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During these three months of study, I have learned many different drawing techniques and gained a new understanding of the subject of art. Although some of them were very boring, some of them were also impressive and interesting. What impressed me most was the 6th week of observing and sketching people in the environment, which required learning to accurately capture people's behavior and state, which was not easy, but I tried to do it very well. Of course, there are some drawing skills that I have not fully mastered, such as drawing in one-point perspective and two-point perspective. I am not able to converge the orthogonal lines to the vanishing point very well, so I cannot show the 1 and 2-point perspectives well. I will work harder on this to improve my visual creativity and technical skills. Furthermore, drawing improves our observation, imagination, and expression. This visual language helps us not only in our studies but also in everyday life. Each individual's work is unique, and I hope we can continue on this path.

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In the final major assignment, I chose to use the drawing technique of pencil hatching and color pigments to complete the assignment. The idea came to me while looking at the vegetables on the table in the kitchen, so I intended to use some of the ingredients and objects arranged in a group of still-life compositions for my drawing. First I used a mind map and sketches of the objects to define my idea. At first, I only intended to use sketches as my final work, because pencil sketches need to have a complete composition, shape, space, the contrast between positive and negative, and various other factors, but I think the sketching technique can't express my feelings completely, so I used color paints to finish my final work. The overall tone of my painting is darker, giving it a warm, realistic feeling. I used the contrast between dark and light colors to show the texture of different objects. For example, tofu has a soft texture, so the color I used would be cleaner because it projects the color of other objects. And when painting the glass bottle, it is important to show the reflective and transparent texture of the glass, and these details are portrayed to make the picture more realistic. This painting shows the daily state of our common still life, expressing that our daily seemingly boring, and ordinary life can be full of color and joy.

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In week 11 we learned brand new drawing skills that required us to create a new drawing by hand and then enhance it using Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator. I chose the outline still life painting, and I mainly used the element of flowers to paint. I first drew a sketch by hand and then used Photoshop to enhance the contrast of the lines. I am not very familiar with Photoshop, but I will practice more. Finally I added color and texture in Illustrator, which was a lot of fun. I think this exercise is a great way to understand the use of Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator which is important and useful for every designer.

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This week's homework is to design speculative products, focusing on creating exciting, unexpected forms, being creative and using your imagination. I designed an umbrella, but this umbrella is different from ordinary umbrellas. The average umbrella has a long handle, which makes it easy to use in the rain, but not easy to carry around. Therefore, I combined the umbrella with the hat, shortening the handle of the umbrella and fixing it on the hat. When it rains, people only need to wear hats to prevent them from getting wet. For easy storage, but after use, the umbrella can be directly placed on the hat, it will not look very awkward and strange, you just need to wear a normal hat. You do not have to carry an umbrella all the time, freeing up your hands and making it easier to take care of kids and shop. This design will make rainy days more convenient and relaxed.

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In addition to box modeling techniques, what I learned this week is that I need to create by thinking on my own, which is a valuable skill for designers. In the first box modeling design, I first drew a two-point perspective of the box, and then drew the shape of the bottle in the perspective, which needed to ensure the symmetry and correctness of the bottle. The second design is speculative product iteration, which requires a lot of imagination and creativity. I chose a clock and a chair as my example products and redesigned its form. Half of the clock is indistinguishable from the others, but the other half is actually inside the wall, so people can only see a small part of the time. This design doesn't seem to work in real life, but I think it's interesting. But the chair design I think will be useful. In daily life, people like to cross their legs, but in fact, it is not good for the body, so I designed this chair, people can only sit in the correct posture when using this chair. It can be placed in malls or parks to warn people to sit properly.

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In the hoework of week 9, the main exercises in this lesson are done on isometric graphic paper, so it will be easier than the previous one-point and two-point perspectives. The first homework is orthographic and isometric projection drawing, and drawing an orthogonal projection of that object, showing front, top, and side views, and drawing an isometric view of the same object on the same page. I drew a milk carton, which was inspired by drinking milk at breakfast. The second activity was isometric projection drawing -- graphic illustration. I created a three-dimensional graph with the word "ART" and arranged it in different squares to create an interesting composition. Considering the use of color, I used orange and blue to represent its positive and negative aspects to make it more three-dimensional. In the last activity, isometric projection indoor or outdoor house drawing uses isometric grids to design and draw indoor or outdoor houses or environments. I imagined an indoor environment to create, hopefully a good direction and idea.

