Drawing I Final
The portrait project was supposed to be either mechanical, expressing yourself, or a zombie. I first chose expressing myself and was going to make a piece of myself and stitch them together as if that's how I was made. You would have been a collection of piece from your mom and dad and the "doctor" would stitch them up to make a child. But, when I thought about it some more, I thought, "Let's make this a little bit more abstract." I started off with just my face being drawn on white paper. Let me just say that drawing with pencil is not one of my strongest mediums, but somehow I did it. After I finished that, I cut out certain pieces and copied the ones that I wanted mechanical on a separate paper. I drew gears on them and cut those out too. The worst part was making the holes for each piece. I took an X-Acto knife and made little Xs for each piece. It was really difficult to piece them all together, but in the end I finished it. I think it's my most successful because I've never done anything so out-of-the-box. I've always stuck to the plan and made things so simple because I'm stubborn. I can't do things too mentally or physically large because I get bored and things start to get tedious. Most of the choices I made for this project were
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beneficial. I can't really find anything I don't like about it besides two things. The gears with the red background is something I just don't find attractive. It doesn't blend well with everything else. Also, the hair. It looks like a kid drew it. I don't know how to make hair look realistic so that's what I did. I really don't like it, but it's ok I guess. I'll learn another day. Overall though, I think that this piece is probably the best one of the semester.
The perspective project was definitely my worst one. First off, I hate pencil. I can't control my pressure very well and I have a tendency to smudge and rub my paper to smooth things out. It all ends up looking like a blur. Now, I didn't do it as much on this project because I was constantly reminded not to, but I still don't like it. Second off, I'm awful at perspective and I don't like it either. Double negatives in the same project equals a bad project for Sam. I obviously didn't try my absolute hardest. The mountains look like melted ice cream in a bowl. The road looks like everything but a road. And don't get me started on the wood fence. the only thing I probably like the the hay bale and I kind of don't like that either. For starters, I could have chosen to not do pencil. I could have done Prismacolors or pen and ink. And with that changed I could have done something not so basic. The basic road perspective was a little boring and tedious. I could have done the view from a shoe or a hand reaching out to touch something. Anything but a road!! Anyway, I have nothing more to say about this......
There were two pieces throughout the semester that never seemed to make me say the bad about them. I was too focused on how good they were to me that I never looked twice at the bad. Those pieces were my skull still life and the Prismacolor glasses. Charcoal was super difficult for me back in Art I and I just hated the way they felt. Pencil is the new charcoal! I love how they feel now and I'm much better at them than a year ago. Whenever I tried drawing something with Prismas I failed miserably. I never figured out how to blend well and how to use them, but now I did pretty good considering what my Glasses piece looks like. These two pieces definitely helped me figure out what kind of artist I am. I somewhat know now what I'm good at and what I'm not, what I like doing and what I don't. I know more about proportioning, making everything in a drawing mix well, variety, and how to move peoples eyes through my pieces. As creative as I am already(; I definitely think a lot more about art as a whole. I think of more ideas and sketch more ideas. That's why I think that these pieces made me grow the most. They stretched me out to my farthest branches in art. Maybe it wasn't even the art! Maybe it was the teacher....(: |
These mini lessons both helped with my skull still life. The one you see on the left helped me with charcoal pencils. I had never but once used charcoal pencils, so using them for a project was a little risky for me. There was a cloth hanging in the middle of the room and we were told to draw it. Before this mini lesson, we did another mini lesson that taught us about highlights and shadows, so I'd say that the instructions were pretty clear and strong. I understood what I was doing and tried my best to get it to look as best as possible. |
This goal for this mini project was to draw an up-close part of the still life and fill up the majority of the sketch box. This helped me with adding detail to my final still life. I used to be scared of detail until a couple months ago when I a project that required detail. I didn't really like doing still lifes, but this one was really fun. I liked the western theme because I ride horses and I also ride western so it was pretty awesome to have this as a project. The mini lesson also helped me to pick out drawing part of a skull. I was drawing all of the sketches out and when I finished the last one I looked at all the ones together and for some reason my eyes kept going back and forth to the eye socket of the skull I drew. These two mini lessons really helped me with this project and I'm super happy that my teacher made us do them (as much as I complained thank you for pushing me on<3). I chose to write about these because even though my portrait is my most successful piece, this was probably second in line. I really really like this one.
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After all the mediums I've worked with in this class, I think my favorite is gonna have to be the white charcoal pencil. I don't like black charcoal, but for some reason I like working with white charcoal. I really like the way it looks because it kind of looks inverted to me. I really like how my still life came out so that is possibly the other reason I like it most. I'll have to say though that I hadn't worked with white charcoal before this so it's kind of crazy that it's my favorite, but it's like food in a way. You never have a certain food before you try it and once you try it and it's good, you're hooked! So I'll do a lot more pieces in the future with white charcoal. It may take me a while regarding how long it took me to finish my still life, but I'll definitely work on this more.