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I really loved this instillation, I thought it was very creative and a very cool idea.

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I really loved the wonderful detail of color in this portrait, the amazing eye of the artist for the different ways the light hits the girls face was astonishing

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I really loved this Artwork since it was so creative, all the different colors and the wonderful attention to detail

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In doing the second ink resist I'd learned something from the first one already, so I knew more about what was going to happen to the ink and how I should handle the colors and how much I should try to rub off the ink. Concerning the colors I tried to use the contrast of yellow and purple again. All in all I tried to use happy and positive colors, like yellow, blue, green and purple. I loved how it didn't come off everywhere and the pattern that was spontaneously created. The cutouts were an idea I'd had previously and it seemed like a perfect opportunity to implement that idea, since I wanted to complicate the artwork a bit and make it more interesting. If you look closely you will see the planet/space-like features on the round cutouts.

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In doing the second ink resist I'd learned something from the first one already, so I knew more about what was going to happen to the ink and how I should handle the colors and how much I should try to rub off the ink. Concerning the colors I tried to use the contrast of yellow and purple again. All in all I tried to use happy and positive colors, like yellow, blue, green and purple. I loved how it didn't come off everywhere and the pattern that was spontaneously created. The cutouts were an idea I'd had previously and it seemed like a perfect opportunity to implement that idea, since I wanted to complicate the artwork a bit and make it more interesting. If you look closely you will see the planet/space-like features on the round cutouts.

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This ink resist was a very fun technique that I'd never used before, so I'm very glad, that I learned about it, so that I can use it in the future. For the colors I tried to experiment with opposites, like the green and red or the yellow and purples in the hair. At first I didn't plan for the artwork to turn out so dark, but then I worked with it and added the white, so I also tried to work with the contrast and I feel like it gives the artwork a bit of a mysterious atmosphere. Because of the light colors the picture looked rather positive before the ink, but then tight after I applied the ink the image looked rather negative. So with scratching through the ink I feel like I achieved some more positivity, which gives the image more depth, instead of just negative darks. 

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This ink resist was a very fun technique that I'd never used before, so I'm very glad, that I learned about it, so that I can use it in the future. For the colors I tried to experiment with opposites, like the green and red or the yellow and purples in the hair. At first I didn't plan for the artwork to turn out so dark, but then I worked with it and added the white, so I also tried to work with the contrast and I feel like it gives the artwork a bit of a mysterious atmosphere. Because of the light colors the picture looked rather positive before the ink, but then tight after I applied the ink the image looked rather negative. So with scratching through the ink I feel like I achieved some more positivity, which gives the image more depth, instead of just negative darks. 

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I really enjoyed these practice drawings, since I love drawing the human figures and I feel that through these exercises I could improve my abilities to draw these, which was one of my goals this semester. 

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I really enjoyed these practice drawings, since I love drawing the human figures and I feel that through these exercises I could improve my abilities to draw these, which was one of my goals this semester. 

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During the Growth project I felt like I could really let my creativity run free and implement all the ideas I had. I thought it was really helpful, to brainstorm for a the first couple of days and really think about and sketch out all my ideas. Because of that I had a good idea of what I wanted my final artwork to look like and then was able to execute pretty much exactly that. In the beginning, I started with a complicated layer of collage. With this element I wanted to represent the many pieces that go into personal growth, the overshadowing idea of my project. Then I added the sketches of possible careers, these are actually my own examples of my ideas of my future, so this artwork has a pretty heavy personal touch. Then the baby and the pressing question marks were supposed to symbolize the many possibilities that we all have at the beginning and the profound question and choices we all will have to face. I feel that through this assignment my ability to compose a piece and to know when to stop, to not overcomplicate an assignment really grew, and I'm very happy with the way it came out. 

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During the Growth project I felt like I could really let my creativity run free and implement all the ideas I had. I thought it was really helpful, to brainstorm for a the first couple of days and really think about and sketch out all my ideas. Because of that I had a good idea of what I wanted my final artwork to look like and then was able to execute pretty much exactly that. In the beginning, I started with a complicated layer of collage. With this element I wanted to represent the many pieces that go into personal growth, the overshadowing idea of my project. Then I added the sketches of possible careers, these are actually my own examples of my ideas of my future, so this artwork has a pretty heavy personal touch. Then the baby and the pressing question marks were supposed to symbolize the many possibilities that we all have at the beginning and the profound question and choices we all will have to face. I feel that through this assignment my ability to compose a piece and to know when to stop, to not overcomplicate an assignment really grew, and I'm very happy with the way it came out. 

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I'm very proud of this drawing, I really worked rather hard on developing the idea and am very glad it came out the way I imagined it. Here you can see a composition with a female body outline, the brick wall in the background, the clothes lines up top, the figurine dancing that is slowly being encased by the growing roots on their legs. Then you can also see the constellations on the body and the planets around the center of the body outline. During this project I tried to grow in my ability to shade as well as my composition techniques  and placement of objects. 

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I'm very proud of this drawing, I really worked rather hard on developing the idea and am very glad it came out the way I imagined it. Here you can see a composition with a female body outline, the brick wall in the background, the clothes lines up top, the figurine dancing that is slowly being encased by the growing roots on their legs. Then you can also see the constellations on the body and the planets around the center of the body outline. During this project I tried to grow in my ability to shade as well as my composition techniques  and placement of objects. 

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In contrast to the continuous line drawings, in these drawings I really discovered my love for botanical drawings and tiny details. Here I felt a bit of an emotional connection to the drawings, the lines seem to flow naturally and easily. The field trip was a great opportunity to just focus on my drawings and the objects I was drawing for a couple of hours. I felt like my ability to look closely but then to also look at the bigger picture and position different element correctly really improved. 

