Luna Wisdom

       This week I began coloring. I started by just making out shadows and highlights and slowly shading them in. I also started by coloring the skin first as that's usually what's easiest for me. I prefer to start my drawing this way because I think drawing where shadows and lights are is easier on something with a smoother texture. I also like to do this because when drawing it feels like I'm doing the bottom layer first and then the hair and everything else go on top.      Working on my color palette last week was fun but it felt so great to pick up my colored pencils and work on a drawing and color on illustration board again. I haven't used my colored pencils in awhile so it was nice to get back into it.      On page 25 of this week's reading ( The Social Photo ) there's a line that reads "what is real is only what is photographable, according to the logic of a camera."  I thought of my blog posts when I read this li...

     Drawing was a bit of a struggle for me this past week but I've gotten my illustration to the point where I can begin coloring! Since I was having a difficult time getting into the right state of mind to draw, I ended up spending some time deciding on my coloring palette. I was also looking through some old illustrations and looking specifically at the techniques I used to create them.     I think this ties in very well with this week's theme of nostalgia. Going through my old work and looking at how I've improved and how my style has changed over the years, is always a very enlightening and nostalgic experience for me. Looking at old art allows me to pick out things I like that I'd like to recreate and things I don't like that I want to avoid. One quote I really liked from the reading was "layers allow the designer to treat the image as a collection of assets, a database of possibilities" (Lupton, Phillips, 127). Although my drawings don't have ph...

     This is the first progress photo of my project. It is a rough sketch on illustration board, it needs some more work but I'm hoping to start color this week. The photo has also been uploaded to Instagram. https://www.instagram.com/lunassketches/        This week's section of the reading talks about what texture in art is and how different types of texture can be produced in different ways.  On page 64-65 in the section labeled "Textured Logotypes" it talks about how textures were used to "convey ideas of movement and change". With drawing its more difficult to capture texture than with another medium like photography. So, I really want to focus on  using different mediums and colors to create texture and depth, especially in the hair. In this piece I think texture and movement will be a very important element.

     Hello, My name is Luna Wisdom. I am a first-year at Lawrence University in Appleton, WI. I plan on majoring in biology, but creative activities have always been important to me. I have been drawing since I was a child and I love to sing, I also enjoy taking pictures of nature whenever I find something that piques my interest. Drawing has always been a good way for me to help myself deal with my emotions and express myself. I'm very excited to be in an art class this term as I sometimes struggle with finding the motivation to draw and art classes help to push me to be creative.      I work with a lot of different mediums, like paint, clay, ink and pens, but my preferred medium is graphite pencil or colored pencil on paper. I love to make large colored illustrations but I haven't had much time with school to work on pieces like that. So, for my project for this class, I am going to make a colored illustration on a piece of 11in by 14in illustration ...