Artistic Abilities:Everything That Explains Me

Artistic Abilities:Everything That Explains Me

This week I drew a collage of everything that I love. I got this idea from an artist on Instagram, but had different interests so I changed the picture. So I started of by tracing everything and putting everything in the right place. Then I began to color each little picture and and I started off with the pencil and worked my way up. I used a black sharpie, crayola markers, a pencil, and a thing artist marker from Michaels. So I continued to color all the little pictures. I went over the pictures with a black sharpie and a thin marker. The pictures I used were:

• the Instagram logo
• Twitter logo
• pencil and eraser
• a crown
• starbucks drink
• Youtube logo
• Armenian flag
• Pretty Little Liars "A"
• British flag for One Direction
• a rainbow
• a sharpie
• a snow cone
• 5SOS logo     

Once I was done I wrote my name on the bottom. Be careful and take your time. You can change any logo and make it your own.

This is the final product of the picture. The last step was to sign my name at the top.

Artistic Abilities: Aliens Love Pizza

Artistic Abilities:Aliens Love Pizza

This weeks drawing is a picture I drew and colored a couple months ago. The materials I used for this picture are colored pencils, a pencil, and my drawing book. I got the idea for this picture from the app "We Heart It". I started this drawing off by sketching the pizza box, the head, the arms, and the main parts of the picture. I continued to do this until it looked the way I wanted. Once I finished, I began to outline the body, the box, and head with a black colored pencil. I then started to color in the pizza box. I used a gray colored pencil. I continued to color in the pizza with a red, orange, yellow, and a light brown. Once I finished the pizza box and pizza, I started to color in the head and the body. For this I used a yellowish-green and I went back and added some dark green for shadow. After I finished all the coloring, I went back to the box and wrote the sentence, "You're Outta This World", in a black colored pencil. This picture didn't take me long and it was easy to do but, I love pizza so it was a perfect picture for me.

 

 This is the final product of my picture. I finished off the picture by signing my name.

Artistic Abilities: Miley Cyrus

Artistic Abilities: Miley Cyrus

This week the picture I am going to talk about is a picture I drew adoring the summer time at my mom's work. I got the idea from the app "We Heart It". This is a picture of Miley Cyrus as a cartoon version. The materials I used were a pencil and a blank sheet of paper. The first thing I did was I sketched out her hair and her head shape. Then, I began to draw her body and the ice cream cone she is holding. I began to draw in the eyes and and lips and added detail to her hair. This picture is a cartoon so it isn't very difficult to draw and doesn't have to be precise. I became a little creative and added my own touch to the picture by designing the shirt a different design. I made the eyes big and cartoon looking. I  made the hair big and bushy to give it the cartoon affect. This picture was pretty easy to draw and you could color it, but I liked how it looked as a sketch. 

This is the final product of the picture. I think it looks like Miley Cyrus and it looks cute. I finished this picture off by signing my name next to Miley.

Artistic Abilities: Pastel Sunset

Artistic Abilities: Pastel Sunset

This weeks drawing is a drawing I did about 7 months ago at my art class. So first I chose the picture I wanted from Google Images. I then printed it out and took a piece of tracing paper and I traced the cactus and hills. I then, took pastel paper and sketched out and drew out the shapes. Once I got the shapes in, I took out the pastels and started working on the sunset. The sunset has many different colors and shades. First, I started with the lightest color I saw, and started from the top and made my way to the bottom. 

Tip: Start from the top and work your way down to prevent smearing and smudging the pastel.

The process, to finish the whole sunset, took me about a month and a half. I go to art once a week so it took me about 6 weeks to complete the  colors and shades in the sunset. Once, I got all the shades and different colors into the sunset, I began to use the black pastel for the cactus and hills. Putting the black makes the picture pop.

Tip: Every few steps you finish, take hairspray and spray the picture to make the pastel stay on.

Tip: You should put the black pastel on last so it does the smear and ruin the sunset or other parts of the picture.

 The last part of the picture I completed was to take a yellow-orange color and do the small sun showing on the bottom, on top of the hill.

This picture took overall about two to two and a half months.

This is the final product of the picture I completed in art class. 

Artistic Abilities: Hipster Girl

Artistic Abilities: Hipster Girl

This weeks drawing is a picture I call "Hipster Girl" because she has pink hair with a flower crown and it looks like she is hipster. The picture I used for inspiration was from the app "We Heart It". The materials I used were my Strathmore drawing book, a pencil, and Crayola colored pencils. I started off by sketching the body and face. Then I started to sketch in the bun and the flowers on it. Once I got it the way I liked, I added in the little details and made it perfect. This drawing didn't have very much shapes or details to it, so it wasn't very difficult to sketch. When I finished the sketch, I took my colored pencils and started coloring the flowers. I then took a tan colored pencil and shadowed the body. I added black to the eyelashes and traced the body with a black colored pencil very lightly. Then I took a light pink color and started to add in the hair. To make the hair look real, I would put my pencil at the bottom of the hair and lightly stroke the pencil upwards. I would continue to do this for the whole bun. Once I finished with the pink, I took my black colored pencil and on the bottom and top of the bun I added very little black to make shadows. At the end I took my black and pink colored pencil and began to add a few pieces of hair on the bottom of the bun to make the hair look messy and to add a little detail to it.

This is the final product of my drawing. I finished it off by signing my name and the date. This drawing was done a couple months ago.