PRINT SKETCH PROJECT CRAP

Okay, I've gotten lazy so. I'll just quickly answer this crap

 

1. Why is texture so important to have in your sketches?

So that it looks more impressive when you actually do the print thing.

2. Why is it neccessary for you to have several references of each animal and each background? Explain.

Having several references for a background and an animal gives a better picture in my mind for the composition of the background/animal.

3. When you look at your sketches are you able to see which sketch is the strongest and will make the best print? How do you know this? 

By doing that , I get to see what is the best texture and how the background works with the animal.

Gawd, 'm tired.

CHALK MURALS

Alternate title: Rebekah Cannot Wear Slacks in Art Class
Not that I can wear my slacks anymore, took a swan dive to save my phone and ripped said slacks. And my phone didn't even survive. RIP Charlie Dialsworth :C
HEY GUESS WHAT. MORE SELF EVALUATION. THANKS MR. SANDS. THANKS.

So what we had to do is make a mural out of chalk (not entirely accurate. A lot of it was pastels, too) which people could look like they were interacting with. So my group decided to do roasing marshmallows over a camp fire. Someone else is his other class did the TARDIS. I should have done the TARDIS. Screams.

SO. LAME. but I like the trees. (Fictional character day at school too)

1. Explain your experience working on a team and executing your ideas for the mural.

NO. Uh. It was pretty fun? I guess. Only CJ (on your right on the picture) really contributed; the other group members... not really much help. So. We had a hard time coming up with ideas. Eventually, after a bit of arguing, and reaching into our minds for whatever, we finally all agreed on the camp fire. So. We all came up with sketches, then colored sketches. Our picture changed a LOT since our sketch. Originally, there was going to be grass and no snow, so it iiked like summer or sometthing, with non-coniferous trees. Obviously the idea didn't keep (what with the lack of colors required at our disposal) so we had to change it.

2. Explain the importance of collaboration when working on a team.

Collaboration makes it a lot easier. With pretty much just CJ and I working, that was a good chunk of the work split between two people. But. We still finished early-ish so that was nice. But it was still a bit more stressful with 3/5 of our group not really participating.

3.  How successful was this project? Explain how and why.

Uh. It was successful. We got the mural done, and it's pretty interactable. We still finished with time to spare, and it doesn't look too crappy, with counts as a success to me. And we didn't die of frostbite, either. So. There's that :D

4. Explain how you feel about creating artwork that others can interact with. Ex. Invoving the whole school?
Uh. Same as anything else really. I doubt anyone's honestly going to interact with ours. Considering everyone else's is aweosmer, and unless you put INTERACTIVE CHALK MURAL over it on capital letters on fire with someone announcing it on a megaphone nearby, no one will really notice it's interactable.

Look at my bootiful face u gaiz

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.