11/12/2021 0 Comments Week #12!!!!!!This is the LAST BLOG POST it feels crazy that we are almost done with this project. I had a lot of struggles and not liking what I was drawing but I got over it because it had only been 12 weeks I'm not going to become the greatest illustrator in the world but I have gotten better which is better than nothing. In the beginning, I knew this project wasn't going to be easy, and writing the blog post was harder than drawing but I still did it which I am so proud of myself for that.
This week I did not work on this every day because I have been feeling a lot overwhelmed but I am working the hardest I ever have to complete this and write my presentation. Looking back at my old post I see my progress a bit. During this project, I have looked at a bunch of artists to help inspire me and I follow them on Instagram and Twitter and their art is inspiring a lot of people to help and share awareness. I am still going to continue this project in the future because this was fun and ill be doing it without a due date so it will make it easier to make my artwork.
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30/11/2021 0 Comments Week #11!!!!!!This is the 2nd to last blog post I feel like I didn't learn enough that I wanted to From when we started but I did learn a little bit which will help me with any stuff I do in the future. These weeks did not go fast but this project did, I can't explain it. This project is interesting because I have never done something like this before has a project throughout the whole semester it was weird and challenging but still, it was fun.
This week I decided to do foods because I was struggling to find something to do and food just made sense to me. I have not done many objects throughout this project because I just focused on faces and landscapes so I did it. I think I liked drawing food more than a person's face because with a face it is so many different things you have to do and make sure everything looks okay and not like a person who has an eye as big as its mouth. When I drew this it was more fun and I was proud of it. I'm still going to draw faces because I think it's still cool but food will be my favorite thing to draw. I have been a little stressed out with the semester being over but I'm excited that I got through it and am ready for next year and the break I'm grateful that I got my work done somewhat on time. I asked my art teacher what he thought of my work he said that he has seen progress since I showed him my first art piece and I was really happy he liked it I wouldn't have been able to get better without his advice and kind words to keep me going. 22/11/2021 0 Comments Week #10This week I want to work more on drawing animals and landscapes so I will do both this week. My biggest trouble making landscapes is whenever I blend it looks good for a second but then you add more detail and blend again it starts to look like everything is the same shade and it looks very bad so I want to get charcoal because this will help me get the darker tones to my project. Since we have the break hopefully I can have time to work more on my projects. So far this project has been really helpful with helping me get better at drawing and this is something I will try to continue after this project.
This week I have been learning a lot about how to get better at illustrating and watching a lot of videos because I feel like I need a refresh my mind on a couple of things. When I started this project I honestly thought Tik Tok would be a big help but so far it has not but since I looked up a lot of art stuff my for you page is filled with an artist creating a lot of creative and interesting art pieces so I'm getting a lot of my inspiration from there. Tik Tok has also shown me places of art explored all across the world and there is one in Charlotte called the Vincent van explicit and he is my favorite painter and I want to go so maybe I could go one day. This week I drew a puppy from my sister's calendar because I thought it was the cutest thing ever. I had trouble drawing the different shades and values because everything looks the same to me or the shade is too dark and I erase it but then it's too light so I had some trouble. I think I got better at shading than I did sense the beginning but not a lot. I have gotten better at drawing the object and face than I did sense the beginning. 17/11/2021 3 Comments Week #9This week I had been looking over my past project and I just want to do something more than just people and animal faces. I want to expand my knowledge and skills so I am going to try something different. I was thinking of doing a landscape or maybe a road or forest or maybe even a random house. I don't have many skills to start off so I'm really hoping in these last weeks I can advance on the one skill I have and it's adding values. I showed my art to Mr. Mowers one of the art teachers and he said that my values and shading look good just work on different angles on the faces.
