Abstract Drawing

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This is a charcoal drawing I did in my Drawing 1 class in college years ago. For this particular asignment, we had to do an abstract drawing.

Some elements of abstract art include the following (I'll put an x next to the techniques I used):

• [x] exaggerate some part of the image
• eliminate some part of the image
• [x] distort, skew the image
• [x] magnify the whole or a part
• [x] reduce the whole or a part
• [x] reverse the image or the lights and darks
• stretch the image beyond what's natural
• subtract out some part of the image
• substitute something unexpected
• use an unusual color scheme
• [x] use dramatic value contrast
• [x] changing attitude and or plane view - flatten the image, make it purposefully one-dimensional
• [x] breaking down components into basic shapes

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