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In this course, we discussed Blind, Modified Blind Contour, Cross contour, and Positive/Negative Space drawing in depth. I prefer to use pencils, and I think I'm better at blind contouring and regular contouring. In the process of learning, I realized that outline drawing pays more attention to the control of the pen and needs to determine the direction of the stroke. In the practice of negative space and cross-section, it is more about the contrast between the bright side and the dark side of the object, so that the object has more imagination space and highlights the three-dimensional sense of the object. Of course, it takes more practice and research to learn more techniques and drawing skills.

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For this homework assignment, I photographed my own items to complete this work.
In Activity 1, I actually drew my cup in the blind silhouette drawing. I was able to capture the general image, which I hope the viewer will understand and appreciate. Then, I used a pencil to draw lines of varying shades, focusing on the shadows of the cups. And by having a clear contrast between the light and dark areas, it becomes a more realistic and three-dimensional piece. Then, I replaced a small fan as my target and used lines to depict its outline and even added a little shadow. I then used it to create positive and negative shapes for the drawing, which would work to define the light and shadows.

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Still learning a lot of useful drawing techniques in the second week of lessons, including doodling. These techniques allow you to vary the thickness and strength of your brushes as you paint, define the depth and area of ​​your strokes, reveal the volume of objects, the direction of lights, and the difference in distinguishing between dark sides. These are useful techniques for drawing geometric figures and objects. This way of painting gives us more imagination about space. While my patterns and shading are still subpar, I'll spend more time practicing and understanding the technique.

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In the second week, I practiced understanding the depth of color and the purpose of the pencil, and using the depth of color to represent three-dimensional objects to make them more visual and express them more like the real thing.
However, it is important not to show gaps in color depth, and beautiful sketches can be made by creating shadows with different shades of pencil as well as lines in different directions.
For the activity, I drew sketches of actual objects, i.e. medicine bottles. Then I also created a combination of the pill and the remote control and used lines to depict the shaded parts to make it more three-dimensional as well as realistic. Finally, I sketched a milk box and I think I need more practice so that I can have a higher quality work.

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In the third week, I learned a new trick called "Frottage", which is an area I haven't been able to understand in depth, so I'm also curious about this class. I remember as a kid I also liked to use paper to rub out raised contours on flat surfaces, but in this lesson I realized that not only can I rub out textured and patterned paper, but I can also use the drawing skills I've learned In the previous lesson, it will be a lot of fun to improve your work and end up with even more stunning paintings.

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This week's task was actually to select objects, and sketch them with a lot of textures. First, in activity 1 I chose the vase, which I completed using the sketching method. Then I sketched the textures of the stones and enlarged them and highlighted them. I think this was very difficult even though the textures on the stones were obvious. Finally I found the red wine glass at home and first traced its outline and added shadows, but I had a hard time using the placement and darkness of the shadows to bring out the glass quality of the glass and needed more study.

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In week 4, we learned about many variations of shapes and expressions. There was also a focus on dynamic composition and sketching. The elements of design are lines shapes colors and using design elements to create dynamic graphic combinations.
In activity 1, we had to use at least 3 or 4 geometric shapes and combine them to create interesting shapes or express ourselves in some kind of emotion. The second activity is to imagine and draw a group of objects when confronted with them at a distance as well as in focus, mainly so we can recognize and feel the overall change of position and size. The last activity is for us to choose an object to observe each part of it and capture the miniature details of the object.

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The homework activity for week 4 of work was to plan the composition. First, I chose a camera, sketched it first, and then split it into individual enlarged details. Because the camera was small as well as simple, I had a hard time finding more details about this camera in particular. After that I combined the camera and the medicine bottle to create the work. I first sketched it normally and used different shades of lines to show the three-dimensionality and realism of the object. Then I enlarged the object at a short distance to make it visually different. The point here is that we can get a clearer picture of the area occupied by the objects, as well as the lines and position of each object. I ended up sketching the whole image, while practicing my sketching skills and understanding of it.

