What can i draw for my dorm room?

Question

Hi. our dormitory room is ugly and dull, typical dorm that was bulit during socialism. We want to somehow decorate it and we decided to put our artworks there. So i should produce something. I have paper, water and tempera colours, graphite, colour pencils, paste, scissors and absolutely no artistic skills. My pictures look like work of 7-8 old child :-) (im 18) Is there something that even i would manage to do?

Answer 1

A possibly better idea, if you really can't draw: Call a company in your area that outputs Blueprints, and get some prices. These companies output gigantic images from computer files, on a plotter on a mile long roll of paper about 3 feet wide. They usually charge a lot less than color output place. They will charge you by the foot. A company I know printed out one color "posters" using this method for about a dollar a pop. All you need is someone with moderate computer savvy to prepare scanned images, or images off the web. The photos would wind up posterized or stripped down to high contrast images -- sort of Warholian.

Oh! -- Ask this service what file types they accept.

Answer 2

When I'm reaching into the gray matter for a topic and coming up with blanks, I put on some of my favorite music and let the pencil (or whatever) have it's own way with out any conscious thought involved, and usually something will happen,
You could also flip through a magazine for ideas too, not to copy something, just to get an idea.
And I wouldn't be concerned with your skill level- some of the best art I've seen was done by children. The main idea is to decorate and have fun while you're doing it. Anything you do has got to be an improvement over your drab dorm room, right?

Answer 3

Three answers: actually, this question has an endless amount of answers!

1)Google the name of a painter that you admire. Download the artwork to CD. Go to campus library or Union, and blow it up and print it out to several different sizes. Then, use the art materials you listed above to add your colors or enhancements over the existing master's work. Or mount the prints on matteboard that you can cut to any size shape you desire.

2)Really untrained artwork is often very wonderful. If you really feel too intimidated to create an original work that includes drawing, etc., then turn off the lights in the dorm room, put a lamp near your roommate, have him/her sit
with his/her profile in between the lamp and next to the backdrop of the wall. Trace the profile by following the shadow. You have just created an original silhouette. You can have your roommate do yours or do some other friends and fill the wall with a grouping of the characters in your college life. Add some colors and you could even fill in the outline with different tempera colors. Have each person sign his/her name with your colored pencils.
Or, buy some colored paper to outline the profile on and then cut it out and affix it to matteboard.

You really should try to just go for it and take some colors to create a painting adding chalk and graphite lines, cut some fun shapes out of anything you have...magazine pages, colored paper, brochures, etc.,
Since your environment is so bleak, use happy colors and make a collage.

If that is too free form for you, take a bunch of photos, print them out on non- gloss paper, enlarge to different sizes, use your materials to outline over them. Use a hard edge or ruler to make some frames around them. With your tempera paints, add designs around the photos....doodles, squiggles, "draw" the names of the people with brush and temperas, use a dish or a bottom of a lamp or any circular object to make some arcs or polka-dots,etc.

Take a large poster board in a pastel shade, and have the coeds put on bright colored lipsticks......have each one of them "kiss" the posterboard. Direct the area you want each of them to use to add her own design or doodle or "mark"next to her name.

Pick up some stencils that you like. Use your temperas to brush on the colors. When dry, add your designs to it.
Have a BLAST!

Answer 4

Girl!! How about finger painting. My students are in Middle School and still love the experience. I am a 20-year veteran artist and still love the process as well as the results. And what better way to contrarest a rigid system like socialism than the carefree and releasing experience of finger painting! It becomes a statement as well as art!

Have fun, good luck, God Speed!

Lourdes

Answer 5

If painting is not your thing, perhaps something more physical. How about "building" something? For example, you could use some wire, paper, water and flour to make columns on the sides of the door way, maybe something Greek/Roman. If I recall correctly, mixing hot water and flour in a pot (mixing it with a wooden spoon if you have one) will make a sort of glue. For paper, you can use old newspapers and all you have to do then is paint it white.

Answer 6

Picasso said something like "all children know how to draw, as we get older we forget how" So if you draw like and 8 year old that cant be so bad. Children draw things they like, ask youself what is it you like and then just go for it.
We all have writing skills but very few people write a novel so dont expect to sell your artwork for millions just enjoy yourself

Answer 7

"they call me cool in my school" has an excellent idea, i say go with it... if it looks really naive it will look cool like something off a beck album, and if not you may surprise yourself. Also, anything in a frame looks like art, so make sure you get a good one. I'm studying at the Royal Academy of Arts in london and I heartily endorse this idea...

Answer 8

Go to an arts and crafts store and buy some stenciling its not very expensive its only a couple of dollars and you can stencil just about anything now days.

Answer 9

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Answer 10

try to draw and country side view
with a famous band you like paying with their guitars