Midterms are over!

Wow, what a hell of a week . . .
It sucks that I wasn't able to do the E.C. and that I couldn't rework my other homework, I'm sure that would've helped my grade out a lot . . .
Ah well, there's always next time, right? Apparently my best is a B+ which is cool with me, although I still wanna strive for an A, especially to make up for the one or two C's I still have.
Anyway, the portrait drawing was stressful, since I've never done one before, and the person I was drawing felt just as nervous. He wouldn't stop moving, either. I think both of us are a little ADD. Anyway though, it turned out ok, although he looks much like a kid. I think I made his head too short and rounder than it was. The background is lacking also, and my line variations didn't turn out very well. I'm practicing doing line variations like Ira, but she's hard to beat :P
The in-class midterm assignment was the main killer this week. I've been stressed about it since I found out last week that we were doing it. I do not work well under time restraints like that, especially in a class room. To focus, I have to be alone. I know my work sucked, but I did my best. Plus, my night vision is horrible, so trying to draw in a dark room means I can't see the edges of objects very well at all.
Anyway, enough complaining. I've seen worse these last couple of weeks: a 15 year old girl surviving cancer and having a fake leg in place of her amputated one. She was very sweet. My friend/professor who is a quadriplegic and recently went through cancer was in the hospital. He was very weak and thinner than usual .. . My mom also went to the hospital because of an infection. She also had cancer . . .
And my doctor's cancer returned. What the hell is going on?! Yeah, I really can't complain about my life . . . I'm such a spoiled brat :P

Midterms and other stressful stuff . . .

So I'm both excited and anxious about our homework assignment. We're supposed to draw a planar analysis of someone's face. We haven't even drawn people yet! And now I have to planar analyze them . . . plus fixing my old drawing, plus worrying about midterms . . . next week=no sleep for me! However, I can't exactly do my in-class final for this class with no sleep, so I'm not too sure how that's going to pan out ... Ah well, I can't complain all the time, right?
On a better note, I'm glad I'm finally going to learn how to draw people the correct way! I had sucky teachers in high school, so I never had anyone actually teach me how to draw things, let alone people. I think it's going to be fun, really, although using charcoal on giant-ass paper is going to be hell. I'll do my best, that's all I can do.
See you all next week and thanks for tuning in ^.-

Drapery . . .

So for the drapery project, I thought it wouldn't be so difficult, only because I love drawing folds. But this time, I had to do it planar-analysis style, which was a lot harder of course . . . I picked a pretty large thing to drape it over too (my drying rack), so it took up pretty much my whole page. I should've zoomed out more, and I meant to, but I wasn't used to this giant-ass paper. I figured I'd have more room than I did. That was definitely a misjudgment on my part, and I would've erased it and started over if it wasn't in charcoal. I didn't have a lot of paper either, and I thought we were going to use it in class, but apparently I read the wrong day or something. I get confused too easily I think . . .
But I guess it turned out ok, considering I got a better grade on it than my last homework assignments! I was really happy about this. I thought it looked like shit. I know I can do better though, and I'm glad that I have all of spring break to work on it!

I'm so anxious about this Midterm assignment, I hope that I won't completely botch it with my nervousness . . . and I'm probably not going to get much sleep next week, which will most likely add to my inability to draw. I'm excited.

planar analysis

This is difficult for me, I understand it when I see images of it, but when I actually try to figure it out, I have problems. I'm not sure why it's so hard for me to think of, I guess I have a lot of difficulty converting 2-d images to 3-d, but that's what art is . . . really I should just practice it and stop complaining about how bad I am, but complaining is so much easier! Well, I will practice. I bought my paper and bigger drawing board, so now I just need to plan out where and how I will do my next homework assignment. Apparently I will be doing it all tonight, since I will have 0 free-time this weekend . . . work sucks

yaaay for internet! ^-^

Finally! My brother and I got internet yesterday and I'm finally able to use it!
For once I don't have a lot of homework, which is awesome. I'm super tired after getting 3 hours of sleep but somehow still can't manage to get to bed . . .
This intuitive perspective is finally becoming a little easier, but now we have these weird grid things that I'm having a hard time comprehending. I hope that tomorrow I will understand it better, otherwise my homework's really gonna suck . . .

a perspective on perspectives . . .

Snow day!
I was so happy that I had all of Monday to work on homework. I can't believe I was still so behind though, I slept for 1.5 hours on Tuesday night trying to finish my 3-D design homework . . . blah >.<

Anyway though, I got to spend a lot of time on my 2-point perspective homework which was great! I have a problem getting my lines darker, and for some reason I thought it was okay if we used charcoal, but apparently I was wrong . . . so next time I guess I'll use a really really light pencil then go over the parts I want to make darker with the 4B. I had problems with the perspective, and was fighting with myself over what I saw and how to put it into 2-point rather than draw it how I saw it. I also tried to fill my background in on the right side. That was very difficult for me, especially the ceiling above the kitchen and above the front door. I wasn't sure how to place those . . . The counter also didn't seem to have a bottom, because if I made it have one, it appeared really really long, when it was much shorter. I guess I should've just shortened the width of it, that would've made more sense.

This intuitive perspective has got me, too. I'm very bad at that. My eyes are bad, anyways, and I'm not good at judging distance. Oh well, I can do this, right? :P

life in general and random bitchings

I really had fun with the linear perspective of my new kitchen in our apartment. There were a lot of things wrong with it, though. I didn't push the line variation as much and it was pretty cramped. I'm hoping to rework it and add more detail in it. The scaling was off, too, so I'll have to fix that. But overall it was fun, I just wish that I had more time to do it. Moving is not so fun, especially in snow . . . It was okay though, I just hope work doesn't get in the way too much. I hardly have time to work on my projects which is a very bad thing right now . . . I really want to devote more time to it. It's kind of pointless for me to pay for college if I can't even do my best . . .
I had 2 hours of sleep last night because of my 3-D design homework so I'm pretty dead right now. Can't wait to get internet, whenever that's happening. I can't live without it, it makes my life very difficult and I feel disconnected . . . OK enough whinning, I'm heading to class ;p