This was extremely challenging because it merged all the components of drawing work into one project. The drawing was really large and I don't really like to work large, also there are so many details that go into a person other that take so much time. I don't like the way this turned out, it doesn't really look like the person I drew and it's really off proportion. I think that the eye rule for someone's head it smart, but it's really hard to actually capture that in a person when you're working large scale. I really wish this had turned out better. I truly like the idea of a full figure drawing but it is really hard to accomplish. Another thing I struggled with was fully seeing my model constantly. It's hard to have them stay completely still the whole time you're drawing them.
BestFor me I thought the gesture drawings were fun, but challenging. Sometimes when I try to draw something in real life I get a very sketchy style and it makes it look bad, but this was one my later drawings and I like the way it came out, I think it really captured the movement that was happening at that time. WorstThis is my worst for obvious reasons, it was the first one a I did and was supposed to be a sketch of the person sitting across from me. I didn't realize that I was supposed to capture her body and the movement (GESTURE) she was making. Again, this is really sketchy like I said before.
My scratchboard was another project that I liked, I really like the way grasses and prairies look and I really feel like they show a lot of movement. The idea of scratching to reveal white/silver is really cool and reminds me of my childhood when I would scratch a black board to reveal a rainbow color in the back. This was a lot harder. It was a lot like pen and ink in the sense that you cannot remove what you put down, this was hard because I was so used to pencil where I can erase everything that I put on the paper. During our class critic it was pointed out that I should've added more vibrant whites and more highlights, I agree. If I would do this again I would have some fawns (things on the top) that were super zoomed in and large and very white. Overall I liked scratchboard and I would love to have done more with it.
I am on the fence about how I feel about this project. I never thought that I could draw a portrait, but I did. One thing that bothers me about this portrait is the fact that it does not look like me at all- which was really the meaning of the whole project. My whole idea or theme around this project is that just because people don't talk a lot doesn't mean that they have nothing to say. This doesn't really apply to me, but I think it is just an interesting thought in general. Not voicing our opinions doesn't mean that we don't have them. At first the drawing didn't have a mouth, just stitches, but they looked really strange and made the whole drawing seem really "off", so I added lips, and I was going to stitch them up, but I decided to just leave them. If I could change some things about this project I would probably make it look more like me and I would fix the hair. The background is okay, it started with just a simple stripe background, but it looked like a mug shot, so I added words which I think add to the message of the project which was hard to see without the letters. I also messed up the chin. Ugh, it's okay.
I really do not like this one bit, I think it is the ugliest thing I have ever seen and I do not want to be affiliated with it. The nose looks horrible and the lips look too small and I didn't shade them. The hair is too stringy and I didn't make the lines run from the part all the way to the end, making it look really strange.
Above are the sketches for my eyes, nose and lips. I really had a struggle with the shapes of the lips and noses. I got one really good pair of lips and I sort of practiced more and more with the eye and got a better shape. The large eye on the top is the first eye I drew and on the left picture the bottom eyes are the most recent, I have clearly improved....
I personally love the way this drawing turned out, I really took my time instead of rushing like I always do. The hardest part of this drawing was definitely the trees. It was hard to draw them realistic when they were so far away, in the end I just made a bunch of squiggles and leave-like shapes, which took a long time. If I could change one thing I would definitely not include the canoe. I think that the canoe made it look weird and off balance. Also the canoe is not even realistic and made the whole drawing seem unrealistic. Overall I really like the way this one turned out and I think it's one of my better ones. I have definitely come a long way in my drawing skills.
I personally really like these eggs. I like the background I used, I like the colors I used and I actually really liked working with the chalk. One thing I liked about working with chalk is that it is easy to go fast, it took me atleast 10 minutes to finish this drawing and I actually like it. I really like the look of textured chalk as opposed to smooth chalk. Last year when I worked with chalk I would tend to overblend and then it would quickly become messy. So this year when I worked on it I really wanted to make sure that I used the chalk lightly and didn't blend at all. One thing I learned about chalk is that it layers really well. One technique I used is instead of putting down highlights first, like what you would do with prisma colors, I put down the black first, when I put down the black first it would keep me from having to blend it into the colors later.
Dum DumI did this project last year, in art 2. I personally feel like this one is alright. One thing I really wish I had done was add more colors into the wrapper instead of keeping it a bright white. For me, using colors other than the ones that I see is hard because I focus too much on making it realistic. I think I rushed this project too much and I hate when I do that. Overall, I like it, there are just a couple things I would do differently, I would make the picture of the flavor (blue rasberries) a little bit larger just because I think it would make the wrapper look like it has more on it. I would also work on the folds around the stick to make them look more like they are wrapped not just sticking out. Jolly RancherI do not like this jolly rancher at all. I was sick one of the days we worked on it and I didn't get to finish it and instead of leaving it undone I just rushed through it and put a bunch of green in it. I actually liked working with the chalk and the idea of drawing a jolly rancher and I personally just wish that I hadn't of rushed. One thing that I do like in this piece is the lettering, I think it looks realistic, especially compared to the rest of the drawing.
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