Shading Exercises

These shading activties were from the book. This is my best one.

Across The Universe

Strawberry Fields Forever. .. . .. .

A Shading Activity

Two still lifes, two shading techniques.

All Me!

We had to draw two self-portraits a day..total of 8 portraits! We also had to make a stand for our self-portraits.

An Organized Room

I did these drawings because I was bored and felt like drawing something. These are both in my best friend's bedroom. I really enjoyed drawing both of these because I really took my time and concentrated. My roommate and I were having a good ole time just talking and listening to music while each of us were still doing work. Now that I have a sketchbook (or two!), I like to find just about anything and just draw it!

A Pencil Box

This particular project was to design a well-crafted box to hold pencils. I decided I wanted to make something very clean and simple. I concentrated more on making straight edges and clean corners. As you can tell in my pictures my first iteration had a tray to hold pencils. My original plan was to make little sections to hold various items, but I thought that made the box too busy. For my final box, I chose to use textured pale green paper. I liked how the color looked on my box..not too much, not too little. Then, I decided that the pale green was too simple, so I added a patterned paper with a touch of color on the inside. It sort of is a surprise when you open the box because you wouldn't expect the patterned paper! I really enjoyed making this project...and plus, I am planning to use my box for my own person use=)

Watercolor

Lately I have been using watercolors on some of my drawings. I have really enjoyed this..just how the colors look on the paper and how the colors make the drawing look so well.

I drew my bag in class one day while I was sitting around and thought it would be cool to give it some color. I think the colors made the drawing look totally different. The top picture is of a woman that was on my prismacolor postcard. I really love how the colors look, so many different shades. I also like how the pen marks look with the watercolors! I think I did a successful job!