One Fourth

One fourth of this class is already gone, and with that one fourth of my senior year. SO weird. This marking period of art has opened me up to alot of new expiriences and mediums. Before this I would have told you that I only had an interest in clay metals but thats no longer true. While sitting in other much more  monotonous classes I am typically thinking about the net thing I need to do on my current picture. I am in art class for 45 minutes in the morning and sometimes I spend studyhall there and I still wish I was there more. I really hope to continure drawing outside of this class :)

Rescue Mission

So I was happy with how my monochromatic painting looked, which was nice because I have really never painted before. Then came inking and retouching... It didn't go quite as well unfortunatley. Drawing with color to create an entire drawing was one thing but I really didn't know how to go about retouching my already painted picture. I wanted to stylize it but had absolutely no idea how to. So I winged it and my face turned it an unpleasant array of streaky purples. In an attempt to somewhat rescue it I had to layer over everything with black which helped alot but it still isn't exactly what I'm looking for. I think for my real portrait I am going to attempt to create more subtle retouching that enhances my picture and doesn't take it over. But I was happy with how my eye came out, now i just need to make the rest of it look good too.

Fear.

I hate starting anything that I know is going to be permanent, and color pencils don't come with erasers. We drew our color pencil apples on sheets of paper we had dyed in the beginning of school year and the one I chose happened to be one of my favoites. I was fine drawing apples on replacable paper with pencil I could easily erase, which I did quite frequently. I knew as soon as I marked my pretty paper with the red of the apple there was no changing my mind. The fact that I had never used color pencil for this type of drawing before also made me nervous. My studies we did on the apples weren't that great, and I honestly had no idea what I was doing when I started drawing. But once I started drawing I started getting more comfortable and started to better understand how to create value with so many different colors. Over all I like the way my apple came out. I'm not overly thrilled with it but its's honestly better than I thought it was going to be.