Bones

This week our assignment was to pick a cartoon character and draw what we think its skeleton would look like. I chose Tweety Bird. I didn't enjoy this assignment that much because I had a hard time with what type or shape of bones I should draw to make certain parts of its body. Also it takes a lot more detail and also involves making sure the paportions are right or else something wont look right about the picture, which seemed to be a challenge for me. The rib cage was also difficult because I had to make sure that you could see some of the ribs on the other side so it could look more three dimensional.

Turtles

Today, we had a shortened class time so we spent it sketching different objects that were placed on the tables throughout the classroom. At one of the tables we had Mr. Sands turtles which were challenging to draw because they kept moving, the required a lot of detail and proportion, and we were being timed so we only had a certain amout of time alloted at each table. Also what made this assignment challenging was that I didn't know exactly what part of the turtle I should draw first.

Value

In our Art 1 class we spent a few days working on shading, which is one of my favorite things to work on. I like shading because it really makes what you are drawing or painting or whatever media you are using come to life and look more three dimensional. We had to pick pictures that covered all of the lights and darks of the value scale. We then used a stump, a rolled up piece of paper, to blend the darks, mediums, and lights together to show off the shadows and light spots of the picture.

Hand Project

Our first project in our Art 1 class was to make a animal out of your hand. We had another person cover our hand in plaster and smooth out all of the bumps and to make the plaster even. Once it dried we took it off. The following few days we painted our plaster hand to look like the animal we chose. Once I completed painting and added the teeth to my eel, I noticed that I had made the teeth too large and the color was not consistant over my eel. I thought it started to look more like a dinosaur instead of an eel.