First thing I drew in Year 12 Art

The fist thing we had to draw was a sphere using black and white charcoal. WE had willow charcoal, compressed, and pencils (both black and white).

I know it's not much but I'm fairly happy with it anyway.

The dress i designed.

SO here is that dress I was talking about. It's fairly extravagant but I like it anyway. I used my "Prismacolors" for the colour. I don't like the shading on the leg, but I suppose the dress is the focus. Hope you like it!

New Toys :)

Hello there! I have not blogged recently and thought it was about time. Today I got some new products from my favourite art shop, Riot Art and Craft Supplies.

Anyway I picked up some canvas panels for my school art book. I got these because when we do our back up work we are encouraged to experiment with mediums(different types of drawing implements) so instead of painting directly on my page, i bought a canvas panel to glue in so it doesn't ruin the page, as well as looking unnecessarily extravagant. These are about A4 size and were $2.99 each

I also bought a wooden mannequin man for $14.95 I like it for a few reasons; it will be easier to draw body's and it looks cool in my room.


I also picked up some felt tip pens, for $3.99 each. They are amazing qualtiy sleek and come in a range of nib sizes. The ones I got are .03mm and .005mm. I never knew such a small point existed, it's barely visible yet amazingly impressive.

The black one at the bottom is one of the pens I purchased.



Well that's all for now, I shall take a picture of that dress soon for all to see.

Have a good one!

Hey There Rockstars

So today was my first day of year 12 art. We have already started the brainstorming for out first major piece. There is no criteria which I found strange so we have to come up with most of the ideas ourselves. While brainstorming I thought of a few ideas i liked. One was about religion, I resent the concept of gods you see, and I thought about a picture of Jesus and God at the "Last Supper" table surrounded my piles of money. Also, a book with an image of a rainforest, below telling about how they once exist, implying they wont be along for much longer-only in text books. In the next few days I shall upload the picture of a dress I designed. Feedback was good.

Amazing sharpener

The picture below is the Prismacolor Sharpener that I blogged about so avidly. It's aesthetically interesting and it does the job. The pencils themselves are very thin so the hole matches accordingly. There is one thing I can fault however. The compartment wheres the shavings fall into is small and sometimes they get stuck in the top, to prevent this you can shake it after each time you sharpen. I am very glad i bought it. $10.80 is a bit much, but when you spend $200 on pencils I think it;s only natural to want the best accompanying equipment. I am currently half way through redrawing a dress I designed a few months ago. I am very happy with it's progress! :)

Prismacolor <3

SO it took me two days and I am extremely happy with the final product. The stupid camera and it's stupid flash. I have no idea how to turn it off so all of the colours look whiter than they are, take my word for it, it looks MUCH better in person. The skin was hard because it required me to layer about 4 different colours and blend them with the colorless blender pencil. I discovered how to create soft and harsh shadows, all you need is white brown and black. It's so simple. I would love to give some tips on how to use coloured pencils to their best potential but as the information might be incorrect I'll do that a later date.

BOUT TIME!

I ordered a sharpener last week for my Prismas. This was Tuesday, and it is now Wednesday. They finally rang today with it in stock. One has been put aside for me tomorrow and I believe it's about $10. Anywho now I must make the venture into the city to pick it up which is a bit lame. I think I'll go alone because I don't really feel like doing anything tomorrow, except draw and maybe garden. I bought some new plants for the succulent garden I am creating outside my window. Once the sharpener is mine, I will finally use the pencils I forked out $200 for. It will be the picture of Tidus that I failed with eyeshadow so badly.

I want to share a digital photo I came across which inspires me. It's of Gaia, the goddess of Earth.