Print Making

The first thing we did for this project was find five pictures of your animal and the inspiration you'll need for your drawing. Afterwards, we drew a scene of our animal in a landscape. I chose the octopus so I had pictures of tentacles, the shape and the head. I drew the octopus in an underwater theme with coral and other sea anemone. I then took the viewfinder and placed it in three places on my drawing. I chose this one because it had most of the octopus which was the focal point. When we finished doing that, we had to trace the viewfinder part and redraw it on the clay. After the drawing was on the clay you had to cut it out. This part was really hard because I was confused on what to cut and not to cut but in the end I figured it out and I think it looks alright. I think I had too much ink and i should've had more cut out parts. I learned that I should know how to do the whole project so I know what to do.

Tongue Frog

This one was actually easy but I messed up earlier so I redid the whole thing and it was understandable. I wish I knew how to blend the tongue together more though because it looks jagged. Overall I think I did better in this than the angry pancake.

Angry Pancake

The angry pancake was hard to do in my opinion mostly with the teeth. I did fine with the squishing and moving round but when I had to fix the teeth into the pancake it was difficult. My pancake doesn't look much like an angry pancake but more like a pancake with teeth on it. I didn't know how I could blend it together more into the pancake and make it more real but I would've chose different teeth.

I started off with a picture on dropbox, then I put it into Photoshop. Using photoshop I changed the colors and made it look like pop art. After I was done with that, I printed it out. You had to make it larger so you put it through the projector. The projector projected the picture bigger and I used posterboard to trace the blobs of shapes. I then cut the shapes out and put them all together on a cardboard that I painted light pink. I taped it to the cardboard and used the dark navy, turquoise, and purple spray paint. Before the navy I used yellow spray paint and It didn't look good so I colored over it. Overall I think this was a success and it looks pretty awesome. I'm going to do this again maybe and hopefully I won't spray paint my shoes and hand.

This drawing of somebody's Sperry was improved after learning about the contour line drawing. That helped me draw this because i knew to look at every detail and everything had to be connected to all of it. It also taught me that I should take my time and effort if I want it to look like the actual shoe.

Value Drawings on iPad

In class we drew value shapes using oil pastels and later on we used iPads to draw the same thing. I drew the three shapes; square, cone and sphere with different color and also drew the shadows. The similarities of the class drawings and the iPad drawings were that it was the same concept, drawing, and shapes. The differences were that we weren't allowed to smudge in class but the iPad had a special effect that was a smudge tool. I also had a harder time with the iPad becausethe circle is so far in the corner and I couldn't tell it was there until I finished drawing. When you're coloring in class you can see the paper and where to put everything. On the iPad I zoomed it to paint it but I couldn't tell where I was. I think my best accomplishment in the iPad drawings was the gradual color changes from dark to light. I also learned from this experience that I need to soften the colors more together and look blended. Technology is useful and important in art class because it gives more variety to art and you can practice more techniques.

Sonya's Skeleton Drawing - Tweety Bird

I drew the cartoon character Tweety Bird for this project. My cartoon displays a full set of bones which includes the skull, the arms, ribs, pelvis, and feet. I used creativity during this drawing because Tweety has eyelashes and hair coming out and I wanted it to still look like it was Tweety so I drew the hairs a bit rough and jagged. I also used exaggeration for this because obviously a real bird's skeleton does not look like this. I outlined Tweety Bird's main features and accentuated that with the bones. I kept the outline because I wanted to keep it looking neat. To create this drawing I also had to add some more toes because I wanted to make the feet large but normally it would be three toes and I did four. I also kept the cheeks because Tweety Bird's image is mostly her big cheeks so I tried to draw it skeletal.