Drawing from observation skills.

We've covered a lot of territory in our first two and a half weeks together.
Take a look at the drawings you've made so far and think about the skills it took to create them.
On your blog describe several of these skills (at least 3) and how you put them to use in your drawings.

Three of the skills I needed to do these assignments I needed to be patient, be attentive to detail and be creative. To make these "masterpieces" I needed to be patient enough to start over like with the table scape or be willing to work on one drawing for a long time like with the black and white table with pine cones on it. I also needed to be attentive to detail so one object was in the right spot like with the table or the shading of the crumpled paper drawing or even the details of the textures in the zoom drawing. I also had to be creative for the black and white table drawing to think of how to do the textures.

Collaborative Drawing

How did you "deal" with each drawing you approached?

I first would look at the drawing and the objects and figure out what seemed off. Then I gently tried to fix the problems while keeping the bulk of the drawing the same.
What was the process for "correcting" what you saw?
In the drawings what seemed off was the spacing of the objects. To fix the spacing I would play around with the spacing of the logs, which took up most of the space of the drawing. By doing that the spacing would seem better while the bulk of the drawing was the same. There also was something missing or something that was seen that really should not be seen and that only needed some minor erasing or a few lines.
How did it feel to return to your drawing at the end and to see what others had done to it?
What did you have to do to finish your drawing?

After looking at my drawing and seeing what others had done, I felt better than I thought I would, because I knew that I had done the same thing to other people's drawings. To finish my drawing I mainly had to flesh out the skeleton of the objects and fix angles.

Pre-assessment

The drawing the felt more natural to me was the drawing from observation even though the imaginative drawing was more fun. It seemed more natural to me because to draw something I need an image of it in order to draw it.