Atmospheric perspective and self-portrait

  

                                              

  

          So this is my charcoal atmospheric perspective. I based it on a picture I took up in the north shore. I'm pleased with ho with how the rocks came out, but I could have done the trees much better. I made it so that it was darker in front and lighter in the back, giving it the illusion of the rocks moving away, making it an atmospheric perspective. I could have drawn the perspective part of it out a bit more than I did. I enjoyed using charcoal for the first time and on such a large scale! Now that I have this done, I'm starting on my self-portrait.

      I made this little baby self-portrait so I could get a feel for my face. This was my second try at it, because I wasn't satisfied with my first one. I couldn't get the image of my own face out of my head, and I think that is what messed me up the first time. I started fresh on a new piece of paper and just looked at shapes and where they were in relation to everything else. The shading is a lot of fun, and I have moved on to the hair now. I need to make it darker than I have it right now, but otherwise, I'm pretty proud of how far I've come.

     

White Still Life

          This is the still life of white object that I had made.  We were practicing our black and white  values with shading white objects. I honestly was trying to avoid the pallet by shading EVERY OTHER THING I POSSIBLY COULD. Thus, while going through with this plan, I had made everything look better than the pallet, which I think is funny and ironic. I think there could be more unity (or harmony) throughout the drawing. Especially with the drapery and the objects. I hadn't seen how the values and shading of the objects compared to the drapes, but now that I look at it from afar and with eyes that has not been looking at it for a long time, I can tell what I could improve. There could be better shading on the opposite side where the light of the lamp does not touch. BUT! I am still very proud of this drawing regardless.

Three Point Perspective

        We are now working on out three point perspective. We are shading using little lines going in different directions, like the drawings in the book series A Series Of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket. We were taught how to use horizontal, vertical, and orthogonal lines to create the effect of looking up at a building. A oddity is required in the drawing and I have decided to make the word "HEY" because the building sort of looks like a H when you look at it the right way. I am not entirely sure how I'm going to do the Y in HEY, but I'll figure it out. I'll know if it looks weird. I really enjoy doing these perspective drawings. I've never done them before but they are really fun. I find, specifically, the shading to be fun. I don't use this technique much, but I have been incorporating it into different drawings lately.

Still Life

        So, here is one of my first big drawings in Drawing class. I'll admit, I started over two times. I guess I'm not all that used to drawing big yet. I'll try to be! So, to measure proportions, we were supposed to use that method that you always see people in movies using. Like, where they stick out their arm and shut one eye and use their pencil or something like that. Yeah. . . . I didn't do that. It kept messing me up! I did that on the first two. when I got to the third one, I didn't even bother. And that one turned out the best, Weird!

          This is a contour drawing, so one continuous line. We were also allowed to put some textures of there too. I'm proud of how my bucket turned out. The texture looks a lot like that. And I might have acidentallyonpurpose put some shading in. I COULDN'T HELP MYSELF IT WAS TOO TEMPTING. SO MANY DIFFERENT SHADES!!

Drawing Class

                   Yay! New year, new posts, new class! I am now in drawing. I am first posting these blind and modified contours.

           Okay, so, with the first one we put a paper over our pencil so we could not see what we were drawing. It was quite difficult for me, and it was supposed to be. The second we were allowed to look. I did the same hand gesture I made for the first drawing. We were all supposed to draw with one continuous line, and I enjoyed doing it that way very much.

           The next few drawings we did was of still life. We drew a cone, apple, and brass object (and mine was a mug). Again, we drew with one continuous line. I like how my apple turned out. I feel like I could have done better with my mug though. Well, I like how all of them turned out and I feel like could do better with all of them. Practice, practice, practice.

           Alrighty, besides these drawings, we have been doing gesture drawings. With models and stuff, which is something I've been wanting to do for a LONG time. I never really knew where to start when it came to that stuff, but I certainly do now. I have been given another empty sketchbook. That leaves me with a total of five now. Hope to fill them all up soon!

Crop Art

         We started crop art a few weeks ago, and I was like, "Yeah, let's get this done!" totally unaware that this would be a laborious process. So, as a person who makes incredibly detailed stuff and then regrets it later, I created a design that was incredibly detailed and I am regretting it. Yet, I feel like it is turning out well. Thankfully. I am using black beans, millet, peas, to name off a few.

         I am using a few seeds that MN State fair deems illegal so I will not be entering it. I just really wanted the hair to have a white outline. I feel like the white seeds fit into what I am imagining the end result will be better than if I used some seeds that were off-white. I personally like the green eyes a lot. That green gives it a good pop of color. I was debating for a while if they should have been brown or green.

        

   

Card Project

        So a laser engraver was brought to out school and I had no idea what I should laser engrave. So a few days later I went home and I felt a sudden urge to play a card game. The thing is: we can never find a deck of cards when we want to. A deck always turns up when we are cleaning and we end up placing it in a different nondescript place where we will find it again in another few months. A Great System™ if you ask me. So I came up with the idea of making cards while drawing out an eye during lunch. I remember thinking, "That would be cool on the back of a card,". Bada Bing Bada Boom, an idea has been born.

          So I designed them all in Illustrator. When I was done designing, I moved them into a USB which I put into the computer that's connected to the laser engraver. Set the materials correctly and let her rip. And thank you Ms.Rossbach for teaching me how to do these things. I am extremely happy with how they turned out and I would love to put it in the Nemeth Art Center contest.