This Was HORRID!! (23/05/11)

Well Journal, I telling yuh, de stress I does have to deal with some times seriously outrageous yuh know! Today we were supposed to start drawing using pen and ink, (I already know the look on your face… how in the world do you DRAW with a pen) it definitely wasn’t what we were taught when we were little. But no matter if I drew on a wall or on the TV with a PENCIL when I was 5 years old, today I was going to have to draw with a PEN! Well the first thing that you need to know is that a ballpoint pen and a mechanical pen are the best pens to use for ink drawings. This is simply because of the fact that they have free flowing ink and that is mainly what you want when drawing( imagine if yuh pen stick on yuh while yuh drawing yuh face… hard lucks for de fella that that happen to! Your face would probably come out looking like a shaky and blurred gorilla head). Miss asked us to bring a photo to school to draw, I brought my passport photo from when I was about 8 or 9 years old; little did I know that it was way too small. Miss told us that we had to grid our picture with the same amount of squares that we had on our sketchpad paper or to proportion (if I had 140 squares on my sketchpad paper I could either grid the picture into 70 squares or 280 squares but NOT into 71 squares).My sketchpad paper was gridded the night before and I now had to find a NEW photograph to use. Now as you’ve probably noticed (and if you haven’t then… WOW!) I didn’t actually start drawing anything today so really what I’m doing here is showing you guys the troubles that I faced and the ways that you might be able to avoid them. So I got a picture out of the school newspaper and began gridding that. Now the first thing that you want to do when gridding your picture is to know whether your downscaling it, enlarging it or putting the exact same number of squares. The last one is the easiest but that also depends on the size of the picture. So I tried doing this but I couldn’t get the exact proportion to enlarge it to, because the length was odd and the other was even. Also it was pretty hard to get the ratio correctly and find the right measurements on my ruler. What also really did not help me was the fact that my ruler is slightly bent and so my lines were being drawn slanted!! All in all, just remember what I’ve said here and know that I completely failed in my quest to grid my picture. Don’t worry the next journal entry will be all about what I did and how I drew the picture. So thank you for reading… and big balls!!(Just watched Wipe-out)