Longboard

Most days I longboard to get around the UMaine campus. This summer I decided to decorate the bottom with markers, pen, and acrylic paint. Before doing this, I sanded the surface, and then afterwards put a clear finish back over. 

Little Spideyman

I have a whole group of finished drawing II assignments!
This first was a weekend homework assignment from two weeks ago. We had to draw a dark room and my boyfriend Jackson gave me the idea of going to Neville Hall, a lecture room on campus just a few minutes from our dorm. We hung out there that Saturday and Sunday while I drew the dark seats with light coming in from the arched doorway.

This was my homework assignment from this past weekend. We had to draw one of our favorite snacks or meals, so I bought some raspberries, blackberries, and blueberries and set them up in a small, clear parfait cup! I had fun for the majority of the time, but drawing the raspberries' and blackberries' kernels was very time consuming so instead of spending about 5 - 7 hours on the weekend assignment like usual, I spent closer to 10!

This was one of the first in-class drawings we did. I had to build some sort of white paper construction outside of class then bring it in and sketch it for 2-3 class periods (180 minutes each).

This is my most recent in class drawing. We had to choose any object that was important in some way to us and create a diptych - two panel - one of the object, and one of it wrapped. I chose my spideyman toy that squirts water out of his fists! He's very small, probably about 2 inches. We worked on him for 3 class periods, and then began the wrapped panel, which we will continue after break :)!

I knew right then that she'd been abducted

My second homework assignment for drawing II involved mirrors. We had to somehow show their reflective quality, or draw something in them. I used the small light-up circular mirror in my dorm room, and draped a shirt over it to show the light shining through the fabric. I drew myself as I looked into the mirror, capturing the glowing ring in my pupil and my eyebrow piercing. 

My second day of drawing II, we used a rag to spread charcoal powder over a piece of paper, than we used only our erasers to sketch a still life, only adding some darks at the end.

In 3D Design our first project was to create a wire animal or human figure, and I chose a cobra. I first developed its form by using a drill to tightly twist two pieces of wire, inserting hooks to leave gaps to wind the wire through its body afterwards. It's very large, I curled it up, but when spread out it's about 12 ft. I am okay with how it came out, I like that it is life-size, but if I could re-do it I might make it smaller and thus be able to make the form look more solid, and add more detail.

When you find yourself the villain in the story you have written..

The first assignment for Drawing II was to create a study of any object. For this broad topic it seems that common choice is shoes, but I love my Vans and they were what I decided would be the most fun out of the all the objects I was deciding between. I set them up on the chair in my room for the weekend, and my little light down by them for greater contrast! I used nero lead, which I really like since it will go quite dark, but it is a little harder to erase out highlights. These are a few shots of my process!

Someone on my floor had those little magnetic beads, so Jackson decided to do a bunch of fake piercings with them - you just have to put one on each side of your ear, mouth, etc.! I really like the ears but he refuses to actually get them done.

a tiny kingdom at the bottom of the trees

 Here is a collection of some of drawings, sketchings, and a painting from my first semester at the University of Maine while taking Drawing 1 and 2D Design. I ended up with the same professor for both classes and I really enjoyed him, and the majority of the assignments he gave.

Final project for drawing, the only criteria was to draw a window with something in the foreground 
and background. This window is on my front door at home, I took a photograph 
of the spider silhouette at school, and I looked at a cloudy night sky and photographs for reference in the background.

Giorgio de Chirico's Hector and Andromache

This sketch and gauche painting are direct studies of the painting above:
Giorgio de Chirico's Hector and Andromache

Cloth study done in drawing

Study of Jackie, my friend in 2D Design, based off a thumbnail sketch 
of her done in class and later blown up in drawing

Valve and pipe, thumbnail study done in the Orono steam plant, blown up in drawing

Pumpkin on a cloth, direct study in drawing

Direct, quick study of a girl in my drawing class

Corner scene, looking out my dorm window,  direct study for drawing

Detail of my final project for 2D Design. 

Completed 2D final, done in gauche paint A very vague assignment: 
combining any number of photographs we'd taken that semester. I chose to 
use a photo of a bridge and combine it with a picture of my hand 
with a pen-drawn tattoo.

Detail of the bridge wires

Study of two boys in the library, one reading, one sitting at a table.
Direct thumbnail study, blown up in drawing.