Chair With Coat

I felt like today's still life was harder. I had to be more precises and there was a specific way to draw the chair with the coat over it. I thought that it was harder also because there was less in the still life itself. More detailed but less objects. I dont think I used any of the skills I learned in the past couple of weeks. I got really tense and wanted to draw everything perfect. Once I got to the coat I used the fabric as help and was more flowy but other than that I didnt use any skills that I have.

Fabric Drawings.

Today's drawing was hard. I thought that it was harder than the other ones that we have done. It felt really hard to get the fabric right and to make it have curves and the way that it folded I couldnt get it right. I dont really like how my drawing came out in the end for many reasons but mostly because I cant get the fold or crease or anything right. It was really different from last week because the sticks each had a specific shape but if you didnt get it perfect and drew a thick line with a little round tip it still looked like a stick.

Pile of sticks

Today was ok. I kind of just drew up a bunch of lines and then tried to make sticks out of them. And as I was going I added more lines and erased some that didn't go anywhere. I didnt feel great about the drawing just because I thought nothing really looked like sticks and it just looked like a bunch of lines even at the end. I think the outside sticks that were by themselves looked really good because they had the most detail.

The Changing Still Life

I didn't really like today's activity because everything kept changing and I was getting frustrated with myself and my drawing. I think to accomplish this project you have to keep your drawing light and simple. You cant try to do all the detail and make everything perfect which I did and didn't work out well in the end. Looking back on it I would move faster also becauae Ms. Roberts would add something and I would take my time and then she would add something else and I would still be in the other object so I then had to rush on to the next one and then the next one.

three forms drawing

Today while I was drawing I learned that you can do a lot more with just white and black than most people think you can. You can make different shades and colors and can make something look realistic with out a bright color. While I was drawing I felt good about it. I thought that I made the shades and object shapes very well. The hardest part was the pine cone. I was making small round/long shapes and trying to make the bottom black and the top more whitish black but it didn't look like a pine cone to me. I thought that my picture was very successful in the end though and I thought I did a good job.

Talk and Draw

What was challenging about this experience? What would you do differently if you had to do this activity again?
The most challenging thing about this experience was that when you were the talker you couldn't say what the object was. You had to say multiple different shapes and try to say like which way they were connected and where exactly they were on the page. I think the most challenging thing to do when you were the drawer was not look behind you. I always wanted to look behind me because my partner would say like a triangle on top of a circle and I was like What?? But I didnt! I think if I had to do this activity again I would try to move stuff a long faster and not say o thats not right or that doesnt look right erase it.