June 1 2010

My main goal with this drawing was to show how basic our normal body positions are. Each position is realistic for the average person. None of them involve complex movement. I showed myself how far I expect myself to go when it comes to physical movement which is unfortunate that I expected so little. I'm now encouraging myself more to go beyond what I was able to do before. I don't want to live my life only able to do the most basic bodily movements and I didn't even realize it until I did this drawing.

pie cave

During this, I decided that the next drawing I do, will be a large picture. I think it was great for me to start out small and with silhouettes so that I could find the basic shapes in the body structure, but now I am a bit past that so I can really push myself to be really uncomfortable. I was beginning to get too comfortable drawing small figures to the point that I knew it was wasn't expanding my skills and therefor caused me to be uncomfortable, if that makes sense to the reader. I once again found new textures to play with but I drew the people positioned in the same basic way which was in my comfort zone. This summer, I plan on keeping up with this blog because it really does help me out to write about what I've drawn. It almost always begins as Bullshit but by the end of it, I really have expanding my sense of what I did in this drawing and what my mindset was before, during, and after. Reviewing the process is humbling whether it was positive or negative. For the past couple days, I've been trying to figure out what I'm going to work on this summer. I think art will be a huge part of it. I am going to begin doing one art piece a day, at first. I will also be reading a lot which I always get off track of during the school year, like I said in my past posts I will work on doing handstands and getting freckles in my armpits, and meditate.
This blog is not my artblog anymore for school, its more of my blog of aspirations for myself. Preferably, I won't have people looking at it, but I feel that I need to write them down somewhere. Perhaps, Ill just begin a journal in my sketchbook again.

sheep

The sheep's fur is an example of trying new textures for me. I'm encouraged with how I tried out some new textures. That is one of the important aspects of drawing animals because of their bodies hold so many differences to humans, which I am used to drawing. I would like to begin putting these textures that I find on animals and especially insects onto humans. Not necessarily to give them an alien or animal look but to just exaggerate details normally found on the human body.

May 27th 2010

With my moms smallest drill bit, I embellished the results of my sugar craving. After eating all these dates, I kept their seeds and strung them onto some embroidery thread. I made this because I've been working to look like I really want. I took my habits and surrounding materials and transformed them into something practical and beautiful. Its the very very beginning of SO much from me. I've also found multiple used really interesting. How that relates to this, is that I've been using it as a necklace and a headband. I'm just waiting to find more uses. I guess this paragraph was just as much of a statement of intent than a reflection on what I've made.

May 30th 2010

This was drawn with pencil. When you click on the picture, it goes to its original size.
The part that I am happiest with is that the position of the people are reflected in shapes below, the peoples objective, and the detail of the people. Their objective shows my own for the summer. I want to be able to do handstands and I want to get freckles in my armpits. If the viewer is able to look close, there are speckles in the armpits. As I try to boost myself up in the air, I find myself hesitating because of the fall back down. I unintentionally made the people hesitating but I'm pleased with how it did turn out because I think it shows my own position in the beginning of this summer and goals. I didn't really decide whether it was actually one person stuck in the process of the handstand or if it is many people in a row at different places in the process of the handstand. I prefer the second just because its more of a collective yet everyone is focused on their own ideal ordeal. The people have so much more detail than they had in my past drawings. I am happy continuing on the body structure and detail still.

southeastedge

This drawing encouraged me to work with height more. This drawing was used for the background of a poster for a benefit we were holding at the school. I need to work on the human figures and how they move, not just profile drawings. Here, most of the figures have the same back leg position which doesn't help it them to look like they are creeping up, but more just hanging around looking for bugs in the cracks of the rocks (which isn't bad but I intended it to have more motion). I'd also like to have more going on. It would be great to add more drawings to it, along the side for instance. It would create more of a story but still, this is probably the most attractive trait of this drawing to me because it encourages stories so well.

Sketchbook, beginning of May

My favorite is the little catman. He has a choppy and scratchy meow, mew, mow.
Texture Texture. I hope to expand on that and detail. Freckles and wrinkles are the most comfortable yet challenging to draw. Well, I suppose that not drawing them makes it harder because I have to pay more attention to the basic shapes and shadings so that it will look full and finished even without them. Both the people were pictures from library books. A book on Julia Margaret Cameron provides profile pictures that im very attracted to draw. I prefer to draw elderly so working off her photos provides a new practice for me of drawing youthful people.