Doodling is great, it does not really have a process! You just think of things as you go and make it completely your own. With me, I did a lot of patterns. I just drew a couple lines and then began drawing patterns that came to me. Some of my inspirations were around the classrooms, on TV, and around my house. I would think of a thing like lightening and then draw lightening bolts. I saw my dart board, so I drew a dart board-looking pattern. Then I just drew squares and lines and made them look cool filling in the white space.
When drawing a face, start by drawing an egg-shaped oval. Them draw a line that is in the center (vertically and horizontally) and two horizontal 1/3 lines. On top of the center horizontal line, the eyes should be placed. Draw diamonds to start out and them shape like the eyes of the person you are drawing. On top of the bottom 1/3 line, goes the nose. Slightly below the nose goes the mouth. Shape the face according to the person in which you are drawing, make the ears parallel to the nose and the eyes. Draw the hair, eyebrows, and the eyelashes. Top it off by shading everything to bring out the person's features.
I learned that a human face is quite complex. Lines are not vivid the way we would think to draw them. Shading helps make a person look like an actual person. Also, the location of the features are not: eyes at the top, nose in the middle, and mouth at the bottom. Eyes are in the middle and the nose and mouth are slightly below that. To paint the individual triangles, I got twenty triangles and thought of twenty various patterns. I drafted each of them on the triangles and then painted over it with the India Ink. The India Ink was interesting to use; I was afraid it was going to stain my clothes. It was practically paint but it was much more runny like water. When putting it on the paper it ended up looking like sharpie. It was hard to make a fine line even with the tiniest brush I could find, so that got difficult. But the actual difficult part was making all the triangles into a "circular shape." I first had to lay it out the way Mr. Puffpaff informed me to, and the tapping it was a lot easier I found until the end, when it was all taped up and in the correct shape, with only one little hole (that I was supposed to be taping from the inside) but I could not get into the inside with all the other sides taped up. Overall, it turned out to look really cool!
Girl meets boy.
Bradley alway saw Adalyn in Central Park every Sunday, around eleven in the morning, walking her dog as he reads on his favorite bench. He had known since the moment he first laid eyes on her that she is the most beautiful girl he has ever seen. Never having the nerve to talk to her, he just admired her without words. Little does he know, Adalyn noticed him every time but she has been hurt before so she has made boys the last thing she has to worry about. She had made her focus college at Columbia and her internship. She wanted to get her life together before she puts herself out there again with the possibility of getting hurt. One day Bradley was feeling super spontaneous and felt that he was stuck in a rut and his life was passing by. So when he went to the park that morning to read, he was determined to find an excuse to talk to Adalyn. As she walked by, she reached into her purse to grab her phone and her package of doggie-poop bags fell out and she didn’t notice. The perfect opportunity! He basically sprinted to go pick it up. Lucky for him, she did not notice him until he tapped on her shoulder and said with as much charm as he could, “Miss you dropped these.” He was nothing but smiles as she and him walked. She blushed, she was just as excited to talk to him as he was to talk to her. “My name is Bradley,” he smiled. “Adalyn,” she smiled back. Bradley responded to Adalyn, “Well it was really nice to meet you.” “Likewise.” Bradley walked back to the bench starstruck, he had to know more. The only reason he did not ask her out right there was because he did not want to come on too strong and scare her off. He hated that he couldn’t spend the rest of the day without seeing her. That week was the longest week Bradley could recall, he fully anticipated seeing Adalyn again and spent all week practicing what he was going to say and thinking of topics to talk about. Since Bradley graduated Harvard Law the previous year, he was fantastic at persuasion. He was going to make her accept his proposal. Brad put on his best, casual outfit. He wanted to impress her, but nonchalantly. She arrived at the park, same time as every week, looking more darling than usual. As she grew closer, Bradley stood up to greet her. They had a bit of small talk, but Bradley could not wait to get to the point. He asked her if she was free that upcoming Friday night to go to dinner with him. She agreed to the date. Both were ecstatic, but had to contain their enthusiasm in front of each other. Adalyn glided through the park on cloud nine. Bradley about started jumping up and down. Boy falls for girl. Brad planned that date and tried to use every romantic idea he had. He got roses, arranged a horse and carriage ride through the city to the restaurant and then to take them to an ice cream shop afterwards. He picked her up and her jaw dropped when he walked her to the carriage and aided her into it. He handed her a bouquet of roses. They chatted on the trip to the restaurant and he could not take his eyes off her. She was hesitant with him, she thought she had to be. The got to the restaurant and it just so happened to be Adalyn’s favorite fancy restaurant in the entire city. Sparks fly, they fight, they connect. They chatted between bites. Adalyn tried to hold back, but there was an undeniable connection and she could not help but open up to him as he did with her. They talked the entire meal, over drinks, and on the way to get ice cream. Neither wanted that night to end. They both knew for sure there would be many more dates after that. Girls falls for boy. Boy and girl love each other forever. Fast forward through months of dates and pure connection. Bradley popped the question. They got married and shared successful lives with a beautiful happy family and lived happily ever after. I began by thinking of a character to draw. I initially wanted to draw a girl with a suitcase in Spain due to my excitement towards my upcoming trip. But then I could not get a good background, so I chose a beach theme. It is optional to start drawing then painting either the cell or the background; I started with the background. I first sketched it onto my paper. I included the sand, water, sky, sun and some birds flying in the distance. When I painted it I painted the sand and that was easy making the tan-color by mixing brown and white--I like how it turned out. Then I painted the water, in my head I was picturing the ocean darker than the sky so I made it sort of dark. I added some dark blue lines and white lines to look like waves. After that I painted the sky a light blue and it just did not look great. So Mr. Puffpaff suggested I make the water fade from a lighter blue to a darker blue where it meets the sky and make the sky fade from darker to lighter where it meets the water; that turned out really cool-looking--it actually looked life-like in color. The sun looks cheesy like the average second-grader sun, but that is alright. The birds also looked cartoon-ish but they also added to the overall effect.
