reflecting on the 4 hour project

it took me a pretty long time to figure out what i wanted to do for my 4 hour project. everything i thought of at first just wasn't possible at the time or i quickly lost interest in it. i finally found a picture of a sunflower on the internet and i started to draw it and when i finished it looked really plain to me. ms. roberts helped me by giving me the idea to keep the "floweriness" of it but make it bigger and unrealistic. i ended up covering the entire page with flower petals and i cut out the petals from the picture of the sunflower i drew and glued those on top of some petals along with origami paper i had. i then outlined the original flower that i drew in black marker. this project was a little more difficult for me mostly because i just couldn't think of an idea that i liked in the beginning and it was hard for me to start, but once i got an idea that i liked it was easy for me to get into the project and start working.

book project... process and planning

the story is supposed to be about a man in the army who crashes and ends up in the hospital and then he becomes depressed. then this little girl who's dad is in the army and she lives there as well meets him and cheers him up and then he decides to leave the army because she showed him that he would be happier outside of it.

its going alright. i've had a lot of trouble trying to get the girl that i have to look younger, smaller and stand up because she is older and riding a bike in my original picture. also trying to get the man to look sad and hurt because he is walking and smiling in the original picture. i'm mostly just having trouble trying to manipulate the people to look how i want them to in my story.

drawing the human figure from the inside out

today we had to draw 3 people and they all posed in different way. i had the back to one of them who was standing up, the knees to another who was lying down and the front to the last one who was also standing up. the goals for today were to get the whole body in the picture and have it reflect what the persons pose was and also to work from the center 0f the body outwards. i think i mostly achieved these goals i always started from the hips and that made it a lot easier to make the rest of the body in proportion. the most difficult part was after finishing the general shape of the body, making the details like the face, hair and clothes, over all taking away the look of a scribbly sketch and making it actually look like a person.