Oh, okay, that picture on the board kinda helped her understand a little more...and now they had to make one of their own? Oh Merlin. Penelope was not good at drawing...so she wouldn't be drawing anything complicated like the Hogwarts crest or something. She needed something basic and simple that wouldn't be hard to draw. But what was there that would work...?

She thought about random shapes and what things she could think of that looked like it...and finally something hit her. Yeah. Yeah, she could probably do this one...

She started drawing.

Done.

She was done and grinning at her elephants and still hungry, Hadley. Where was that ice cream, huh? Could she have it now? Ella would totally continue to pay attention and be a good listener and she wouldn't even doodle anymore unless asked and pleaseeeeeee? Did puppy-dog eyes work on Hadleys? Ella was getting pretty good at those and she'd resort to them if necessary cause now that she didn't have anything to do all she could think of was the frozen treat and sigh...she just really wanted it.

Anyway, she was done.

This drawing thing was turning out just fiiiiine, if this worked out the Professor would probably have to schedule a class like this one once every year to get her mind off all the numbers they had to focus on.

Alexa squinted at her parchment trying to figure out if there was anything else she would need to add but when she couldn't think of anything else she decided it was enough and dropped her quill.

"Professor, I think I'm done now. Is this the part where we get ice-cream or is there something else planned first?"

Please don't be the second option.

What if all the ice-cream melted by the time they got through with this?? She would be WIBBLING for the rest of the class!!!

Oh, okay, that picture on the board made it easier to understand what the thing was...And ohhh goodie they had to make one of their own! She looked down tapping her fingers on her desk. Thinking of something to draw, she wasn't the best of drawers but she would try her best...

She thought about random shapes, little figures, animals, people shadows...And finally something hit her. Yeah. Yeah, she would do that one.

Taking her quill she started drawing.

So far not much of the lesson had made sense to Kendall. The ice cream hadn’t interested her, and half of the discussion hadn’t made sense either. The only thing that had kept her from completely losing interest in the lesson was the fact she’d figured out that they were talking about pictures. Of course, that still didn’t equal Arithmancy to her, but getting permission to draw in class would always be taken. Although the first thing she did was to scribble down some notes about what had actually been in the discussion, seeing as she figured she couldn’t just draw whatever she wanted without it having anything to do with the lesson. Plus, notes would help make the picture make sense later on, unless she wanted to have to visit Professor Hadley in her office to ask for help understanding. As far as she knew right now, that still might end up happening, but she definitely preferred being confused to being chased through a maze by an acromantula. Therefore, this lesson still was better than some from before.

First things first were figuring out the subject of her tessellations, anyway. There really wasn’t too many options floating through her mind, but she still was going to put thought into it. She wouldn’t allow herself to present something terrible, not when that was half of what she did during lessons anyway. She just wasn’t randomly sketching in the margins of her notes this time around. Her sketch was going to actually be her notes, in a way. Therefore, they had to be good. That meant thought, and attention to detail. It meant really getting into whatever she chose as her subject.

She colored in the figures. Doing all the stuff the Professor had told them to and every now and again looked up at the examples. After finishing the glide reflection she took a good look at her drawing. Yeap she could turn this in, luckily for the Professor she had caught Nerida on one of her good drawing days.

Yeap! She was done!

Drawing in class. They could ACTUALLY draw in class?!

MEEEP~! This lesson was fun! The slytherin grabbed his parchment out of his bag and unscrolled it on his desk. He listened to the professors instructions before he started to think what kind of shape he wanted to use for his tessellations design.

DUCKS OF COURSE~!

He was also debating to use ice cream since he loooooved it ...since this year. But ducks were still his number one choice. Dipping his Kurumi bought, Fwooper quill in the ink, the Slytherin began to draw.

Laura wasn't very good at drawing things, but she knew that she should give it ago and so she decided that she would at least try and hopefully it would be right, but if it went wrong at least she knew she had done her best, she was still a bit tired now from all the ice-cream and all the studying she had done, she looked at the parchment that she had and started to work on it this was going to be interesting.

