My Collection of Sketches of Observational Drawings...

This is a collection of sketches that I did in class; they are observational drawings of a panda.

My first drawing was a two- minute continual drawing. I had started much better, but I realised I had drawn it too small, so I wasted one and a half minutes rubbing out my drawing! It was quite frustrating when I only had barely thirty seconds and I couldn't take off my pencil because it was 'contiunual drawing'!!!

The next activity was two- minute blind contour drawing. I had to draw this without looking once at my paper and only look on the object I was drawing. I also vainly tried to show the fur, but it turned out not working at all. The face looks very interesting!!! :D

After that, I was at the hardest stage of the whole activity. This activity was blind contour drawing.It was the hardest that we did, in my opinion. It is impossible to be beautiful when you are drawing with continuous lines without looking at what you are drawing. As expected, my drawing turned out hideous. No texture tone, nothing but squiggly lines! Thanks to this, we all had a good laugh at each other's drawings that looked like three- year olds.

Next drawing was a drawing of ten- minute observation. It looked much better than teh former drawings, but there should have been fur and some tone/shadows. It looks incomplete and bare... =.}

This drawing shown below was the sideview of the panda; just as the former one, it needed to tone and at least some indications of fur as well. I drew this because I was told to draw it at a different angle of view or get a new stuffed toy to draw, and I thought sideview of the same toy would be good to draw. So here it is!

My Term 1 Observational Drawings Folio (Assessment)... Do You Like 'Em???

This was the style of Andy Warhol, even though it looks nothing like it! The background was mimicked in his ways. Click on the picture for a larger view!!!


This was a stick- with- ink drawing of my panda, which I had written reflections about how I had to work on it at lunchtime. It doesn't look that bad when it's scanned on!!! The tone and the line were the main elements in this activity. The background should have been, however, more distinct because it looks quite bare.

A Video Clip About Andy Warhol Exhibition...

This is a video clip about the Andy Warhol Art Exhibition in Brisbane. (2008) It's part of one of the Channel 9 shows... Enjoy! (It might take a while to load, though.) I would love to go there sometime!!!

13th March & 14th March (Lunch), What Did We Do???

Okay, it was finally the time for the real observational drawing of my panda... I had to use the black ink (ah, I had to be careful not to flick any onto my blouse), and a stick to sketch this. I found this quite hard; it was much easier to sketch with a pencil!
Well, I started, and I realised that I was very slow compared to other people. When I had just finished my outline of the panda, other people had nearly finish shading in the tone!!!
Aaargh!! I had to work faster. The last 10 minutes or so, had me flicking ink everywhere while I desperately tried to finish my drawing, which now looked like a random bald bear. I felt so depressed... My drawing didn't have any furriness, which is texture, or tone. It was so bare!!! Its face also didn't have much expression at all. I seriously needed much more time.

So, to actually make my drawing look like a panda, I spent my lunch on the next day (14th) to finish this observative drawing. Angela helped me a lot as well (THANK YOU ANGELA!!! :D), and I finally actually put some tone and fur in it. I had to work a lot especially on tone; since the whole drawing was all about tone, not colour, that was the most important factor that made my drawing realistic and 3D. Also, some fur drawn on the face and wavy lines on the outline showed the slight fur that my panda had. I think this is called simulated texture?!?!
Well, now, I am quite satisfied with it, even though I could have done better. I learned to observe the object much more carefully, and find even the slightest trace of shadow to draw. =)

11th March, What Did We Do???

Today we made another observational drawing of a plush toy, which would be for assessment. First, we did a 5-second sketch of the outline of the plush toy with a pencil. (Mine was a small panda.) Then, we stuck bits of coloured tissue paper onto the parts of the drawing, to distinguish the outline and the shape of the plush toy as well as have the element of colour. After that step, we blocked our drawing with different waterwashed colour paints, to bring out the tone and the artistic ways of the drawing a lot more. It didn't look anything impressive, especially the blocking part, but I hoped that it would look much better when I had finished the sketch with black ink. Some of the drawings that Mrs Vincent showed us were so good!!! I wish I could do as well as those people!!! XD
That was my short reflection for today!