Value Portraits

My process began by tracing the picture of her face. I then traced it again on to a seperate piece of paper. I then began to shade her hair and then her face. I found different values in the portrait by looking at the lighting on her face. I believe Mr. Sands took the picture in a certain lighting on purpose. Characteristics like her hair gave certain shadows on her face a detailed look. I tried to achieve a large range of values on my drawing. I tried to slowly shade lighter so my shading would be more realistic. If I would of drawn a line then stopped shading when I got to the line it would not of been very realistic, shadows slowly fade in real life. I could of done better like always but I still like how I did on my drawing. I tried to be as neat as possible with a small amount of smear marks. I am happy with the way I did on this drawing. Drawing the hair took a large amount of time and put me back a little. I just stayed focused and didn't let the time lost effect how much detail I put in the drawing. Other than that I did not have any other obstacles while drawing this portrait.

Moss Art

Last Friday we drew moss art. It smelled horrible and was hard to paint. Mr. Sands mixed buttermilk, a little sugar, corn syrup and moss together to create the graffiti. We painted it on a small wall outside of the school. The air was humid and the wall was hidden from the sun, therefore giving moss  the great growing space. I am excited to see what will happen. Will it grow? Only time will tell.

Turtle Drawing...

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Cartoon Bones Drawing

I picked Luigi for my cartoon because he is my favorite Mario character. I have to admit that I did not like drawing him too much. His arms and legs are big boned and it was hard to change the proportions. My sketch came out okay but it was hard to draw Luigi smoothly. I think if I printed off a taller, larger character it would of been a much more enjoyable draw but this was a good challenge.