Drawing A Random Guy

In order to complete this project, we first had to take a picture of ourselves and give them to a fellow classmate. The pictures were taken with a projector to our right in order to ensure a sharp contrast of colors. We then held our pictures up to a window or other source of light, and put tracing paper over them, then we traced any shapes we saw Be it a shadow, or facial feature, we had to trace as many shapes as we possibly could. We then did the process of transferring our tracings on the tracing paper to our sketchbooks, retracing every line until we had the exact same drawing in our sketchbooks. Tracing all of the shapes allowed us to see where every shadow and color gradient started and stopped. We achieved a full range of different values in our portraits thanks to the positioning of the projector when we were first taking the photographs. This made the differences between the shades very harsh, and extremely noticeable. My execution of the drawing could have been better. I think I could have shaded darker, and maybe cleaned up the edges a little more. I'm still not happy with the way the eyes turned out, but I couldn't think of how I could have made them more like the actual person's. Then there are all the random smudges around the paper that come with rubbing the drawing with your fingers in order to have real looking shading. I had to overcome the obstacle of having never done a portrait of this nature, and using all new techniques, but overall I think the finished product was a success, and I had a fun time completing the portrait.






-Jack

Moss Graffiti

This project was really fun, however I think it could have gone better if I had more refined painting skills. My goal was to paint a silouhette of the world, with the continents being moss, while the oceans are just the actaul wall. This way, when the moss grows, it looks like every inch of land on the earth is covered in trees, and like we have a green Earth. Unfortunately, the tragic flaw in this plan is that my painting skills are rudimentary at best, so the continents just kind of look like blobs, vaguely representing the land mass that they're supposed to be. I think I got the main idea across, however, and so the project was an overall success.

Skips' Skeleton

I feel that this project was a success in that it strengthened my understanding of how to properly draw a skeleton. The final product of this project was a success. I put several different techniques that I learned previously in this class to use, and the combination of these techniques made a drawing that turned out quite well. If I were to re-do this project, I would have exaggerated the character's bone structure more in order to better compliment his abnormal body. I struggled with making Skips' rib cage because it needed to be the correct shape, and with a realistic number of bones, all connecting in the proper places. The overall idea of this project is great, it was fun to draw what we think a cartoon character's skeleton looks like, and at the same time it taught us how to better draw a human one.