10-12-2009, 10:58 PM
Some old pictures from high school art class I thought I'd share with you guys. They're posted in order from oldest to newest, but all were completed in the space of one school year (for an art book project. 
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Unfortunately, my imagination isn't particularly vibrant. All of these were done by looking at something and copying it onto paper.
Image 1 - We were asked to draw a portrait of ourselves as a fictional/historic character we admired. I picked Merlin, and basically just drew my head onto the body of a picture of him I found.
Image 2 - A bald eagle. The model for this was a sculpture-puzzle thing that decorates my room to this day.
Image 3 - A wall-hung display cabinet which used to reside in our dining room. No idea where it is now.
Image 4 - A chessboard mid-game. I like to think of it as such anyway. I actually just arranged the pieces pretty randomly, as I have little skill in the game. Who's winning?
Image 5 - This decorative goblet used to belong to Silk. Like the cabinet, it vanished without notifying me.
Image 6 - This came from a drawing that was done up during the planning of our house. The garage never made it past editing.
Image 7 - I copied this boat from a photo. It's my favorite, as it's the only one in which the environment around the focus is anything more than an afterthought.
Image 8 - A violin, copied from a picture found on the internet. The shadow behind it was my ill-conceived attempt to add a background. (My teacher would deduct points for my frequent lack of peripheral detail.)
I've barely drawn anything since, and what I have done in the years between has been cartoon-style stuff, which I'm not all that good at, and thus would rather not show here. However, as I plan on buying a tablet soon, I hope I'll be able to change that, and get back into realistic-style things again too, so that maybe I'll have more stuff to show you guys in the near future.
)Unfortunately, my imagination isn't particularly vibrant. All of these were done by looking at something and copying it onto paper.
Image 1 - We were asked to draw a portrait of ourselves as a fictional/historic character we admired. I picked Merlin, and basically just drew my head onto the body of a picture of him I found.
Image 2 - A bald eagle. The model for this was a sculpture-puzzle thing that decorates my room to this day.
Image 3 - A wall-hung display cabinet which used to reside in our dining room. No idea where it is now.
Image 4 - A chessboard mid-game. I like to think of it as such anyway. I actually just arranged the pieces pretty randomly, as I have little skill in the game. Who's winning?
Image 5 - This decorative goblet used to belong to Silk. Like the cabinet, it vanished without notifying me.
Image 6 - This came from a drawing that was done up during the planning of our house. The garage never made it past editing.
Image 7 - I copied this boat from a photo. It's my favorite, as it's the only one in which the environment around the focus is anything more than an afterthought.
Image 8 - A violin, copied from a picture found on the internet. The shadow behind it was my ill-conceived attempt to add a background. (My teacher would deduct points for my frequent lack of peripheral detail.)
I've barely drawn anything since, and what I have done in the years between has been cartoon-style stuff, which I'm not all that good at, and thus would rather not show here. However, as I plan on buying a tablet soon, I hope I'll be able to change that, and get back into realistic-style things again too, so that maybe I'll have more stuff to show you guys in the near future.
