My first homework was a contour line drawing of a plant with detail. I chose to draw Regenald. Regenald is an Asian money tree and he's a wonderful plant. He's well manered, and loves to grow. He's actually cracking the pot he's in right now, my boy's growin up. 😌 The use of contour lines gave a nice dark outline of Regenald and shows the dips in his leaves and trunk.
My second Homework was an IZZE bottle and coconut brownie wrapper using pencil shading. This was very difficult for me. The IZZE bottle was clear with a clear label and the frosting on the brownine wrapper was difficult to convey using pencil shading. I chose to do pencil because I thought it would be more of a challenge and it was different from the homework before.
My third homework we had to draw cans and bottles. I had two bottles and can and drew them in pencil. I chose to do pencil again and try and see where I could improve. Pencil still frustrated me a little, but I think I caught on a little more than I had last time. I still need to work on blending my lights and darks, my can seemed a little too light at the shaded parts. I hope the more I do sketches in pencil the more I'll gain from them.
This is the fourth homrwork which was dishes in a drainer. I decided to use pen because it was different from my last homeworks and it can achieve shadows quickly. It also looks a little un-natural and not as smooth as pencil and other medias. My favorite part of this is definitely the cup, it looks the best and the shading is right.
This is my fifth homework and it was a grandfather clock in colored pencil. I chose to do my clock in three different colors showing the different light values. The green was the darkest, the purple the highlights, and then the the blue is the middle value. This was a lot of fun to do mostly becauae I never really do colored things and it was fun to experiment.
The sixth homework was to find objects unrelated to eachother and draw them arranged together. I did this one in pencil and it's a bagel and a phone. I chose these because I was at lunch and I used my friend's phone and her half bagel. It turned out to be really light and there's not too much shading. I also find it really difficult to draw opacity, so the plastic bag was a little difficult. This was a random arrangement made glorious by me. I like it.
My seventh homework was to draw an arrangement with food. I did this one again in pencil of a grapefruit. I absolutely love grapefruits so why not draw a weird one? The textures were fun to play around with on the cut side of the grapefruit. The rind inside, the non flesh part was really cool; those are all little tiny circles. Also, drawing the flesh seems extremely ramdon at first, but you begin to see a pattern within it. And although there was a pattern, you could do a lot with it. The background of this was simple, just a tin jar that I have many of in my kitchen. Overall, pretty cool homework and fun to do.
The eighth homework was to draw animals. For this homework I used pen because it gives deep values really quickly. I tried to pick some interesting animals, well, animals that looked kinda weird. The manatee and the baby giraffe were probably my favorites, mostly because they just look so strange. I had a lot of fun with this homework but I tried to draw a hyena and it just came out looking too weird so I cut it out; it didn't go very well with the other animals. While drawing, I learned that it's kind of difficult to draw really shaggy things. The muskox looks a little strange because of that but I feel it just needs more shading/texture. Overall a pretty cool homework, and fun too.
Homework number nine was to design and draw any kind of vehicle. This was a quick homework for me, but ot was fun. I took my inspiration from love of steampunk things and an older style buggy car. I like the idea of a hovering car so I designed one. The first big sketch was really rough but it got the general idea. The other right two were more refined and from different angles. My steam buggy is slender but has futuristic movement type. I liked this idea, it's a little simple but I enjoyed drawing it out.
Drawing an objext of interest was the tenth homework. My object of interest was my stuffed animal bunny. It was really fun and weird trying to draw it in different angles. It has a lot of bumbs and those are a little difficult to show just by value. The whole shape of it is really strange and lumpy so it was actually really entertaining trying to draw all of it. Most of the views were from the front just because and they turned out being sort of rough sketches. I chose this object because it will always be something of interest to me.
Homework eleven was the study of feet. You necer notice really how weird looking feet are until you have to draw your own. At least on my feet, there were a lot of grooves and then some wrinckles when bending them. When drawing those there is a ton of shadows and lots of different values to express. The heel of my food was kind of hard to shade because the shadow covered most of the heel. I really like the toes in the main middle foot. They're stretched out and in a bent shape. It gives them dimension. The toes on the bottom foot are not very good, I don't do very well with nails. Overall it was weird but fun to draw my own feet and they turned out pretty good.