Jocilyn's Art Blog

I'm sad this is the last post of this year, but I'm also glad that this is my last post because I'm really happy with the way my drawing turned out! This took me about 45 minutes to do, and I did it with watercolors and a pencil in my sketchbook. Originally, I wanted the snail's shell to be a sunset, but I decided that I liked doing a more abstract style. Overall, I really like the way this turned out!

Since this is our final project, I wanted to draw something that I was passionate about. I love Lilo and Stitch, so that's where this came from. I think I could've done better on the background and proportions, but otherwise, I really like it! I used a mix of watercolors, colored pencils, a pencil, and my sketchbook. This took me about 2 and a half hours.

This took me a long while, about 3 and a half hours. I think it's because I'm a perfectionist when it comes to my work, so I really wanted it to be the best it could be. I used my watercolors on this and I like the way it turned out. I knew it would be challenging when I drew it, but I got a little bit lost trying to do all the details on the headpieces, so I made it more simple. Here are my layer and progress photos. I did about 3 layers. Reference:

This took me about 2 hours to get this sketch completely done. I'm really proud of how this turned out! I'll also put my reference photo down below. I was really inspired by the avant-garde style, so I wanted to draw something out of the ordinary. I used a pencil in my sketchbook to draw this. Before I paint this in with watercolors I'll probably shift the jaw just a little bit because it looks a bit big. I'll also add all the little details with watercolor since it will be easier than drawing every little bead. I just gave myself some rough guidelines.

This took me about an hour and 10 minutes to do. I did it in my sketchbook with pencils and watercolors. I tried to make it as cohesive as possible without making the colors muddled. Sunsets are always a huge inspiration for me because the color in the sky looks like a painting. They're gorgeous.

This took me about an hour and a half to do. I drew this with a pencil in my sketchbook and colored it with watercolors. It was only after I was done that I realized it wasn't exactly a wheel.... but I still like the way it turned out! It's meant to be wings on a wall, like the graffiti you see in LA.

This week I drew a ladybug because all other bugs make my skin crawl, and this seemed like the best option. I decided to make the flower blue because I like the way primary colors work together, and it pulled the picture together quite nicely. This took me about an hour and 20 minutes, plus it drying overnight. I really like working with watercolors because there's so much freedom in them and they can be messy in the best way. This was done in my sketchbook with a pencil. I also included my reference picture at the bottom.

I definitely take for granted that I can draw easily with my right hand. Drawing this with my left hand was both frustrating and difficult. I wanted to go back in constantly and change lines or clean them up, but I couldn't. This took me about 45 minutes in my sketchbook with a pencil. It's supposed to be a willow tree, but I'm not sure how much it actually looks like one.

I had a lot of fun when I was making this! There are so many different techniques with watercolor, and it was fun to play around with it. My reference photo was a picture of a geode, which I figured would be really cool to paint because of all the different textures. This took me about an hour and I used a watercolor palette, a pencil for sketching, and watercolor paper.

After experimenting for about 10 minutes, I really got started on my abstract art piece. I really like the way this turned out. I think different people will have different interpretations, and that's really cool to me. Here's the finished product! I like how you can see texture in it, and I like how the blue and stark black draws the eye to the center of the piece so you can work your way to the edges and look at it as a whole. All in all, this was the most fun I've ever had when creating anything.

This took me about 2 and a half hours to do. The arms were especially hard to do, and you can see that they're not as smooth as the rest of the sculpture. I know the head is big for the body, but I didn't want to risk redoing it and having the whole sculpture fall apart. I'm kind of proud of how this turned out!

So for this, I was going to draw a windmill, but instead, I was just inspired by the windmill. I drew a star, but it looked plain by itself, so I wanted to add something interesting, and that's where the background came from. This took me about an hour, and I drew this with a pencil in my sketchbook. I was also inspired by 'The Little Prince' because I think it's gorgeous.

This took me about an hour, just because I wanted to get the proportions right. I used a pencil in my sketchbook.

