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.

Challenge #2

These are my favorite places and places where I spend most of my time.

Challenge #1

These are my pictures for challenge #1.

Artist Page

Connie Hayes is an inspiration to me because she uses a lot of color and because she can make up scenery using her imagination.  I took notes about her and tried to recreate some of her paintings.