Dragon Power

As one of our sketchbook assignments, we drew dragons.  We had the choice to take up references from the internet or draw it from our minds.  We had about a week to draw our dragons.  Then, we presented them in front of class and tell what we like about the dragon drawings and what we could say to improve our drawings.  Some dragons looked very cartoon, others looked very realistic.

 Here are some pictures of our dragon drawings:

<---this is my awesome "Doragon" drawing!

Doragon Pawaa!!

Acrylic Painting

We gathered pictures from the internet, magazines, and other sources to use as our background, midground, and foreground for our acrylic paintings.  The purpose of having a background, midground, and foreground is to create balance for the painting.

We first practiced creating different shades and tints using primary and secondary colors, also mixing other colors to create different colors.  The purpose of this was to be familiar with creating different kinds of colors and use them on our acrylic paintings.

We enjoyed a lot on this project.  Perhaps the only difficult part was trying to get the desired colors we wanted and making our paintings look realistic with combinations of shadows, shades, and tints.  Also, when attempting to paint an animal or a human, that was also difficult as well. After that, our paintings turned out like this:

After finishing this project, we gained skills of learning how to make acrylic paintings and how to make them look realistic.  If I were to do this again, I would take myself to the challenge.  My next acrylic painting should be a magical forest as my background (filled with many trees), a small waterfall as my midground, and an elf/fairy as my foreground.