Polyvore

Polyvore.com is amazing! Everyone should make an account for it! My name on Polyvore is doodlekenz, so make an account and add me. And make awesome outfits! It also tells you the price of every item you use in your set so you can buy something online if you want. The above image is my first set that I made. You can tell what a big geek I am!

How to Draw a Two Point Perspective Room

This is REALLY, super simple. You'll need a pencil, paper, and a ruler. The ruler is a must if you want it to look precise. 

1. First of all, you want to use your ruler to draw a horizontal line. Draw it lightly because you'll be erasing it in the end. At each end of that line, draw a dot. These dots are your vanishing point. These are the points that everything in your room will go towards. 

2. Next, use your ruler to draw a vertical line through the horizontal line. It doesn't matter where you put this line. Just don't put it too close to either vanishing point or your drawing can become distorted looking. 

3. Now, use your ruler to create the top and bottom of your walls. Align your ruler with vanishing point a and the top of your vertical line, then draw a line. Do the same for the bottom of your vertical line. Now repeat the process with vanishing point b. 

4. You no longer need your horizontal line so go ahead and erase that. 

5. You'll repeat steps 2 through 4 to continue creating walls. Just remember, each time you draw a vertical line, the time and bottom lines will go to the opposite vanishing point as the top and bottom lines on the other side. For example, if you had lines coming from vanishing point a and you drew a vertical line to connect them, then the line you draw on the other side of the vertical line will go to vanishing point b. You can do this to create however many walls you want. 

6. Now you get to add decorations! The above is just some doodles to show you an example. My outline is below. 

Geek pride!

7. The final step is to shade! Once you shade everything in, it looks more realistic. 

There you go. For all those interior designers out there, this is great to learn! And for those of you who just want to fantasize about your dreams house, this is a great way to bring those fantasies to life! After all, everything starts out with a reference. 

(Thank you Jacob Dobson for teaching me how to do this. It was really fun! For anyone who is thinking about going to AI of Indy, make sure you get Jacob Dobson as your teacher!)

Projects!

First project of the year! We had to draw this picture upside down! This is the end result when I flipped mine right side up. It's easier than it looks, and it seriously helps with your drawings.

• Step 1: Pick out the picture you want to draw. Get your sketch book and pencils.
• Step 2: Turn the picture upside and leave it that way. Look over the picture until you start seeing the small details rather than just the picture as a whole. 
• Step 3: Start drawing your image upside down. Focus on one thing at a time and don't get ahead of yourself. DON'T CHEAT
• Step 4: Once you've completed your drawing, flip it right side up and look at your completed masterpiece!

Doing this enough helps you focus on drawing what you see in front of you, rather than drawing what you see in your head. The problem a lot of people have with drawing is that they get ahead of themselves and start drawing what they THINK something should look like, rather than focusing on what it ACTUALLY looks like. This is a great exercise to improve your drawing skills. I know I'm going to continue doing it. 

This was my first Drawing and Perspective project. We drew a two point perspective interior room. It's super easy to do and really fun! I'll put up a tutorial for this later. By the way, this is my dream room! You can tell how completely and totally geeky I am from this.....Oh well! Geek pride!

-MBB

The Beginning of the Rest of My Life

So, I did it. I graduated the nightmare we call high school. As a matter of fact, congratulations class of 2012! We all did it. And now, thankfully, I get to begin the next chapter of my life. College. I attend the Art Institute of Indianapolis, which, so far, has been amazing. I've been here for about a month, living in student housing (my actual house is about 3 hours away in KY). I have an apartment, a roommate, and a small twin sized bed. Sounds about right, right? I'm sooo thankful to my amazing mom! Without her, there's no way I'd be where I am now. In three years, I will have my bachelors degree in Web Design and Interactive Media, and that's when my life will get really crazy...But for now, I'm going to enjoy what I have been blessed with, and I am going to take full advantage of being an artist in college! And that's what will be shared in this blog. Anything and everything that I learn, do, create, and find while I'm here! I want to share the experience and maybe inspire someone else to go to college. But also, this is so I can remember everything that I go through here when I want to look back on it later. So, since so much has happened already, I better get started. Wish me luck! -MBB