Self Portrait

 A Self Portrait

I finished another drawing! This one was done using crayons and colored pencils. It's not actually a picture of myself but it is a picture of myself. It's a self portrait through everyday objects using still life.

Here are some close-ups of each square,

We've got a saxophone, I like playing the saxophone, we've got some juggling clubs, I like to juggle, we've got books, I like to read, we've got games, I like playing games, we've got a unicycle, I like to unicycle, we've got some art supplies, I like to draw and paint, and we've got a square with a backyard, I like the nature and outdoors.

And The Final Picture

I hope you like this piece, release your thoughts about it in the comments below!

I am still working on the self portrait that is actually of myself, so stay tuned for that, I just haven't got around to that since I've been working on other drawings. But that one is probably next. 

Here is a picture of what that one currently looks like

No, I don't have a picture of what it currently looks like, this is what it looked like before it currently looked like the one I have now.

Thanks for reading and looking at that piece of artwork you just saw above unless you were closing your eyes and didn't see it, then go back and look at it and then come down here to comment - if you wish.

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"May The Pencil Be With You!"

 

"To Boldly Draw Where No Artist Has Drawn Before..."

 

May the Pencil be with you!

I have never seen Star Wars before, but I know some of the characters. And so I began to draw Yoda, it was only going to be a simple sketch of Yoda, but it looked good after I added some color to him - when he was finished it looked like he was playing baseball with his lightsaber in batting stance and it continued to evolve into a baseball field with a few more Sar Wars characters and I naturally added the Star Trek ship, 'The Enterprise.'

Originally Spok was going to be pitching the ball, but it didn't turn out - the page was too small and he appeared too close to Yoda from the mound so I decided to cancel that idea.

In-Progress

Yoda at-bat!

Chewbacca

Another stormtrooper

There is the sky, and look at that Star Wars poster behind Chewbacca - lots of emphasis! Ohhhhh.

A close-up of The Enterprise.

And the finished piece!  As you can see, there only ended up being one thing from Star Trek - The Enterprise. So it is mostly a Star Wars drawing. This piece was done with colored pencils. And if you are wondering why the baseball isn't perfectly round it is because the ball is traveling at an incredibly fast speed.

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• "Insufficient facts always invite danger." - Spok
• “Do. Or do not. There is no try.” - Yoda

Imaginary Landscape

 

The Idea

It started off with a sketch, a preliminary idea to map out before beginning the final drawing. 

In other words - An idea popped into my head, "I'm going to draw a kitchen." So I drew a kitchen. "Oooh, I like it." "No, not quite." I flip the page to start over, still with a kitchen in mind. "No, no, no, it's just not right." Erase! Erase! Erase! Erase! Erase! Erase! I try again! "Nope!" Erase! Erase! Erase! Erase! Erase! Erase!

Then another idea comes to mind. I flip the page to start over, still with a kitchen in mind, but floating on the lake. "No, no, no, it's just not right." Erase! Erase! Erase! Erase! Erase! Erase! I try again! "Nope!" Erase! Erase! Erase! Erase! Erase! Erase!

Then another idea comes to mind. I flip the page to start over, still with a kitchen in mind, but with steps going nowhere. "No, no, no, it's just not right." Erase! Erase! Erase! Erase! Erase! Erase! I try again! "Nope!" Erase! Erase! Erase! Erase! Erase! Erase! ""Oh no, I ripped the paper, too much erasing!"

"I think I'll stick with the kitchen on the lake."

I did some more sketching to get the right view on the bigger paper, which took a while. And below are some pictures I took as I progressed through with my art.

In-Progress Pictures

And there you have it, an imaginary landscape - right from my mind. 

Done with colored pencils on 14 X 17 inch paper.

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I hope you enjoyed the journey through this piece of artwork, comment below with other ideas or with a standard comment.

I'm starting my own envelope business?

 ECCENTRIC ENVELOPES

Perspectively in Perspective

 1 Point Perspective

Last week I drew a room using perspectives, one point perspective to be exact. One vanishing point, all angles vanish to a single point - just like when you look down a railroad track.

For this picture I followed a tutorial on one-
point perspective, so it didn't come from my imagination, but from my hand I did sketch it.

Next Project

Currently in the studio I am working on a few different projects. Between my school artwork like this one-point perspective, I have a self portrait started and a Star Wars/Star Trek colored pencil drawing in progress.

A Sneak Peak

A self portrait in charcoal.

A star trek/wars scene in colored pencil.

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Egg-Squisite

A Value Eggs-ercise

This week in art class I am learning how to add value to my art … I kind of already know how to add value, so maybe it's just another value eggs-ercise for me. It is very egg-citing - like every piece of art.

The reason for these Egg-cellent jokes - 

I am drawing an egg - that's egg-sactly why.

The first eggs-ercise was to draw or shade a value scale.

Just a visual of how shading works, going from light to dark - Photography = light drawing

When applied to a pencil drawing we get different values created with different pressure from the pencil.

And then the egg!

A progression of the egg being shaded and value being applied.

And that is the egg in its finished stage, full of value. Hopefully you can tell it is an egg. 

Isn't it egg-tastic!

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Unleashing My Inner Picasso!

CUBISM

For this drawing I used colored pencils and crayons. I never really like drawing abstract but they always end up being fun to create, like any other drawing. It's its own challenge compared to a realistic drawing. 

