I'm drowning in cubes!

No seriously, I am drowning cubes, I've got 4 sitting on my desk with not much to do, I think I'm going to make some sort of installation for my room out of them, not sure what yet, but you'll find out on here eventually. Anyway back on the subject matter at hand, cubes, they're really, square, which means they cast alot of right angles for shadows, kinda cool like that, after tuesdays fiasco in shading I was feeling pretty clue less.
As you can see I think the only redeeming part of this one is the shaft of light that comes through the small crack.

Down to what I drew last night

My first Scratch that, third attempt, April told me my first two didnt look like what I was drawing and she gave me some tips, which you can see I implemented here

Still not udnerstanding how to do any of this, I called an art major friend of mine to come and explain to me shading, he gave me some input which I then implemented into this drawing


My final drawing looks like this, none of the cubes are touching which makes them kind of nice in terms of the shadows, it also makes them very difficult to draw.

Moral of this story is that, I still do not have a lick of what I'm doing when it comes to shading, I tried reading through the book but alas no luck there.

-Cheers!

More Shading Practice

So today I come prepared with more drawings showing off my shading practice for my drawing class. So brace yourselves! I dont know what really to say about these drawings, I dont love them but I dont hate them either, the only thing I really think about them now is simply the fact that now I dont know which style I prefer drawing in, ink or pencils. I do know that I love drawing on the black paper with the colored pencil, I cant get over how cool they look when they're done.

Illustration Friday: Hats

This is my first time doing Illustration friday let alone vector, so please be nice!

So I had thought I would post my shaded pencil sketch of my boyfriends Prom King Crown but then I decided I wanted to do something different so I instead chose to try out a Vector style that I have seen alot on other websites and really just wanted to try out for myself. I think it turned out rather well, I used a Police Womans hat from West Yorkshire. I liked how it turned out, in fact the only part I really dont like is the checkerboard pattern because it was very tedious to do as each of those shapes had to be drawn individually and they still dont look very correct. I still like it and hope to continue to work with this technique in the future.

I probably should have been scanning in my shading assignment but I needed something fun to do today.. sorry! check back soon

Happy (late) Halloween

So yesterday was Halloween and only a few people dressed up in studio, so I decided to attempt a quick sketch of those elaborate costumes, Suzanne's almost came out the good, the rest look kind of poor but I can tell that I am improving my drawings of people. Might try adding abit of color to it later, I just cant get over the coloring tools in photoshop, I think I might have a problem..

Cheers!

Shading Excersize

This post contains the shading excersizes we worked on, on Tuesday, Hope I'm doing this stuff right because I don't really feel like the book is being all that clear about when to use each style or even how to do it properly.

The Colors!!!

So inspired by what I saw Suzanne working on in the computer lab one day, which can be found here , took me awhile to complete, since coloring with a mouse is hard, I've also never done this before so it probably is quite lacking but I still wanted to try it out.

Sketching in the Rain

No singing for me, its to wet for me to be doing that... probably to wet to actually be drawing out there but with how loud the rain was in the critique room I'm suprised I wasnt actually standing outside. So thank goodness its been raining the past couple of days, maybe now the weather will return to somewhat standard levels. Anyways, just wanted to throw a quick sketch I did up on ye olde blog.. hope my what I believe may be up to 4 readers appreciate it. Yes part of this sketch is a sticky note, I thought I'd add a dash of something, and plus, sticky notes are fun, they stick to Everything!