In these art lesson, we had our frames all ready drawn so we could begin drawing the negative spaces.
I turned my picture upside down and I started with negative spaces on the left and I worked my way around until my whole outline was complete. I found drawing like this made my picture more accurate and I didn't realise this until afterwards.
Next I turned my picture right way up and I began drawing in the inside details such as my shirt sleeve, uniform and facial features. I found this more difficult as I need to draw add in the shadows on my face and the folds in my apron and unifrom
I am really enjoying drawing the negative spaces because it seems to make my drawing more accurate.
In the past two art lessons, we received our photographs and we then drew a frame ourselves.
We each had to have three parts of our bodies touching the frame so that drawing the negative spaces is made easier.
Next we then blacked out the excess detail in the background so, once again, the negative spaces are made easier to draw. I thought that this was helpful because the other objets around me in the picture were extremely distracting.
Lastly we got one of our grounds that we painted last week, I chose black, and we enlarged our frame and drew it onto our chosen ground ready for next lesson.
We each had to have three parts of our bodies touching the frame so that drawing the negative spaces is made easier.
Next we then blacked out the excess detail in the background so, once again, the negative spaces are made easier to draw. I thought that this was helpful because the other objets around me in the picture were extremely distracting.
Lastly we got one of our grounds that we painted last week, I chose black, and we enlarged our frame and drew it onto our chosen ground ready for next lesson.
In this art lesson, we painted the three grounds for our figures. One ground was warm and the colour red. The second was cool and the colour blue. The last neutral and the colour black.
These grounds were put on the drying rack to dry and we each then had our picture taken so that we could draw ourselves. The picture that we would be drawing is going to be drawn using the negative spaces so the ideal picture had legs and arms spread out and not be our sides.
This year, an aboriginal visiting artist came to visit the St Hilda's year 7 and 8 students for two weeks.
The artist showed us how to draw our selves using the negative spaces making our figure drawing more accurate.
First, you draw a frame around the figure so that three parts of your body is touch the frame edge.
Next, you block out any excess detail so that the negative spaces are clear.
Then, you turn the picture upside down so that you are no longer thinking that you are drawing yourself, instead you are drawing the negative spaces.
Lastly, you begin drawing. 
Once you have finished drawing the negative spaces, you can turn the drawing right way up and the draw in the inside details.
