Chair With Coat.

This week, I found our D.E.A.D. less complicated but harder to draw. There were less objects that were needed to draw, but the couple that were there, I had a hard time getting the proportions right. I think that I only skill that I used today that was needed in the previous D.E.A.D.s was shading. However, I didn't get much shading done because I was really trying to get the proportions finished correctly. I think that this might have been the most frustrating of all, because in the end, I didn't feel quite as satisfied.

Fabric Drawings.

Today I found our D.E.A.D. really difficult. I had a hard time getting the shapes down and it really frustrated me trying to get the movement of the fabric. (Or like, the positioning and how it turned in such in some places.) It frustrates me mostly because it was hard to be accurate with the way everything was set up. The shading was difficult too. I just didn't enjoy it. It was hard for me, and I hope I don't have to do it again. It was different then last weeks drawing of the sticks because of the shapes.

Pile of sticks.

A few minutes after starting, I realized how hard it is for me to just draw lines on a page and had to start over again. For me, the hardest thing is trying to get everything perfect, and just drawing what I felt like random lines was really hard. I would just look at the pile of sticks, and draw without looking at my page. When I did look at my page however, I got a sinking feeling in my stomach. It didn't look close to the drawings that I had seen before or the actual pile of sticks for that matter. But Ms. Robbers told me to continue on and I did. (Of course, it is mandatory to draw on these days.) After getting frustrated I started to do what I do best. Detail. So I went and saw a few familiar shapes and from there started to sketch the pile in more detail. After a bit, the blob on my paper started to take a defined (as much as a pile of sticks can be defined) shape and in the end, I feel that it looks accurate and I am happy with it...however it could be a little bit bigger on my page.

The Changing Still Life

Today, in our DEAD our still life wasn't really still...objects kept being added to the table which made us have to erase and change parts of the objects that were already there. Finally, when there was a fair amount of objects on the table, Ms. Roberts started to take AWAY objects. After an object had been taken away (erased) on our pages, we had to re-draw some of the old objects if there were now visible. In the end, we were left with one object on a box, and many, many, many somewhat erased charcoal marks on a piece of not so white paper. If I had known what we were doing, I would have waited until all of the objects were on the table until I started the actual drawing.

Three Forms Drawing

Today in our D.E.A.D. we sketched a cup, a pin-cone, and a wooden rectangle block. Going in I felt confident in what I was going to be drawing, but when I started, I got really frustrated mostly with the shading. I felt that it was difficult to be drawing something that didn't have the same colors. I think the best way for me to describe it more clearly is like, if I had to draw a colorful forest in just black and white. Though the colors weren't that drastic, I still found it really difficult. I mostly spent my time on drawing the cup. But at the end, I started the pine-cone and I think it would have come out somewhat okay. The only problem that I had with it was that there were so many little connecting things that went off of it.

Talk and Draw

Today Kate and I were alternated between being the "drawer" and the  "describer". Getting directions from Kate about what to draw was a bit difficult because I wasn't so sure about where I was suppose to draw the objects on my paper and when I did, they were either not in the rite spot or were too small. However, the drawing itself wasn't so hard, but knowing that the descriptions were iffy made it more difficult. When I was the describer though, I understood how hard it is to ask someone to draw a picture that they can't see, but being able to hear what you describe what you see. I don't think that I would change anything because we both did the best that we could.