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Colored Pencil

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I have always been interested in drawing since I was a kid.  I always wanted to use my art skills in the job that I would be in the future.  The job that fits what I like that uses drawing us engineering.  In engineering, I can use my drawing skills to give visual representations of the things that I am designing more accurately.  I want to be an aeronautical engineer.  In aeronautical engineering, there are many representations of ideas that one needs to share with the engineering team.  If I cannot accurately utilize my skills as an artist to represent the object or idea that I am drawing.  If I don’t do that no one will be able to understand me.

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One struggle that I learned from was color arrangement.  In the object assortment project showed how dull I used to use color.  Then I moved on to the growth project where the color actually represented meaning.  This was building up, but the colors were still dull.  The portrait project demonstrates how I have used color and created meaning into it.  The color that I used in the portrait represents the different feelings that I have in that point in time.  Also the colors that I used are significantly more vibrant and compliment each other.  Another aspect that I struggled with was shading.  The shading of facial feature in particular I found very difficult.  The right side of my brain wanted to draw what I thought was right, but instead I needed to let the left side of my brain do the drawing.  The early drawings of the cup and the sphere were ameture drawings of shadows.  I couldn’t differentiate the shadows from the three dimensional figures so it was hard for me to draw what I was seeing.

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What is the most significant way I have grown as an artist?	

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What is the most significant way I have grown as an artist?	

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The most significant way that I have grown as an artist is by seeing images by how they really look.  What I mean by this is not letting the right side of my brain take over and imagine what the face should look like, but instead letting the left side of my brain take over and just looking at the shapes of the object I’m looking at to get the actual drawing I want.  This was shown when I did the no-looking single line drawing.  There, we had to use our left side of the brain to look at the object we were drawing to get the right proportions.  Once were were done with that, I later on used my skills on the upside-down shadow face drawing.  This gave me a new perspective on how to look at art and to further enhance my perception of objects.

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The way that my art shows growth is through the growth of me as an artist and the actual stories that they tell in the art.  The growth of me as an artist has changed exponentially since the start of this class in the beginning of the semester.  The shadow art in the beginning of the semester was very simple and didn’t have much meaning to it besides just practicing basic coordination of drawing and painting.  Later on the growth theme was the first project that I got to really show what I have learned in the beginning of the year.  This piece was also the first time I got to show the growth of meaning in my art.  This art tried to tell the story of someone's life as they went through it.  The colors of the hands represent the emotions that they have in their time of life.  The yellow meaning fear and curiosity represents the feelings that the infant felt in the early stages of their life.  The red of the kids hand represents anger, as something must have happened in their life.  The blue represents depression and the purple represents acceptance.  Another way that my art tells stories is in the portrait drawing.  The blue of my drawing represents the feeling I have when I am bored.  The purple tells that I am empty and further shows how bored I am.  The yellow and the halo shows that there are tons of ideas out there just waiting to be used.  I just need to look.

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Water Color

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Oil Pastel

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Oil Pastel

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Pencil

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Oil Pastel

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Oil Pastel

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Penicl

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Graphite Pencil

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Water Color

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Pencil

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The subject is of flowers in a pond. The far image of the flowers captures captures the main tone and eye movement of what it going on. The close image image shows mainly the shape and actual style that the flowers are trying to give.  This was drawn with pencil and Oil Pastel

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Thin Sharpie

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Thin Sharpie

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Thin Sharpie

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Pencil

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Oil Pastel

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Pencil

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Pencil

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Thin Sharpie

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Oil Pastel

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Oil Pastel

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Pencil and Ball-point Pen