This week I did not work a lot on this project because I didn't have a lot of time. This art piece to me looks like I could have done much much better on and I want to work on it more next week because of the break I am going to have more time hopefully to do better work on it more. I really liked doing landscapes more than I do drawing faces because you can draw anything and it doesn't look as bad as you make a mistake on your face, when you make a mistake on a face it is noticeable and looks really bad so I work more with landscapes. In the next couple of weeks that we have left, I want to work more on animals and landscapes for the next week but I also want to put all three of them together. So it will have a landscape and have people with animals in some storytelling kind of way. I have thought about doing it this week but I didn't have time so hopefully, I can start next week or the last couple of weeks we have. This week was my worst I didn't work on it as much as I had to so it turned into a mess but I will do better next week and hopefully it will turn out good. 10/11/2021 0 Comments Week #8This week I had a bunch of homework and work that I didn't have time to finish in class this week so I couldn't have done my illustrations on Monday or Tuesday but I did come up with an idea of what I wanted to do. I am not at the place where I wanted to be at the beginning of this project. I thought I would see more progress by my art getting more realistic and I also thought I would be doing more. But a wise person told me actually doing something is part of the journey to the finish line.
This week I was reading the news and a burglar robbed a famous person's house and they sketched the face of the burglar and it was beautiful and well detailed I was super impressed. I knew I wanted to do something like that so I did with one of my favorite artists. This actually helped me practice more on values which is the most important skill to know when drawing a face. So the face is not just one blank color. This week I didn't practice as much as I wanted to because I was super busy Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday I was enjoying the break so I didn't have a lot of time to practice and I wish I had more time. This week to make my art piece I used the techniques from weeks ago and it was super helpful and I created the person to look in a different direction instead of looking straight forward which I am super proud of. 2/11/2021 0 Comments Week #7This week I wanted to stop watching videos and start finding out how to do this on my own. It has been a little tricky because the eyes are the hardest part because they both look completely different and uneven and It's super hard to make the eyes have an emotion and the actual shape of the face looks more like a circle than an actual face shape. Creating a face that looks like an actual person is super difficult because you can see the mistakes you made clearly and when you make a random face that you just made up there not as clear.
When drawing my art pieces it is so much more calming than following a person and trying to understand what they're saying or trying to do, you can just do your own thing and if it looks a bit weird then you can say it's supposed to be like that because I made it I can say whatever I want about it. The day I started I had no idea what to draw so I drew from a random picture that I liked but now when I finished I realized that I just drew the photo instead of doing my own solo thing. Next week I might pick a random photo but I have to do my own perspective instead of drawing exactly like the photo. While drawing this the hardest part was the hair because it was all over the place and I have no clear idea of how to draw realistic hair but I will find out how someday. Matching up the different things on her face to the eyes and mouth was difficult because I wanted to look like the actual picture which I guess was my first mistake that I will fix next week. 27/10/2021 0 Comments Week #6 halfwayThis week is half of when this project is due. I feel like I have done more for this project than I ever would have done on my own but I still feel like it's not enough to actually learn more and be a better artist. So I use to only do it for 2 days but now I want to work on it every day even if it's a couple of minutes or hours I should do it every day. I think this will be a little difficult because I don't have a lot of time in my day so I will be working on that more as well.
This week I started to schedule time for me to have enough time to do my homework and have time to learn and get better at illustrating. I have been researching and learning about my favorite artists and how they got where they are and their lives, all that inspired me to continue and want to learn and at the beginning, I mostly did it because I had to but now I have been seeing improvement and I actually want to learn. This week I did two art pieces and I watched a video for it just because I feel a bit unprepared to go solo but I am going to do my best to learn more, get more advice and hopefully, it doesn't turn into a mess wish me luck. 21/10/2021 0 Comments Week #5Last week I have started to expand my knowledge and ability to portray any animal, person, and maybe an object. In the first weeks, I had practice with faces, and now this week and I have den finally improved on that. lastly, I am going to draw animals. Last week I had drawn a full drawing because I wanted to see how I would do. This week I have drawn many different types of animals and have worked on drawing fur and making the shape of the animal.
Another thing that I have been doing these past few weeks is getting inspiration from artists that I admire because it's going to help me with the rest of this project because by the end of next week is halfway through this project and when I'm going to stop watching videos on how to do the whole art piece and kind of freestyle and put my input and do whatever I want with it. So getting inspiration on how they create their art and where they get inspired from. My favorite artist is Vincent van Gogh and he said "what would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?" to me that means to try something different from others. My favorite street artist said "the streets are where I feel most comfortable. It is my natural environment." to me, that means to get my inspiration I need to find a place or anything that helps create something different and meaningful to you. 13/10/2021 2 Comments Week #4
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