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5/24/2017
After some lightening and shading the hands in the sky, my work is now finished. I softened the area around the yellowish glow by brushing more water on it and drying it with a paper towel. I added some yellow to the background to create more pops of color. The final result was probably my favorite work of the year.

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Raven Steals the Sun-Lightening and Blending

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Raven Steals the Sun-Lightening and Blending

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5/14/2017
Here I attempted to blend the charcoal with the watercolor more by lightening some of the charcoal with a paper towel and adding lighter colors to the transition zone.

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Raven Steals the Sun-detail and shading-Pastel and colored pencil

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Raven Steals the Sun-detail and shading-Pastel and colored pencil

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5/14/2017
I used colored pencil, charcoal, and pastel to color in and shade areas that were much too small to color with watercolor.

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Layering-Raven Steals the Son Watercolor On Yupo

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Layering-Raven Steals the Son Watercolor On Yupo

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5/11/2017
The layering has been finished for the bottom of the painting.

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Layering-Raven Steals the Sun Watercolor

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Layering-Raven Steals the Sun Watercolor

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I started to Layer ink on top of the background to darken the dark spots as well as color in some of raven and their fox companion as well as the sun.

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5/9/2017
I finally decided on the layout of my final piece, and decided to do a watercolor/ink/pastel work. The subject would be raven escaping the sky god with the sun into his/her dark home while the sun gives him/her a third degree burn.

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5/9/2017
I first experimented on Yupo paper as a medium I never tried before in order to see what it was like. I later liked it and used it as a final project, mainly because it would be challenging.

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Lineart and Base Colors for Raven Steals the Sun-Watercolor on Yupo/Pastel/Colored pencil

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Lineart and Base Colors for Raven Steals the Sun-Watercolor on Yupo/Pastel/Colored pencil

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5/10/2017
I first drew the lineart and then put the base colors of the background onto the Yupo, and then let it drip and blend in a sort of sunset way. The outcome was kind of satisfactory, but on the other hand I fell as if the background got a bit out of control. I also colored in the base colors for Raven's black spots and the fox.

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5/4/2017
I later switched to the Raven Steals the Sun idea when I abandoned my Quetzalcoatl narrative idea. These are my thumbnails for that.

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5/3/2017
More thumbnails for the final project. At first I wanted the narrative piece to be about Quetzalcoatl, an Aztec God. However, I abandoned this idea later.

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4/5/2017
For the Character self portrait, I chose Dory as my character, because we are both very forgetful but optimistic. I used yellow and blue on my eyes and hoodie to reflect Dory's colors.

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5/2/2017
Pencil thumbnails for Ideas for my final project, a narrative piece.

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Oil, 5/1/2017
This was my second painting created from one reference photo (After the Ponytail girl watercolor). At first I tried to color it as close to the original as I could, but from further advice by Ms. Ross, I decided to add some different colors than in the photo such as yellows and pinks in the bushes. This was meant to be a soothing, pleasing painting. I likes the vibrant colors and was pleased with how the landscape turned out. However, I feel as if I could have made it more detailed and less sloppy.

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4/6/2017 This is the final version of my self portrait project. The shark's face has been shaded with more detail, and two fish (Marlin and Nemo).  I like the bright colors and small things the most about this painting. However, I definitely could have added more things to fill in the vast empty spaces in the back. It just seems a bit too simple, just like my Dreammen piece.

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This is the reference I used to draw myself as Dory

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4/18/2017
This was my in process pic for "Girl in Ponytail".  For the first few steps in the process of painting this, I put in very light pastel colors

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Cyber swordfish Oil Pastel final version

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Cyber swordfish Oil Pastel final version

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4/29/2017
The final version of my cyber swordfish.I corrected the smoke plume on the far left to look more in tune with the other plumes and colored in more bubbles.I was very pleased with the overall result of the picture-especially the details of the smoke, the rusty swordfish plates and the bubbles. However, I think I definitely could have done a better job on the shading.

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Watercolor Girl with Ponytail final piece

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Watercolor Girl with Ponytail final piece

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4/16/2017
This is the final version of the watercolor painting. This was the only final piece I disliked more than my in process work. Even though it turned out ok, I think the excessive shading on it muddied and dulled the bright effect I wanted.

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4/24/2017
The in-progress work using the cyber swordfish thumbnail. Most of the piece has been colored in, and the remaining things that need to be done include shading and fixing the color and shapes of the smoke plumes.

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3/6/2017
This was the final photo of the Fittest of the Species work. In it, the background has been better shaded and developed, there is a wider variety of gray tones and more dark spaces. The distinct shapes and texture created by the shading was my favorite aspect of it. Personally, I think this work has never been finished since the detail is largely incomplete and the shading is very simple still.

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The Fittest of the Species Process Pic 1

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The Fittest of the Species Process Pic 1

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3/4/2017
This was from day 1 of doing the charcoal pencil project The fittest of the species. I had laid down the basic shading and gray tones to outline the shapes of the head, the blood vessels,and the umbilical cord.

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The Fittest of the Species Process Pic 2

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The Fittest of the Species Process Pic 2

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3/5/2017
In my second process pic, I had darkened some of the areas of the artwork to distinguish them better from each other. As seen in this picture, the shading has begun to have different values and the picture starts to look more 3D

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New thumbnails/concept art for my possible next work, called the Fittest of the Species

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Thumbnails for Cyber Swordfish oil pastel 

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Thumbnails for Cyber Swordfish oil pastel 

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These are my thumbnails for a pastel drawing that has science fiction as its theme-a cyborg swordfish guarding a few methane
power plants.

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The Fittest of the Species placenta reference

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The Fittest of the Species placenta reference

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reference for the placenta (Background) of the work

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The Fittest of the species umbilical chord reference

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The Fittest of the species umbilical chord reference

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Reference for Umbilical chord

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reference for placenta and umbilical chord

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Some close ups of my drawings on the task project.

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Our finished task project, 1/29/2017

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2/17/2017
The assignment after another week. After a week, I had darkened the shading of the figures as well as added light spaces to the stripes to make them look more 3D and sort of sticking out a the viewer.

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2/24/2017
Final piece of the painting. I added more oranges, light blues and yellows to the highlighted and shaded spots in order to further accentuate the 3D effect that the stripes of the title dream men conveyed. Though this was a good first project in my opinion, it definitely seemed too simplified in design and needed a better composition to it.

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2/10/2017
My first picture after a week of working on my acrylic painting. In my first week I laid down the background and the flat, base colors of the dream men. At first I applied very light shading to the creatures.