2 Point Perspective City

            I had fun drawing the city, but not as much fun coloring it this time. I know it's like the exact opposite of the last project; I like coloring the last one, but I just wasn't feeling it this time. However, I still think it turned out alright, despite the sloppier coloring job. What worked pretty well this time, was the fact that I managed to take all my buildings back to the right vanishing point. I just had to be careful about making sure that I took the doors of my buildings back to the vanishing point; because they were below the horizon line. If I could demolish this city and rebuild it; I would probably give it a different format. Also, I would take more time on the coloring. The most difficult part of this project would have to making sure everything went back to the vanishing point. With one vanishing point, it wasn't that hard, but with two, it's a little more difficult. I learned that it takes a lot more focus and paitence when you are doing two point perspective drawings. A LOT more paitence.

2 Point Perspective Name

         I feel kind of dumb saying this, but I really like the way I colord this. It's literally my favorite thing about this drawing. Not that I didn't have fun doing my actual name, but I am really happy with the colors. This perspective drawing was a A LOT better than my last one. I took my time and it turned out really well. I feel I did an okay job on taking the edges back to the vanishing points. However, I did forget to take the edge of my "B" back to the opposite vanishing point.  So if I could do this over again, I would fix that, and work on the "W" a little bit longer. I had a harder time remembering that some of the letters had to go back to the opposite vanishing points, but it worked out. I learned that when I'm coloring my sketchbooks and other projects, I like to use purples, blues, and greens, more than any other colors. I don't know why, but I do. I had to keep myself from coloring my whole name those three colors. So I need to work on using a wider variety of colors.

One-Point Perspective Hallway

                                                                   My Perspective Hallway

         I really enjoyed designing this hallway the way I wanted. I probably should have shaded it a little darker, but I have a tendency to use light colors. I thought this one turned out alright, but I should have put more time into it. What I was really glad about, is that my shark mouth on the wall turned out good. I was afraid I was going to flatten it out, but it didn't. Thank goodness! However, I did kind of end up messing up my quote on the wall. I for got to take the letters back to the vanishing point...oops. If I could do this over again, I would take more time on it, and be more thorough with the details. I had a really hard time towards the end of the project because other people had finished and I felt like i was the last one finished; even though I wasn't. So I started rushing through the shading and all that stuff. That taught me to take my time, because I would thank myself for it later.

One-Point Perspective Name

    
    Honestly, I liked the way I did my first name, but I wasn't too happy with my last name. I kinda made the letters too far apart. At the beginning of this project, I was really excited about it, and thought my first name turned out really well. I took my time, and made sure that the measurements were pretty close to being the same. What seemed to work for me was taking as much time as I needed to get it to look exact. By the end of the first day, I had the letters M E G and A. Those were the only ones I had done because I took my time. As you can see, I didn't take as much time on the last name, and it did NOT turn out the way I wanted it to. If I could do it over again, I would take more time on my last name, to make sure it looked good. Trying to draw the rounded letters was the most difficult part for me. I couldn't be as exact, and I felt like I was just winging it when it came to those. The most important thing I learned while doing this, was to take as much time as I needed to complete a project to make it look good. I will remember that for next time, which, hopefully is soon... I like the one-point perspective drawings. :)

Still-life

 

        I didn't enjoy the still-life as much as I thought I would have, but I still had quite a bit of fun doing it. In the end, I think it turned out pretty well, considering all the shading that was required. What I learned while working on this, was that I need to work on getting some even darker values in while I'm shading. What didn't work to well, was trying to put the shadows on the cloth, along with all the creases. If I could do this over again, I would focus on a smaller part of it to draw, instead of drawing almost all of it. Honestly, I had a really hard time with the light-bulb. The foreshortening of it, was really difficult because it was more rounded. I found out that I tend to not be as accurate drawing things down to scale, somethings will be a lot bigger than others, which really frustrates me.

Action Figure Gesture Drawing

 



 

 

   For not being a big fan of drawing people, I had some difficulty drawing this one. For that reason, I thought it turned out okay in the end. While I was drawing this, I really had to focus on trying to draw his arm right. It worked okay, but I am NOT a big fan of foreshortening either. If I could do this over again, I wouldn't, but if I absolutely had to; I would have changed his position so I wouldn't have to foreshorten him at all. Like I mentioneed before, foreshortening his arm was pretty difficult, but drawing his face was too. Foreshortening just doesn't look right when I draw it, and the face was had because I had to get the right shape and make sure it wasn't too big. Next time I have to draw something like this, I am going to make sure, if at all possible, that I don't have to foreshorten.

Pop Can Line Drawing

   Well, since this was my first project in art 1, I thought it was very interesting. I thoroughly enjoyed the project...once I was able to relax enough to do it. I would say this piece was rather successful because once I got started I was able to relax and have a lot of fun with the project. Having the pop can right in front of me worked really well for me. It made it easier to pick out details I had never really noticed before. What didn't work so well was when I would try to get the details perfect, which made me tense up and affected my drawing. If I could do this project over again I would shade it in. Now that I know how to shade, I think it would make the piece look much better. For me, the most difficult part was trying to do the details on the crushed pop can. It took time to make sure I curved the details with the pop can. Most of all, I learned that I have to keep myself relaxed while drawing. If I tense up, my drawing looks not as smooth compared to one drawn while being relaxed.