Two How to Draw Daisy Videos

One day, I was looking at some flowers, and imagined how to draw them. I decided to try to draw daisies based on the real ones I had in front of me. I tried sketching them in different ways with different mediums, filming my attempts. My favorite version of the daisy was the one I drew with pen. I edited the footage of me drawing the pen version into a how to draw video, and posted it on YouTube a few weeks ago.

I was going to post photos of other versions of the daisies I drew in marker, acrylic paint, and colored pencil in a blog post similar to the one I made surrounding my clay strawberry video. As I looked for places in the daisy footage to save photos from, I realized I had enough clips to make a second video. I am not sure if the repetition interested my viewers or not. At least it gave a larger glimpse at the other drawings I had made than photos could have. Here is the daisy video with multiple mediums:

I post videos to YouTube on every other Thursday on my channel Varietygirl1. You can watch more how to draw videos there. Please comment below about what you think about two videos on the same subject, or tweet me @Varietygirl1.

Trying to Draw Every Hair Around a Face

 

A few days ago, I decided to draw another face. I started with the eyes, nose, and mouth. It was looking like the last realistic drawing I made of a face, except I think I scaled the features more realistically this time. Then, it was time to draw the hair. In my last drawing of a person, I drew the hair quickly by going back and forth with my pencil. This time, I decided to try to add more detail. I drew one hair at a time, not lifting my pencil until I reached the end of each strand. I was able to pause in the middle of a strand and start again without changing the thickness as long as my pencil's point stayed on the paper.

I started each strand where the part was at the top of the head, and then only moved down. I drew some bangs that were also parted. Surprisingly, drawing each hair did not take much longer than shading in the hair would have, and it looked more natural. I felt more focused when working on this drawing than the last one. Drawing each detail individually was very enjoyable. I was thinking of adding more hair or shading, but I did not want to make the details I had already added hard to see. Next time, I will try to draw more strands of hair. 

Instead of adding shading to the rest of the face with shadows, I drew small, light horizontal lines. At first, I worried this would look like facial hair, but the more I added, the more the lines made the drawing appear more three dimensional.

Next Thursday, I am going to post a video showing how to draw realistic eyes on my YouTube channel, Varietygirl1.

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Sketching Faces

The other day, someone asked me if I could draw a person. I drew the person on the left of this piece of paper in a sort of cartoon way. Then, someone else who saw the sketch said that drawing looked really detailed, and showed me how they draw cartoon people. That reminded me of the simple cartoon people I drew dozens of times for a comic I had to make for English class. Those people had quick curves, basic features, and only shading on the hair. You can see examples of this second way I draw faces in the center of this top photo:

On the right side, I tried to sketch even simpler faces. On the left, I was trying to re-draw a creature I had drawn months ago and had lost. This sketch ended up looking completely different, The creature I drew before had more detailed eyes. I had given it cat features and scales, and called it cutie-saurus. This more recent drawing reminded me more of a panda as I worked on it.

Later that day, I looked back at the cartoon face, and wondered if I could draw a more realistic face. I had learned how to scale average features in an art class years ago, but had not practiced in a while. I kept erasing and re-drawing the eyes, nose, and mouth. At first, the nose looked way too short and the mouth was too far away. I did not have anyone to model for me or a mirror, but I tried to measure my own face with my fingers. When I had drawn the features in a way that satisfied me more, I added eye lashes, eye brows, more detailed line work, and shading. The realistic drawing is in the photo on the left below. On the right is a close up of the cartoon face.

After I drew all these faces, I realized I could make how to draw videos on this subject. I already filmed videos on how to draw eyes, and am going to post them soon. What other videos on faces would you like to see?

Art from Geometry Class

The school year has ended. During the year that recently ended, multiple projects I completed for my geometry class had artistic final products. For one of these projects, I had to create a billboard for a company (either one I made up or one that exists, but I chose to make up one) by graphing straight lines. I found the domain, range, and equation for each line on the graph. My company was called Unlimited Mobile, and offered unlimited talk, text, and web on mobile devices for $30 a month.

