Appreciating art

Some days I was bored at work so drew pictures of promoters of different brands, some people that works around me like beauty advisors, cleaners, etc. It's amazing to see smiles on their faces when I give them rough sketches or cartoon portraits of them. I drew 3 of the promoters, 3 beauty advisors and 1 cleaner, I even drew the supervisor (but I didn't mange to take picture of the drawings because I was too excited to give them, I even forgot to signed my name on it.) I only managed to take my drawing of 2 of the beauty advisors) One of the promoter, and the beauty advisor in this pic started spreading around my rough portraits, everyone started complimenting my work and they even requested me to draw them too. (On a side note; these pictures were drawn on the white cardboard papers found in shoe boxes and with a pen, to write my sales report down.) It makes me so happy that people liked and appreciated my simple sketches/drawing I drew just in 5-10mins, they weren't my best because I only had a pen and cardboard paper but it was definitely the best moment in my 17 days of working there❤️

Here are some pictures!

3RD CLAY LESSON! (Pottery making)

Hi everyone! Sorry for the late post. Today I'm going to share about what I've learnt on Wednesday. For this lesson, our teacher demonstrated the whole process on how to make the base of a clay pot. First, we learnt how to use the Potter's Wheel.

We should always spin it anti-clockwise. Then I've learnt that it is important to have a good base. The thickness of the base should be around 1.5cm - 2cm thick, always mark out base with index finger with stable hands.

To get this round shape then use the sharp tool to cut out the extra clays to get a perfect circle base.

We learnt the usage of the extruder. The extruder should be clean and clear of clay before and after usage. If not, when the clay dries up inside, it will be hard for the next person using it.

We just place the clay into the extruder then pull it down to make coils like this.

Then our teacher taught us how to make coils without the extruder too.

We have to score the edges of the base upwards so that it will still be a circle.

And we will get this

 

Both base and coils must be score before we can join and stack them up together. 

Score, put clay slip to join and lock them together, then continue the same process until 3 layers of coils are joined together.

Score on the outside and the inside.

Use your hand to support so that the clay will not go out of shape.

Then use finger to smoothen it

Use this tool to centralize it and make it perfect both inside and outside.

And tadaa it is a perfect base.

After building the first 3 layers of the base, stop then use a hair dryer to blow dry it. 

Once it is close to dry, we put some wet clay around it for support because it might fall of when it is dry.

Then use a plastic bag to wrap it then keep it to continue in the next lesson. We haven't started on the clay pot yet but we are told to form into 2 groups to make the pot as a group. I'm looking forward to make the clay pot! Thank you for reading and goodbye!😊

2nd CLAY LESSON!

Hello everyone, for today's clay class, our teacher was not here so we did not learn anything new. We used the skills taught in our previous lesson and continued making our imaginary clay creatures. I attempted to make a clay frog but my friend said it looked more like a toad so it's shall be a toad then😂👍🏼 I did not take any pictures today but here is a picture of my incomplete clay toad.

That is all for today, sorry for the really short post. I'll see you in my next blog thank you and goodbye! 😊

1ST CLAY LESSON!

Hello everybody! Today (4th August), the first clay lesson. I'm so excited to share with you what I've learnt today! Firstly Mr Will showed us some clay work done by some other students.

Then he taught us how to cut/slice the clay.

Then taught us how to knead the clay (to get rid of the air bubbles) and score the clay.

Application of the clay slit after scoring is also necessary. 

All along, I thought that the thing used to fire the clay is called 'Oven' but it is called a 'Kiln'...my life was a lie!😂 I have also learnt the importance of scoring the clay if I want to join 2 pieces together so that they will be "locked" and not fall off. Not forgetting that I have to apply the clay slip after scoring and before combining the clay together.

We were told to make an imaginary clay creature, we all had to start of by making a hollow clay ball. Here are some pictures of me attempting.

scoring the clay

applying the clay slip

Do the same thing on both sides of the half ball. Then combine them together.

then I had to score the line too

then I used this thing to make the clay ball smooth

and this is the body of the creature I'm making

Sadly, I didn't manage to finish it because time was up. Then we just cleaned up the class and packed up.

hard working people...

That is all for today, thanks for reading and bye!

3rd PORTRAIT LESSON!

Hi again! This will be about my 3rd portrait lesson. So here is my finished portrait of Halsey.

I then used charcoal to shade the background.

....and here is the comparison of the picture and the drawing.

Now I have to draw her following Liu Ye's style. Here are some examples of her artworks. 

I chose this as a reference for my idol picture. Liu Ye tends to draw the head and eyes bigger and the body, lips and nose smaller. These are my attempts of drawing Halsey following her style.

I don't really like it because I find it ugly...and we are going to paint that the next lesson!

Thank you for reading and see you in my next blog!😎

2nd PORTRAIT LESSON!

Hi everybody! On Tuesday was our 2nd portrait lesson. We had to choose an artist and use their style for the portrait later on. We were introduced to a few portrait artists from Thailand, China and Indonesia. I chose a China artist, Liu Ye.

We were told to chose a portrait picture of our idols and draw a realistic picture of them. I chose Halsey, she's 20, she's a singer and a songwriter and I love her music. She's my inspiration and she also has the same birthday as me! This is Halsey.

 We were given about an hour and surprisingly, the class manage to finish the drawing. I think we have improved from our first lesson! After that we had a sharing session as usual.

I think all of the drawings looks like a legit face. Then we were given homework to finish up the portrait and draw another portrait of the same idol but this time, following the chosen artist's style. That's all for the 2nd portrait lesson and I will show you the finished homework on my next blog.

Thanks for reading and see you in my next blog post!😊