Color Pencil Still Life

     

Adventure Through Time Collage

Overview: 

Texture Landscape Drawing

Analysis: I was inspired to create this landscape portrait of human destruction, from the book by Patrick Carmen called, "Atherton". It inspired to create floating islands in the mist of human destruction, because that was Patrick's resolution for the survival of human kind, and he created his own world/environment on these floating islands. I liked the process of drawing this drawing because I was able to repetitively draw different textures, and I was able to create a realistic landscape from Carmen's unrealistic fictional book. Some challenges that I faced while drawing this project was the repetition of drawing the multiple trees in this landscape, because every tree is different. Other than the tree difficultly, I loved every other aspect of this project, from drawing the buildings, to creating the textures of the floating islands. I have grown artistically by creating this project this semester, by learning how to create and use different textures, by learning how to create and use different perspectives in any drawing, and by learning how to use different shades of both pen and color to make my art look realistic. 

Unrealistic/Realistic Portrait

   
Analysis: I created this portrait to represent the beauty of innocence in a child's perspective. I was inspired to make this portrait, because I wanted to capture the imagination of a child's point of view, when they are reading a piece of literature. I created this image with one of my cousin's pictures, and I placed her in the magical and mysterious world of Dr. Seuss, one of her favorite books.  Some challenges that I faced while I drew her face were drawing her eyes and her hands. Since the original image was a bit pixelized it was hard to captivate her face's and hands's exact size and shape, but I continued to draw and eventually I created new ways to make her face more life like. I shaded in her eyes with different values to give her eyes a more real look, and I colored her hands blue with watercolor pencils to give them a more unrealistic look. I even added swirls on her hands, with glitter to add an essence of magic. I have grown artistically over the semester, because I learned how to organize different sections of my drawings, I learned how to create values with color,and I learned how to draw different facial features, by creating this project this semester.

Mylar Charcoal Paper Project: Winnie The Pooh

Analysis: I was inspired to make this because I wanted to create a character with personality, detail, and a 3-Dimensional look. I liked the rough processes of going straight to charcoal and using the already laid out dark areas to create the still-life, because it made it easier to draw his shape and add the detail. Some challenges that I faced was how to create light areas to give Winnie the Pooh a 3-dimensional view, because his figure had a lot of dark areas, thus making light areas very difficult in areas other than the face, like the body. I also faced the challenges of creating a black color value around Winnie the Pooh, because what made him stand out the most was the difficult white colors values. I created this project because I wanted to place personality in my work with a lively character from my childhood, no matter how challenging drawing him was. This piece relates to my learning experience because I learned how to copy a still-life object, I learned how trust in myself to create something that I thought was impossible, and I learned how to make a detailed drawing by deconstructing and reconstructing it. I have grown artistically over the semester with this project by learning how to work with charcoal, learning how to use mylar paper, and learning how to erase art to create an even greater and more textured piece of art.

First 2D Art Pieces: Contour Line

Analysis: I created these pieces in order to understand how to create contour lines, because as difficult as they can be, they are most helpful in griding great pieces of art. I was inspired to make the dog contour-line piece because the still-life of the dog was very detailed and seemed very challenging; And when facing a challenge I like to try my hardest, because its better to try than to never know if you could have done the project. I was inspired to make the stapler contour-line piece because of the challenging curves and small details that provoked me to learn how to draw a straight line without sketching. When I created these pieces I liked the process because it introduced us to practicing contour lines, and it taught us how to sometimes divide shapes into sections to focus on the details, one certain section at a time. Some challenges that I faced with both pieces was not being able to sketch, but when I got warmed up to using contour lines, the project became simple. These pieces relate to me, because they taught me about the importance of shapes and organization, to create greatly detailed pieces of art.