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In contrast to the continuous line drawings, in these drawings I really discovered my love for botanical drawings and tiny details. Here I felt a bit of an emotional connection to the drawings, the lines seem to flow naturally and easily. The field trip was a great opportunity to just focus on my drawings and the objects I was drawing for a couple of hours. I felt like my ability to look closely but then to also look at the bigger picture and position different element correctly really improved. 

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These drawings really helped my growth as an artist by training my eye to look at the small details. I also learned new techniques of shading with lines and pen, rather than with a pencil. These drawings also trained by eye-hand coordination, with which I struggle, so this was a very important exercise for me. 

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These drawings really helped my growth as an artist by training my eye to look at the small details. I also learned new techniques of shading with lines and pen, rather than with a pencil. These drawings also trained by eye-hand coordination, with which I struggle, so this was a very important exercise for me. 

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Proportions, with pencils, oil pastels and ink

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Proportions, with pencils, oil pastels and ink

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Observation and Arrangement, made with pencil 

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Observation and Arrangement, made with pencil 

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Continuous Line Drawings, all done with black pen

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Continuous Line Drawings, all done with black pen

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At the Botanic Gardens, with black pen, pencil and oil pastels

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At the Botanic Gardens, with black pen, pencil and oil pastels

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For me this was the first time really  working with Oilpastels. I really liked shading with white and liked the effect it had. I had previously never shaded with white or light colors, so this was a great opportunity for that. This  exercise also really helped me in looking more closely at the details and less at the whole and more of the singular shapes of the objects. I still find myself looking at everyday objects more closely and looking at the single shades and, to say it in a cheesy way, finding beauty in everything,

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For me this was the first time really  working with Oilpastels. I really liked shading with white and liked the effect it had. I had previously never shaded with white or light colors, so this was a great opportunity for that. This  exercise also really helped me in looking more closely at the details and less at the whole and more of the singular shapes of the objects. I still find myself looking at everyday objects more closely and looking at the single shades and, to say it in a cheesy way, finding beauty in everything,

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Gesture Drawings, Sharpies and Oilpastels

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Gesture Drawings, Sharpies and Oilpastels

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For this artwork, I started out with a pencil, putting down random shades that fell on the paper. Then I tried to find some sort of shape in the randomness. What caught my eye was the shape that is now the dragons head. I immediately imagined a dragon's head and wanted an eye as a focal point . Then the little shapes felt like they should be very colorful and I tried to shade them, which I didn't execute as well as I hoped, but I grew in that skill throughout the semester. Then I wanted to give the drawing some symbolic meaning and thought about text, hence the writing (excerpts of a made up love letter) and the cut out newspaper on the top. In the end, I just added the shapes in the colorful spaces to give it some more depth. I really like the different material and the writing and the idea, but I'm glad that my ability to shade has improved and that we talked a lot about drawing facial features (so I know how to draw eyes more realistically), all in all I really enjoyed working on this artwork.

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For this artwork, I started out with a pencil, putting down random shades that fell on the paper. Then I tried to find some sort of shape in the randomness. What caught my eye was the shape that is now the dragons head. I immediately imagined a dragon's head and wanted an eye as a focal point . Then the little shapes felt like they should be very colorful and I tried to shade them, which I didn't execute as well as I hoped, but I grew in that skill throughout the semester. Then I wanted to give the drawing some symbolic meaning and thought about text, hence the writing (excerpts of a made up love letter) and the cut out newspaper on the top. In the end, I just added the shapes in the colorful spaces to give it some more depth. I really like the different material and the writing and the idea, but I'm glad that my ability to shade has improved and that we talked a lot about drawing facial features (so I know how to draw eyes more realistically), all in all I really enjoyed working on this artwork.

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Shadowplay, The First Artwork, Pencil, Collage and Oilpastels

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Shadowplay, The First Artwork, Pencil, Collage and Oilpastels

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Here I have most of the color on, but I still wanted way more details and also wanted to incorporate some text

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This was very helpful for the final artworks, since I got some more practice in shading with oil pastels

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Put them all together for the final artwork

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I still remember my surprise when I turned the image around in the end and it looked even better than I'd hoped for. I was very surprised how much I could do with basically just shading and how much of an atmosphere I could create

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The process of drawing this was very satisfying and a great learning opportunity, since I learned a lot about proportions and different elements of a face

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11/07/16

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For this picture I sat on the steps of a building and looked out at a big park, with buildings and trees and many other objects in it, which posed a great challenge to draw

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In this drawing you're able to see a waterfall if you look closely, it was a very nice atmosphere, sitting next to that waterfall making it's calming noises

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I remember siting under this big tree for close to an hour and trying to capture the unique paths of the branches and interesting pattern of the bark

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Here I did a pretty similar thing as in the first zoom-in picture, but just with a different branch

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Here I just looked at one tiny branch that caught my eye and tried to focus on the tiny leaves

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While drawing this I sat in the middle of an abundance of plants and all the smells and colors were overflowing, so I tried to capture that in this picture

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Here I tried to comply different elements all concerning death and filling the whole page, offering lots of details and aspects

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This isn't my favorite artwork I did, I don't enjoy drawing plants quite as much as humans, so I feel like, although this picture is supposed to concern life, it is missing just that

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Here I tried to work on my ability to draw hands and different hand-positing

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Here you can see a pumpkin or rather multiple views of that subject

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I was pretty satisfied with the finished work and all the little details it had

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Here I just started out with putting the shades on the page and giving it some more color