Hallway Drawing



This was actually a very fun project once I had an idea. I wanted it to be a bit subdued but still fun. I missed the mark a bit on the whole subdued thing. I would have been much happier with this if I hadn't made the floor so colorful. I attempted to mute the color a little by shading it with black but it didn't have much effect. What I truly needed for the foor was a wheat-like color. Live and learn, I suppose. My favorite part of this piece is the right wall. I had a lot of fun blending the colors even though parts of it ended up being a little cat-pukey. If I could change parts of this I would, as previously stated, change the floors. However, I would also tone down the bench and do more with the trophy case but I didn't have the time for that. The hardest part to this was getting the proportions right, especially with the doors. I wanted them to look uniform but sometimes they would turn out to wide or narrow. The hall divider was also fairly difficult. During this, I just really learned how to get a hand for figuring out proportions. There was no hard and fast method but eventually, you just develope an eye for what looks right (I'm not, however, saying that I have yet attained this!).

Two Point Perspective Name

I am very happy with how this piece turned out but it was a bit complicated. I really like the finished project but I was concerned more than a few times. Since my name is so long, I thought it looked too busy to show the end of every letter. Instead, I choose letters selectively like the "r" in "Munderloh". I also chose a less chaotic color scheme to make the letters easier to read. I wasn't nearly as precise with this drawing as I was with my One Point Perspective Name. I roughly drew out the spaces for the individual letter but I didn't do much measuring from there. If I ever had to re-do this, I would find a way to make more space between the "y" in "Mallory" and the "m" in "Munderloh". They got kind of squished in the end. This actually wasn't as hard as I had first predicted. The hardest part would have to be making space for "Munderloh" but even that wasn't too complicated. I had completely forgotten about two-point perspective before this. I hadn't previously learned about how to take lines back to the vanishing point, and that truly made all of the difference.

This was a project? Who would have guessed? It wasn't very hard, just time consuming. This was especially so since I am a perfectionist and had to measure out each letter to make sure that they were straight and symmetrical. I like how this turned out very much. This is pretty much exactly how I pictured it in my head. It worked very well to measure everything. The only problem came when I had to draw the yellow part. I wasn't always sure where each part should end so that it would seem as if it matched up with the other parts. If I re-did this project I wouldn't spend quite as long drawing the letters since they probably didn't need to be that presice. The hardest part of this project was drawing the "m's". There were just so many lines to them! I'm still not 100% pleased with them. Overall, I learned a new technique! The vanishing point was very fun to work with and not something that I would have thought to use otherwise.

Still Life

This was a very intimidating project. When I walked in and saw everything set up, I was desperately hoping that it was for Art Two. I had only one rough draft that looked decent so I decided to draw from that perspective. In the end, I am okay with this piece. As always, I would have liked more time to build up the values more. The project became easier when I really focused on drawing the lines correctly rather than trying to draw the picture as a whole. I learned very quickly that it was necessary to draw every line that I saw. I also have found that I hate the fact that most things are symmetrical. Despite what certain people say, I think that smudging would have been a very good addition to this piece. Though it's hard to see in this photo, the shading on the big pot is very inconsistant and odd looking due to a refection that was present. If I did this again, I wouldn't do it again. It was a very stressful project. I would, however, attempt to make the values that are found in the bottom of the candelabra present throughout the whole project. The candelabra was not, though, the hardest part. The big pot was the hardest part to do because it is symmetrical, big, reflective, and the focal point of the project. In the end though, it was fun to build the values and I think it wouldn't be awful to have to do this kind of shading again.

Super Hero Drawing

I really did not like this art project. It was very complicated and I never felt completely done. I think that this piece is turned out okay but I wish that I had more time or a longer hour. Every time that I got comfortable with drawing, the hour ended. This was also very hard because about halfway through, I found that my action figure was not proportional. This resulted in tiny arms, a huge chest, fat legs, and a small head. I was also very bad at the red shading. I tried to add in purple to make it appear darker, however, it usually just looked splotchy. One of the things that I do like about this drawing, though, is the way that I shaded the yellow. I think that it turned out nicely since I had a gold like color to shade along with the yellow. If I could do this project again, I would simply spend more time on it. I would probably use that time to work on the proportions. The hardest part of this project was definitely the fact that that his arms and legs were white but still had a lot of built up values. I ended up using a creame color along with brown but it wasn't right at all. In the end, I learned to look farther than just what I immediatley saw. When I did that, I could finally see the values so that I could draw them to get more depth in the picture. 

Pop Can Line Drawing

This went a lot better than I expected. Seeing last year's pop cans made me very nervous to do this project. But in the end, it wasn't nearly as difficult as I had imagined it would be. I think that it was a  successful piece (it better have been considering how long it took me to draw) since I honestly went into the project thinking that I couldn't do it. Once I just started drawing and stopped worrying about it being perfect, I think that my project actually improved. At the start, I kept trying to draw from memory and was focusing too much on the overall picture. That certainly did not work. I started to look at the pop can more frequently and that helped a bit, however, the "breakthrough" was when I was told to just focus on the lines. When I looked at the can as a series of lines, it became much easier to draw. If I was to do this again, I would want to be able to spend more time on it, especially the top of the can. I would also want to do some shading to make it stand out more.The most difficult part of this project was definitely drawing the top of the can and the pull tab. The image was flattened and not a bunch of lines which made it extremely hard to draw. Even with the finished project, I couldn't get the size and shape of the pull tab right. This piece really taught me that I can learn to draw. It seemed impossible at the start, but through baby steps, the piece began to come together and I am very happy with the final result.