Game Drawing Perspective

This project wasn't that hard, but it required thinking and paying attention to little details within the drawing you needed to create. It was a fairly successful piece for me because i thought i implemented the use of perspective to create 3D shapes on a regular sheet of 2D paper. What worked for me was the dice; they were easy to create and looked appealing to the eye in the end. However, the floor didn't work. It didn't come out the way I had expected so kind of downplayed the rest of the picture. If I did this project again, I would spend more time on the background(the floor) in the picture. I learned more about perspective and how to draw better 3D shapes through this project. Using vanishing points and shadows, I was able to make good looking dice. Colored pencils and watercolor was used to color the picture. First, we painted with waterpaints, then we came back over that paint with colored pencil to add highlights and establish value within the certain region.

Glass anamorphisis

In the lab, we picked a picture and had to copy it to photoshop. There, we changed the height by using the transform feature, and changed the width by using the perspective tool. It would look different to the viewer because of the way it has changed in height and width. The person wouldn't recognize it as a distortion, but as a new picture that they haven't seen before. The most important concepts were creating the shadows and implementing the use of colors (colored pencils) in the product to make it look more 3-D. The grid helped us make an accurate copy and accurate shadow of the picture. In the product, the correct values had to be put in the correct places to make it look good. We had to use anamorphisis in the end to make it look 3-D.

Liberty Bell Stencil

To create this stencil, we took a picture and applied the threshold filter in photoshop. This created a deep contrast between the darks and lights, that would help us later on in the project. We then chose to cut out the black or white parts in the picture, then used the Xacto knife to cut it out. Following the cutting out, we spray painted the picture, and a product like the one above was made. I chose my backround because of the color and view. I took random pieces of books and magazines and glued them to the cardboard, creating a collage. After the pieces were glued on, I painted it over the collage with green paint. I knew that I was already going to spray paint the stencil black, so I figured that turquoise would be a good contrast color in the final product. In my stencil, the positive space represented the part that we cut out, in my case the Liberty Bell. The negative space was everything around it that wasn't cut out. Using the Xacto knife wasn't very hard, but some precautions such as not cutting towards your own hand and making sure it doesn't slip when your cutting came in the way of creating the stencil. Some people got hurt by the Xacto blades, but most people were fine and followed common sense safety precautions. Spray painting was a fun experience, it is easier than painting with a brush, and in some cases looks better in a final product. Spray paint makes it easier to create patterns within the painting. I chose black on turquoise for my background, because I have seen the color contrast in other places, and thought that it looked particularly good.

I thought that my project had great composition. There was a good balance between lights and darks in the print. The colors I used complemented each other and made the picture visually appealing. I used the hair onthe wombot as a way to create texture. I created a balance of darks and lights and also selectively put colors in different places to add contrast. The contrast and texture help make the picture look more visually appealing and more life-like, which is always important when creating a print of something such as a wombat. I created positive and negative space by cutting out certain parts of the lino cut, and leaving others to create dark/light positive/negative space. I thought it was crafted with skill, considering the difficulty of drawing the different textures and parts of the wombat. Yes I was able to achieve depth, but I think the fore-ground was something I should of spent more time on. The obstacles of printmaking were getting around certain lines and certain areas that were small and needed to be cut. The advantages were gaining more depth and texture in a final art project, and also making the picture look more life-like.

Texture was very important when drawing these animals because it brings life to the picture and makes it look better and more appealing to the eye. Somebody doesn't have much to look at when it is just a plain old animal, but get interested when they texture. You need several references and backgrounds of the animal you are drawing because it provides you with different ways that they look and provides the different habitats that they live in so you can decide how you want to make them look and where you want them to 'reside'  in your picture, based on the different pictures you collect. Yes, I knew the wombat would make the best print and look the best because it had the most texture of the three animals I chose. I feel like it would be good to do an animal with good texture when making a print.

Chalk Murals

In this project, we had to work in groups to create chalk murals. Without my group I wouldn't have been able to create this final product. We each had certain parts and aspects of our caterpillar that we worked on, and this collaboration made the work go faster and the caterpillar look better. Everyone in the group contributed to the ideas from the start. Everyone had their own idea about what they wanted to do for the project, so we had to agree on one chalk mural to draw. Working as a team also brought some difficulties because we would argue about what we wanted to atribute into the work. We would dispute about who would do what and how they should do it. Working with your friends also distracts you some because you feel like it is not just a time to create art, but a time to socialize as well. I thought that our final product looked great. We ended up making the caterpillar and the backround as 3-D and lifelike as possible. We used many color blends and schemes to make it look like a real life caterpillar. In my opinion, our final caterpillar was one of the coolest ideas and one of the best final products. Interacting with artwork can show the whole school how cool art really is. It can demonstrate that it can be more than just drawing, and that if you work at it you can create amazing art.

     To create this drawing I first trace the shape of the head and then thought about the shading process. I outlined shapes with different values that helped me make the picture look realistic later on. After I shaded in the face shoulder area, I began blending the colors together. I looked at the picture and created a value scale to figure out the value of each part of the face. I used the value scale as a guide to make sure that I shaded things in the right shade and in the right way. I thought I did use a wide range of different values when I created this portrait. I wasn't 'afraid of the dark' and wasn't wary about which shades I used. I thought it looked fairly neat and that it was crafted fairly well. I did feel like some of the features were messier than others because they were harder to see on the guide picture. I definately took my time with this project, and made sure that every aspect that was needed was present. I had a few obstacles that stood in the way of completing this portrait. One of them was that I had to re-draw the picture several times because of shading and/or tracing errors. Another was that I couldn't get the picture shaded and blended right. Although these obstacles stood in the way, I overcame them and created the portrait. I thought it was an okay project overall, but I didn't make it look realistic enough.

Drawing Turtles
 
      I learned from this project that drawing turtles is insteresting yet hard. The turtles wouldn't stop moving for most of the time so it was hard to just look at one point of view and draw. There were many details that you had to pay attention to when drawing, and the constant movement didn't help the process. I thought I did a fairly good job at drawing cupcake and the rest of the turtles, and I hope to do it again.

Stick Figure Moss Project

I thought that this project was very fun and entertaining. It was cool to be able to see the pictures of other moss drawings, and then be able to create one ourselves. I thought that I didn't do a very creative moss drawing, but it's what I wanted to do for the project. Even though it wasn't very creative and wasn't my best piece, it was still the most enjoyable. I learned from this project that I am not very good at moss graffiti, and that in the future I would like to do it again.

                            

Scooby Doo Skeleton Project

I thought that I did a pretty good job of representing what Scooby Doo's skeleton would look like. I paid carful attention to details like putting in the individual ribs and individual vertabrae. I also took my time creating the overall piece. This piece showed me that I can really do quality artwork and that if I continue to pursue excellence in art I will in turn become better at it. It was fairly easy to trace Scooby Doo and to draw his ribs, vertabrae, and legs, but when it came time to draw his jaw, it was harder to make it look good. i just couldnt make the back of his jaw blend with the rest of the skull, so it didn't look as good as I had hoped. If I had learned about shading prior to drawing Scooby Doo, I think the overall piece would have looked better in the end.