Half-face drawing (Extra Credit)

Start of the drawing/outline

Finished Drawing

Media: Picture from internet, scissors, pencil, glue, paper

Process: Find picture from a magazine (in my case from my laptop) and cut it down the middle. Draw what you see on one side on the other (in my case some things would have to be like the other side because of hat and bow tie). Shade according to what you see and make the picture look more life-like and try to get it as accurate to the other side as you can.

Learned: Drawing what you see rather than what you think you see

Value Scale

Value Scale project

Media: Pencil, paper, colored pencil 

Process: Draw circles with the compass then draw ribbons to connect the circles together. Shade the circles to look like light is hitting certain places on the circles. After shade the ribbons to look like light is being blocked by the circles and that the ribbons are going underneath the circles/spheres.

Learned: Shading to make shapes look 3D and have light hitting them.

Chop

Chinese Name Chop

Symbols: Name, Virtue, and Dream

Media: Chop, carving tools, internet, paint/ink

Process: Look online for Chinese symbols of things that represent you. Create one of your name, and two of different symbols. Must have at least three Chinese symbols on the chop. Then draw your symbols onto a piece of paper in a square the size of your chop. Trace it with an ebony pencil on a tracing paper and then trace onto your chop. Use a carving tool to carve the symbols into the chop and then use the red paint/ink to test the chop.

Learned: Chinese chops can be used as a signature rather than signing by hand.

Self Portrait

Self Portrait finish

Media: Pencil, paper, picture of self, ruler

Process: Take the picture that was given of yourself and create blocks on it, take the bigger paper and create blocks as well, bigger size but same amount. Draw the picture as you see it block by block on the paper. Once finished, create different shading and what not to make it more life-like.

Learned: Shading to make drawings look more realistic.

Clay Fish

Clay Fish finish

Media: Clay, tutorial video, paints

Process: Create a pinch pot and then other little designs such as fins and anything you want to make the fish to be. You could create a sailor, pirate, scuba diver, etc. I created a singer fish.

Learned: How to create pinch pots.

Wayne Thiebaud Art

Wayne Thiebaud cake design start

Wayne Thiebaud cake design finish

Media: Pencil, paper, pastels, online image

Process: Create your own baked good design from ideas online. Color the picture with different colors, making shadows where they should be. Use colors other than black to make the art stand out.

Learned: Shading and shadows using colors other than black.

Oil Pastel Abstract Composition

Half-way done with oil pastels

Finished Product

Media: Paper, pencil, Oil pastels

Process: Create lines and designs with your pencil, crossing lines over others and creating some curves. Color in the different sections with different colors, making the inside lighter and getting darker when moving to the outside.

Learned: different shades and getting darker to lighter.

African Mask

African Mask Start of painting details

African Mask finished product

Media: Clay, paint, beads, string

Process: Create an African Mask out of clay in your own design. Once fired, paint to look like rusted copper/metal, then paint designs and symbols onto it. Create beads out of clay that was fired with the mask to go on the string, then create a pattern with the beads.

Learned: African masks and African symbols and designs.