Jess' Sketch Blog: July 2012

Monday, July 23, 2012

23rd, July

edit: images flipped

University started back today, and finally after months of waiting I'm allowed to take up drawing as a subject.

In class we had to draw still life pictures of a cow's skull, a plastic pumpkin and a bottle.

We first had to paint pictures in ink with a meter long stick, then we got more detailed by drawing with a post office nib pen.

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I then drew the other pictures in my sketch book afterwards.

My laptop doesn't have the Internet for some strange reason, meaning that I'm posting the entry from my phone. However I haven't figured out how to put the pictures in order or how to label them either.

Sunday, July 22, 2012

Ink test

I bought some new metallic inks from the uni art shop this week and wanted to test them out, so first I used a tissue to smear some of the ink onto some black cardboard, then I created some patterns using masking fluid. After that I added more ink over it in interesting patterns and waited for it to dry. When it was dry I pulled the masking fluid off and it was done

Manga collage

I did a few projects this week. The first was a collage that I made by tearing out manga pages from a 'Shonen Jump' magazine that I got from Japan.

First I chose pages that had interesting images and then cut them out. Then I aligned them on the paper until I was happy with the order, then I glued them down.

I did 3 pages but I glued the edges down so that it looked like the images continued from one to another.

Tuesday, July 17, 2012

Challenge 5

Challenge 5 is... Best Friend. So I drew my derp friends from Japan.

"My friends", felt tip pen on paper, 2012

Monday, July 16, 2012

Drawings 16

I went to bed early yesterday so I didn't get a chance to do challenge #5, but I did do some random sketches during the day when I was out .

"Creepy faced guy", ball point pen on lined paper, 2012

"Old man and his truck", ball point on lined paper, 2012

"Harajuku cityscape - without refrence", graphite on lined paper, 2102

"Girl with short hair", graphite on lined paper, 2012

"Kid with a hat", graphite on lined paper, 2012

"Skull bunny and a guy with no legs", graphite on lined paper, 2012

Sunday, July 15, 2012

Challenge: Day 4

I didn't have much time today but I still managed to compleate the challenge. This might count as cheating, but who cares, it's still a drawing... In a way.

Challenge day 4: Favourite Place

"Japanana", Felt tip marker on a banana, 2012

As many would have guessed; my favourite (banana shaped) place is Japan!!! Thought I should probably draw a propper landscape picture later, since it is one of my weak points.

Friday, July 13, 2012

crouching nude"

"Crouching nude", graphite on paper, 2012

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Drawing challenge day 3

Challenge 3: Favourite food

"strawberrys are my favourite", colour pencils on paper, 2012

"I like icecream too", coloured pencils on paper, 2012

drawings 15

"Don't worry", graphite, colour pencils and felt tip pen on paper, 2012

I actuall put effore into this picture, but colouring was a bit hard since I havn't used coloured pencils in a while.

"2 sides of the same coin", felt tip pen on paper, 2012

I did this drawing free hand without using an outline.

Drawing challenge 1: Yourself

"myself", graphite on paper, 2012"

For a self portrait, this looks really creepy...

"Me drawing the picture above", graphite and felt tip pen on paper, 2012

...Which is why I drew other versions.

"another creepy drawing", felt tip pen on paper, 2012

the text says it all.

Drawing challenge 2: Favourite animal

"Lion studies", fineliner on paper, 2012

"Lion Head", graphite on paper, 2012

30 day challenge

I've decided to do the 30 day drawing challenge. The point of it is to draw one thing from the list for the next 30 days.
For the time being, I'm going to draw sketches, so that I don't feel pressured drawing amazing works everyday and quit.
I think being consistant is the best thing that I need, so that I can train my brain to work harder.

list from google

Sunday, July 8, 2012

Drawings 14

The following images were drawn on lined paper, because I find carry around a small notebook easier than a big sketch book. It also lets me brain storm better, because it doesn't put as much pressure on me to draw perfectly since the paper isn't professional.

Some of the drawing were real life drawing done in starbucks, but you probably can't tell. I spent my whole life drawing cartoons and manga, that i'm not very good at realistic drawings yet, but don't worry, I'll get better it them soon...