I am very satisfied with how this piece turned out. I feel like this picture captures her personality well. I may go back in and change some things but overall I'm done!
For one of our projects we had to do portraits of our pets. I liked this project because I was able to do art that had a meaning to me. It was difficult to know where to start laying down the texture. This piece had a variety of textures. I started my dog doing her nose first. I knew that would be an area that would be good to get done with first and I was also unsure about how to start the fur. I paid a lot of attention to the texture along with the highlights on the top of her nose. I noticed that it seemed to look like small circles with the highlight at the top. The nose definitely took some time but I was satisfied with how it turned out. I then went to the fur. The fur was challenging as well because I wanted it to look like fur but I also wanted it to be dark enough so that you couldn't see much of the paper behind it. It took a while as well, especially the face because of her gray spots. For the gray parts, I would just layer the paper in white prisma and then with a light gray or brown, draw lines over that area. The mouth and chin were probably two of the most challenging places on her face but I like how they turned out. Her body was difficult as well. I still make go back in and try to make the fur not look as unified. The collar wasn't too difficult either. I may still go back in and give some more highlights to the black plastic and give some shadow to the red cloth.
I am very satisfied with how this piece turned out. I feel like this picture captures her personality well. I may go back in and change some things but overall I'm done!
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For the Colored Pencil Magazine, we were to draw a picture that they gave us for a competition. The picture they gave us was very similar to mine. We were allowed to alter the photo but I wanted to try and do it exactly like the picture. I practiced drawing the bows in my sketchbook and each one of them took a while to do. They took a lot of time, having to focus on each and every small color detail. There were a lot more colors in each bow then you would think from just looking at them. I liked using prisma colors for this project, being able to easily blend colors together. Even though it got tedious towards the end, I did enjoy doing the bows and I liked focusing on the little details. Time and patience are what I needed to be able to work on this project and after a while I would lose patience. If I could change anything about this project I probably would have taken more time on each and every piece of ribbon. I think it turned out okay but I wish it would have turned out a little more precise with each detail. I also would do the shadows differently (don't look at them). I would have liked them to be a little bit darker and neater, and I may go back and change them. I also would have changed how I did my red bow. I probably would have added more pink and purple tents into it to give it more value. My favorite bows are the purple, gold and silver. I like the variety of colors in them all and I like how they turned out. I do like this piece of art but I think that there are some things that I would change about it if I could.
I am glad that this project was assigned because I felt like it was a challenge for at least me to do, and it stretched my brain focusing on the highlights and darks of each of the bows, along with the reflections from the other bows. I hope to do more pieces like this because I really did enjoy it. For this piece, our topic was mechanical nature. When I first started thinking about this assignment I did not like it all. I had no idea what I wanted to do. I decided that I wanted to do an animal of some type because I enjoy drawing the animals. Adding the mechanics is what I dreaded because I didn't feel like that was my style. I decided to do an owl, and I knew I wanted to add gears and chains as the mechanical part. I think the outcome of this project turned out better than what I thought it would. I used prismacolored pencils, using mostly the gold and silver to do the metals. I added some yellows and browns to deepen and lighten the metals. For the feathers, I used basic neutral colors; black, white, brown, and cream. Because the rest of the picture is so neutral in colors, the eyes complete the piece in my opinion. I used a reference of an owl to see what color eyes they had, but I wanted to make them more bold so I added a touch of red towards to top of the eyes. I am very pleased with the outcome of this piece, and think it turned out better than I had expected.
There were a couple of things that I struggled with. Making perfect circles for the gears, and also where to place each gear. It was difficult to know where each should go and how to place them together. The shapes and edges of them were difficult as well. The metals as a whole were probably the most difficult thing for me, the drawing and the shading. I like how they turned out though. I also struggled with the feathers and trying to keep the pencils sharpened so that there would be fine lines for each feather, which took me a long time. This project was tedious, but I am pleased. I enjoyed this project because it stretched my brain. This isn't something I would do on my own so I liked that it expanded my horizons a little bit. For self portraits, I wanted to use on of my senior pictures. There were a lot that focused just on my face, but I especially liked this one because of the scarf. I decided to take a risk and draw this one, knowing that the details of the scarf would be difficult to master. I started this project with the skin. It took me a little while to get used to the charcoal. The skin took a while for me, I had to get used to smoothing it out, and how much charcoal to lay down. I added some freckles in as well to help darken up the skin. The hand was as challenge for me as usual, but I like the way it turned out. I may go back and add a little more value to it though. The eyes were a challenge as well. I wanted to make sure I got the right darkness and bright areas. The highlights help make the eyes stand out more to me. The eyelashes I did basically last. I was afraid to do them because I didn't want to mess up when they need to be so dark, but I like how they turned out. I had to redo the hair about 3 times. The first two times I hadn't added any wave to it. It looked stick straight, and I do have some wave in my hair so I was pleased with how it turned out. Lastly, I worked on the detail of the scarf. I practiced the scarf a lot and finally figured out a way to do it. I really like how it turned out, and for me it was easier than most of the other things.
For this project, I chose the theme metallic. I wanted to use the scratch board so that you could see small details. I decided to do a peacock so you could see the small details of the small feathers and hair. I used an exacto blade to make these lines. I took my time to make each line look precise and I wanted it to look as realistic as possible. I really liked the end result of this project. This was a project that I looked forward to working on and I had fun doing it.
