Own Choice

For my own choice, I did a 2-way perspective painting of buildings. It was much like my other 2-way perspective drawing, except I painted it instead of using pencil. I used all different colors for the buildings and used black paint for the windows. It took me the longest to paint the buildings because I had to shade the corners where the light doesn't hit.

Skateboard

For my skateboard, I made an eagle flying through the sky. We were supposed to use only two colors plus black and white. I used pink and blue. I thought it would be cool to make the eagle a unique color, so that is why  I made it pink. I wanted to do a picture of something that is long horizontally and I thought of a bird with its with its wings spread out. So, that is how I chose to do an eagle.

Book pages

For this project, we were supposed to use pages from books and look for words that could be strung together or meaningful phrases. I painted all of mine and used mixed media for two of them from various magazines. In the first picture, I painted the book page white, except for a few words that I painted around. I splattered red paint and made tears in the paper to make it look like it had been torn up. In the second picture, I used reds and oranges because they are warm colors and used magazine cut-outs of various pictures. The third picture, I used a magazine picture of the world. I used blue and green for the outside colors because they represent the earth. The forth picture is a picture of Santa Clause because the words on my page explained Santa and what he does.

Perspective

For this assignment, we were allowed to choose from a 1-point perspective, 2-point perspective, or 3-point perspective. I chose 2-point because I had never done it before and I thought it would be cool to draw buildings in a 2-point perspective. In a 2-point perspective drawing, you have two vantage points, and you connect your corners to its corresponding point. I used drawing pencils for this assignment an used shading to define the windows, sidewalks, and shadows of the buildings. This picture is from the point of view of someone standing at the corner of a street, and seeing both sides of the center building.

Portrait of Myself

For this assignment, we were instructed to do a profile view of someone. I chose to do myself. I used drawing pencils for this assignment and used the shading technique to show shadows and definition. This is also a great technique to show where the light hit my face and hair. I will post a picture soon.

Elvis Presley

I created this portrait of Elvis with drawing pencils. The shirt was the most tedious because of the detail of the striped design. I utilized the shading technique to get many effects such as the shine on his hair, the shadow of his chin, and the details of his face. I used a picture of him from the internet to copy in a larger form. To make every part of this portrait to scale, I drew 1' x 1' boxes on the image from the internet. On this larger paper, I made 2' x 2' boxes and that allowed me to make the copy as similar  to the original image as possible.