This one I really enjoyed making because it has two of my creations in it, Hamlet and Horatio (the hands). This art piece features a geometric human head that's been opened for tampering. The techniques I used to make this project what it really is were crosshatching and geometric shapes. I used the occasional colored pens for the blood, brain, strings, eyes, and the ribbons that are sprouting from the hands. I drew this because I was going through a lot during this period of time with family issues and was really just brain dead. (I like how the left ear is smaller than the right, that makes my day-)
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For my free choice drawing, I decided to draw a squizard which is a squid, but also a wizard. With his trusty side kick Clamedes (A play on Archimedes, Merlin's owl, it's terrible, I'm sorry-) they can accomplish anything, even homicide. The techniques I used in this piece features line and an attempt at perspective. I drew everything in a vary simplistic and cartoony style which resonates with what I usually draw in my free time. I chose this for my free choice drawing because I had a dream about this creepy squid that killed Merlin and Archimedes, taking the place as the royal wizard without anyone realizing it. He ate the bird and Merlin only keeping his feet. It was a fun dream.
For my block print, I wanted to make something fun and creepy so I chose to focus on creating a ton of eyes. The smaller eyes around the biggest eye actually came out looking like teeth much to my surprised satisfaction. I struggled with putting the sketch on the block at first but eventually got it down. For the carving portion, I usually used the thin carving piece to ensure I got the detail I wanted. Lining up the block with the print was a lot less difficult than I expected it to be. I made sure to lay it down slowly and went over it with a dry roller to make sure that the paint I wanted got onto the print. For the final layer of paint, I enjoyed carving the majority of the block off and really like the messy look it gave the painting. I didn't at all at first, but it grew on me. All in all, I just like creepy evil thing and enjoy incorporating it into my work.
For my final acrylic painting I chose one of H.P. Lovecraft's eldritch creatures to illustrate. As you can clearly see, it is incomplete due to me getting sick. (um- and maybe I'm a perfectionist who has a hard time marking a canvas that is nearly as big as me hah-) I plan to finish this project in my free time at home and by the end of the year have the final outcome posted! Anyway, I have taken from this project that I need to get down the basic shape/shadows of the object down and not to obsess over the outline. I not intentionally made every tentacle a different shade of blue which I actually really like. I was setting down the main color and getting the big shadows then planning to add the intense detail last. I used a digital piece as my main figure and shadows for the painting but also factored in little things that would satisfy my perfectionist garbage self. For example, I incorporated the factor that in Lovecraft's original sketch he drew Cthulhu with three eyes and his head was pretty small compared with the rest of his body. The reason I chose to draw Cthulhu was because I am currently reading the entire H.P. Lovecraft archive of dreary fables and really am enjoying them.
My first acrylic painting this year was a recreation of a painting done by Andre Derain. First, we coated the canvas with a light layer of a tinted yellow white for a base coat, next came the brown sketch, then came the painting replication. I really had to focus on the colors of the original and try to mix and match to get it as close to the original as possible. I also tried to get the texture he gave to his painting with his brush strokes which I didn't really factor in at the top portion of the painting with the mountains. I really think the brush strokes were fun to do and though didn't come out exact, still look satisfying. I tried to choose a picture that would challenge me and also would be an acceptable starting point for the acrylic unit.
This art project was focused on combining what we learned from our watercolor lesson with the 3 quarter portrait lesson, using ourselves as the main subject for the painting. The main skill I focused on in this piece was the layering of paints. Watercolor can be the devil if you don't get the lights down first, and the darks down last. I used a lot of water when trying to get the color as light as possible and only a little water when I really wanted to the shadows to pop out. I really like the contrast around the eyes compared to the rest of the face and the shadow under the nose. I really wanted this painting to come out well due to the sketch being my best so far in portrait drawings so I persisted with adding more to it even though I was bating myself harshly about things I noticed later. Overall, I am slightly pleased with the outcome and can't wait to improve on it in the future.
This project was themed around one point perspective and features floating shapes in a vast white space. I used one point perspective to help guide the making of three dimensional shapes and help determine what position and plain they are in. I used dark and light lines to once again, like in the other repetitive projects, accentuate the shapes that are closest and farthest from the viewer. It feels empty yet the drawing really represents the three dimensional plain.
For this charcoal project, we were supposed to examine and recreate the still life photo of the peppers and shade it with charcoal. I lightly applied a light grey to the whitest pepper and gently blended it with the darker spots on the pepper. For the shines, I wish I had left them white then edited them later instead of coming back and using white chalk to highlight the shines cause they are not that apparent / visible. This project was focused on the aspect of shading to make the image appear 3D and seem to be popping off the paper. Makes me feel kinda sad, probably because it's just in the black and white
palette. I chose my headphones and my pencil bag from a television show I really like for my contour line project. I combined what I learned from my last project and then shaded it with the crosshatching technique. I used overlap and dark / light lines to emphasize depth of field and to display what is in front of what. The idea was to capture the element of still life while making my headphones look like architectural in the drawing. It sort of looks like the space station in Star Wars that Anikan blows up.
For this project, we were supposed to take a picture of leaves or flowers out side and only draw the outline for them. I used overlapping lines and depth to extenuate the perception of leaves that are in front and leaves that are in back. The leaves that are in front the darkest outline while the leaves in back have the lightest outline. My goal was to make my drawing visible form a distance and also have the illusion of depth. The thing I learned that I will definitely use for other drawings was the overlapping line technique and the darker line techniques.
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