Maybe this class isn't so bad...

[spazz]

Okay, so my art class is the worst art class I've ever had. That doesn't mean I wasn't able to get some serious practice in whilst putting up with the nonsense. It was also much more structured than my Independent Study class in high school. So that's nice. I just hope next semester's 3D class is ok... ah well.

Anyway, my sketchbook is in my room as I'm supposed to be working on a self-portrait for Thursday, so I took some crappy webcam pics to share with the world!

So here's the fruits of the past month (we've finally started drawing things other than lines *repeated headdesk*), which I'm sort of proud of. :)




I came in the day we drew this, and she was like "Take off your shoes! Whee!" My feet were in these shoes with no socks and it wasn't pretty, so I left one shoe on to lessen the horror, and... drew my feet. I'm really bad at feet, charcoal, and foreshortening, so this was an awesome practice for me. :) I came back to the dorm, and told my roommate I had finally had fun in art class. We did a dance. It was nice. :)



It seems every art class I'm ever in, we end up going to the cemetery. It's kind of morbid, but I like it there. :) I love drawing water, and I love oil pastels, so it's really not surprising that I finished this in an hour and twiddled my thumbs for the next 30 minutes until the girl who drove us there decided we'd been there long enough. Good times.



And, for scientific purposes, my self-portrait. It looks nothing like me, and she made us do that terrible background in class by "writing a stream of consciousness". Whatever. I wrote Regina Spektor lyrics and also about Supernatural. Don't tell anyone. *cough* I'm thinking about adding some Metallica lyrics to the bottom to keep this "at least I'm attempting to draw real people" thing going. This one might be Fade to Black. Anyway, my roommate just walked by and told me I had skills, so... my ego is inflated for the night. XD; I'll have to show these to Sabrina so she can take me down 3 or 5 pegs.


This concludes our nerdery for this evening. Thank you, and Good Night.

Comments

[xo-disaster-ox.livejournal.com]

I love your work. The second one is great and also the suppose-to-be self portrait is great =)

[gembat.livejournal.com]

Thanks! I think the second is my favorite. Heh...

[goodbyebird]

I love love love that first one! (and I in no way have a foot fetish so it's all in the skills;)

Plus, cemetaries aren't morbid. I wish some of my friends wanted to hand in the cemetary and draw or whatnot. I find it calming there.

[gembat.livejournal.com]

Haha, thanks. :)

Yeah... it is very calming, and really pretty on a bright, sunny day. It's just when you tell people that you've just been drawing at the cemetery again, they start to give you funny looks... XD

[tahu.livejournal.com]

yay being good at feet.

I love that last one though.

[gembat.livejournal.com]

Hee, I'm glad you like the last one, as it's the one I'm afraid she'll be basing my grade off of. e.x; *badly needs an A* I just... you know. Accidentally made my nose and eyes too far apart. Which is what I do. Ah well.

[lilbabiangel888.livejournal.com]

even if it doesn't look like you in rl, your self-portrait still looks uberpretty. And yay for writing spn! :DDD

Your art is all gorgeous bb
*inflates your ego some more*

[skatfluchamp.livejournal.com]

i totally knew that drawing was of you before i even read what you had said. it looks a lot like you. I have never been a fan of art class, it bothers me that we can only create what they tell us to create.