White and Black

Tomorrow is an annual event on Facebook that is for a good cause, everyone is to wear white to black out cancer! So to incorporate my learning project into this event I drew a purple cancer ribbon because my mom suffered from hodgkins lymphoma and its colour is purple. If everyone wore white tomorrow to show their support for cancer victims a cure may not be found, but a belief that everyone is willing to help just a little would change the world drastically! So in support of cancer research I’m going to wear white tomorrow and not let cancer affect me any longer!

Colours of the Rainbow

My learning project hasn’t been my top priority for a while but I’ve been sick these past couple of days and have found that I don’t really want to think too much so I decided to draw. The last time I wrote about my learning project I said I was just going to look at items that I could see and draw them, so I tried that out. It wasn’t easy, but it allowed me to focus on simple shapes so that the pictures could come out how I wanted them to. It was difficult not having the step by step process to help me create my drawings, making the items look 3D was also a challenge, but a great learning experience.

This is my bedside lamp

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This is a Halloween card I got!

So for this week I think I’m going to try to do album covers of my favourite bands, that will be something fun to do and will allow me to use colours again!

Learning Project Update!

So after finally finishing all my major assignments I found myself with some time to catch up on my learning project. I’ve found that this project is really helping me release stress because there is no precious on me to make these drawings perfect, they are done to the best of my ability. At first drawing really frustrated me, but now I just find that I use it to have fun. The drawings that I did were simple ones, but I’ve found that I really like when I’m shown a step to step process. I haven’t quite been able to just draw a picture from just observing an object, maybe that’ll be my task for this week. I’ll try to stay away from drawing basic objects and move on to drawing by my own perception.

But for this week I spent 2 hours drawing 5 small pictures: an old man, kitten, ladybug, fire truck, and hippo. They were a lot of fun and I think if I find myself really frustrated with drawing I’ll go back to these type of pictures and just have fun with them!

Doodle Doodle

So lately I have been neglecting my learning project because of all the assignments I have had to do and it was just too hard for me to sit down and draw anything worth presenting. I did however sit down for 30 minutes one day and my end results were nothing but frustration, erased marks and no picture. I’ve been finding that drawing is quite difficult and I get angry with myself because I don’t get the picture to look like I want it to. I should probably realize that I’m only a beginner but it is still very frustrating.

So in neglecting my drawing I was feeling very guilty, until I opened up my English notes to find something that I wasn’t expecting, a ton of doodles all over my notes! If you know me, you would know that I don’t doodle ever, my notes are kept clean, but here are my English notes filled with doodles on the side. I realized that I have been doing my learning project in a minimal way without even knowing. Most of the doodles are basic shapes or simple objects, but none the less they are drawings and I even seen I had tried to draw a face! It’s funny how our brain subconsciously tells us what to do without us even knowing.

 

 

 

 

This weekend I plan to do a lot of drawing though because I don’t have as many assignments to do and maybe I’ll feel inspired because I’m less stressed! I’ll probably stick the basics again, I’m not quite comfortable with portraits and landscapes yet, but we’ll see what I come up with!

-Courtney

First Attempt!

So last night was my first attempt at drawing, and let me tell you it didn’t go over very well! A lot of erasing was done, along with a lot of frustration. However, I realized I can’t become an artist in a day.

 

 

 

 

The process that I used for my first sketch was pretty simple, I looked at one of the books that I purchased and followed the step by step process on how to draw a portrait. After finishing this portrait I realized that portraits are HARD!!! So I think I may stay clear of those for a while to maybe boost my confidence up a bit. As you can see from the photo, I need a lot of practicing!

Now the process that I used for the second picture was a lot easier! I just typed in one of my favourite characters, Winnie the Pooh into Google and found the older version of him to sketch. I found that I was happier with this end result and I think for the time being I’ll work on cartoon characters, and once I’m more ready I’ll attempt some more portraits!

Total Time: 1 hour

Learning Project Revised

This weekend I came home and started thinking about my learning project. I was really excited about learning the piano again, but then I thought about it and realized that this task was not going to work. My piano is at home, so the only time I would get to use it would be on the weekends, and while I would love to play the piano as much as I could, I came to the conclusion that I needed to find a new learning project. So I thought about something that would interest me and I came up with the idea of drawing!

Throughout high school I was always the student that struggled in art because when it came time to draw images, I had a lot of trouble. So for my new learning project I’m going to try and learn how to draw. Now that is a very broad topic so I narrowed it down to what I’d like to draw. I’m going to start out with the basics, learning how to draw basic object, and I would eventually like to draw three dimensional pictures. If I really get good to I’d also like to learn how to draw portraits.

This week I’m planning to find some self help books that will assist me with the basics. Also I’m asking if anyone has any tips that they think would be useful, I’d greatly appreciate that! I plan on keeping track of my hours in a word document and will also hopefully take some pictures of my progress, if I get really ambitious I may even post some videos!

I really love vintage stuff so I think a portrait of Marilyn Monroe would be super exciting to draw! Or even a picture of me in my ballet shoes!