6:00 AM Post

Kay so I've been busy. Skittle projects, geometry, guitar classes, musical rehearsal, etc. ANYWAY.
So today our 3 things sketch is due (we should be at 9 drawings) and I will admit I did them all last minute last night and they look like a disaster. Due to a limited time this morning, I will be posting them sometime in the future. I'm pretty ashamed of them, not gonna lie.

On the other hand! Mr. Sands assigned a word of the week project. So we go online to this art website and there will be a word that would represent the rest of the week. Our job as artists is to illustrate what that word means to us. It can be a witty interpretation or something dark or meaningful. This weeks word was

Popularity

My first initial thought was, "I'm so not drawing one person surrounded by a couple dozen. That's insane." Then I thought about being witty. So I wanted to draw someone looking into a mirror whilst there's a mirror behind them and their reflection shows a bunch of times. Then I thought, "Ha, that's too tedious for my liking." Now I was stuck in a pickle because I had waited 'til the last minute and now I had no ideas.

So in desperate need for inspiration, I texted when of my good friends, who's a little too advanced for his years, what he thought of when he heard the word, popularity. He replied with

"When I see the word popular, I see classy, I see lights. I see humble beauty." -David M. Flowers

And thus, Elaine Stacy was born.

Being Alone Is Better Than Being With the Wrong Person

Kind of angry, not going to lie. So of course I referred to drawing something to make myself feel better. Made a twitter though.. Awkward. Go follow me!

@giselleherz

Go, go, go! Anyway, a drawing of my new flowers should be up by tonight. I have nothing better to do than school anyway. Time to become at peace with myself? I think yes. 

I really want to draw this picture: 

Well, just the dress anyway... 

Procrastination

Totally didn't feel like posting anything yesterday and just remembered about an hour ago to draw more flowers. What the class was supposed to do about a week or two ago was to draw three of the same objects.

          Examples: Birds, jewelry , clothing, flowers, etc. 

So if you chose to draw birds as a general statement, you would draw three different birds like an owl, robin and an eagle. But if you chose a more specific thing such as lipstick, you have to stick to just that. Lipstick. You can't be more broad and do stuff like make-up as a whole. 

Thankfully, I chose flowers as a general statement. The first three flowers I drew up were a tulip, an orchid and an iris. Besides the tulip [I didn't try all that hard on it], the flowers came out great. Little did I know, however, that now we had to draw 49 more of them. 

So yeah, 50 flowers until the end of the year. Not that difficult of a concept. I mean, it's like 3 a week. But that also means I'll be drawing 50 different flowers. And some flowers are pretty intricate! At least we can have fun with it. Now I can draw a blooming flower, dead flower, colored flower, shaded flower, the same flower from a different point of view, an abstract flower, an eaten flower, a bouquet of flowers, etc. Surprisingly, I'm really looking forward to this.

AND, I've decided that at the end I'll put all the flowers together and give them to David Flowers as a birthday present next year. Hooray for cheap gifts! 

Don't Be Afraid of the Dark

^Eric Looking Rough^

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOu0DuxFAT0

^Check it out!

It's officially my new favorite song. I've probably listened to it like 90 times today. Trying to figure a way to put it on my iPod. I'm just shocked that the entire video is made of jellybeans. By the 46th jellybean I would have been SOOO done with the idea.

ANYWAY. So today in art we continued doing some shading. The process is simple enough.

1. Take a picture with the correct lighting
2. Learn about shading and shading techniques 
3. Pick a random picture off the board
4. Hope to God someone you like in the class picks your picture
5. Trace the picture
6. Trace it again
7. Begin to shade

I was lucky enough to have ended up with Eric's picture and he got stuck with mine. Luckily, his picture is coming out way better than I had ever thought it would. Mr. Sands taught us 

"Don't be afraid of the dark." 

and I believe that I might even be afraid of the light! 

But regardless, I'm happy. Especially for my first try. So hooray for actually trying in art class!

My Orchid!

Kay, so for Mr. Sand's homework [DUE TOMORROW], we were supposed to draw three of the same thing. So I decided to do flowers. Little did I know that I would actually try to draw something legit. Like MY ORCHID! Sheesh, I'm SO happy with it.

BUT, Mr. Sands never said we would have to frappin redraw the object so now I have to do something a little more simple. A daisy maybe?

Anyway, I put my picture on Facebook [don't add me unless I know you please!] and this was one the comments:
                                   

Uh, YES! Dude, I'm actually drawing her up a rose! Lehgo! 

Make The Rainbow, Taste The Rainbow

Sticking to orange, yellow, and purple 

s k i t t l e s

Such an awkward picture... Kinda want to change it now! 

Eric Just Stole My Graham Crackers

Technology seems to hate Eric Pine. My chapstick is at home and this makes me upset. Eric always steals my food. He just gave me carmax lip balm. Ew.