Finished

I finished the picture last week, but accidentally forgot to post. Blame my memory for that.
But NOW I'm here evaluating my drawing.

Here is my drawing:

You see that the background = totally black and the hair is really white. Quite a nice contrast i think myself.

I got my classmates to comment on it too and this is what they said:

Lodin: Nice hair, quite good, i like the background it makes the character stand out. Although the gray scale you used goes from extremely dark to extremely white. And there is no colour between that of the background and that of the guitar strap on the right side.

Sofie: I think the black had a very long jump to the next lighter colour. And is very black in comparison to the rest.

Mr. Roman: Your drawing could tolerate a lot more shading at the edge of her face on the right side of the picture. The right cheek be much darker.

Marta: Potato nose.

Okay I have become the joke of the class, because of my failed attempt at drawing a nose, see for yourself below. Her right eyes is also much darker than the left, and her lips are in a weird angle.

So I totally fail at drawing real people using the grid method, I'm much better using free hand. I think.

-M-

Update

I just darkened the background really black with crayons, but the edges aren't so good, i'll have to do something about that.

But i'm not moaning, with the hair lightened up a bit the drawing suddenly looks much better, i'll put a picture up soon. ATM i have no camera available.

*make mental note*
Remember to bring a photo camera, to the next lessons to be able to update with step by step pictures.

-M-

Frustrated

I am sooooo angry right now. The shadowing was a total failure. I don't know why it just doesn't look right.
But the worst is the nose...
Why do we have noses!!!! They're just annoying to draw. Especially on a picture with a frog's view. If you don't do it right it looks like a pig's nose.

So I'm really angry..... and then I came across this quote:

The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.

So I decided I'd just have to practise drawing noses or else I'm going to make pig mutants.

-a frustrated M-

Progress

Alright, i have so far drawn the outline and the dress + the hair. I decided to blackify the dress since I had to focus on the face and not the tiny details of the dress.

I decided to draw the hair on this one.
And then black out the background and rub away some of the colour so the hair is lighter.






















-M-

Chosen

So after some heavy debating I choose picture 1.
Taylor live in the UK

Now I have the picture chosen I have to grid it.
This caused some problems, since Mr.Roman (my art teacher) had said that the drawing would need 1cm squares and the full size had to be 4cm squares.

The full A3 page had 11 boxes up and 7&a half width.
My problem: The picture with 1cm squares had 22 boxes and 16 width.
After a little discussion with my teacher he agreed to let me draw 2cm square boxes on the picture.
In the fashion the whole picture fit on my A3 sheet of paper.

After the grids I started drawing the outline, which was one of the things I feared. You see I'm pretty bad with simple lines, shadowing stuff, I'll be fine but lines?

And that's all I manages to do this lesson, next time I'll start drawing more details and see if I can start shadowing.
-M-

Task: Unit Icon

For this task, I had to pick an A5 and using the grid method transform it into an A3 drawing.


The picture had to have a nice balance between black and white, which I found out to be quite a task, or it had too much white or it had too little white. The black and white however was no problem, with the art room printer being able to ONLY print out black and white.

3 different picture we had to find, from a famous person OR someone who was your idol.

My class came up with the Dalai Lama (that's how you spell it?) Obama. Bellatrix Lestrange from Harry Potter etc.

Me, being a real swiftie, of course went to  Taylor Swifts Offical Website. And searched for nice pictures.

It wanted too choose most of them, but that was not possible. So I chose looking at their black and white contrast.

I came up with these 3 pictures:

Picture 1
Taylor live in the UK

Picture 2
Taylor live in Houston

Picture 3
Picture for Blender Magazine

Next time on this blog, I will choose 1!!!!!! of these pictures......
- A troubled M -

1st Unit: Icon

So at IST (my school).
This is our first Unit.


Grade 9 Art
18th August - 22nd September (6weeks)
Due: 22nd September 2011

Icon
Unit Question: How do I draw a face?
What am I going to cover in this unit:

• Develop a tonal scale.
• Draw a photo by enlarging it.
• Develop skills with composition and grid.
• Study Proportion

 AOI: Human Ingenuity:

• Structure and creative process.
• How do we organize our world.
• Impact of the grid on society.

How will I know I have been successful?

• Finish a photo-realistic A3-sized charcoal drawing.
• Recognize and create values using line and texture.
• Develop contrast through values.
• Make ongoing entries on the blog.

Artist to look at: Chuck Close
Questions to reflection on:
What icon will I choose? Can I make someone into an icon? What makes an icon?
When did artists start using grids? Why are grids useful?

- M -