10th grade started September 2015 and this year I decided to leave humanities and changed to the arts area. I should mention I’m portuguese and I have no idea how this works in countries like the U.S.
Since I completed philosophy, english and all the others all areas classes last year, I don’t have to do them again, meaning this year, I have 3 subjects on school: Drawing, descriptive geometry, and history and culture of the arts. Now I’m here to talk about the drawing classes.
I was really scared of what the drawing class would be about because on 9th grade we had to draw faces, copy famous paintings and build small bridges (this last one was a shame for me). Well, turns out I’m way better than what I expected.
We started the year by studying natural forms. We were assigned to choose an object from nature, and bring it to class, to draw it! Some people bough seashells, fruits or feathers. I completely forgot about this so I just grabbed a leaf before class (the one you can see above).
We started by copying the object to paper in real size, to get to know it, then, I made a composition on a A3 sized paper (11.7 x 16.5 inches), copying the object with pen dots, colored pencils, and graphite. The graphite one was the one that took me ore time, because of every single detail on that specific part of the leaf.
Since my works are usually abstract I thought realism was going to be brain challenging and I would be one of the worst people in class, if not the worse. Turns out I had one of the best marks at the end of the first period – 17. The best anyone could get is 20.
On part II, I’ll talk about the project we did after, with charcoal.
Lua Eva Blue 