After dippin his Fwooper quill in the ink, the Prefect held the scroll down with the use of his left hand and moved his right to the paper. A drop of ink fell on it when he hovered above the paper for a bit too long and it smudged out on the parchment.

With a soft groan, Daichi placed the parchment aside and grabbed a new one. Yes, he grabbed a new piece just because of one ink drop. Dipping the quill back in the ink, Daichi made sure it didn't drip anymore and began to draw.

The head of the duck first which was a simple circle. The body followed next, making sure to add a bow on the end. He'd decided to leave he feet cause he was horrible at them anyways. With the tip of his tongue sticking out of the corner , Daichi drew the duck on paper.

When he was halfway done, he looked at his piece of *art* and frowned. Okay, so it wasn't like he had thought of in his mind, but atleast you could see it was a duck. Dipping the quill back in the ink, he now began to draw the beak of the duck...it's wings aaaand the finishing touch, the eye~

Grinning, Daichi held his parchment in front of him to admire his work. So now he had to make tessellations of them. Looking at the blackboard, he began to draw a few more ducks until he was done

Ok so the picture did help Hannah with understanding somewhat, but now she was going to have to draw one on her own? Ugh! Hannah did not like art period. Actually, if she was being honest with herself, she didn't like much things really. Maybe it was just her mood lately. One positive about the whole thing was that she didn't have to use numbers... well not really because she was simply going to draw a picture. So... that in itself was already making for a better assignment.

Now the question was what was she going to draw? The first thing that came to her mind was a snake. Hannah was proud to be in the noble house of Slytherin, but could she pull off a snake? She could just make a squiggly line with a tongue. The professor would get the point right? Or maybe even a stick figure. She could atleast make all of them look the same.

What to do, what to do?

Alec looked over at the blackboard and at the drawing on there. Oh? They were going to draw? AWESOME! And what did she mean by another artistic form? Were they going to do more drawings?

The Hufflepuff looked down at his blank parchment and tilted his head. Okay... what should he draw? Something that wasn't complicated, yeah? Because he didn't want to sit her spending a long time on one drawing. There was ICE CREAM to be had after this! But... he needed to draw something. Something... something... not ice cream because that would make him hungrier... something...

TURTLES. ... Could that work?

Quiet. For some reason she had been like that a lot lately, but notes were being written. MANY of them and that took a bit of time to do which was why Ness focused on that more than answering.

Her heading was Tessellation and under that she wrote everything she had heard, which included various types; Reflection, Rotation, Translation and Glide Reflection. It all reminded her of mathsy things like Cartesian planes and line graphs, she hadn't ever really learned about it but she had seen it somewhere before.

But. Drawning.

What did she want to draw? Hmmm...something to do with dancing. Yep. Definitely and something purple too preferable. But what? Ballet shoes was not entirely her thing, how could she draw something to represent ballroom? or Freestly, or hip-hop? Everything seemed too complicated. Maybe the dancing idea was a no go...but she really wanted to do something like that. Wada was on her mind and really it was the only thing she could think of.

Ehh. Ballet shoes it was then, even if she wasn't so fond of ballet itself.

Honestly, Kendall hadn’t needed to put in too much thought as to what she was going to draw. There really hadn’t been too many options, if she stuck with images she liked. She hadn’t been about to try and draw a spider, even if the class still made her think of them. That had brought it to ninjas or butterflies, and she hadn’t really felt like figuring out if she wanted to draw an actual ninja or just a ninja star like her necklace. Therefore, butterflies it was, and there really hadn’t needed to be too much considered there. She knew exactly what kind of butterfly to draw, and as she looked in her bag, she realized she could color it in. That made her even happier since it meant she’d have a colorful assignment, and on that thought, and after she set up her parchment, she’d started sketching. She had a lot of butterflies to draw after all.

