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Where would you like your art to go from here?

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Where would you like your art to go from here?

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Because I won't be taking art next year, I would probably create art for the purpose of being another way of paying for college, or ease my boredom as I usually sketch instinctively.  On the bright side, now my sketches can be perceived as art by my professors in the future

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What artistic struggles did you learn from?  

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What artistic struggles did you learn from?  

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From the beginning of the semester, I always had a hard time creating a background for pieces. I loved to create all the imagery for all the projects except the background as they took up most of my time. In the end, I decided that the center point of my works are the nodes themselves; therefore, I created simple backgrounds so that they do not use up all my time.

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In what specific ways does your art show growth?  

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In what specific ways does your art show growth?  

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Throughout the course of this semester, I primarily experimented and actively chose concepts I liked to add to my style and concepts that I would like to improve. Though you haven't seen my struggles in Drawing I, I took out of that class was my love of exaggerating concepts like texture and space with something basic like regular pencil. From the Reach projects representation of shapes for shadows and highlights to the portrayal of space in a single object from the Natural Transition to the exaggeration of body parts in SOLD! to the depth in copied and pasted materials in Untitled #11

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Untitled #11 as its name suggest deals with the ideal of identity. To comply with my focus, The use of fragments of a dictionary, calendar and the line "ON THE COAST OF CALIFORNIA was to represent the context of which human are molded into people. The colorful cutouts are include in the piece as their purpose is to act as human ingenuity and their soul. What covers the cutouts are literature and material procession, which humans use to further shape their identity. The whole piece's purpose was to exentulate the significance of being one's self.

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As the end product, SOLD! was to criticize individualism as its major argument was that everything that the individual is made of is taken from those before them; therefore, society retaliates them by taking those said pieces back. The body parts were the key areas of focus in the piece and to accomplish that, I made the lines connecting shadow to highlight even more bolder.

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Starting on my good paper, I decided to focus on the Human parts instead of the the whole figure so that I could show off my favourite technique that involves exaggerating highlights and shadow along with my interest in overly dynamic drawings.

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One of my early concept that I wanted to use enlarged human parts along with multiple figures.

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The Idea of Natural Transition was that history repeats itself. This theme could be easily created by way of ink and water color as geometric/organic figures as the mountains and tree represents nature and the railroad and building represents humanity; thus, these figures can be given human imperfections by way of watercolor, which I used a loose style, and pen that created form from the imperfections.

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As the final portion of this project, Reach was inspired off of my enjoyment of displaying shadows and to accumulate the dynamics of the figure. I used colored pencils combined with graphite on the hands to overpower the other portion of the color pensil within the rest of the hand by increasing the contrast of erased, color pencil area and the dark graphite. The use of the graphite on the feet was necessary as I wanted it to the most significant focal point of the piece with its over the top highlights and shadows as the feet is what attracts the other items of the drawing.

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The next piece was created as a challenge of capturing the point of view of myself. Along with the other practice sketch, I also tried to capture depth by creating shadows and highlights.

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The piece was created to demonstrate the use of continuous line drawing. One of my goals in this practice was to create texture and depth without lifting my pencil. To accomplish this, I roughly drew shadows and the concave features of the subject. My focus of lights and darks is a countiuity throught my pieces

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The humanoid dance was demanded; therefore, I created a lady performing ballet. The figure was created by a process of outlining the shape by line making with color pencil

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While tieing into our theme, our team left a multitude of empty space around the paper. To make use of that said space, I created smoke within the death portion of our page to signify the blurred line of life and death.

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One of the commandments was to create mean-looking eyes. I exaggerated the emotion of anger by adding red lines to signify veins and the use of pastels, which cracking and dry eyes.

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I Love Textures.

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Who’s there?
Nay, answer me. Stand and unfold yourself.
(Act 1, Scene 1: Hamlet)

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Geometric Organic Project: Natural Transition 

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Geometric Organic Project: Natural Transition 

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What Keeps You Grounded? Project: Reach 

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What Keeps You Grounded? Project: Reach 

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The condition of this project was to create imagery in a group dictated by randomly selected orders and to connect them to an agreed, centralized theme. As most of our group created organic figures, like my eyes and dancer, we decided to combine our drawing into the theme of life and death.