Value Portraits

Okay. So. For this value portrait thing, I need to do self-evaluation questions, at least three sentences. Thanks Mr. Sands. Just how I wanted to spend my morning. I'll try to make it interesting in the, what, 40 minutes I have left? While doing German homework. WHELP.

I need tea.

Her hidden eye is scaring me.

1. Explain the process you went through to develop your drawing.
...Sigh.Okay. So our teacher took black and white pictures of us, with the projector light shining on the side of our face so that we had plenty of shadows to work with. Then he printed out the pictures and we each got one of a student that wasn't, well, ourself. On tracing paper, we then made an outline of all the shapes, before coloring in the back, and redrawing over our lines over our sketchbook in order to put the lines themselves onto the sketchbook paper. And then we shaded and bended and yeah.

2. Explain how your found the different values of the portrait.
Uh. Okay. Basically I looked for areas with higher and lower contrast. I didn't blend the area with higher contrast while blending the areas with lower contrast. And this is a third sentence.

3. Did you achieve a full range of values in your portrait? How?
Through the magic of friendship. It is a very potent magic with the ability to-- *cough* You don't need to know that. Uh. Yes I did. Did dark where dark was, light where light was. Blending to get in-between shades.

4. Describe your craftmanship. Is the artwork executed and crafted neatly?
Oh for the love of. Yeah. I did all right. Uhhhhh I couldn't blend all the pencil strokes that well, and her hidden eye looks a lot more creepy than it should. I do like how her hair came out though. And it's relatively neat.

5. List any obstacles you've had to overcome and how you dealt with them.
HECK NAW. I'M F L A W L E S S. But serioiusly. Uhhh. I had problems at first with putting all the shapes together and shading it in a way so it made a face. And evening out her eyes. Cue erasing and reshading and yesh.

So yeah.

Desk Art: US History has no idea what it's in for.

So. My APUSH teacher informed the class that a) he approves of doodling in class and b) he likes desk art.

I'm going to have a field day.

All of time and space to choose from, and you choose to appear on a /desk/?

WHY ARE YOU WASTING ALL THAT BEAUTIFUL TEA

The phone camera skewed the pictures :C Oh well.

MUHAHAHA.

Cartoon Skeletons

OH MY GOD I LOVED THIS PROJECT! *childish squeeing*
Okay. Just scalded my tongue on tea. I'm calm.

So. What we had to do was make a skeleton of a cartoon character. So I chose Queen Chrysalis from My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic. In my defense, I watch a lot of pain-inducing, sob-filled TV shows. BBC Sherlock (Reichenbach Fall. Dear LORD, Reichenbach fall. *gross sobbing*). Doctor Who (OH MY GOD DONNA NO). And the fans are even worse about inducing pain. So it's nice to have a light, fluffy show to cheer me up every so often. Anyway. Queen Chrysalis's villain song is awesome.

"Every pony I'll soon control, every stallion mare and foal. Who says a girl can't really have it all?"

*screech*

This was very entertaining. Oh my god. I love how unproportional they all are and dkfhsdjkfhsdjkhfk. I am so proud of her ribcage. Her hooves bother me, but seriously? Look at her legs. They have holes. I am not so sure that this was a successful piece, but I'm proud of it. The hardest part was, I guess, keeping the skeleton within the lineart? To account for the skin and muscle, etc. I'm fairly certain I put her skull ON the lineart. Oh well. I guess I'd try to rectify that if I did my piece over again. Still. I feel like I worked hard on her. Skeletons are fun. Cartoon ones, anyway.

I need sleep.

I will never not be sleepy.

Sketchity sketch.

So, in class, we had to draw a bunch of random items. Including turtles. You would expect they'd be relatively easy to draw, yeah?

HAH.

NO.

THEY KEPT MOVING.

Could be worse? Maybe. I dunno.

I'm the one standing up. Not enough chairs. At least this turtle actually stayed still :D

The turtle on the top left was a pain. Kept. Moving. Graah.

Okay. So. Apparently for each journal post, I need to "write about my experience" doing this project. Uh. All right. I liked the final product well enough, my favorite out of the things I needed to draw was the large turtle. Why? It was fun and interesting and she (or he. Call him/her "Cupcake".) actually stayed still. Cupcake was nice. I felt I did most of these pretty well, with a couple of exceptions. Except the pinecone. The pinecone was evil and should burn in the firey abyss of... something. If I could do it over, I'd probably work harder on the pinecone. The evil pinecone. Pinecones are not cool. Yeah. Actually, the pinecones were more frustrating than the turtles. Oh dear god what if pinecones had legs?!

... I should sleep earlier.

Apparently sleep is healthy or something.

Whatever.