She’d looked up at the example on the board a few times while she’d been drawing, too, just to make sure she hadn’t gotten the wrong idea. She didn’t need to show just how confused she was with why this was a topic for Arithmancy. Not when it was drawing, which was her strong suit. Actually, that almost made the lesson better. There wasn’t any math involved, no calculations. Just pretty pink butterflies, as she finished off the last sketch. All that she had left was to label them all, for her own notes if not the actual assignment. She didn’t think that she wasn’t going to be able to keep the page. Anyway, the labeling didn’t take long either, and soon enough she had finished. Now to wait and see if she’d put in all that work for nothing, or if she’d actually made sense of something in Arithmancy.

Sarah listened carefully. This was indeed very interesting. She loved art and maths so it kind of went together. She looked at the example on the board and she remembered learning this in geometry in school... or some form of mathermatics. She could remember the translations at least and the mirror used the axis.

What should she draw? Tweet, tweet, tweet. BIRDS! Spring was deffinately there and she ought to draw birds to welcome it! She knew how to draw birds too.

She reached into her satchel and brought out her stationary box. She had colours on her thanfully, as the world needed colours especially birds. In the corner of the page, she began. It would be a simple bird, like the kind in a colouring book, as shading would just complicate things, this was arithmancy not art lessons. Draw Draw... now she needed to copy it mirrored. She was concentrating a lot now. Finally she looked back. It was done. Now she needed to draw another one and rotate that.

So ballet shoes. Couldn't be too hard to draw?

The red head grabbed her quill and got to work. First she drew a pair of shoes on the left hand corner of her parchment, just under her name,year and house, then she did the same another three times, each in a different corner. Now she had four replica sketches of her shoes.

Next step. Actually using the four Tessellation that was. Reflection was her first corner, she copied her shoes exact but just switched them around so they'd become a reflection, because that's what it was. Second corner was rotation and to make things easier she rotated her drawing ninety degrees rather than less. She hoped it was okay with Hadley because this way all she needed to do was turn her parchment around and draw the exact same thing. Simple enough. Now. Third corner. She drew an arrow beside her already drawn set of shoes and above that arrow redrew those shoes. Her last corner. Pretty much the same as the third, just with a bit of reflection.

Done she was then. All the different Tessellation methods drawn then. She was ready to move on.

She moved quickly along with it, first sketching a 'normal' bird in each of the remaining corners, then she began to draw a rotated bird in the one corner. At the bottom, she 'translated' the picture of a bird, during one diagonally up from the original one. Finishing off the tail she went on to the seventh bird and this time mirrored the image again and translated it. She examined her picture.... okay. Now she had to colour it.

What colour should it be. Birds could be in all colours.. right? Of course she was not going to draw a brown or black bird yet they do exist. Maybe a springy colour... blue? no... GREEN. She could colour the birds in green, green symbolised growth and all. Yes, Green was a great colour for spring. She took out a colour and began to colour... she had ot be careful to colour in the lines and all, yet that was about it. Once the birds were coloured in green she took black agian and went over the lines. Using other colours she finished it off.

Finally she was done. She wrote over each 'scene' what happened there, trying as neatly as possible. Then she put her colouring things away. Now, just look at that drawing.

Classwork! Wow! Wait! Drawing??? Seriously!!! No!!!

My scream died before it managed to choke my throat. Why does Professor has to do this to me? She may be an art lover but drawing is just not cup of my tea. I will be hopeless at it. I know that and after few more minutes the entire class and Professor will also come to know that I don't have the slightest taste of tha word Art. Oh my God what am I going to do?

Was sorting hat has lost its marble when it put me to Ravenclaw? Ravenclaw, where clever people has place and I am such an idiot that I can't even draw. But it was work that has been done. I now I'll be the laugh of the class forget about class points but my house point will be reduced for such hopeless work. Laughter of every single person in the class as a bonus.

My head was blocked. It was not blank but blocked yet I had to do something. I took my parchment and begin to scribble. Professor is going to see the most hilarious, dreadful, horrible drawing of her life. I hope she did not take me too seriously to forget what does real art means. For any art lover my drawing is surely a trauma never to recover..

I tried to draw but I was too scared that my hand was trembling, once upon a time I used to have nice Handwriting which is definitely not the case now...

I was done for the day, may be after this I'll never be able to ask a doubt a question or not even show my existence again.. this was my end...

