Monthly Themes (T&D)

For this month, I drew an apple, a strawberry, and 2 blueberries. I used cross-hatching to create shadows and make the fruits look 3D. I liked how cross-hatching gives the drawing texture, and how adding darker and lighter shadows creates a lot of depth. This technique gave the fruits a slightly blocky but still dimensional look, which I loved.

I didn’t have any art paper because I’m currently on a trip to Asia, so I had to use normal lined paper instead. 🙏

Hi everyone! Hope IE3 went okay for our Aoraki campus. In the mean time, I've attached the September themes below, with some of my own artwork for the cross-hatching technique.

Enjoy! And apologies for the late upload 😅

Emily :)

For those older artists who've read Invincible, this is a crossover between Pokémon Platinum and Nogogglesible after being trapped in the shadowverse during th

e Invincible War. Chose to do Giratina as a shiny because it had the same colors (favorite shiny now).

For this month's theme, I created a painting inspired by the Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama. My painting shows a simple black cat with a mushroom on its head. Around the cat, I painted white circles and different patterns, just like the dots and repeated designs that Kusama is famous for.

I chose a black cat because I think cats are mysterious and interesting, and the mushroom makes the painting fun and imaginative. I enjoyed using patterns and circles because they made the artwork look brighter and unique.