Texture Assignment

Textured Face

The main point of this assignment was to learn about textures. For this specific assignment I had to find textures around the school, scan them on to the computer, and then use photoshop to place the textures on to a drawn face. Blow shows the process it took to create the final product.

                                                      

The two faces are the ideas that I came up with. The one on the left is supposed to be drawn as a queen and the one to the right was just a random face with different lines in it, creating spaces for my textures to go in. The reason why the faces are only half drawn was because I wanted the face to be symmetrical and so by using photoshop I just copied the half drawn face and flipped it over. For the assignment I chose to do the face on the right because I thought it would have looked better then the face on the left when I put the textures in.  



These are most of the textures that I found around the school. The textures on the right are only black because they were the textures I started out with. They were used to see the different kind of textures I found and to allow me to choose which ones I want to be used on the face. As for the ones on the left, the textures have color because those were the textures I was going to use on my drawn face.

   

These are a few textures (close up) that I used in my drawn face.



Once the half face was flipped over using photo shop, it looked like this.

This is the part when I started to put textures into the spaces in the face.

This is my final product. As you can see I only used cool colors (blue, purple, and green). I used many different textures in different areas. I tried to put the colors in certain places so that the same colors wouldn’t be beside each other. The textures on one half of the face is symmetrical to the other side.

This assignment was a lot of fun because I was able to go around the school looking for different textures. I learned and saw a lot of textures while doing this assignment. I am happy with my work and looking forward to my next assignment.

My First Sketchbook Assignment (Dusty)

Dusty

My first Sketchbook assignment is based on the theme dusty. I named this piece Dusty Dust Bunnies Run! In the picture you can see that a broom is chancing after dust bunnies to try and get the floor clean. I used pencil and soft pastels to make this piece. The pencil was used to draw out the sketch of each bunny and the broom. After I was happy with the sketch, I used soft pastels to color the image so that is would give more of a dusty affect. I decided not to put any colors in it because to me when I think of dust I see gray, since this picture is about dusty I only used black, gray, and the white of the page.

When I first found out I had to do a piece about dusty, I had different ideas in mind like drawing a dusty attic or a person blowing an old book. I thought that these ideas were too simple and that other people would have done it so, I decided to be more creative and draw dust bunnies running away from a sweeping broom. It took me a while to get this idea. I got the idea from a television show called the Big Comfy Couch. In the show there were two dust bunnies that lived under the couch. Once I heard the word dust bunnies I got the idea of having them being swept away by a broom.

I am very proud of my work because it took me a long time to finish, and to me it looks really good. I did have some difficulties coloring with soft pastel because it was my first time using it. If I were to have done anything different it would be to have colored lighter. Over all it was fun drawing each bunny and using soft pastels for the first time.