I was surprisingly nervous about this assignment - I don't have much experience with freehand drawing. I think that it is because I am left-handed and it was difficult when I was younger. Still, I'm trying to push myself with new methods. I did want to experiment with more geometrical lines than the figural images in the student examples as a start and kept trying different things. I tried a lot of cross-hatching as the use of that for shading was new to me. I'd seen it many times in computer graphics but not as much freehand.

I actually enjoyed the brush exercises quite a bit. I do enjoy the style of liked chinese/japanese brush and calligraphy drawings so that is motivation to keep practicing. I did try both the wet and dry brush work methods. One method from the videos that I really enjoyed practicing was painting the paper with water and then dipping some ink into the still-wet part and seeing the ink diffuse to fill in the image. With this method it was interesting to work "blind" and then see the image appear.

I will certainly need to wait longer for the ink to dry, as it was a bit frustrating to notice the smudges after I moved the paper to take a photograph.

Paint was fairly challenging for me. I found it interesting to mix the white and black paint to try and produce different shades and to go over previously-painted squares again to adjust the darkness or lightness of the square. When I repeat the exercise, I'll probably test the palette in the paper plate I used to mix the paints. I would try mixing several still-wet dollops of paint to get a ange of greys before transferring them to the paper.

This assignment was a very educational practice.

As the video suggested I drew an extra line to bisect the red and blue pies for the two different hues within each.