Category: Art

Value Eye Drawing Reflection

One of the biggest projects you have to take on in seventh grade is drawing your eye with value and different types of pencils. In this project, you are introduced to six different drawing pencils that are called 6B, 4B, 2B, B, HB, and 2H. To start this art assignment you have to do the following: stand on a chair and look straight while Rohan takes a picture of your eye, you get the picture of your eye in print form, next you make a borderline to where you are going to draw your eye using the 2H pencil, then as you continue you eventually would have used all six different pencils at necessary times.

Up top is a picture of my finished drawing. I am really satisfied with the final result and proud because when I started I doubted myself and thought I wouldn’t be able to do it. There are some parts I would tweak, for example, the shading around the eye and the coloring in of the pupil.

 

Blue’s Artist Statement

NAME: Blue Hostler – Burrows

CLASS: DMX6

ARTIST STATEMENT Reflecting on your artwork and sharing your thoughts about the art making process is an important part of art. Please thoughtfully complete the statements below based on the work of art you just finished.

I would like to name this work of art: Blue’s portraits

I created this work of art by first taking a picture of me. Jeremiah showed us different techniques we could make our portraits. The techniques were, blending pencils, oil pastel, colored  pencils, chalk pastel, and screen printing.

Some of things I learned while creating it were how to use different ways to make portraits using different art materials, every picture you do will not be exactly the same, and that it’s kinda a long process.

My favorite part is when I did the screen printing. It was my favorite part because before I didn’t know how to do it really… It was fun rolling the paint and spreading it onto the Styrofoam that had my portrait.

If I could change something about it, it would be (include why) the oil pastel portrait I did out of all of them because I found myself rushing and it didn’t turn out to what I wanted it to.

While making the project I was surprised that it was fairly easy to learn the techniques.

Blue is the best color

 

One of my favorite art pieces is my perspective water color. The reasoning to that is because before I didn’t know how to perspective draw and then I learned and thought it was cool. When we got to the water coloring part you had to pick a color and stick into that colors scheme. If you couldn’t tell my color was to stay in the blue scheme. Some parts of my water color has some purple but to be honest I thought that the color was close enough to blue. One thing that I would do if I had more time would be to sit down and try to make different shades of blue. Also, by doing that I think I could have different shades of blue and make it not all the same color. First we started drawing it out with pencil, then went to water color, next you had the option of using color pencil if you wanted in your piece. Here’s a picture of my final water color:

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Art – Single point perspective blog post

Perspective drawing for me has kind of been hard because I like to get every line “perfect”. I’ll be honest I’m a perfectionist and I keep trying until I get it the way I like it. The hardest part for me would be just going on and not to take thousands of hours trying to get one line right. That’s hard for me because I like to do my best and not give up.
         Another art project we are doing is drawing the street! One class, we went out and sat on the sidewalk and we drew what we saw and the perspective… I think my drawing is going good so far. Down below is a picture of me working on it:
Blue Street Perspective
On the Sidewalk Drawing

You can’t really see the drawing but, all I have on the paper are the buildings on the side and a lamp post. It’s not a lot because I kept redoing the lamp post… That’s a little bit of what was happening with my street drawing art piece.

         When we started our perspective drawing unit we did this shape thing where we drew a five sided shape and connected it with lines coming from this point on the middle of the paper and then earased them when they connected. Then it turned out into a nice 3d shape! When we were finishing our last classes working on the shape work we moved onto our street drawings. By doing the shape piece before we did our street drawings helped me because we were getting the idea how to perspective draw.
      I would say the hardest thing transitioing from the shape work to the street work would be getting the buildings and the surrounding objects lined up so it would all look 3d and not mixed up from having a five sided shape and connecting the lines. The reason is because with the street drawing you have tons of things to draw that have to be lined up with everthing to make it the same art technique.
         I am really enojoying this art unit we are doing because I am learning a lot from it. Playing around with the shapes and buildings can be fun when your making it 3d/perspective drawing.
Blue Street 1
Perspective Drawing in Progress

First quarter Reflection Of My Zoetrope

This is a reflection of my Zoetrope that I made in art. A Zoetrope is an animation, (kind of) because when you put it in a circular paper thing you spin it and it looks like your drawing is doing something like an action. Here are two pictures of my Zoetrope down below!

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I learned while making the Zoetrope how to properly color in white spaces without making it look scratched up and bad looking. I don’t think this is my best work because I made people throwing up rainbows and I was coloring in the blank spaces beautifully and then I got a little sloppy at the end of my work.