When Mr. Sands informed us that we were going to be working with pastels, I internally groaned. I despise pastels. At least, I thought I did. I didn't exactly have great experiences using pastels. I always had the sudden urge to slam my head against my desk repeatedly, or.... Yeah, just that. (wowie i really don't like pastels ok they never work for me just trust me) ------------- Now, our main objective was to observe any given object (a.k.a. apples and oranges that Mr. Sands provided), and use pastels to illustrate it. Easy peasy, lemon squeezy; am I right? Nope. Apples, and oranges are really difficult to draw, okay? They have a weird shape, they are too shiny and I just don't like the way they... exist. They're just weird! And pointing out the obvious, a bit cliche. Come on, where's the spontaneity? So... I decided to go off memory and draw a peach! Oops! Yeah I know, I didn't exactly follow the directions, but hey, I drew a pretty good peach. P.S. Peaches taste better than oranges anyway! ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Another pastel experience! Whoo ! I was only able to come up with this piece because of daydreaming. If I hadn't been daydreaming, I wouldn't have
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