This is one of the few pieces that I started AND turned in on time. Ironically, though it was very time consuming. I took it home twice and finished it on the day it was due. I won't go through my process because of how much it took, but I will say that I had to cut each hole that the thread goes through. Maybe you can imagine how long that must have taken, let alone thread each piece through. In the end, I'm really glad I had the patience for it. I really like the way it looks minus a few mistakes. Firstly, I really hate how the hair looks. The strands look like cartoons when I really wanted it to look at least a little bit realistic. Secondly, I hate the one gear piece that's red because it looks messy. I really should have made a second shape like that and redrawn in but I was too lazy for it (I really have to fix my laziness!) Overall, the other gears look nice and I cut out the pieces well. They really fit into each other. The eyes look the way I wanted them to and each thread locks in place! I definitely think this one came out really successful.
I really love how this turned out. I've always wanted to sketch something on a plain scratchboard and when I was told it was our next project I was overly excited. I instantly thought of doing a horse, but what I didn't know was what view of the horse I was going to scratch out. I knew I had pictures in my phone of horses at my barn, so I went into my gallery and started scrolling. Horse butt? Nope. Horse eye? Nope. Side view? Nope. Frontal view? Hmmm.......I think yes! I took the pic I had and started sketching on a practice sheet of scratchboard. I couldn't quite get the shape or the view right, so I took what I had and brought it to the big board. I sketched with an eraser and when I finally thought I had everything good, I started the final one. I definitely took more time on this one than the practice one, but I'm glad I got all the details in. I kinda wish I didn't crosshatch it, but I think it still turned out pretty well.
To be completely honest, I think that this is my favorite piece ever. It's a cute small colored pencil drawing of my glasses and a rose I cut from the bush in my front yard. When I was drawing with my Prismas, I knew that I wouldn't be able to get the reality from the rose, but I didn't really care. I just wanted to draw my glasses really. Let me start off withe the things I don't like: the nose pads because they are supposed to be clear, but they turned out yellowish-white; the rose for obvious reasons; the background wall (it's too......non-wally); and the crack in the wall. I couldn't really help any of those bad qualities any more than I tried too. Now for the things I DO like: The colors I put into the frame ( My glasses look silverish when in the light and I definitely showed that in my drawing), the wood on the floor, the actual glass part, the pure white flecks in the glass, and last but not least the shadow. I think I did a pretty good job with making the shadow go over the rose, but I could have made it a little deeper into the rose. I like how there's a little bit of perspective in this. The right ear piece is smaller than the left ear piece because it's farther away from the right one. Overall, I really like how I did this. Definitely one of my favorites!
The week of easter we practiced drawing with Nupastels. I don't like pastels at all so this project wasn't really something I liked, but, however, I did enjoy drawing these eggs. I like the way they turned out. I also don't like using colors that normal people don't see, but with these eggs I really did like using blues and purples and greens. The third picture is my final project for the eggs. I honestly think this is the only project so far where I liked my total outcome. I could have done a better job if I really took my time but, just like all my work, it takes me a while to make something of my standards and I just don't have that time in class or at home so I have to rush myself. I really really like the background I put with my final. I wanted to make the table that the eggs are sitting on more "woody" (as in texturized like wood) but I couldn't figure out how to do that with the big pastels.
The goal of this mini lesson was to learn how about Prismacolors and get the idea of how they work. I already knew how and about prisma colors, but I definitely learned more about them. I knew that they were easy to blend and really soft, but I didn't know that they looked way better on colored paper.
The picture on the right is the photo I took of the still life that was set up in class. The picture on the left is the charcoal drawing I made of the photo. Like all the other pieces I do, I went over time in class and had to finish the rest of the still life at home. It took me about two weeks and, in that time, I think I did pretty well. The proportions were pretty well drawn as well as the shading. My favorite part of this is probably the skull or the bottom of the drawing itself. I worked the hardest on the skull (as in the first whole week was me working on just the skull) so therefore I think it's the best. My second favorite is the bottom half, which I cut off. I cut it off because I tried drawing the fabric underneath the skull and I couldn't get it to look right so I cut it off. I couldn't get the canteen to look quite right and the saddle wasn't perfect either, but I think It's one of my best works. I definitely used and learned new techniques with charcoal. At one point I broke my blending stump so I took a paint brush that I wasn't really using and used that instead. It worked just as well and maybe even a little better. Overall, I think I made major progress with the charcoal.
I didn't really like this project because I don't like drawing things by looking at them in real life. I also didn't like it because drawing a bag with thousands of folds and bends is not something I like doing in my free time. Other than that, I liked using white charcoal on black paper.
I really wish I had finished this one because It was turning out sort of good.....if you step back and cross your eyes! I'm not good with contour at all, but this one was pretty decent. I'm not very good with the whole keep-your-pen-on-the-paper thing. I always have to pick up my pen. It's a habit, number one, and I'm better at drawing that way, number two. Now, if you look at the picture below this, you'll notice that I spent way more time on the instrument contour than the room contour. The reason for that--like always-- is that I didn't have enough time. I only never have enough time because I take my time on things. I don't like being rushed to do things. I also don't like doing things I'm bad at PLUS being rushed. It's an awful feeling hahaha!
This was a mini lesson about shading. We learned things like figuring out where a light source is coming from, using that to make the shape look 3D, shading with the shape, shading techniques, stippling, etc.. Our assignment was to draw three shading scales in pen, charcoal and pencil and then draw three different shapes in each media. I, being a perfectionist, didn't finish all of them besides the pen one.
I think I gained skill in charcoal with this exercise. It was the only one I kind of spent time on. I really like working with charcoal any way because....say you colored a certain part darker than necessary....you can just use a kneaded eraser and almost all of it comes up! It's awesome. I think it's kind of like an undo button on a computer.
This was the bigger and more detailed piece of cloth that I had to draw. I used white charcoal and black charcoal on a brown paper and I thought that was a really good mix. I learned how to use the black charcoal very lightly with the white charcoal to get darks and lights instead of making all the darks pure black and all the lights pure white. I'm actually pretty proud of this. I didn't expect for me to to make it look as good as it came out, but it came our pretty realistic to me!!
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