I found a tictok of a marine biologist who walks through eelgrass at lowtide. This is crab was part of her short video, and decided to screen shot to use for my project as I'm rather far from the ocean.

I am a beginner who prefers just dooding. I use the confines of my rulers, protractors, and shape templates. Within my tools there is a confine that I find comforting as I am a perfectionist with OCD. My goal is to break free from those confines to explore my creativity in more depth so I am able to push my creativity as a pastry chef/artist.

I discovered in this project that I love my mechanical pencil. I love thicker lead and how the lead feels when I shade. I also prefer thicker midliners to sketch/draw with, and I like the confines of lines and shapes in coloring my art. That preference is one I am pushing myself to get beyond and trying to reverse so that I may find shapes and lines within the confines of my colors, hence not using lines for the eelgrass in my two longer sketches.

In my two minute sketch, I attempted use of shapes to begin creating the crab and grass. I was hyper focused on pushing myself to just sketch, I didn't even use color. The blank page and knowing I had to actually sketch something gave me anxiety. So the two minutes were perfect for me to just get something on my paper.

the 10 and 20 minute sketches were more of me just experimenting with actually sketching an actual object and getting a sense of what tools did what, and what I liked about them. I discovered in these sketches that I could use my peach color to smear the pencil to get a better and similar color to the crab than just using my gray marker. I also discovered how I prefer the lines of the eelgrass in the first sketch vs. the random line strokes in the last. I should have brought that technique forward and combined outlines with the green to prevent it from looking like scribbles, which is essentially what it ended up being even though the eelgrass wasn't my focus.

2 minute sketch: My biggest accomplishment--I did not allow myself to erase.

Beginner Sketch Artist - image 1 - student project

10 Minute Sketch: My thoughts while sketching--why did I choose this subject? LOL Beginner Sketch Artist - image 2 - student project

20 minute sketch: I need to learn more about composition, in my opinion. My 12 year old said the perspective was wonky and she didn't understand my pencil shading in the grass.

Beginner Sketch Artist - image 3 - student project

Thank you for this class. It really has helped me explore myself and my processes in sketching.

Heather Bruce

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