What i learned I chose Mike Wasowski from Monsters University for many reasons. First, I really like that movie--probably better the first Monsters Inc. I have been watching Monsters Inc. since it first came out on VCR when I was a little girl. Second, I think the younger version of Mike is much cuter than the older, so that was a contending factor. Mike is such a charismatic character and he so determinded to whatever he puts his mind to.
From drawing the skeleton of Mike Wasowski from Monsters Inc, my brain connected a lot of things relating to the skeletal system in general. Thinking about the bones all humans have--skull, spine, ribs, hips, arms, and legs--I had to determine what bones this monster has. Of course he has a skull, it is practically his whole body, and he has arms and legs. I debated between adding hip bones or not, and decided to not. To move his legs he needed hips so I added them. I really thought about where his elbows are according to the way his arms lay and bend. I referred to the skeleton in class when drawing and shapinghim. Working with clay was a lot more difficult than I first thought. There are a lot of techniques and patience that going into making an adequate piece. In addition, Mr. Puffpaff makes it look so much easier than it is! The type of clay used--too wet, too dry, or perfect--makes a remarkable difference.
When making my mug, I started with slabbing the clay to make the bottom. It was troublesome due to the clay sticking to my hands and then sticking to the table. After that, I made coils to form the sides. To stick the coils to the bottom and each other, I scored where I was connecting them and put slip on the scoring. This technique was time-consuming but quite relaxing. After I made all the coils and connected them, I had to smooth out the sides and that was likely the biggest struggle. When smoothing, I worried that I was going to rip or make the sides too thin. Making it as symmetrical as I could took a significant amount of time. Last was making the handle by applying the pull method. Once again, the means of this action were not as easy as Mr. Puffpaff made it look. After I figured it out and got the hang of it, I scored and slipped the area where I connected the handle to the mug and attached it. I smoothed out where the handle was appended and made the shape of the handle look consistent. I had to let the piece dry and then fire it. The last thing to do was glaze the mug as a final touch. The "creature" I decided to make out of clay was a crown. I am not really into animals or anything, but I have been obsessed with princesses since I was a little girl! I own all the Disney princess movies and nowadays I watch historical documentaries or fictional television shows about monarchies and find them all so interesting. I found that making the crown was similar to making my mug. I used coiling to make the round base and scored and slipped the clay to adhere it. When I got up to the crown I found that coiling was the best technique to have the most stable result. Smoothing the crown was a huge difficulty because overnight the clay got too dry and was hard to shape and very fragile. I sprayed a small amount of water on the whole thing to make it easy to work with. To create symmetry in my piece, I just drew a line in the middle of my paper and each time I drew a shape on one side I drew it on the other. I drew a turtle because I am obsessed with turtles!!! I used a random color scheme in my asymmetrical painting because I wanted to use as many colors as I could make with my 4 colors. In my symmetrical painting I used analogous color scheme because blue, yellow and green are next to each other on the color wheel. I was really happy with the way my paintings turned out, even though they took me a really long time to paint.
-Briefly explain the primary, secondary, and tertiary colors. Which color was the most difficult to mix?
Primary is blue, yellow, and red--the colors you cannot use and other color to mix. Secondary colors are green, orange, and purple--the colors that when certain primary colors are mixed make. Tertiary colors are colors made from primary colors and secondary colors mixed--red-orange, red-purple, blue-purple, blue-green, yellow-orange, and yellow-green. The most difficult color for me personally to mix is green because I either add too much blue or too much yellow and make it look like a tertiary color. -How did you create tints in your color wheel? To make the color lighter (tinted) I would add white, and if I wanted it lighter than that I would add even more white and so on. -Discuss your design you choose for your color wheel. I made the primary colors round because they are basic, secondary pointy because secondary are a little more complicated to mix, and tertiary colors flat because they are an even more complicated than secondary. -Discuss what worked well and what you need to improve on in your painting. I need to improve on my secondary colors the most. They end up looking tertiary! I am really good at making the colors lighter with white though. -What is the difference between 1pt and 2pt perspective? The dimensions of two-point and one-point perspective are different. One-point perspectives have one vanishing point and two-point perspectives have two vanishing points. -What worked well and what did you struggle with when creating your name in 2pt perspective? The bottom of all the letters and top of the lower case letters worked really way, but the top of the "G" was a little off balanced and is distracting. It was hard to make it look straight when it is so much bigger than the other letters. Also, making the letters boxy was awkward because I am used to making my letters curvy. -What historical building did you choose to draw and why? What parts of the building did you struggle drawing in perspective? What parts of the building do you feel you were able to capture well?
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