Transform

oops sorry this one's a little late, i did it thursday and took a picture of it...and then never uploaded it...

Jinchurriki TRANSFORM!

This theme was gonna be fanart and so here it is.
Naruto and Gaara transforming into their Bijuu (demon-things). Charas by Kishimoto-san! ^^

transform

puppet!

Transform (origami)

transform

visitors

hmm..what a strange cave.

It was difficult photographing this one because it's so long and narrow. It's clearer in person.

Visitors and then some

My digital camera has not failed me like the rest of my computer has :D And sorry about the images being blurry n' huge. I won't have Photshop to help me edit stuff for a while ;-;

Everyone loves these visitors in their kitchen. Was lazy drawing this >3


My monster pic. It's a Naruto fan character of mine and unless you know the show well you wouldn't be able to understand any explanation for using her in this picture for the monster theme-thing.


I've taken an interest in combining animals x3 This is an Arctic fox combined with a Belted Kingfisher (the wings and coloration are the kingfisher part of it). Added in the eye patch after not being able to draw the other eye all too well.


My song pic. The song is called Shiroi Ryuu (White Dragon) and is from the film Spirited Away.


My lazy cat, Moonbeam :3


I always found it way too time-consuming drawing my model of a Gogulas Giga (huzzah for Zoids!)


Updated version of a sketch from 9th grade. I fail at drawing horse-like creatures xD

Assignments!!

Thanks to all of you that posted assignment 7! To anyone who hasn't remember it's due tomorrow because I extended the due date for the holiday. I'll be seeing you all on Wednesday. The first day of classes is shortened due to homerooms so we'll just have a brief introduction. Please bring in all of your summer assignments for Thursday. (also Assignment 8 is due Friday)

Also to all the AP art alumni out there- I hope you are enjoying your first weeks of college! There is a new blog which you are now invited to join (http://needlesualumni.blogspot.com/) so let me know if you want to use a different email. I will be taking you all off of this blog next week but you are still welcome to comment on the students work. Good luck!

Mr. Needles

My "Visitors"

K, this is my pic for "Visitors" done in water color, done in 2 hours. These are Chinstrap Penguins and they frequently visit South America, so I figured they'd be a perfect candidate to show in a tropical area as penguins. =3

I wanted to make the scenery much "bigger" I guess you could say, than the focus-subjects, to show that they really are visitors, and they don't permanately "belong" there. =3

Done...not workin' on it anymore, at least not until my landscape is done. Speaking of which, if it hasn't been answered yet, I'd like to know if we're supposed to bring all the summer assignments on Wednesday (as well as this blog-pic)

Visitors

I was drawing little kids with my friend the other night, so when I saw visitors I thought of a little kid having a bad dream and going to mommy. Interpret it how you want to.

This is what I did for the song assignment.
Can't wait for school to start! Or can I? :]

Eh-heh, slight problem I've run into...

My uncle fixed my computer a week and a half ago, so I wasn't able to post anything else I've done for a few days. The night I got it back I found out something's wrong with the CD thing so I can't re-install any of my art programs that I need so I can resize my work and the such when I scan it. And now I find out my printer/scanner is doing the same thing when I try to re-install the program-thing for it.
So I'm unable to post anything I've done recently until I get this problem fixed x3;

Which won't be anytime soon...or later most likely x.x

And there's so much I wished to post today D: *Is very, very sad*

Question

Does anyone know if we're supposed to bring all of our assignments into school wednesday?

I don't know why but when I read this assignment I automatically thought of The Things They Carried and the Vietnam Soldiers.

Also, i already did my monster theme but i thought this was the funniest picture and after editing it she really looks scared ! ahah

Visitors

Gotta love Photoshop!
Good thing I brought my laptop to Delaware (where I am now) otherwise this assignment would've been MIA until I got home Sunday and found out this was assigned.

Visitors

Visitors

my cousin just moved into the worst possible apartment ever. that's where i got the idea for this from. :-)

Also, howdy!

Hey, while I'm posting anyway, howdy! I'm Zith, most of you know me. Anyway, I like drawing, gaming, drama, and, um... girls? Here's my work:


This is one of my thematic sketches: a tribute to a superhero romance i loved that can never happen, now. (isn't it odd that my "sketch" is better than my "real" pieces so far?)

And this is my song piece, made to They Might be Giants' "Am I Awake?". The song has a cool techno feel that made me think of using blue tones, cubism, and a tablet. BTW, I've never used a tablet before, hence the shakiness.

Visitors (I hope I'm posting this correctly)

The late Flash doesn't appreciate it when no one understands how I'm tying in to a theme.

P.S.-This sort of lame picture is what happens when I have ONE DAY to make it

Visitors (by plane - lol)

visitors

Um, about those dates.

The last two I can meet, it just that first one I might not be able to. My family is leaving for a camping trip that day and so I won't have a chance to upload the pic until after. Just wondering if it's okay if I post it early or if after the weekend is preferred. o.o;

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Are the last three assignments done in our sketchbooks, or on a differnt surface?

Assignment #7, 8, & 9: Back to School

Hey AP!

We only have a few...never mind lets not even mention it. Here are the final 3 assignments. I'll be seeing all of you soon- make sure your assignments are ready for next week.

The final 3 assignments are thematic and should be posted here on the blog by the date listed. Use any media but make sure you post them by the date listed.

Assignment #7 (due by 8/31) - "Visitors" (from IllustrationFriday.com)

Assignment #8 (due by 9/7)- "Transform"

Assignment #9 (due by 9/14)- "Regular"

Hey

A sketch of my dog falling asleep... this picture was supposed to go beneath my introduction but I'm too lazy to fix it so whatever...

