle. I'm looking at one from the back right now, with the wheels twisted. Actually there are 2 bicycles in front of my eyes, so it's a mesh of wheels and spokes.



Or a baseball glove. Or a box of jewelery. Dead leaves. Something seasonal, or that just describes your environment sorta... (I live in the Tropics, I might draw dead palm tree leaves or something)

Answer 4

Try drawing a fully bloomed rose with a stem attached and a few drops of water on the rose petals. The stem has plenty of texture an the inner part of the rose has a lot of detail

Answer 5

My husband is a 'fine artist' who has actually 'made studies' of how to draw rocks, pieces of wood, both growing and cut, and 'rags' or pieces of cloth. I'd do a collage of one of those things ... you don't need to always use 'one rock' but can do your drawing from a tiny pebble to a huge, rocky cliff, from the 'cut stone' like marble and granite to the layered stones in the Grand Canyon and Arizona. You will be very surprised, when you think of it in this way, just how much 'study' you can do drawing 'one thing' over and over and over again. Good luck, draw well, and I hope you get as good grades as my husband did when he was in school ... of course you do know that he got an 'A+' on his study of drawing 'rock' ...

Answer 6

Does it have to be inanimate? If not, find a person. They give you huge flexibility because you can bend people into all sorts of interesting positions, and draw them doing all sorts of activities.



And if you need something to fall back on, type a bunch of gibberish in your least favorite search engine and pick something on the first ten pages.

Answer 7

You could try drawing dogs. All sorts of dogs. Long haired golden retrievers, speckled hunting dogs, a textured, wrinkled sharpei. Dogs make excellent subjects for texture, detail, design. Good luck!

Answer 8

I would be a little creeped out yeah, but I wouldn't be scared away (by the way im not a guy) I was just born into a family that doesn't like the looks of skulls.

Answer 9

you could do still life and stuff like landscapes. theres lots of different shades you need to apply when drawing the two so i think it would be great to show off this skill. also, try to use a variety of drawing materials like water colours and charcole.



Hope this helps :)

Answer 10

I think that scenery pictures are great. I love looking at scenic pictures you can take different pics of scenery and put them together in one picture. Like go from a nice day to a gloomy day to a thunder storm in one drawing.

Answer 11

maybe draw something at a different perspective that most people see it at. you could draw something architectural, or a sculpture, or even a piano or door handle if you can capture it correctly. you can make anything look interesting depending on your perspective

Answer 12

You should try Van Gough's Starry Night.

Answer 13

Some of the most wonderful still lifes I have seen are of the artist's own materials:

http://fineartamerica.com/images-medium/limited-palette-michael-vires.jpg

http://www.askart.com/AskART/photos/TOO9122004/711.jpg

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/181/421999143_8f6aa90a19.jpg?v=0

http://pro.corbis.com/images/42-16385094.jpg?size=572&uid=%7B6A56D026-08D3-4A6C-B700-A7B65F333BCA%7D

http://www.formz.com/images/gallery/Division_One_Inc/image_01.jpg

http://wwwdelivery.superstock.com/WI/223/1796/PreviewComp/SuperStock_1796R-11113.jpg

Answer 14

A hand

Answer 15

i just went to london, try tower bridge or big ben