I came up with the idea of using a USB converter as a tooth because I love electronics and I have a lot of cords and ports and plugs all around my desk in my dorm. I used the item as a tooth in a smile because during most of my youth I did not have my set of two front teeth due to a surgery I had and the USB converter reminded me of the teeth that I didn’t have. I started with a pencil outline of the teeth then decided to go over in in pen to make the teeth pop as well and then I placed the USB converter in the front set of teeth to represent my childhood.
I got this idea when I noticed that the USB for my mouse resembles the head of characters in Minecraft. I used a pencil to draw rectangles that make up the figure’s body and positioned the USB as the head. I didn’t have any other drawing equipment except pencils. I disconnected each part of the figure’s body to give it a more lively and dynamic feel. I did not want it to look rigid.
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I saw that this assignment was due 1 day before the due date , and was quite worried at first. I had never made something like this before , and I spent the day wondering what I could make, when randomly, while spinning my pen around my fingers during my business class, I had a eureka moment. Growing up , I would go to sleep fidgeting with a pen and imagining new worlds and scenarios in which the pen would represent rockets and missiles . I decided to return to that memory and sketch one of those scenarios. In my drawing, the pen becomes a rocket lifting off from Earth, taking me back to a time when the possibilities were infinite and nothing was out of the realm of reality.
Sip of Starlight
On Saturday night, walking back to my dorm, I paused out front to watch the stars. That quiet moment made me think about astronomy and the calm pleasure of simply observing—so I outlined the figure in blue, a color that feels relaxing to me. Back in my room, a Coca-Cola bottle caught my eye; its long silhouette looked like a telescope, and the base resembled a magnifying glass. I’ve always loved astronomy documentaries, so it felt natural to turn that spark into a Sunday Sketch about the night sky. I titled it Sip of Starlight because the bottle becomes part of the scene, and I marked the sky with yellow-highlighter stars so they appear to glow and shine at night.
I was honestly shuffling through a few different ideas when I first started thinking about this sketch assignment. While passing my soccer ball around my room off the ottoman, I suddenly got the idea to do something soccer-related. That’s when I started looking around for an everyday object I could incorporate into the sketch as a soccer ball.
As I was about to throw away an empty water bottle, I noticed the cap and realized it could work perfectly as the ball. That small discovery sparked the rest of the concept.
Once I had the idea in place, I put pencil to paper and began sketching a person mid-air performing an acrobatic scissor kick I titled the piece “Cap-tivating Kick which ties in both the action and the real object I used.
Overall, I really enjoyed this assignment. It challenged me to be creative in a new way by combining a real object with a drawn scene. It was a fun and imaginative process that made the sketch come to life.
When I first started this Sunday sketch assignment, I had no clue what to do. I doodled with my pen for almost ten minutes until I noticed its sharpened tip and thought of a blade. That sparked the idea to use the pen as a symbol for a knife—a tool that can create or cut, depending on the hand that holds it. The next question was, who should hold this “knife”? After a thoughts, I settled on a samurai. To me, the samurai is iconic not only in Japanese culture but also as an image of discipline, honor, and mastery of the sword.
Seeing the description of this assignment I knew I would run into some issues. Due to my lack of creativity and artistic skills, it took me a while to come up with my idea. I started by looking around my room to see if anything stood out to me but nothing did. Deciding to put if off for a little while, I went to the gym with my friends. While at the gym, this assignment was still in the back of my head. I looked at my surroundings when finally something stuck out to me. It was a man lifting weights on the other side of the gym. Seeing that the bar he was using to lift weights looked similar to a straight stick I knew what my drawing was going to be. I went back to my dorm where I sketched out this drawing that depicted the man I saw but replaced the weight bar with something that looked very similar to it. I chose to replace it with a q-tip I found next to my night stand because they both have similar features.
Fore my Sunday sketch (get it) I decided to create a golf scene using a leaf. I originally intended to use the leaf as either a moon or a cricket bat but I decided that a comically large golf club was funnier and so my sketch was born. I had no Idea of what I wanted to do before I started the sketch so it was all pretty spontaneous. The drawing itself took me longer than it may seem as I am not the most talented of artists. I have no real interest in golf so I am not too certain why the idea came to me but I thought it was funny. I like to make people laugh so I hope it has similar effects to you (my wonderful viewer) as it did to me.
Here is a link to the original assignment given by professor David Morgan
While I was hanging up my towel after showering, my hook fell off the wall. Initially, I was frustrated and attempted to tape it back up, but I realized that it had a similar shape to a surfboard. I noticed that the adhesive was similar to wax on an actual surfboard and the hook was similar to a fin. I decided to draw a surfer on top of the hanger riding a large wave. I wanted to draw something connected to the ocean because I was always at the beach in California.
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