50% I decided to go with the continuous line drawing here and got a little creative with it. I decided to morph 3 ion the 5 objects together, with the hand holding the cup of tea with the saucer, but the handle of the small cup is apart of a much larger pair of scissors. I’m learning how to be creative in order to keep the entire drawing one consistent line. I tried to make some of the items like the 2 bananas and the cup smaller than the rest of the items and I hope that’s enough. Part of the hand is clipped off the edge and I’m not sure if hat’s quite what you meant by cropping one part of an item off since it’s not literally cropped off but I didn’t “finish” it, implying that it’s cut off I suppose. It’s challenging so far and I’ve already mad some irreversible mistakes but that’s ok.I’m going to enhance some of the lines to be thicker.
The last page I focused on the modified and cross contour. I don’t enjoy these as much, and I think it’s because there’s less “fun” in these styles. I did the modified version for the tea cup/saucer and the window viewed tree. I didn’t do well here. They remind me of drawings I used to do as a kid when I was trying to be good at this because they’re not bad, they just don’t look like they were drawn by me, an adult. Looking at your paper the whole time and occasionally glancing at the objects themselves resulted in what I would refer to as “real improvement” if I was in middle school. I guess what I’m learning from this is memory. I think memory isn’t as valued as other artistic necessities and should be due to the constant glancing from object/image to artier and over. Would be nice to learn how to do that less. The cross contour always just confused me. They truly seem the simplest to me and I supposed that’s why I don’t quite get it. I chose a pear for that and it’s pretty self explanatory from there. I’m unsure how one could do better or worse on this style of contouring, it seems to just be lines crossing one another over the outline of the object. I suppose the lines could look more professional or mathematical
So I did 2 blind and one continuous on the previous page and now I have 1 blind and two continuous. This blind contour was my favorite actually. I just like how “bad” it looks. But I really started having fun with the continuous contour. I was very confused how I was supposed to doodle an object and never pick up the pencil but here we are. I was very disappointed with the scissor drawing because I couldn’t get the loops to look realistic, but I remembered threat these weren’t supposed to resemble reality, these are supposed to look fun. I’m actually really happy with the hand, though. I think I did the best with that over any of my other drawings this week. Continuous contour is my favorite of the 4

I mostly did blind contour on this paper, I’ll touch upon the continuous in the next post. Blind contour is sort of fun, makes me feel like a kid again. I learned that blind contour is not supposed to “look good” once you’ve finished, it is supposed to look however it looks. I had a very difficult time not looking at the paper and I’ll admit that accidentally cheated on the shoe drawing once or twice. It still looks terrible (but good for a blind contour) so I wasn’t worried and just forced myself to keep my eyes from the paper once I started the chair drawing up top. Just need to keep the size/dimensions proportionate for these kinds or else I won’t even know what I’m I’m looking at.

100% Complete
Five Things I Learned:
1. Shadows are tricky, I never put much thought into them before. I figured they’d just be a longer, stranger looking version of the still life, which is true, but I didn’t realize they’d have a life of their own. Not too much to resemble that here, but when finding a good lighting, it was evident.
2. Finding a good lighting was not easy. I’m a beginner, and so my drawing abilities get sort of iffy once we start altering the perspective and angles, and getting the right light to make it work took time.
3. I learned that I’m not always going to get the perspective that I want to draw with, and the lighting proved true. I never actually got the lighting I wanted and so I had to go with the second easiest option for me, which is my final piece.
4. I’m learning how to transition between light and dark better now. It’s obviously not perfect yet but I’m getting there.
5. Reflections act very different than I thought when I began drawing. I definitely didn’t do too good with that in this project but I know what to do different on the next one.
50% Completed.
Shadows are apparently much more different depending on the shape of the object. I feel like most people know this, but drawing it out makes you realize. Like the shadow for a ball vs a can are not exactly the same. But the most challenging is transferring the bottle’s shadow onto the can because of where the light is. Definitely still working on that.
About 25% done.
Shadows are harder than I imagined. For this piece I have the light source up in the top left corner. The wine bottle is in front of the can from the direction of the light and so most of the can is actually going to be darker as the wine bottle is blocking most of the light. It’s very challenging trying to get the shadows to align with one another in terms of darkness both with each other and with accuracy.
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