Drawing

Another week another exciting blog post! This week my friend, Caroline Luce, helped me with starting my rough draft of drawing the animals. When I was drawing the pig, who is the protagonist of the story, it came very easy I was actually kind of surprised. However, when I drew the wolf, who is the antagonist of the story, it was very hard to get him to actually look like a wolf instead of a lion or a different animal. If I'm going to have to draw  the lion on every page of my story book then it will be very frustrating to make sure he looks the same through out the book. Also, i have bought all of the supplies to make my book such as the paper, special calligraphy pens to make the hand writing pretty, the ink for the calligraphy pens, and ribbon the tie the book together when I am done.

Final steps!

As of my last blog post I had my title page done, my first page done, and my last page done illustrations writing and all! I am actually really juiced up to see the book getting put together for the final project to present in front of the class. My drawings have gotten alot better and the first page is really pretty with colorful drawings of the characters in my books like the pig and the wolf. Since I already have the plot of the book the only thing Ireally need to do is the final drawings. Also i have seen gifs of calligraphy on my dashboard on tumblr,but this time when I saw a gif of somebody writing something in that handwriting all I cold think about was how much the probably practiced to perfect it like they had.

Calligraphy

Last week i had mentioned a friend and team mate of mine named Jake who does calligraphy as a hobby and that he would be writing some of the important pages in my novel such as the title pages, the first page and the last page. Well, he came over on Tuesday morning until about late afternoon trying to teach me how to do calligraphy and showed me all of his calligraphy pens and it was really cool to watch him writing the letters and the flow the wrist with the hand, it was actually beautiful. He let me try to write some of the letters and words for each of the pages but they did not look nearly as dainty or eyeful as Jake's letters had even with a couple of hours of practice. By next blog post I am hoping to have my illustrations of the pigs and wolves looking better and more alike every drawing. Sadly i am not a very artsy person, but I have noticed that my drawings are getting better with each time I practice!

Pig!

My friend, Skyler, helped with me getting started with the drawings this week, and they didn't turn out as well as I had thought but I guess I will just have to practice until the drawings can come out the way I want them to, which is asymmetrical and every pig and wolf I draw should come out looking at least a little similar to each other, however all of the drawings of the pigs and wolves looked completely different from each other and you wouldn't have been able to tell that they were the same character in the story book. So far this week that has really been my only struggle since the switch to writing a story book instead of a recycled clothing fashion show. Since I already have the plot of the book laid out for me I just need to but the paper and my friend, Jake, does calligraphy so I will be getting him to write the title pages of the book for me to set a pleasing aesthetic for the short story. However these slightly resemble how the pictures I drew turned out.