Georges Braque and Pablo Picasso created the art movement of Cubism, using geometric shapes to depict subjects. They are usually broken up using lots of different viewpoints in the same object - like Picasso's portraits with multiple body parts, two noses or a mouth flipped upside down.

Most people would call this art WIERD, but maybe it's just another way of looking at something. Putting realism in another perspective.

For this picture I used books, jars, and candlesticks and broke them up prospectively and created a picture that will make people's minds go, "That's WIERD!" or "That's a little strange!" or "HUH!" or "AH! I thing I need glasses! It looks like … uh, I can't tell what it is."

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"It takes a long time to become young." -Pablo Picasso

"Truth exists, only falsehood has to be invented." -Georges Braque

STILL LIFE

 With Only a Pencil and my Eyes

With Only a pencil and my eyes I set out on an epic journey, a journey … to find something to draw. After hours of looking I settled for a third place trophy - the only trophy I've ever won, a candlestick, a book, a baseball, and an old cider jug.

Here is the first sketch of everything mapped out.

For this still life I used a method in the art world called sighting, not hunting, but using your pencil and the length of your arm to measure the subjects in reference to one another. Something like the below picture.

Below is the final still life shaded with value

Final Drawing

This is the reference picture

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COMPOSITIONAL STUDIES

This first picture is a study done from a Lucian Freud painting, it appears to be of flowers sitting on a chair in a vase, but depending on what you see, it is what you see, so don't let your eyes trick you into seeing something different. It is a little difficult to see because it is drawn lightly. 

The goal of this one was to draw it accurately according to the painting getting all the shapes and positive and negative forms mapped out correctly.

This next one is...not sure who did this drawing originally, but as you can see I have drawn a duplicate of it. The goal of this one was to draw only the negative shapes so in the end the positive shapes would be there creating the leaves and the flower.

The Originals - What my drawings are based on?

This is a photograph by Imogen Cunningham.

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And the two artists that I referenced from, thank you, Lucian Freud and Imogen Cunningham.

 

What Drawing Upside Down Actually Helps With

 Drawing upside down can actually be beneficial

Many people of the human population believe they can't draw or have no artistic abilities at all.

But if they would only try and believe in themselves they would see their abilities take form in their artistically lost minds - their creativity would come back to life. Not only would their artistic abilities increase, but also their memory, perception, communication, and problem solving would also start improving, and their stress levels would go down as well. 

But when you turn everything upside down... 

That's when your mind gets to work from a different perspective. Your mind gets to see objects from a different angle as if it is a whole new form, shapes instead of what you think they are ... Now you can truly draw what you see and not draw what you know.

I can tell my skills and perception have improved over the past few years. This turned out a lot better than when I did this study in my ninth grade art class. It is not perfect, the head is in the wrong place - I drew something too big, but it is much better.

I encourage everyone that reads this to try it, or something identically similar - (redundant?)

But after the many years I have been drawing it seems that I can pick out the details and see them as many different forms and shapes - complexity into simplicity - that is the key to drawing well. Being able to take the details and see them as simple shapes.

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Abstract Line Composition

 ABSTRACTLY ABSTRACT 

Now I haven't really done abstract much ... actually the last time I did abstract was in 9th grade.

Usually artists represent something when doing abstract, like feelings, memories, or something of that nature - But I don't, at least not for this piece. I just sat down, drew some lines, and made some designs.

I only did an abstract because it was the assignment but it turned out to be fun - I've found out over the years that pretty much anything that involves holding a pencil or a paintbrush, or any tool of the artist's trade is fun, relaxing, and just plain enjoyable. (If you've never held a paintbrush or a pencil and you haven't had much fun in the past week or even year - you definitely should give it a try).

Now to get on with the drawing ...

 

in progress Pictures

The beginning

I started off ... I didn't even know where to start - but this is where it ended up after I started.

Not Long after ...

After a few steps I had the color pencils out getting some more medium down on the paper. This piece has a little pencil, a little charcoal, a little pastel, a little sharpie, a little fine liner pen, and a little colored pencil.

A few steps later ...

Yes, Bob Ross appears.

Getting towards the finish ...

Some more color and shading was added ... I guess too much - it's supposed to be a line drawing - I probably added too much value.

And The Final Composition ...

Overall it was a fun piece to draw even though it may be weird - not like the normal pieces I usually draw - but it gets its viewers thinking. It all moves the eye to Bob Ross.

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Art Class!

 More drawings to come

I signed up for a drawing class this semester so I'll be busy drawing - unless we have to model clay? Nope, probably just drawing.

In the first week we already had three drawings due. The first one is of a mug.

My second drawing is a still life done in colored pencils. At first I could not think of anything ... No, I couldn't think of what to draw that would look appealing. 

But then my glance shifted over to the cabinet full of games and ... That's how this next drawing came to be - Still Life of Blurble.

This piece captures all sorts of movement throughout, from the grain in the table to the angled boxes of the game and the lain out cards. It moves the eye that captures the attention!

And my last drawing is a landscape done using a mixture of different mediums, ("art medium" refers to the art materials or artist supplies used to create a work of art).  I used Charcoal, colored pencils, crayons, and pastels to create this landscape.

I only had a limited time to finish these so I didn't have a whole lot of time to go into great detail as I did on the previous piece, but sometimes simplicity beats complexity. 

If you perceive this image correctly it should look like a road - more specifically; a gravel road going far and beyond the horizon from a hill with trees and grass and plopped alongside that road appears to be a telephone wire taking you diagonally through the piece.

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