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In week 5, we tried to be able to draw shapes at random and then rotate them or combine them to arrange them in any way you like. Importantly, it was also necessary to draw their shaded parts. Imagine the shapes moving closer and further away from each other, and finally breaking up and merging together. We were not only challenged to combine flat shapes, but also tried the more difficult three-dimensional shapes. Although designing the shapes was difficult, the process was fun. Mind mapping was an important task that challenged our thinking and imagination. We had to keep "brainstorming" and making various associations with the objects we chose, which also helped us a lot in our learning. Finally, we need to choose three words from the words provided by the teacher to imagine and create, even if they are not realistic, which is very interesting.

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The week 5 activity is a composite object drawing and illustration prompt. As with the studio work, it involves finding, creating and making unique sketches of objects in your everyday life.
What I didn't expect was that it would require a very large amount of imagination and creativity indeed. Finally in I found a beautifully colored egg and used it to create an Easter illustration. Then, in linking the three words to create it, the first thing I associated was a chessboard with generals on both sides fighting using pencils, which I thought was kind of interesting. The other one is the story of the actor and the lock, where beyond the actor's surface happy state, there is perhaps a sad side and a locked inner world on the back side of him.

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Week 6 was about observing and sketching people in their environment, which required learning to accurately capture people's behavior and states, which was not easy. For example, I sketched a picture of a singer dancing. Not only did I have to describe the outline of the singer's dancing movements, but I also needed to depict the details of the folds of the clothes to bring out a more vivid image. Activity 2 was how to express the positive and negative aspects learned in the last lesson. Just like last time, I used different colored pencils to express the shapes of the characters. In the previous lesson, I learned to draw the outline of an object, but in this lesson, we learned to draw the outline of a figure and a continuous line, which I paid more attention to, because it would be more difficult to express. In the final real-life sketch, more attention needs to be paid to the movement of the figure and the description of the image.

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In the 6 week of homework, I mainly practiced outdoor sketching of people, which focuses on observing the image and movement of people, maybe they keep moving outdoors, so we can photograph them first, or quickly remember their outline and add a little imagination.
My first work focuses on people buying and selling at the market, here more of the old people buying and selling vegetables and food back home. They are shouting hard, hoping to get more customers. The second one is people sitting at a table and resting. I wanted to show their tiredness and exertion, highlighting that it is not easy for them to work. The last one is an old man leaning against a tree, his clothes are messy and dirty, perhaps because of the ravages of life on him.

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This week, we looked at drawing systems, and linear perspectives and focused on one perspective. One point perspective is a linear perspective. Linear perspective relies on using lines to render objects, causing them to appear three-dimensional on a two-dimensional surface. This is a structured approach to painting. Single-point perspective gets its name from the fact that it makes use of a single vanishing point, characterized by "large near and small far away," "objects near are clear, objects far away are blurred," and, of course, the extension lines of all objects converge at a focal point on the horizon.

We first practiced geometric shapes on horizontal lines. Although the shapes were a little strange at first, it felt much easier after practice. Then we moved on to larger and more abstract geometries, which I think are more like urban buildings. Finally, we began to practice the indoor and outdoor points of view. Indoor perspectives are more often found in rooms or living rooms, where the perspective relationship can be seen by careful observation. While in the outdoor, it appears more in the middle of the street, with buildings on both sides and the view of the road converging at the end of the road.

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In the 7th week of homework, I think I have greatly improved the painting of scenery, but I still need to pay more attention to the size and distance of objects in the one-point perspective painting. For the two assignments, I drew the indoor perspective and the outdoor perspective respectively. In terms of interior perspective, I think more attention should be paid to the position and size of the furniture, but it seems that I have not controlled it well and I still need more practice. In the exterior work, I tried drawing with a pen, which was more difficult because I couldn't modify it. But all in all, it's fun to paint, it makes you feel good and satisfied. In real life, many paintings need to use perspective painting skills, so I need to work harder to learn and try.