Studio Art Project #2: Person (Well, Kind Of)

Another piece drawn with a regular mechanical pencil and completed the day before it was due (see Studio Art Project #1). Our job was to draw a person, full-bodied, with clothes (my teacher was adamant about that), but I couldn't get anything to come out at first. I tried drawing character skeletons, but my poses were getting increasingly awkward. Then a few hours passed and I thought "Screw it. I'm just going to start drawing and see what comes out." So here we have Medusa, inspired by reading Edith Hamilton's Mythology for summer homework! You may have noticed that I drew her a bit on the plump side; I'm going to experiment with drawing different body types this year. Stay tuned!

Studio Art Project #1: Still Life Objects

Since I'm enrolled in AP Studio Art this year I thought it would be cool to post some of my projects. This first one isn't my best, but hey, I whipped it up the day before it was due! I used a regular ol' mechanical pencil to outline everything (because I didn't have fancy drawing pencils on-hand), and I used Blick Studio Artists' Colored Pencils to color it in. The lettering was by far the most difficult part; it's pretty freaking frustrating trying to do nice lettering when your colored pencils break whenever you try to sharpen them.

(P.S. Rosie, sorry for jacking up your face.)