Week 8. The 1 point.

These weeks assignment I am so excited for I just might do two pictures. It is to do a 1 point perspective piece. I had so many ideas I just couldn't choose one. This is the first one I did, I will see if I have time to do another but I like this one so far. Medium: Charcoal.

Week 7. The Ribbon

This weeks assignment was to draw a ribbon with whatever we wanted to. I thought I was being pretty clever to use my Jane Austin book with a ribbon book mark, but another girl (an English major as well) did the same thing. So there goes my creativity... hahah I think this one still needs a few changes. Something is off about it. Medium: Charcoal background, Prisma for the ribbon.

Week 6. The metal, water and glass.

This was a tricky assignment. We needed to incorporate some sort of metal, water and glass into the picture and I needed to touch three sides of the paper. So I thought i would be cool to have the water pouring into the glass. Little did I know water is crazy and is spirally and stuff when it pours. It was a little harder to draw then I had anticipated. well a lot harder. The glass was harder to draw as well. the only thing that wasn't hard was the goblet. I liked drawing the goblet. Medium: Charcoal.

Week 5. The Face

Our Assignment this week was to complete a surprised or frightened self portrait, using a grid. I was super nervous for this assignment because I have never drawn a face before. It is one thing to draw simple objects but to draw a face. wow. But it was a lot more fun then I thought it would be. I was even ok with the way it turned out. I want to practice faces more for sure. Medium: again our choice and betcha can't guess what I used.... charcoal! The picture I used is on top!

Week 4. The Shoe

This weeks assignment draw a shoe from the top-ish angle.Medium: Our choice, I chose charcoal.

I was in a rush to complete this drawing so I was afraid it wasn't very good, but when I got to class everyone loved it. It made me feel very happy! who doesn't love to be praised. I love these shoes so much they are starting to fall apart. I feel like they have character.

Week 3. The Fruit

This week our instructions were to take any piece of fruit, draw it whole, draw it cut in half, and draw three slices. Medium: Prisma pencil. This week I learned I do not love working with the primsa. (Primsa is a type of colored pencils) It was hard for me to draw this because it is very hard to erase, so instead of just shading and erasing where I don't like it, I had to apply layers of color. It was hard but a good thing to learn. I guess.

Week 2. The Bag

Our teacher handed us a paper bag and told us that our assignment was to take the bag, fold it, crunch it, tear it, basically do whatever we wanted with it. Medium: Charcoal

I wanted it to look like it was packed with lunch, ready to take to school! It was my first time ever using charcoal, and well unlike most of the people in my class, I LOVED IT. For some reason charcoal just makes sense to me. I love shading with it and the amount of contrast I am able to produce is amazing. This project just started a great friendship between me and charcoal.

Week 1. The EGG.

The first week of class we were assigned to draw an egg and focus on using several different values. Not to hard but I had a hard time making it look 3 dimensional. Medium: Pencil

This is probably my least favorite drawing so far, but to be fair it was my first.

The First of many.

This semester I finally decided upon a major and a minor(s). Kinda a big deal. This decision has led me down a path I have never traveled and that path is Drawing. I have been fascinated with all things art and creative as long as I can remember but i never thought I was capable of drawing. I don't get a long well with pencils. This semester I took my first art class and well I have fallen in love. I have had so much fun experimenting with drawing and have truly come to appreciate the artistic process even more then I did before! My dad recommended I put my pictures up on my blog so Here it goes. I am going to put them up in the order they were assigned. Enjoy!