Pumpkin Drawing

My goals and intentions were to draw the pumpkin and to get the shadows just right.  I accomplished this by carving out the light parts and darkening in the darker spots.  The thing that surprised me the most about my experience was how the parts of the drawing look really realistic.  I was really surprised that I was able to do this. I think that my drawing is about dramatic shadows.  The first thing I notice when I look at my drawing is the contrast of the dark shadow to the pumpkin.

The most difficult challenge I had to face was not smearing the charcoal and making it dull.  This was a tough thing to avoid because I had to work on sections next to the section I had already done and my hand smeared the charcoal.  To meet this challenge, I had to go back and fix the parts that I messed up.  I experienced the shift to the right side of my brain when I was really focused on my drawing.  When I was focused, I couldn’t hear anyone talking and the only thing I saw was my drawing.

I think my drawing really works in the darkest shadow.  I think that there is a really cool contrast between the dark black and the white.  Something that I learned that I can bring into my next drawing is how to make the drawing more realistic.  I did this by adding light and darkness like I did with the stem.  I learned how to make my shadows a bright white from Laura.  I really like how her dark and light shadows contrast.  Her dark shadows make the white shadows look really white and they pop off the paper.  If I had a do-over, I would make my pumpkin more proportional.  By this, I mean that I would look at the pumpkin a little harder and try to get the shapes exact.  I think that the best part of my drawing is the pieces that come off of the stem.  I think these look really tangled and twisted just like they did on the actual pumpkin.  I think that these make my pumpkin look very realistic.

Challenge #5

 
The first 2 pictures I took are of a lamp that casted dark shadows in the back.  The third picture is of my dog coming out of the darkness and into the light.  The fourth picture is of my house at night.  The fifth picture is of a shell that I thought had really cool shadows.

Challenge #4

I obsess about softball

Inspire Drawing

My goals were to draw the shadows that I could see from the model.  I accomplished this goal by mapping out the shadows, getting the right shade of color, and then blending the pencil together to minimize the amount of lines of shading from the pencils.  My drawing is about dramatic shadows and reflecting light.  The shadows in the picture make the letters.  The most difficult challenge I encountered was the lighting moving.  Every time I went back to work on my shadows and drawing, the light was always moved.  I tried my best to get the light where it was so I could draw it.  I took a picture of the model with the light the first time I set it up, so every time I set up my model again, I tried to get it exactly like the picture I took.  My drawing really works where the really dark shadows are.  The shadows make the letters pop out of the paper.  Something that I learned was how to use the different pencils.  Before the drawing, I didn’t know what pencils to use when.  After the drawing, I know how to use them all.  Connie Hayes was my mentor for this because she used a lot of color and I used a bunch of different shades of pencil.  I learned how to do light shadows in the background from Laura.  I think she did a really good job with her background.  The background really makes the letters stand out.  If I had a do over I would have not blended the pencil together.  I think it would have looked better with just the shading and not the blending.  The blending made the pencil go all over the paper and this was a problem for the white places of the paper.  The thing I feel best about my drawing was the shadows cast on the letters.  I think this is the best thing because it makes the letters come off the page.

Challenge #3

This is my mom, my sisters, and me.
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This is Alex, Addison, and me.

This is me and 3 of my friends.  My friends are my family because they're always there for me.

My softball team is a big part of my family because I see them almost everyday and they always know how to brighten up my day.