Starting the assignment

On Thursday, we began thinking about ideas for the assignment. the main purpose of this unit's assignment is to create a drawing which includes your shoes (with legs) and your culture. This drawing had to have atleast two different perspectives - one-point perspective, two-point perspective, atmospheric perspective and overlap.
 In the beginning of the lesson, I became quite worried, because when drawing my culture and tradition in other artwork, I have always had a way of creating something that is connected to God, the reason being that most traditions and cultural things are connected to God in India. I can't create a drawing of my shoes on top of something "religious" as that would seem very disrespectful.

Even so, towards the end of the lesson, I managed to come up with ideas that, not only originated from my Indian culture, but also the Norwegian culture, seeing as I have lived in Norway my whole life.I don't have a picture of my ideas, but for my final design, I included mountains, henna, people on the mountains, and some more I can't remember. I also used atmospheric and linear perspective, as well as overlap.

Hope it goes well. Generally, I am pleased with the design.

- Anisha

Shaded my drawing

Today I managed to shade my drawing, by carefully observing the various different shades on my shoes. The Grey-scale (or shading scale) was helpful in doing this, as I could differentiate the different shades on my piece of paper as well. I used two methods to do the two shoes, where I felt that the first one was more successful. This included me just taking my time, and follow the details of my shoe from the top-right to the bottom left, and eventually filling in some shades here and there. I spent most of my time on my first one, which may be the reason for why it was a bit better.

The second method, our teacher suggested, which was to first find the light shade of my shoe, and applying this on the hole shoe. Then, we were to shade them in. As we had little time left, I rushed into it, and it not become that successful. Even so, I put my signature on, and generally it looked like an okay piece. Just glad that this wasn't our assignment.

- Anisha

Last lesson

The previous lesson, our teacher was absent most of the lesson, so he gave us an assignment we had to do, which was to draw our shoes. We started off my creating a gray-scale, by applying light grey on the bottom part and dark grey at the top. This took about 10-20 minutes. 

This greyscale was created to help us shade our shoes that we were supposed to draw afterwards. I didn't manage to finish it, but in the end I feel that it looked good enough. 

I wonder how I will continue with my drawing though, since the shoes will not stand the same as last year.

Even so, I am  excited about tomorrow. :)

- Anisha

New Year, New Term, New Unit

Happy New Year everyone!!

As we have now started a fresh, new year, it is time to start a new unit as well. This new unit is called "A Walk in My Shoes" and is all about drawing. We will learn about drawing specific objects, shading, contours, perspectives and depth, which will then be applied in our assignment - to draw a shoe and symbols that help to recognize a specific culture.

Observation will have to be a key factor to encounter, as drawing in general is quite difficult. Thinking about my last drawing projects, such as drawing Sharukh Khan (Icon I think) and the self-portrait unit from last term , I know that if I really set my mind to it, I can actually create something extraordinary.

For example, when I drew Sharukh Khan, I really focused on the hair. This was the result:

There is a major difference between this drawing, and the self-portrait, because I didn't really focus too much  on the actually drawing part, which may be the reason for why it was not as successful as I wanted it to be.

Well, we will see.. I hope to try my best!

- Anisha