New drawings for my art class: New Media #2 & Drawing #1

If you haven’t seen New Media #1 yet, do check it out for context.

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This week, I bring you some new original art. I feel like people won’t care about it since it’s original art, but I put some love into these drawings. I don’t understand why fanart gets more attention; maybe because of how recognizable the characters are (like Mickey Mouse); I made a post last year about Original Art vs. Fanart.

For New Media #2, I worked with dry pastels in class. It was messy and got all over my pants and shirt! Also, dry pastels are fragile and if they hit the floor, they shatter/break.

I didn’t create one. I made two dry pastel drawings!

Finally, for my first drawing assignment (at-home) for my art class, I made something up in my head. A student in the class said that they should be named Gary and Sabrina. My professor said that the duo should have a tv show or comic.

I used artist ink pens and color pencils for the color. I tried to get good lighting for the photo (I took these photos last night). But, oh well. If I get enough time, I’ll get better clear photos of my drawing. For now, these photos will do as I submitted them after taking these photos (I included closeups).

Here's my course direction for this advanced drawing class that I typed up (it was a required assignment); this original drawing (plus the rest after this one) follows that paper:

“ For this class, what I want to pursue this quarter is to make sure my drawings have that comic book look. I know I haven’t explained my introduction in class that much and I didn’t want to make it go on for long, but when I drew my first original comic, I did it digitally on my iPad and I was aiming for that Japanese manga cartoony look as I love reading manga. If you aren’t familiar with manga, it’s a Japanese comic which reads from right to left. The only time I’ve done a comic traditionally was for my high school art class. For my materials, of course, I’m gonna be using art ink pens. I could include color if I like; I might use watercolor pencils since I love using that or regular color pencils.

I mostly do human character designs and for my characters, I do some hatching techniques on a character to show that there is a shadow under their neck or just for details in closeups. For my drawings, I will incorporate some hatching techniques to give my drawings life and depth. I think that’s all I can think of for this paper. My entire goal for this quarter is to make sure my drawings show that black and white comic/manga look (color optional) and just to have fun and get all experimental with it. I also want to work hard on backgrounds as I am still practicing.”

Let me know what you think of these drawings that I did for my art class! Take care ;).

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