The drawings that I had to do for the third quarter were more difficult when I had to do them on  a larger scale.  I am used to drawing on paper that is 8x11 or smaller.  The drawings that I like best are the one of my hand and the still life.  I like the drawing of my hand because I felt more in control while I was drawing it, and it was on a scale that I was used to.  The still life drawing was also something that I was more familiar with. I've done still life's in other art classes, so I knew what to expect as far as perspective and scale.  The things that gave me the most trouble were working with charcoal and the 24x36 drawings.  Charcoal is much messier than pencil, and it is harder to erase.  Even when I did get some of it erased there were marks left on the paper.  The fact that it didn't erase as cleanly as pencil became frustrating.  I didn't mind doing a drawing a week, especially since I did something similar during the second quarter.


These are My Drawings:

Drawing of hand(8x11)
Self Portrait(8x11)
Self portrait(24x36)
Clear bottle(12x18)
Clear bottle(24x36)
Full figure drawing(24x36)
Still life(24x36):

A presentation on the Italian Renaissance 
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2205990/Art%20Presentation_Thenry_SDinvil.key

During this quarter, I think I had a really hard time with the portraits. The hardest part about them for me was the shading. I liked the clear bottle drawing a lot because it made you really put detail into the bottle to make it transparent and 3D at the same time. That was a bit of a challenge but overall I think that is what I did best this quarter. I think having a drawing a week made it really seem like we had a lot of pressure on us. Because of all the days we didn't have school because of snow or something, that made it really stressful. I would have rather had free studio with some assigned artwork because I think then people would have used their time more effectively.

My Artwork (In order displayed)
- Hand (Small)
- Clear Bottle Small
- Clear Bottle Large
- Self Portrait
- Still life large

I feel that my art is a representation of who I am and what I like. When it came to drawing my face I knew before hand that I would have problems since I never felt I was good at proportion on a face, or at drawing noses. But after talking to my father, who is an artist, I figured them out. I also had a lot of help from my friends with their, 'constructive' criticism. I had been so used to drawing in the anime form which didn't focus on the nose of mouth, and had different proportions. Then when I had to draw my hand, something that I had always struggled to draw, I had to push myself to my limits. I thank Ms. Hull for giving us things that we NEEDED to draw, or else I would have stuck to my norm and never be able to say that I at least tried. Now I am truly proud of the art work that I have posted here.

My face in charcoal
My face in pencil
My hand drawing
Full body
Clear bottle (big)

Art inspiration 

2 art recreations

This was a hand drawing.

Self Portrait

Self Portrait with Chalk


Hand Drawing with Pencil


Self Portrait with Pencil

These drawing were different to what I'm used to drawing. I know that drawing realistically gives you a good foundation if you ever take up drawing. I'm used to drawing on the spot, I never have the patience to sit there and practice. My favorite out of all of these is my small self-portrait. It was the one that turned out the best in my opinion. I really love drawing, and it's usually something that I don't spend too much time on. I bet if I practiced, I'd be really good at it. Unfortunately, I don't spend too much time on it, and have my favorite art book and my drawing tools just gathering dust. Having to do a drawing a week made me feel rushed. I liked that we had to do these but I never really had the time to finish these at home. I think we had enough time to do them all. Something I would've done is fix the mistakes while I was drawing instead of going along with them.


Hand Drawing
Self portrait
Large Self Portrait
Clear Bottle Small
Clear Bottle Large
Still Life Large

 

                

             On this blog I have 1.) Hand small, 2.) Self-portrait large, 3.) Self-portrait small, 4.) Figure drawing life size, 5.) Clear bottle small, 6.) Clear bottle large 7.) Still life large, 8.) One picture drawing made from Botticelli’s artwork copied just as it is seen, 9.) One drawing made from three different pieces of Botticelli’s artwork and this piece is drawing simple because during the renaissance all pieces were draw in great detail. 10.) Small oil pastel painting I did on my own time.

                  Each drawing and or painting of curse took a long time to make. All of them took many steps to make and a lot of preparing to do them. The ideas of what I was doing to do was fresh in my mind, just getting it down on paper was the hard part. Drawing my hand was hard for me that was the first time I ever drew it before. When this assignment was given to me I thought it seem a little different because before now I have never thought about looking at my hand and drawing what I see. The easy part of drawing my hand was the basic outline and drawing my pinky and thumb. When I started on the other fingers it was much harder at one point I found myself forgetting what I was taught. To draw what I see not what I think I see. Then I remembered that was all I had to do so I did just that ad my hand turned out better than I thought it would.

                  My large self-portrait took me a really long time but I am satisfied with it to a certain extent. This was the second time I tired to draw my face. The first time I did it didn’t come out like this one and I honestly think it was because I didn’t draw my face with the correct proportion. In this one I did and I do believe using the charcoal made it come to life a little more and the detail pop out. I started in pencil because I didn’t think it would reach what it needed to if I started to draw in detail. I think the facial features had more of a chance looking like me when they were first drawn in pencil as appose to the charcoal but my finished product isn’t that bad.

                  The small self portrait was drawn more to the detail of my face I think because it was so small everything on the paper was right there in my face. It took me so long to get what I have I went through about five other piece of paper, I really began to get extremely frustrated and a few holes were dug into the paper but the eraser.

                  Life size drawing was something I really thought was going to be hard to do. When I saw that it had to be draw on brown paper I think that took my imagination a way for a bit because I like to do my drawings and painting on a while surface. Then I realized I was not getting that drawn done by focusing on the paper it was being drawn on. So then I just focused on drawing and it came out looking like Mecca. I can say that I am happy the way my finished product turned out.

                  The small bottle drawing was fun. When I started it, it was a bunch of shape and everything was the same shade. It took very long draw it was hard to fit everything on the bottle and have it look right. The trick was to get the shapes and the shading and it would be done but at the same time the shading was the hard part because the drawing still had to give off the appearance of a clear bottle.

                  The large clear drawing was also fun t draw but I really like the fact that I choose to add color to it. For some reason I felt if I would have left it in black and white the picture wouldn’t have had any essence to it. I felt just drawing another clear object in black and white would have been a little boring and it made me feel better when I finished it because it was very hard to start it off but then I got the hang of it.

                  The counter drawing was also hard but hardest of tem all. I tried to draw everything on the counter but it was just not working for me. So then I tried to stick with what I know and I remembered we were able to pick certain things from the counter and draw them so that it what I did. It came out better then my other fail attempts. Once again I got so frustrated that I put holes in the paper from the eraser.

                  Next pieces were from Botticelli’s artwork the first one was just drawn as a copy as I saw it on the paper and the other picture inspired by him was drawn a little different. Since all the pictures drawn during renaissance was detailed beyond what most people can imagine. So I took trees from one picture, sand and water from another and the wall with the door object to see if I could be inspired by an older piece to my own art piece and I succeeded.

                  Last but not lest was my oil pastel painting I did on my own time because my mom finally brought me them and I was extremely excited to use them. I didn’t really have an idea of what to make I Just let the brush go where it wanted to and received a finished piece.