I'm Brian and I'll be a senior this school year and can't wait to start this class as it's a fitting end to my high school career. Basically I've been really busy with spending a month in the Colorado Rockies and then having to come home and get done with all of these assignments although I'm pretty much done. Actually, I'm working on a drawing as I type out this introduction :D lol
Anyway, I prefer working in pencil or acrylic paints and can't wait to meet everyone and work on my portfolio.

nightmare

Chinese Food!

Everyone loves Chinese food!

Hey Needles, I'm doing the 3D test for the exam, but all of my summer work is 2D...

Is that ok? I don't really have any materials to work with so I didn't try to make any sculptures

Needles is alive....so far

Hey gang,

Just wanted to let you all know I'm alive, but thanks for the concern. I've been teaching a class to educators up in Canada and Niagara and I haven't had Internet access much. I'm going to be posting the new assignments next week (and going to the beach a ton). I'm happy to see the work you've posted so far- keep it going! Make sure you enjoy your summer we are getting close to that dreaded "Back to School" time. Talk to you all soon!

I'm pretty sure needles died, he's making me worry.

introduction

Hi, my name is Ashley. Im about to be a junior. I dont want summer to end, but im really excited for this class. My favorite thing to draw/ paint is people. these are 2 sketches and one painting that I've completed:


Shot with FinePix A205 at 2007-08-06

Shot at 2007-08-06

Shot at 2007-08-06

hey im alexa

Hey my names alexa and im a senior and i cant wait for ap next year with everyone. ive been having a pretty crazy summer. with work visiting colleges and taking art courses at the huntington school of fine arts. with the drawing and self portrait classes i really feel like im improving.

these are the drawings i did from this past week


and this is the love of my life. my puppy ahah she climbed on my desk while i was typing on the computer

Tiger Shark

I worked for four hours straight on this and just wanted to know what people thought on it. Crappy background is because of exhaustion after just doing the shark for 4 hours. >< Colored pencils as usual.
Sorry for being annoying?

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i tihnk this is my first new thing all summer
and icnat tell what it needs

hey

hey im Ian and im really not sure how this blog thing works yet. so basically i play varsity football im a nissequoge firefighter i play the drums and im very involved in church. anyway this is one of my summer assignments its my monster theme. this piece is pretty out of the box for me because i tend to do more realistic work. in this piece i used a ink dropper and bottle to make most of it and i later added some watercolor.

this is my portrait of some one else ist my youth leaders J and ist no where near finished and i need some suggestions on where i should go with it. later

this is an upclose.

Hello.

this is one of my summer assignments, its not finished but i wanted to post it so i can get some ideas, im supposed to do the drawing test for ap this year because i did design last year, but old habits die hard. im so temped to give the baby a light bulb as a head, but i cant...so help me please. i drew out the babies face but i dont know if i just want to paint it, im frustrated.

hi, my name is ashley rowland i am going to be a senior. i was in mr. needles ap class last year, it was a blast! im super excited to find out who the next steph woowwwke? is going to be...ha...im going to miss the kids from last year but i cant wait to meet all of you. Hm, well i like art and all my friends have gone to college so im down for meeting some new people. alright well, that about sums it up.

Hello from San Fransico

Hey Artroom, It's great to see you all posting your introductions and getting to know you all. I'm currently in San Francisco working with Adobe which is fun. I'm looking forward to seeing more work from you all and getting to know you better. In addition to posting please leave comments for each other on the images that are put up. Remember to keep it positive and helpful!

Hi..

I'm Katie and I'm really bad at introducing myself to be honest.. I play basketball I love art and I'm just a normal kid. Here's one of the assignments I have completed so far, the monster theme:



I set up a website just like this one towards the end of the year last year that has most of my work. Looking forward to senior year (except for the college applying part, that's a little scary) but at the same time I don't want summer to end.

Question for Mr. Needles... on the portrait of someone else do we have to use a live model?

Hi

Hi everyone, I'm Erin...i'm not very thrilled about school starting, but i am definitely excited about this class. I always liked art pretty much but i really started to get into it during ninth grade i think. I'm mainly interested in drawing and painting people. Other than art i like dance and reading...i read whenever i can. I also like being outside and i've been camping for the majority of the summer. I hope everyone is enjoying their own summer so far.

The picture is my monster theme...i'm still not sure about the background

Bleh...hi.

Wish I knew how blogs worked....Anway, been busy with work, but my real reason for not posting anything is because I'm lazy during my free time xP I'm Kim. Also known as many other names both IRL and online (the name Rewrite I tend to use more on the art communities online for example). I tend to stick to drawing creatures and things not in reality and I stay away from drawing things I find to be boring (such as people in real-life for instance). I like digital art and draw on Photoshop Elements quite often ever since OpenCanvas stopped working for me, but I do like traditional media such as markers and colored pencils. I too have a
deviantART account and go on just about everyday.
Here's what I have finished so far in my sketchbook this summer:

Based on a small sketch I did in English last year which was based on an anime called "Elfen Lied".

Based on a sketch done at this years AP History conference except less furry and prettier.

I had finished watching an anime called "Princess Tutu" and wanted to draw something based on it.

I felt I needed to practice drawing canines, but I really wanted to draw a scorpion, too...

Did this yesterday morning. Long story short, beach overnighter with youth group + leaving food out at night = raccoons attacking our food and us staying up to chase them. We said they were like ninjas x3

Drawn last night with very little light outside around a fire. Some of the people I was with during the overnighter got the new HP book and were reading it so I took the opportunity to sketch them out. My scanner killed the picture and I couldn't Photoshop it back to life like I usually can (looks A LOT before IRL).

I do have other things I'm working on though. For now, I go read HP7