Up Close & Personal

For this project, I used my dog, Ilsa, as inspiration for this project. I used her for inspiration because she is a dapple dachshund and she has a lot of colors. I also used her because I already had good quality pictures of her and zooming in on them helped with this project because then I was able to see more detail and successful finish this project. I used my unique ideas because I used my pet as a muse for the up close and personal project. 

For this project I used colored pencils as my chosen medium. I liked the colored pencils because they worked better for me than oil or chalk pastels. I also used colored pencils because they moved smoothly and were much easier to handle and were a lot neater. 

When I first started this project, I wasn't sure about the angle I was going to draw my dog in. I usually don't draw anything from this angle so it was new to me. I also was hesitant about the head and muzzle because I usually don't draw dog's heads at and angle and so it was a bit difficult. Looking at the final project, I think that the project turned out well overall. 

Oil pastel, colored pencil, and chalk pastel drawings

For this activity, I used oil pastels to create a can. I like how the colors look together and how easily the oil pastels blend together. 

For the lollipop, I used colored pencils. I liked this projects because I like working with colored pencils. Drawing the lollipop was fun because of the colors. 

I used chalk pastels to draw this candy. Chalk pastel was challenging to use because it was powdery and smeared easily. It was easy to make the color by blending different colors together. 

Scientific Project

      For my project I decided to draw a rib cage with the organs that are located in that area, including the lungs. I decided on this idea after a lot of thought because I thought it would be cool to draw a skeleton and I also thought it would be cool to draw organs so I finally decided on combining my two ideas into one. 

      The lessons that we were taught before starting this project were very beneficial because I learned how to gradually change values. I also thought the lessons were beneficial because it taught me how to shade better. 

      In my work I used contrast with the darks and the the lights. I think that the bottom of the rib cage looks the best because of how dark the bottom of the lungs are compared to the lighter darkness of the ribs. For this project I used pen and ink. I chose this medium because I found pen and ink easier to work with. I chose to do stippling on my project because I liked doing it and also it is easier to make larger portions darker. A risk I took while doing this project was using the pen and ink. I find this to be a risk because with pen and ink, it isn't easy to fix a mistake. 

      I liked doing this project because I enjoyed working with pen and ink. I also like the whole scientific idea. Brainstorming for the project was fun, as was actually doing the project.

Clay Tile & Landscape Painting :D

MY SUPER AWESOME CLAY TILE. IT IS THE BACK OF A WHALE IF IT WASN'T CLEAR

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MY LANDSCAPE PAINTING...yay
(not as pretty as I hoped it would be... >.> )

Game Drawing

I thought that the final piece was okay, but could be a lot better.  I could add more of the watercolor washes and blended with the colored pencils more.  The overlapping of the colored pencil colors made the piece have more color.

I think I was in between successful and not successful.  I thought that I could have had better value and more shadows.  

The thing that worked about this project was the colors used and the perspective of the drawing.  I also thought that where the vanishing point was made the project good.  What didn't work was the gradation of the colors.  

If I were to do this project again, I would add more highlights and I would define the horizon more.

The most difficult part of the project was finding the vanishing point because there were so many to use.

I learned how to use perspective better and how to make things look like they are getting farther away or closer.

Stencil

1. Explain how you changed your photo in the lab to create a stencil.

• I created my stencil by using Photoshop. The black and the white created contrast.

2. When creating the collage background explain your choices of colors, materials (magazine paper, books pages, etc), and placement. How does it relate to your topic? If no relation discuss general idea.

• I based the theme of my collage off of England and the UK.  I also used the colors red, blue, and white.  

3. Discuss the way positive and negative space was used to create your stencil.

• The positive space was what I didn't cut out.  The negative space was what i did cut out.  The balance of the positive/negative space created my stencil. I used a border as my threshold.

4. When using the xacto knife, explain the safety procedures, how to use the knife and any challenges you had to overcome while cutting.

• When using the xacto knife, you had to cut away from yourself.  The challenges I faced were things like tying to keep everything together and not accidently cutting through something that didn't need to be cut.

5. How was your experience with the spray paint? Discuss how color choice is important, placement of stencil, and any other concepts you noticed while creating this. 

• When I spray painted my collage, I used a variety of colors.  I used colors like pink, blue, white, and yellow.  The color that I sprayed the stencil with was black.  The composition turned out good.

Anamorphosis Drawing

                

1. Describe the process you went through to change your object into the correct perspective to create the drawing. This is when you were in the lab.

• First I found the image on Google Images.  Then I opened it on Photoshop and transformed and scaled it.  Then I drew it in perspective after drawing a grid.  I colored the picture using colored pencils then drew the shadow.  This project was called anamorphasis.

2. How did distorting and stretching the object allow for you to create a drawing that would look different to the viewer?

• Distorting the value of the sketch helped draw it so it looked 3D when you looked at it at a different angle.

3. What were the most important concepts in the project to make it successful?

• I think that I was successful in using all the important concepts like transforming, scaling, shading, and distorting the image to make it look good.