Art 101: Session 7

Hello! Welcome back to another art post. I make these every week talking about what we are working on in my college art class, and I hope you enjoy it!

This session was a super easy session, and we did it along with another session the same week. This was the first introduction to perspective that we had in this class, and I was really not excited to do these sessions. I really was enjoying the other sessions we were doing where we just drew things in still life, but now this was more technical and less artistic I felt.

First, we had to do 2 more blind contours to get ourselves ready to draw. We did our hands again, in 2 different poses. I did the “rock on” pose and the letter b in American sign language. I really like doing these blind contours, and I’ve also really enjoyed seeing how I’ve been progressing with them.

The next part of this session was where we laid a piece of paper cut into a square on a table, and drew it how we thought it looked. I was confused by the wording of this, but it just basically means we draw a square. This was supposed to be like realizing that we see things in a different way than they actually appear.

After that, we were supposed to look at the square piece of paper on the table and draw it how it actually looked. This was our first introduction to something called one point perspective. This is when all of the lines in the drawing are either parallel to the bottom, or point to one vanishing point in the distance.

I really do not think that I described any of that very well, but google can give you much better information. Anyhow, this is what my square of paper looks like in one point perspective.

This turned out to be the easiest perspective session that we did, and I really did not like doing the other ones. They all turned out fine, but I had a lot less enjoyment doing these sessions than all of the other sessions.

Thank you all so much for reading my blog post and supporting my journey! I appreciate every single one of you, and I’m so happy that I can post things like this. There are a lot of these kinds of posts coming up, so I hope you like them!

P.S. I will now be including pictures of our cat, Jack, at the end of all of my art posts. I take pictures of him a lot (he is cute all the time) and I know that some of you will enjoy seeing these. So, here are a couple pictures I recently took of him.