This week we're doing figures, and each of these took me about 2 minutes with a pencil. They're just supposed to be a rough sketch. My favorite sketch is the one with its hands help up to its head. I imagine them sticking their tongue out like a little kid saying, "come and get me!". I really like the playful aspect of it.

Honestly, I don't know what this is, but I spent an hour trying to decide on what to make, so I just went with this. I made a cube surrounded by a bunch of spheres, but you can't really see the cube. Also, I just want to mention how fun it is to play with clay. Maybe because it's a bit messy? As you can see, my hands both got a bit stained, but it was worth it. I thought about making a spider since this somewhat resembles one, but I'm scared of spiders and just couldn't bring myself to do it.

I really like working with clay because it's something that I can hold in my hands. If I get frustrated, I can start from scratch with no harm done. I don't have to erase any lines, and that gives me a lot of creative freedom. I put it on the paper towel so it wouldn't turn my counter blue, so sorry about that! The most difficult shape for me was the pyramid, and the easiest one was the sphere. The sphere is my favorite one because it turned out really smooth and it's nice to look at.

This took me around an hour. I worked in my sketchbook with a pencil. I thought I had enough room for the sphere, but I forgot that I had to draw the shadow... oops! I was really happy with how this turned out.

I used colored pencils and a pencil for this drawing, and it took me around 3 hours (mostly to color everything in). The pencils I'm using aren't the best quality, so it was difficult to get them to blend cohesively. I tried to make a sort of deserted town. This isn't my best work, but I still like the way it ended up turning out.

This week I decided to draw this big window at the front of my house. I really like it because it makes our front room feel spacious and it lets a lot of light in. This took me about an hour and a half and I drew this in my sketchbook with a pen, pencil, and colored pencils.

So this week I went outside to see what I could find. Immediately, I saw these clovers and knew I wanted to do something with them. I wanted a contrast between the bright green of the clovers, so I used some dirt and a wheelbarrow to make that contrast. This took me about an hour since I went on a walk beforehand to get some inspiration. Here's the final product!

I drew this in my sketchbooks with a no. 2 pencil and colored it in with colored pencils. It took me about 30 minutes.

I used a pencil and pen for this drawing, and it took me around 2 hours. I really like how this turned out. I was going to try to do some facial expressions, but the expressions weren't clear in the picture, so I couldn't really make them out. This is of me boating with my family last year and it just reminds me of my childhood because we went boating every chance we could. I'm on the tube with my niece and my sister, and the reason we're all doing weird poses is so that my dad would go faster. This is one of my favorite pictures!

So this week I decided to do the first letter of my name for the logo, and I made it into a fox. It took me about an hour to come up with the concept, design, and to draw it and color it. I used colored pencils and a #2 pencil. I did this in my sketchbook.

I thought this week might be easy, but it was very difficult. I think it's because I chose a picture with a lot of geometric lines, and I'm kind of a perfectionist when it comes to things I create. I really wanted to get this just right, but it turned out just a little bit lopsided. I used pencil and it took me about 4.5 hours throughout the week. I got genuinely frustrated when I was drawing this, but it turned out okay in the end :)

Since Valentine's Day is in one day, I decided to draw a rose. This took me about 45 minutes and I did it in my sketchbook with pencil and pen. I was going to color it in, but I liked the simplicity of it without color.

For this week, we had to come up with a negative space drawing. It could either be a superhero or an animal, and I chose a superhero. I drew Wonder Woman reaching out to something, and her child self in the same position. I think I could've done better with the anatomy of the child and coloring it in. It was very difficult to get a solid color because I was using colored pencil. I didn't realize that it wouldn't be the kind of solid color I wanted until I had already started coloring it. All in all, I really like how this turned out. I did it on a 9x11 inch paper, and it was challenging to fill the whole page. It took me about three hours in total to figure out how I was going to draw this and to color it in. My reference pictures will be below.