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Sketchbook/Intro Assignments

September-November 2020

Starry Eyes: Sept 18, 2020

Phoenix sketch: Sept 27, 2020

Wasp sketch: Oct 1, 2020

Superpower: Oct 1, 2020

Door: Oct 18, 2020

Plant silhouette: Oct 30, 2020

Pose practice: Oct 30, 2020

Houses: Oct 30, 2020

Nighttime forest: Nov 2, 2020

Misc gr10 sketchbook assignments

Pencil, pen and charcoal on sketchbook paper

Photography Assignment

September 29, 2020 - September 30, 2020

I hated this assignment when I first did it, but I'm glad I did it. Got some good pictures out of it.

Gr10 photo assignment. Every picture was supposed to utilise a different photography element/technique but I don't remember what they were.

The last photo is from a different assignment where he took us to the forest near our school and we had to make art w the stuff in the forest. My group did some glowing nest thingy. - Oct 9, 2020

Pattern Assignment

September 27, 2020

Intro assignment for gr10 art. Had to incorporate a pattern somewhere.

The background isn't a solid pattern because i didn't have enough time to ink it all.

Pen on paper

English Assignment

September 16, 2020

Something I did for gr10 english. Don't remember what for

Pen on paper

Non-traditional Art Medium Assignment | Food Colouring

April 17, 2020 - April 18, 2020

Gr 9 assignment where we had to make art out of something that's not usually used for that purpose. (inspired by the whole make coffee with art thing)

Using food colouring was kind of a cheat because it's the most paint-like thing that isn't paint

Of course included a bunch of random hands because I love drawing hands ❤️

Pencil, food colouring and pen on mixed media paper

Sketchbook Assignments | Misc

March 27, 2020 - April 10, 2020

Gr 9 sketchbook assignments. Mainly hands.

Let me just add that I'm grateful they supplied us with sketchbooks for art, but I hate the paper. Idk what medium it's meant for but it has this certain texture that makes me cringe to draw w pencil on (I also hate the feeling of it as well). It's good for pen tho

Pencil on sketchbook paper

Mixed Media Assignment

~October 2020

Gr9 mixed media piece (with 4+ medias min) I ended up doing instead of the eyes. Took mixed media a bit too literally and ended up not utilizing the most fun part of mixed media - that is, using all of the media simultaneously. It's cute seeing how the style slightly changes according to the specific medium, though.

Watercolour, marker, pencil, acrylic paint, and pen on mixed media paper

One Point Perspective Assignment

~April 2020

I remember having a really hard time with just about every aspect of this piece. Getting the proportions of the buildings down was terrible, as was designing them. And then painting it was just a trainwreck.

Inspired by Devil town by Cavetown iirc

Watercolour and pen on watercolour paper

Sketchbook Assignment | Abstract Self Portrait

March 26, 2020

Gr9 assignment I did remotely after covid hit

Watercolour and india ink on watercolour paper

Sketchbook Assignment | Monogram

March 24, 2020 | Grade 9

The first art assignment I did during the lockdown ❤️

Pen on watercolour paper

Still Life Assignment

February 25, 2020 - March 12, 2020

Gr 9 still life that never got finished.

I remember by teacher was in despair because she gives shitty paper to the gr9s for their still lifes but this was actually good lmao 💀. She offered to like cut it out and put it on good paper but I was good with not doing that 💀💀

I spent so much time on this. Would work on it during lunch breaks in the art room like a loser, and yet it never got finished 😢

Proud of myself for it, though. Would've looked even better if I'd used charcoal for the darkest darks.

Pencil on paper

Art Assignment

~February 2020

Don't remember what the prompt was for this gr9 assignment. Whatever it was, I used it as an opportunity to make an illustration of my angel oc thingy.

Supposed to look like it's stained glass. Definitely like the concept/some of the sketches more than the final piece, but it's cool

Watercolour, pen and acrylic paint on mixed media paper

Introductory Sketchbook Assignments

~February 2020

Gr 9 sketchbook assignments that were meant to teach us the differences between the following terms:

Inspiration

Appropriation

Plagiarism

Notes:

These are three characters I like to draw that were initially inspired by the angel on one shoulder devil on the other trope. It's an example of inspiration because that trope inspired me and I wouldn't have reached this result without it. Pen on sketchbook paper

This is appropriation because I used elements of another person's art/work (cutouts from a magazine) and created my own art out of it Acrylic paint, pen, and magazine cutouts on sketchbook paper

This is MY painting. Completely original. This is a totally new concept that has NEVER been done before! Van Gogh who? Did you just think that it wasn't Van Gogh who painted this? You're right! Because it's MINE. I thought we established that already. (Let's pretend this isn't a painting that's well known) This is an example of plagiarising because I'm taking someone's own art/creation and claiming it as my own.

Coloured pencil, ballpoint pen and acrylic paint on sketchbook paper

2017 - 2018 Yearbook Cover Contest

March 29, 2018

Entry for the yearbook cover in gr7. Won runner up I think?

Just had fun drawing the things I enjoy abt school. And ofc lots of hands.

Pen, pencil and pencil crayons on paper

Cardinality

2017

Multi-canvas painting I did. I don't know what gave me this idea, but it was crazy. Can't believe I made this back in 2017.

Made spacers out of foam boards from the dollar store so that the canvases would be held in the final configuration during painting.

Bought my first ever non dollar store paint from DeSerres for this project. Still have quite a few colours (namely the red 😍)

Shout out to my father for making the frames ‼️‼️

Acrylic paint on canvas

Emotive Mask Project

Grade 5 - 2015/2016

Wait this was supposed to be the first post??? I didn't get around to cleaning it up until ~3 weeks after I'd queued up all of the tumblr posts 😭

Ig I'll see how making the post date in the past works >:)

Anyways what I can remember of the prompt was that we were supposed to make masks that represent a specific emotion. We were in pairs and I did it with my friend.

Making it out of wood was not a requirement, but I'd gotten it in my head and I knew my dad wld be able to cut the wood for me 😋I made a paper mockup, and then my dad took care of cutting and gluing together the pieces. Two masks were made, one for my friend and one for me.

iirc, the emotion I was going for was happiness, but it really doesn't read that way. There used to be paper fluff stuff hanging from the back, but the birds ate that stuff up. They also bit a whole bunch of chunks into it 😭

I don't remember what happened for it to break that badly. Prolly fell

Acrylic paint on wood.