Dear viewers,

Paul the author has left us to go to arizona, so I'm sorry if I sound like 3rd grader.

This post is about my past work in Beginning Studio Art. I'll have the thumbnail sketches along with the actual projects. Here's the first one; name creatures.

What we did was we wrote our names in cursive on one half of the page and reflected it on the other side. whatever we saw in our names, we drew. I happened to see a lobster.

After the name creatures, we focused on covers for our sketchbooks the teacher gave us. Here are my thumbnail sketches she required from us. 

We had to chose a special font for our name and then incorporate it into our own design.Iin the end, I didn't go with any of these and did a Cross Country theme.

The next project was optical art, art that relied on illusion. We had practice making the various shapes and designs characteristic of Op Art. Here they are for you to see.

Three of these are my thumbnail sketches for my op Art piece. I settled on the design that looks like trees with balls falling into them.

The medium was watercolor and the surface was tagboard. It was an exceptionally hard project because I suck at watercolor.

After the Op Art unit, we focused on observational drawing and contour drawing. 

For some of the drawings we had to draw blind, so that's why they look like scribbles.

After observational drawing, we focused on portrait drawings and creating a likeness. What we did was we made grids on the reference photo and the surface we were going to draw on. Then we would draw and shade based on where the lines and values were. For practice, we took a picture of a person, split them in half on the face, and drew one half of the face. I chose Jennifer Lopez from our limited options.

Can you tell which side is the actual photo?

After practice, we focused on full sized portraits on whatever we wanted.i chose to do BoA, a Korean singer. 

The last project of the year was the audio-visual project, where we had to chose a song we liked, then we had to draw the image that came to our mind using words. I chose Nujabes, a Japanese DJ and his song, "Don't Even Try It". 

The image is sideways because i don't know how to work my mom's Nero PhotoSmart program because it's all in Chinese. 

I hoped you enjoyed this month's set. Stay tuned for more,

The Eloquent Chinese Artist.