Visual Journals in Art 2

Hey, I'm David Rollings. I love to draw- I have since I was little. Me and my older brother Allan are the only people in our family that draw. My grandmother was the one who really encouraged me to draw. She always said that if I kept drawing, I would get better and better. So I did, I've been drawing since i was in kindergarten. I used to be obsessed with drawing hands, but lately I've been trying to draw people and poses more. This was actually one of my visual journal entries. What we have to do each week is do three journal entries. This was one of my first entries. It's a picture of my friend Wendy. The picture says "playing roulette with a flower," which is a lyric from the song "There's No Penguins in Alaska" by Chiodos. Chiodos is my favorite band. The picture went right along with the song so I decided to draw it. I used standard graphite pencils to draw this. I usually don't like my artwork, but this one is one i actually like.

Working with Realism in IB Art

Hello. :D My name is Darya Kaborda. I am in IB Art for the next 2 years. My field is realism. I love making things look realistic. If the drawing or painting looks like you can reach in and touch it, I will love it no matter what the subject is. I am sort of trying to achieve photorealism, in a way, but this piece doesn't demonstrate it. To start off, I gridded the canvas, and drew the lines in. Somehow, I ended up skipping or adding in a block at the bottom near her arm, so I have to fix that and incorporate the error into the drawing. The hair is what I was afraid of the most. It took the most time and patience. I usually never spend lengthy periods of time drawing hair in portraits, and, to be honest, this is my first real portrait of a person I know. The drawing is of Caley Doud, a good friend of mine. She took the picture for me, and I printed it out on 2 pages so it would be bigger than just one page. I wanted to be able to see the detail, but it failed. My printer didn't allow me to see most of the detail that the actual picture shows. I have to work from a torn up, colored, messed up photo of her, and that's a shame because I feel like I will not accomplish what I desire through that sort of reference. I wanted to make focus the main part of the drawing in the face, and I hope I have done that, even though the amount of hair can be distracting. It's difficult to shade accurately because of the reference picture, too. So far, I like the face the most. Her arm is poorly drawn, though. I need to fix it, still. At the moment, I am still going to spend some more time touching up the face, hair, and shirt. I have gotten a critique that the shirt needs to be worked on more, so I will take that advice and try to make the shirt look more realistic. After I finish the hair, I will be satisfied, and then I will do final touch-ups. That's about it. :D Thanks for reading. ^__^

- Darya Kaborda