Zoya's SAS Blog

So this was my grid self-portrait. Getting to this end piece was a bit of a process: first I had a photo taken of me, then I had to edit the photo to make it black and white and a bit easier to draw. After that I had to draw a grid over the picture as well as over the paper I would be drawing on and from there I would be filling in each square with the proper values. I think something I really like about this is that if you look at the top half it genuinely resembles me. The one thing I really wish I could improve on though is the teeth and the mouth. From that point on the drawing kind of went south and that's a bit frustrating. The goal though is to get better at drawing the things I'm not the best with!  This next picture is of my mirror self-portrait. This one was definitely the most difficult of the two, but I still managed to finish! The steps for this were actually quite simple. You draw a base head and put the guidelines for eyes, nose, mouth, and ears and ...

Here it is! The final product of the still life drawing! For this piece, we were told to draw an item sitting in front of us a realistically as possible. We started with a contour of the object and from there went up to shading and highlights to make the object stand out and look good. One thing that I really like about this is that I was able to create the shadows and highlights that make the apple look somewhat realistic. the shading took some time and a few re-do's but in the end, it turned out pretty well. I would have liked to improve the background and give the drawing some depth to make the scene look real and the apple look 3D. This was my draft where I practiced how to use the drawing technique triangle. Triangle is when you have one object in front of two others in a triangle formation. Out of all the ones I tried this was the most successful since I was able to capture the contour of the of the objects and place them in a way that was visually interesting. ...