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!!