If I could do anything different, I would make the smaller, darker feathers more precise. They were difficult to do because the knife would sometimes make some brighter than others or some darker. I may have also spent more time working on the larger feathers, making those more precise. Some difficulties I had was when I would scratch, sometimes the black layer wouldn't come all the way off, and I would have to keep scratching. Another thing that was difficult for me was the larger feathers. I practiced a lot and couldn't get them to look the way that I wanted to, but I really liked the outcome of them on my final piece. Overall, I was pleased with how this came out and really liked using scratch board. For the topic interior spaces I did the inside of an egg carton. The first thing that came to my mind when I heard interior spaces was inside of my refrigerator. I thought that may be a little difficult, so I decided to take some pictures of the inside of an egg carton. I took different pictures but decided I like the picture of two eggs by two eggs, making a perfect square. I thought that just normal eggs were kind of boring, so I decided to crack one open and put the yolk in one side of the shell and then put the shells across from each other. We got to chose our medium so I decided to try using oil paints again because I enjoyed using them the first time. I first started with drawing the eggs. The eggs were really difficult to draw especially for the full, uncracked eggs. They are circles, but they were kind of leaning sideways so it gave them a weird angle. They eggs had many highlights in them which made it difficult as well, but in the end I think I was able to get the right amount of darks and lights in them. The cracked eggs were not as difficult to paint because they were not a complete circle and I could play with how they were shaped a little more. For the background I used a small brush and created a texture with it to give the photo the "carton" look. I used different shades of brown and then added some white and grey to get the full result.
The difficulties that I had were making the full eggs the correct size. That took a lot of playing with the highlights and shadows before I got it right. Another difficulty I had was making the yolk in the one egg shell look slimy. It took a bunch of highlights but I think in the end I got it right. I enjoyed doing this project, and think it was a good experience to learn to try to do spheres. I also enjoyed using oil paints again and hope to use them again. For my everyday object I decided to paint acorns. Our medium to use was oil paint and I was trying to think of something that would have texture. Simple objects always stand out to me because you can do so much with them. When I decided that I wanted to paint acorns, I went outside but I couldn't find any so I ended up having to buy some. I then went on my front porch and arranged them in a pile and took a bunch of pictures from different angles. When I started painting them I not only wanted them to pop out using their normal colors, but I went and added bright orange and red to bring out some of the highlights. I used a variety of browns and greys to do the majority of the acorns. For the background, I tried to make it look like it was on a type of wood but I wish that would have turned out a little better. I may go and add a little more detail when I can. I also spent a lot of time creating shadows between the acorns. This part was very difficult for me because I was scared of going too dark too quickly. I think in the end now that I look back on it, I could have made them even darker.
While working I came across a problem. I did not know how to paint the top of acorns. I tried different ways and finally got it the way that I liked it. I used a very small brush and made my own strokes where I wanted them, adding brights on one side and darks on the other to show shadows. I really liked the way that the top of the acorns came out. Another thing I struggled with is the shadows. If I could go back and change anything, I would add more to the back ground and make the shadows deeper. In the end though I really liked how they turned out! These two apples were done in oil paint. The first one was done with a paintbrush and the second one was done with a pallet knife. I like how the paint layers and blends together. I liked using the brush better than the pallet knife, but I really liked how the pallet knife art turned out. I enjoyed this and am excited for my final piece.
This project was our reflection project. We were to show a reflection of something that had meaning to yourself and use prismacolor to express the reflection. I decided to use a cup of coffee as my focus because coffee is a necessity in my life. The reflection that is shown is my house with our american flag. Both of these symbolize my home and mean a lot to me. For the background I made it look like the wooden steps on my front porch with grass at the bottom.
I like how this project turned out. I had a little trouble with making the reflection look darker like it did in the photo. Also I struggled with the background, trying to make it look like real wood, but in the end I was pleased with how it turned out. If I could do anything different, I might would make the cup bigger with not so much space in the background. I enjoyed using prismacolor and would probably use it again. I thought it was really cool how they layered so easily and like how they looked on the paper. Overall I really enjoyed this project. This piece was a portrait of myself done in pencil and was one of the quality pieces. I have not finished it yet. I will go back in and make darker values, darkening the hair and adding some value into the shirt. I may also add some to the face. Hopefully once I darken things it will look more real. I like how this piece turned out and think that once I finish it will turn out really well. This piece was done in pen and ink using the stippling technique. This is was part of my quality pieces. This piece was one that took the longest to complete. I still need to go back in and add more values. Making it darker under the tusk and making the back legs darker. It was difficult getting the shape of the elephant the way it should be and then also trying to make all the dots look a certain way. I'm not completely satisfied with the way the legs look, but hopefully after I go back in a make some changes it will look better. For one of my mini concentrations I decided to do things along with nature and insects. This is a piece done in chalk pastels and little colored pencil. I like this piece, but it is not my favorite. I want the petals to have more value and look real with the right kind of texture. I don't feel like they have any texture right now making it look like a fake flower. Hopefully once I go back and fix that as well it will help to make the piece look more real. I like the values that I put in the lady bug. I do need to go back in and add a shadow under him but other than that I like the way that he turned out. This was another one of the concentration pieces. The butterfly was done in mostly colored pencils and the background was done in chalk pastels. I really liked the outcome of this piece. I started this piece drawing the butterfly in pencil and then I did the background. The background is supposed to be like green flowers and petals. I then went in and did the butterfly in colored pencils and added a little chalk into the details. I did this piece like I did my bumble bee in art 2. I am satisfied with how this turned out. This piece was for the multimedia project. I did the dog in chalk pastels, the sky in water color, and the grass in acrylic. This was part of my quality pieces as well. I like how this looks, but I do need to go back in and add some more texture in the hair and grass as well. I will also add a shadow and hopefully that will help to make him pop as well.
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