My so called drawing was ready.Arithmacy_zps41a49c52.jpg

Will the professor recognize my golden snitch???

She had tried several drafts of different shapes and items but they all just seemed to not quite fit together. Do they need to fit together seamlessly? Maybe not...? But I think they do? She thought that they did, so she went with a simple shape. Socks. They were a bit squarish...but it that would make them fit together easily later if they needed to do the full mosaic.

She sat back and wondered what everyone else was drawing.

Having decided on a badger related piece of work, Tobias got to it. He put a lot of concentration into creative things, and he certainly found drawing a lot easier to do than essays, where his mind seemed to wander every few minutes. Despite this, it still took him a while to finish it because it proved annoying to try and get the drawing the same every time. He soon decided not to worry so much about getting it exact and instead focused on enjoying the drawing bit, because he knew that otherwise he might get frustrated with it.

In time, he had finished, and Tobias added his name and a title and the top of his work before sitting back in his chair with a smile on his face. Yeah, that would do.

Asher continued to work on his assignment, finding the perfect picture of an ice cream cone to use. He knew he wasn't great at drawing, so finding a picture in his bag to trace and manipulate was the perfect solution.

When he finished, Asher put his parchment down in front of him.

Okay... okay... drawing turtles was actually becoming difficult. Like really difficult. And all of his turtles were turning out weird. Frown.

But Alec continued drawing and scribbling away, hoping that this would be good enough for Hadley. There was ice cream at stake, after all. He rubbed his right temple before continuing, trying to replicate the turtles in four different places. ... Were... the fins actually the same shape? Or did they look different.

Okay, no, he was... just going to stick with this.

Right. Tessellation time. The easiest one had to be the translation one because, well, it was just moving the turtle to a new place, yeah? And drawing an arrow on there too. The other three, though, were a little trickier and required a lot more time. Especially the glide reflection. It had to be moved somewhere AND reflected and what if the reflected image didn't end up looking like the main one? Frown some more.

...

A couple of minutes later, Alec sat back and looked at his parchment. It... wasn't his best piece of work, actually but hopefully, Hadley wouldn't mind. Hopefully.

They had to draw?

.. Alice couldn't draw though.

She squinted at the professor in consternation for a while, hoping that she'd pose some kind of written alternative to the tesse-whatever art project, but no. Nothing. No artistic talent present, though, so if Hadley wanted a drawing, she could have a horribly done piece of Alice artwork instead. All flipped and rotated and however it was that the professor wanted things warped around.

Would someone maybe consider doing it for her? She'd pay them in jelly slugs.

Lex looked around the room idly. Everyone else was so into their drawing and no one else was asking about the ice-cream. Was she the only one who remembered it?? Not possible, lots of people seemed happy when they heard they'd be getting some.

She leaned forward in her chair and looked over her desk at someone else drawing. Not bad. It would have looked better if it was candy but that was just her opinion. A DARN GOOD OPINION! Candy was like life....it was right up there with ice-cream. Funny enough, she didn't know when ice-cream became so high on her list but it waaaaas.

After another minute of looking around her gaze fell on the Professor once more. Maybe if she looked bored enough the woman would give her some ice-cream while she waited??

It was worth a shot and so she just stared.

STAAAARE.

.. no takers for the jelly slug offer?

Fine, then. Alice scowled at her parchment for a while before finally resting her chin in her free hand and scribbling with the other. Why did teachers seem to think this was like an art school? Or that they were three year olds who liked to color? Nope. Ridiculous.

Done, though.

At least the smiley teeth cheered her up some. Some.

Drawing...Dylan was down for that...and he wasn't even ashamed that he was about to reuse something, either. For his Astronomy homework, the Slytherin had done a lot of detailed drawing...and for the Draco constellation...had even sketched a dragon.

So, yea...

Sketching some dragons for this...

It took several moments...and total concentration...he finally finished and displayed his artwork for the Professor to see. Was she going to walk around and view them individually? Dylan didn't know...

Also, were they going to make a pattern next? He eyed the drawing and quickly decided that a pattern couldn't be made from it...