We were supposed to draw either a tree or our right hand USING our left hand or our non-dominant hand....this is what became of my attempt. It felt so weird and I wanted to switch hands so bad! Its looks like something a 5 year old would draw haha! I guess I am VERY dominantly right-handed.
If only I had had more time to work on it, I would have created a freakin masterpiece! But alas, life just isn't on your side sometimes and I had not near as much time as I would have wanted. It looks more like my simple one-point perspective sketch than like any of Alessandro Papetti's AWESOME works.
So a couple things about it: if you couldn't tell, the thing at the back where the vanishing point is is a bridge. The blue thing by it is the river it's going over. And the gray shadows at the very back is the city across the river. So yeah...just in case you didn't know that....I tried really hard to work with the shading and shadows and it does look a lot better than my other stuff but not like it could.
This week's weekly drawing was to draw something from our imagination. Anything at all! And I had SUCH a hard time with it! I could NOT think of what I wanted to draw! Finally Mr. Wiechmann said to just start drawing and see what would happen, so I did, and this is what happened. Yes, this is what I think about....and daydream about. How solemn and not fun am I?
I tried to work on shading with this project and I obviously need to work some more on it....I copied the door from a picture so no, it's not my own creation...technically...
Yes, inevitably this blog has turned into more than just a required school art blog! :) These are a few gorgeous fall shots from my backyard that I wanted to share. I ♥ autumn!!
After doing a one-point perspective sketch, of course we had to do a two-point perspective one! I was going to do some kind of gated community or prison or something with a wall, because I wanted to try to do a wall. It ended up being an orphanage. I have no idea why, but there it is. I included two versions of this project: one with a road and one without the road. I personally think it looks better without the road. Something's funky with it and I can't figure out what it is. But without the road, it looks a little empty. So, I don't know. Either way, I really enjoyed working with perspective!
This is a project from graphic design where we created art from only typography (text). I don't know whether to include the cheese or not, because you really can't see it very well.
This week we have several assignments, one of which being to draw a one-point perspective sketch. I chose to draw a city scape; very simple, not exact for sure, but it got me used to working with one-point perspective.
This week's weekly drawing to was to draw something from our room/house that we considered to be art. I drew a lamp that sits on my desk by my computer. This was the first time I did a drawing in pen! I was always nervous about drawing in pen because there is no going back. I like how the pen makes the lines more distinguished though, and I think I will try to draw more with pen. I think it makes me more confident in my drawings :) I think this is art because it just appeals to my eyes. There are no specific reasons why other people could view it generally as art; I just think it looks nice, therefore making it art in my opinion. :)
Size: 8.5" x 11"
Media: Black pen
This artwork portrays art to me :) Simplicity in detail if you please....
I had way too much fun with this assignment. Just putting that out there before we go any further! I had so many ideas! The more I created, the more ideas I had and the more I just wanted to explore and see what I could put together. It is amazing how beautiful the earth is if you just look at it. :)
So these first few photos are the project that I'm turning in for the grade, but the other three that I'm going to include are just as cool, I think, so it was difficult to choose which one to turn in.
Title: Untitled
Size: About 3" x 4.5"
Media: Red bark, a rose, and a big rock
This earth art portrays to me the beauty and harmony that elements can create when they come together.
This next picture was just one of those times where you put one and one together and it ends up looking awesome.
Title: Untitled
Size: About 2.5" x 1"
Media: Red bark, a feather, and a big rock
This earth art portrays to me the stunning beauty of simplicity.
This one was the first one I created. I liked it a lot, but it just didn't seem to be what I wanted. It wasn't quite complete, but it still looked incredible.
Title: Untitled
Size: About 13" x 8"
Media: Maples leaves of three colors, red bark, white berries and gravel
This artwork portrays to me a succession and a smooth transition of the seasons.
And this final one is the second one I created. It seemed to be more of a sculpture, and I originally wanted to create a sculpture, but the things I came up with first were more better I guess.
Title: Untitled
Size: 2.5' x 2'
Media: Catalpa leaves, yellow maple leaves, pink flowering pear leaves, pine needle strands and red bark
This earth art portrays to me a rainbow, a symbol of good things to come. :)
Finally, (no, we're not done yet!) this is a video I put together of all the earth art I created today. I make videos for our company and it's something I really enjoy doing, so naturally I couldn't turn down such a great opportunity. So here it is, enjoy! Thanks for sticking around to the end. :)
I chose to draw a strawberry for this week's weekly drawing of fruit. I would like to focus more on shadows and highlights next time, because it doesn't seem to be quite as 3D as I hoped.
So this is what I came up with for this week's create logo project! Musical Sounds is a fictional organization of some kind. :) The above pictures are my final product, but I included two of my discarded ideas below because I liked them, just not enough to go forward with them. There is definitely room for improvement and, of course, as soon as I upload it, I notice all the little things wrong with it...It might look extremely generic at first glance, but it also might be a little hard to spot where the letters are! I love how the black paint makes it looks satiny.
Title: Musical Sounds Logo
Size: 7" x 4"
Media: Black watercolor paint
Here is a version of my final project in color. I like the colorful and whimsical look of this one, but to me it didn't seem to use negative space as effectively as the first one, which was the idea of the project so...I did like how this one turned out though so I included it. This was done with watercolor paints and is 8" x 3.5".
So this above picture was my first idea. It was supposed to be a hand holding a shining musical "sound," but no matter how hard I tried, I could not recreate it satisfactorily large-scale, so I just took a picture of the tiny one that I sketched first. The reason I liked this design was because of the way the M and S made up the shape of the hand. :) This was done with a pencil and is about 1" x 2".
Our weekly drawing was to draw something from a memory having to do with our house. This is from a memory from 10 years ago when my cousins came over to watch The Man From Snowy River. We had a sunflower tablecloth and ate mac n cheese with ketchup. I like how the window turned out, but as for the others, it was hard to get them right because I had no reference image. I just had to go off my memory as an 8 year old.
Title: Retro
Size: 8.5" x 11"
Media: Pencil and colored pencils
This artwork portrays to me the fondness a memory creates, and the longer it stays a memory, the more unclear and open-for-interpretation it becomes.
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