Sketchbook Assignment (Slither)

Slither

For this sketch book assignment, I had to draw something that represented slither. I drew a snake slithering. In my drawing, you can see a snake approaching a field mouse that will soon be his lunch. I named this piece “The mouse and the snake” because in the picture, it focuses on the mouse and the snake. I drew the snake looking at the mouse with its tongue stuck out to make it easier to inference what happens next. I drew the mouse looking at a piece of food it found to make it look like the mouse didn’t know what was happening or that the snake was behind it.

This picture was drawn and colour using pencil. I started the picture out like the others. First sketching the image, and then going over the lines I liked. Once I like what I have drawn I used a darker pencil and shaded the image.  At first I didn’t want the picture to be only black and white. I wanted the image to have different colours. I decided to go with black and white because after colouring and toning the snake, I realized that it might not look good with other colours in the image. When I first thought of a snake, I thought that a typical snake would be black or gray so, I started toning the snake in pencil. It was hard to decide if I should have used different colours in the image or just leave it a simple black and white. I didn’t want to ruin the image by adding different colour so, I kept it safe and made the image black and white. It was a good decision because usually, most of the art I do with the colours black and white turns out looking good.

Before I drew “The mouse and the snake”, I had other ideas like drawing a snail or a dragon with its body swirled around a mountain. I thought that the snail idea was too simple and wouldn’t look nice because it wouldn’t have a lot of details. The dragon idea wasn’t so bad but, I didn’t think that it related to the theme slither, It was more of a crawl or a climbing action. I thought of the idea of a snake while I was watching a show on animal planet. To make it look like the snake was slithering, I put a pray in front of it so that people would know that the snake is slithering to the mouse.

For this picture, I had some difficulties drawing and toning the snake. I started this picture without an idea of how a snake’s head is shaped. I had to go on Google and look at different images of a snake’s head before I got my snake’s head looking proper. Once I finished drawing an outline sketch of my snake, it was hard to draw the scales on the snake. I had to view more pictures on Google before I got the texture I wanted. After I finished drawing the scales and the rest of the details, I realized that I didn’t know what patterns a snake would have on its body. More images where viewed before I got the different patterns on my snake. Drawing the snake was what I struggled most for this picture but, I completed this drawing with a good looking snake.  

This is a view of the head i drew.

This picture helped me draw the scales on my snake.

I used this image to help with the patterning on my snake. This picture was also used to do part of the head shape and the scales.

I drew the field mouse based on this image.

I really like what I have drawn for slither because I worked hard on drawing the snake and, since my first time drawing a realistic snake turned out nice, I could use what I have learned and apply it to future pictures.

Dwarf Assignment

Customized Dwarf

Before I started on my customized dwarf, I watched the movie “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs”. By watching the movie it gave me lots of ideas.

I started by thinking of the type of dwarf I wanted to do. In the movie each dwarf had a different personality.  In my head I had different ideas of personality for my dwarf like, a cool dwarf, cute dwarf, smart dwarf, nature loving dwarf, or a goofy dwarf. I ended up deciding on a cute dwarf because I wanted to make my dwarf a girl. I decided to make it a girl because I thought that since all the dwarfs in the movie were guys, why not create a girl dwarf.

I named her Lucy because I thought that it suited her and it was a cute name. I was going to name her cutie but, it didn’t sound proper to me. When I started to design her, I didn’t know what she should have worn. Blow you can see the different ideas I had for her outfit. I decided to go with the clothes that matched with the seven other dwarfs.

I designed her outfit so that there were some similarities to the original dwarfs. Both my dwarf and the originals have similar hats, nose, button up collar, buckle belt at the waist, and a patch found somewhere on the clothing. To make my dwarf cute, I added teddy bear features to the hat, a puffy dress, bows, and Lolita style shoes (Lolita: A fashion style originating in Japan that is Based on Victorian clothing and costumes from the Rococo period.)

Original Dwarf

My Dwarf

After I Got an idea of how she was going to look, I started to draw different positions of her doing different expressions and poses.

Positions

Basic Layout

  I drew different emotions for my dwarf. I started out with a normal picture of my dwarf standing up so that the whole body could be seen. It is the one furthest to the left. The first one was a drawing of her showing “I love you”, the second shows her laughing, third is her crying, fourth is her being surprised, and finally the last one shows her curiously looking at a butterfly. I had an empty space that wasn’t big enough to fit another emotion so, I drew some of her clothing.

I had some difficulties drawing the dwarf’s fingers and faces.  The fingers for the “I love you” emotions were hard because I had to make it look like it’s forming a heart. Drawing the other hands for the other emotions was also difficult but I managed to get it looking the way I wanted it to. For the faces, I had a difficulty drawing them to make it look like I was still drawing the same person. Sometimes the head would have been to round or too pointed like an anime’s face. Overall I still liked how everything turned out. If I were to change anything it would be to have organized the space more so that I could have fitted an extra emotion in.



Sketchbook Assignment (Artifical)

Artificial

This month’s sketchbook assignment, I had to draw something that represented artificial. The piece I have drawn is named “Real or Fake? “.  I named it that, because the picture shows a human hand and a robotic hand reaching out to each other. People can compare the two and know that one is fake and the other is real.  The robotic hand is supposed to represent an artificial hand; it can do anything a human hand can do.  Both hands are symmetrical to each other to show that an artificial hand can be just as good as a human hand.

In this piece I used pencil to draw and tone. I decided to leave it black and white because I thought it would look better without color since there wasn’t much to color in. I tried to make it lighter around the edge of the two hands to make them stand out more. If I were to change anything about this piece, it would be to tone around the outside of the hands darker.


Before I thought of drawing “Real or Fake?” ,I had other ideas in mind. I was going to draw fake flowers or fruits, but I thought of drawing a fake part of a human body to represent artificial.  At first I was going to draw a whole artificial arm or leg, but I decided not to because I thought that the page was too small to fit all the details. I decided to only do that hand because it seemed simple and the proper size to fit on the page.

What inspired me to draw an artificial part of a body was Terry Fox. Terry Fox had an artificial leg. Even though, he still showed that he could do anything with that leg that a normal leg could have done. Instead of drawing a leg, I thought it would be more interesting to draw a hand.

(Terry Fox)

I had difficulties drawing the robotic hand because I didn’t know how it should have looked. I wanted it to look like it was the hand of a robot, but I didn’t know where to draw the different pieces to make it look like metal parts joined together. It was easier to draw the human hand because it is more familiar to draw and I could look at my own for inspiration.

If I were to do anything different about this piece, I would have spent more time toning to a darker point. Hopefully the next time I tone I can achieve the darkest point that my pencil can go to. Over all it was interesting drawing a robotic hand for the first time. I can use what I have learned from drawing this and apply it to future pieces. My goal for my future pieces is to be able to tone to a darker point.