Mini self-portrait:
For this quarter we were assigned
to do a mini self-portrait. Meaning we all had to take one picture of ourselves
and draw our bodies, and faces with detail onto paper. This taught me a lot
about positioning a picture onto a piece of paper, and analyzing and drawing
shapes and face structures and applying it on to another artist based object.
At first, when I began to draw I
sort of sketched out a few things with my eraser just to get myself started. I
figured that by doing this it would make the rest of the process of drawing the
picture a lot easier, also this way, I was able to position the picture in the
right form on the paper. Then after I finished doing that, I took my pencil and
began tracing over the lines in which the eraser already made. After I finished
doing this I already began to see the outlining shape of my face. So then I
started to draw my hair. Drawing the hair was a little difficult for me because
I wanted my hair to actually look natural, I didn’t want my hair to look
Juvenile. So I began drawing my hairline, and my cheekbones, and the rest of my
face. I then drew my neck and a little bit of my arm. After that I began to
draw my eyes. My eyes were surprisingly easy. I colored my eye in very dark
with pencil, and then left one part of it white, because in the picture my
eyeball was placed in that very spot, so I wanted to make that part become more
noticed. Then after that I began to draw my other eye, and my forehead
wrinkles, my lips, and my nose. Drawing my nose I have to say was probably the
hardest part of that whole portrait. I think it was because my face was sort of
tilted, and so I guess drawing my nose was a little bit of a challenge for me.
Overall doing this project was a
little difficult but not too much, I had some struggle, but I believe by doing
this project I have learned some techniques and skills that will help me in the
future.
LARGE
self-portrait:
For this assignment we had to make
the same picture, except it had to be in larger contents. Everything in the
picture had to be positioned and coordinated with the last picture that we
drew. In this assignment we were given the choice of pencil or charcoal. I
chose to do both because I pretty much did the whole thing in pencil but I
wanted to make some things darker and lighter, so it was pretty cool to add
that effect.
When I began this project, I first
put my picture into Photoshop and put it on 24X36 and by doing this the picture
in Photoshop was the same size as my canvas. So by doing that it really helped
with the positioning of the project. I began the portrait by doing my hair
first, and drawing the shape, and outline of that. I then began to draw the
structure of my face, after I did that I drew a line vertically, and
horizontally. I did this because it is way I can position the eyes, mouth,
eyebrows etc. I then began my
eyes, and my eyebrows. After that I focused a lot on my hair. The shape of my
hair I believe was good, but making hair look like hair was a little difficult,
but I believe I succeeded. I then began to draw my lips, and a little part of
my arm, and my neck, and then when it was finally finished I stepped back and
looked at my drawing and I was pleased.
In conclusion, this project taught
me a lot of techniques I could use when doing large projects. Some parts of
this, I was a little unsure, but overall I believe I did a good job on this
project.
Shade (4)
For
this assignment we had to pencil shade four figures; one was a shading where it
was dark on the top and then as you get towards the bottom of the paper the
tone got lighter, another was when the shade began from the sides of the paper.
It started off dark and got light as it hit towards the center, the third
picture that I made was a shading that was made into two triangles and from
each corner the shade was dark then as I traveled down the shading went into a
lighter tone. The last one I did was a shading of a rectangle with a circle
embedded inside. I shaded the rectangle first, and then the circle.
When
I started this project the first thing I did was create a boundary or a border
for all my pictures just to give myself an idea of where to begin shading. I
then took my pencil and I would start off dark and make my way down to lighter
tones. I did this because I figured it would be easier to go from dark to
light, than from light to dark. I think the hardest part about this project was
I think figuring out which shade should come next to meet the last tone which
is white, so I guess figuring out a tone leading into white I think was a
little complicated.
Overall
this project taught me a lot about tones, and the different shades in which a
pencil is able to produce. I believe I did a fairly well job on this project.
Texture (3)
For this
assignment we were conducted to make 3 drawings. Drawing #1 was to create
scales, so I decided that I was going to do a snake, another drawing we had to
do was make water, I made an ocean with a reflecting sun, and last, we had to
make realistic hair.
The
first project I did was the snake. The snake wasn’t as difficult as I thought
it would be, because as I watched the tutorial on how to make the snake scales
it turned out to be a quite an easy process. in order to make snake scales, and
make them neat, and blend in
together, I was initiated to draw evenly spaced lines down the snakes spine,
and in between those lines I created a type of oval shape, which created snake
scales. The other project I did was the sun reflecting onto the water. To do
this I first created a horizon. Then I began lightly shading the ocean with my
pencil leaving a little space of white to show the reflection of the sun. The
last one that I did was the hair. The hair was fairly difficult for me I think
because how to make realistic hair you have to really study your dark and light
shadings, because when your making starands of hair there are some parts that
are dark and light which makes hair look natural on paper. To make the hair I
used my pencil and I lightly did the outline of some ones hair on google and I
then began to do the dark areas first and then I began the light areas, and
then later into the project I began connecting the front of the hair to the
back.
I
believe this project was a huge challenge for me, but I’m happy with my
pictures. I think overall I did a job well done.
Point Perspective
For point
perspective we were all given an assignment in which we had to look out the art
room window and draw simultaneously the buildings and objects that we saw.
I
began this project by first drawing two lines that cross each other and with
those lines I was able to make the picture that I observed outside the window,
making it look realistic. In the picture I drew every object in which a human
eye could catch. I drew buildings, the street lights the horizon, the other
little buildings in the background etc. I have to say the hardest part about
this project was positioning the scene onto paper.
Overall
I think I did a fantastic job drawing this scenery, this was also a little of
challenge but I was able to push through, and get it to look alive, and
realistic, as if your standing 22nd street.
