Sketches/ Doodles

I sketch when I am bored, when I am stressed, or when I have nothing to do. I prefer rough sketching and adding pretty details to being a perfectionist. The first three pictures were drawn in my room, and the rest were drawn in class...

These are my shelves! I like them very much. On the top I have a model windmill, some dolphin-thing, a ship, a flip-flap plant, the salt tree I uploaded a picture of earlier, an empty money box (the circular thing) and other things that I didn't draw in.

This is supposed to be my bed, with some now unidentifiable bit of clothing hanging over the edge. I have cat bedsheets.

The bookshelf in my room! The dumbbells in the corner are there for show. No one uses them.

This was drawn in class! I like it even though the dragonflies are not proportionate. It is a tissue paper packet. The quote is by one of my friends.

A doodle! This one took forever. I like fractals and curves. 

I don't like this one as much because the random things don't seem to fit together that nicely. This is probably because I drew it in pen. I used up a lot of ink.

This was more of a quick boredom-relieving doodle than an attempt to fill up the page with pretty things. I like circles, too .

These are calculator buttons. I drew one of them (probably during a lesson) and another one followed. I think the lesson ended before I could start on 9, so I wrote down a lame joke - 'seven ate nine'.

Painting

In April/May last year, we were supposed to choose a picture of a person and paint him or her using acrylic paint. This is the picture I chose:



During this time, I was in China on an immersion program and so I had to use my 晚子息 time to paint. Luckily, my friends were very supportive and brought me food so I was able to use lunch time to paint as well.

It was my first time using acrylic and also almost my first time painting a person, so while I was mostly okay with the cloth, I didn't know how to paint the guy's face.

This is a (slightly edited) picture I took of the painting while in China in order to send it back to my teacher to be graded:



While my painting was far from perfect, I was glad that I had the opportunity to try out painting a person. Also, as part of the immersion program, I was able to obtain several sets of free acrylic paint! :D

Textured Cubes

We were given a wooden block in class one day and were asked to transfer the texture onto a cube. Here's how mine turned out:


It wasn't easy getting the proportion of the cube right at first, and after that I had to keep checking to see if the shadows were dark enough to show a contrast of sides. I suppose it could have been worse, though, but at least it looks like wood.

We were then to go home and find another texture, and transfer it onto another cube.

I thought I would do a sponge:



This took a longer time because I kept having to draw and shade all the little holes in the sponge, but I think the result was worth it. Also, I tried to blend the edges of the cube a bit better and overall I am quite happy with the result.

Drawing Styles

Sometime last year, we were asked to experiment with different drawing styles and materials. We had to do doodles, gestural drawings, contour drawings and observational drawings.






I did most of the gestural drawings first because I thought they were the easiest to do and also the fastest. Plus, I liked being messy and not having to worry about getting everything right. However, it took a while to get my proportions right, and I couldn't for some of them -- except for the drawing of the hippo-phone, which was a nice change.

After I finished the gestural drawings, I spent a large portion of the time in a rush trying to finish the drawings on time (we were given until the end of the lesson to draw). Halfway through I realised that no one was going to finish them on time anyway, so I just drew and decided to finish things at home.






Since we had to use different things to draw with, I tried using the crayon and the charcoal. It could probably have turned out better.

The rest of the drawings I completed at home.







In conclusion, this exercise showed me that I needed to work more on proportion. A year later, I think I still do. At any rate, it was good practice and I learnt new things.