Here is a photo of my graphed billboard design:

I was allowed to add curved lines and other extra lines for the final billboard. Here is a photo of the final colorful billboard. The bars are the lines that tell you if your phone has a signal, and the arrow represents the unlimited nature of the service.

Another project involved creating a model of a three-dimensional building with two different types of 3-D shapes. I combined a cylinder and a rectangular prism. The cylinder was partily located inside the rectangular prism, so I had to solve for and subtract the overlapping part when calculating the surface area and volume of my building.

Here is a photo of the net of the building:

This is a two dimensional drawing of the building drawn about the same size as the net:

Here is a video that shows the final building after the net was colored and tapped together I decided to call my building a theater because the cylinder reminded me of a round theater. The rectangular prism could be a hallway:

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Exciting News: I am Starting an Uploading Schedule on YouTube!

It has been six months since I uploaded a YouTube video. I had been filming videos, but until I downloaded Adobe Premiere Pro, I was struggling to edit them. Also, uploading YouTube videos requires a lot of time (unless the internet speed is very fast) and data. I could only upload in places with unlimited internet access. Recently, I not only got new editing software, but I also got the feature on YouTube where you can schedule posts. Now I can upload multiple videos when I have good internet access, and schedule them to publish at different times! Watch the video below to know how often I plan to publish videos:

What do you think of videos like this where I just talk to you? I was thinking of doing ones like this more often, as well as asking questions on social media (Facebook, Google+, Twitter, and YouTube under the name Varietygirl1). You can also leave comments on these blog posts.

It's the One Year Anniversary of my First Post!

One year ago, on May 20, 2014, I created a post on this blog for the first time. 

Link to first post: http://miriamsketchbook.blogspot.com/2014/05/first-post-first-video.html

       I promised to show readers what was not shown on camera in my YouTube videos. I think that goal was met, considering two posts had to do with artwork not shown in videos. Other posts showed water damage to my lace drawing, and part of the process of creating the fake food that had to be cut out of the video. I do not know if this blog has inspired anyone, though it has gotten more views than I expected. 

       For the second year of this blog, I hope to engage with my readers more. This does depend on you to comment, or share on social media. I would like to know what you think of posts, and what you would like to see me make next. I have redesigned my blog recently so the links to my social media pages are more easily view-able. The part that depends on me is the posts themselves. I have only made five posts in the past year. I want to start posting at least once a month, if not once a week. This will encourage me to draw more.

       I know I have not uploaded YouTube videos in a while either. It was November 2014 when I last uploaded. I was having trouble with the editing software. I was using two programs that came with my computer; Windows Movie Maker and Cyberlink Powerdirector10. I liked both programs at first, and had made my first sixteen YouTube videos with them, as well as videos for school projects. Lately, the programs have constantly crashed when I was using them, as well as blur footage that was not blurry before editing. This may be due to them being older versions. The other day, I purchased Adobe Creative Cloud. I have been using Adobe Premiere Pro at school, and have two videos half edited. As soon as I download the program to my computer, I will be able to edit videos at home again. Now I can edit over this summer as well. New videos are coming soon. The pictures below show three pieces of artwork I am currently editing videos based on:

How to Draw a Daisy:

How to Draw a Knitted Scarf:

How to Draw Realistic Eyes:

How to Draw a Jack-o-lantern:

(I will probably upload this one closer to Halloween.)

A Not Very Fancy Street Scene

    In one of my classes, I needed to make a backdrop for a play. Seeing as the play is comical, I decided to not make the drawing of the street scene I needed too formal. I looked at a street view on google maps that was similar to the scene I wanted to draw. I made a quick sketch in pencil, went over it in marker, and added color with colored pencil and crayons. It took less than an hour to make this drawing.