Sigh... Oh Art Class...Why Do You Hate Me So?

Sigh.... Journal what can I say? I actually don’t know. This entry may give a little insight into why I named this blog My Beautifully Twisted World. Well today we began to actually stipple our drawings with a pen. I shouldn’t probably say WE seeing as I didn’t have my drawing. Nope...Kyle Skerritt did not walk with his drawing. As usual I swear that I meant to pick it up; I even had my drawing pencil case with my mechanical pen in it. But today I decided to put my drawing and my picture in my art portfolio and carry that to school and I completely forgot to pick it up. Before I continue any further I actually just want to do a back-track on how many times that I’ve actually left my drawing materials home. I just finished checking…and awkwardly enough it seems that I’ve only forgotten my drawing utensils TWICE! You can check it for yourself if you want to make sure, but as far as I can tell I’ve only done it twice, THIS TIME INCLUDED. Well I’ll have to forget that for now I guess. Either way Miss informed me that she was “fed-up” of us always leaving home our materials most of the time (like I said, check it if you want and see for yourself) so she put me out of class for the two periods. So I stood there at the door for a long time and then she told me that she wanted me “out of her sight” and so I moved from the doorway and strayed down the Form 2 block a little and in front of the Form 2 block a little bit more. Finally, it was at the time that I realized that Miss was not giving notes or speaking to the class but merely checking everyone’s drawings at her front desk, so there was absolutely NO PURPOSE for me to be there. So I walked towards the basketball court. I stayed there a while and looked at some guys play football and then returned to my station at the door “out of sight” only to be informed that Miss was now making me write an account of where I’d been for all that time. I was obviously in trouble for keeping out of Miss’ sight. Well that was the not-so-good part of my art class (it isn’t always pretty) but on the other hand I did get a good idea of how I should go about doing my stippling by observing the other students. And as usual even if I didn’t get to do it in school I worked on it at my house. It is a long an gruelling process I must admit... especially for the darkest areas because there I had to make small dots very close together. Yes... it was frustrating. The splotches were caused by an ink spill but I think I worked around them pretty nicely.  You can see it here actually. By the way I think that my work sometimes looks a lot better when it’s done at home seeing as I’m not being rushed or being bothered (except for the splotches); Just an observation.

P.S. Don’t forget that I can’t draw.



So here it is... my stippling...with the ink blothces and all.



Stippling My (censored) Maybe I Should just SMILE.... :D..... :(

What is up journal? It’s me…you know…Kyle. I’m here Coming back to tell you the usual story of chaos and mishaps due to the ART PERIOD. Well like I promised the last time, today we did start our pen and ink drawings. However…I didn’t bring my pencil sketch to school. I had every intention of doing it but somehow when I was walking out my door I forgot my sketchpad and my photo at home. I actually don’t like saying forgot maybe the term ‘teleported itself out of my hands and into my room’ is a better name for it. But whether it teleported or was forgotten (we’ll go with teleported)  here I am sitting at my desk in school wondering how in the world I managed to neglect my drawing utensils when I so direly needed them today. The deed was done so it really didn’t make sense to fret over it. Miss gave us a little note on stippling.

Stippling

This is also known as pointillism and is the creation of tonal values using different quantities of dots, different spaces between each dot and the pressure with which these dots are created. I assumed that we’d be using this method when we were going to start drawing with a pen.



So once this note was given and I wrote it down I witnessed as the other students set about finishing their pencil sketches, getting expert advice from Miss and then doing the pen part of the sketch. Seeing as I didn’t do my drawing in school I will now proceed to leave my school environment and tell you what I did at home. Well first of all like I mentioned before it is extremely hard to grid your picture to your sketchpad paper. If there were twelve blocks on your paper and your picture just happened to be twelve centimetres long then, WHOPPI FOR YOU! But mine wasn’t like that; so I was in a serious mess for half an hour. When I finally came up with the right measurements to grid out my picture I proceeded to number the rows and columns like a chessboard. You would find this extremely helpful to do when drawing because you can get an EXACT sense of where everything goes as though they were co-ordinates on a map. After I did all of this I began drawing my uncle’s face. I started from the base go up to the ears and I then began working on the facial detail a little before I finally began working on the hair and hair line. But you know what irked me Journal? Do you really want to know what got right underneath my skin? Of course you do! Did you think I forgot that you love tormenting me by making me write in you? Anyway what got me annoyed was the fact that no matter how hard I tried or what angle I tried drawing it from… I could not draw my uncle’s one million dollars star boy smile. Now you have to admit… it is a nice smile right? EXACTLY! But leave it up to me, Kyle Skerritt, the anti-artist to mess it up. I got total for it though…as you can imagine…that was a complete surprise. But nonetheless I’m happy that I got the mark. Look at it for yourself, do you think I messed up?

 

So here's the pencil sketch that I drew(un-penned) once you look below this you can see the actual picture and compare them for yourself.

So as you see for yourself I definitely DID NOT capture the smile...come to think of it...I didn't capture A LOT of things...

Now here is just the example of the numbering that I was telling you about... and COINCIDENTALLY you can also see the mark that i received. Like I said for myself... WOW!!