art business

Hm.
Going away to art school in the fall. Here's what I did last semester in my Drawing/2D Design class. :)


- This is an unfinished still life. The paper is 18x24", but the space I'm working on takes up maybe 1/2-1/3 of the page. I probably should have waited to finish this before posting it, but I don't know when I'll get around to that. The stipple technique kind of hurts my eyes after I work on it for 3+ hours without a break. I start to get dizzy :P


- Not EXACTLY my favorite piece, I have to re-work the face and give it a wider range of value/soften the outlines. Otherwise I like it. 18x24 on off-white drawing paper with compressed charcoal/charcoal pencil.


- this was for my Drawing I class, which is a basic beginner class in which the majority of the homework assignments were to copy xeroxes of other things. This was one of them. Copied to a 9x12" piece of drawing paper with graphite pencil from an 8x10 image. This took maybe like a total of 5-6 hours.


- not my favorite either, but I did put a lot of time into it. I wish I would have changed the angle of the sharpener in the beginning because the angle was awkward, and the circular metal piece with the holes in it was JUST off from being a perfect circle, so it came out wonky. 18x24 on drawing paper with micron markers.


- another unfinished piece D:. I have to again put more tones into the face and work on the hair, but the basic jist and shape of the face is done. I was never really a big fan of self portraits because I've always dreaded having to draw myself, and I would always make things up to fix the features about myself that I didn't like- I don't really care anymore. It's beautiful in it's own essence; I'll deal with my actual body in the mean time :P 18x24 on off-white drawing paper with graphite pencil.


- nude figure. Professor told us to just outline the figure, meh. Not much to talk about here really. 18x24 on drawing paper with graphite pencil.


- another figure, except male. Added some value because this pose was around an hour and a half. Regret doing it on newsprint ( I wasn't listening when they said how long the pose was, I was used to quick 20 minute ones!), reworking the paper kind of wore at the image, but it's all good. 18x24 on newsprint with graphite pencil.



- Don't remember exactly how long this pose was- I wish I would have gotten her face. Might play around with this image and some tracing paper/markers. We'll see ;) 18x24 on drawing paper with graphite pencil.


- Another figure drawing. Longer-ish pose, but not that long. 18x24 on drawing paper with graphite pencil.


- this is probably my favorite of the poses, and most difficult (and longest) , from that figure-drawing session. :) 18x24 on bristol board with graphite pencil


- now this is from my 2D design class. Hated the class at first, but then it became my favorite. We had to create 3D intersecting shapes using 3-point perspective. So much fun. :) 18x24 on off-white drawing paper using micron markers.


- I have to take a better photo of these: these are three SEPARATE images, I just merged them together because they were a set and this is how I wanted them displayed next to each other. Each image is a drawing of an apple, portrayed using different techniques. Each image is 6x6 with an 8x8 border on off-white drawing paper with micron markers.


- Grand finale! haha. This was my final project for 2D design. We were given a source image by the professor, and he told us to reproduce the image to be at least 18x24", using an interesting grid technique. In each box/shape that made up the grid, we had to use different media or somehow make it look like a mess when you got up close, but when you stood back, you can see an image. The inspiration for the project was Chuck Close, and the way he has treated portraits as small images within one large one.
The background is actually a collage of an old cut-up watercolor painting I did a while ago. The actual face of the old man (I don't know who he is! Sadtimes.), was made using a combination of old newspaper(from soviet estonia XD lulz), charcoal, graphite, ballpoint pen, micron marker, aaand I think that's it.
As for the grid, it was hard to transfer from an image that was somewhere around 4x6" big to an 18x24 image, especially since this grid was almost impossible to transfer by hand(see down below). Used a projector etc to transfer it. I wanted to make it almost look like broken glass around his left eye, but in the finished image it's difficult to notice from far away.
This was so much fun to make, I'm contemplating whether or not to do more portraits in this style. 18x24" on bristol board, mixed media.

A WIP and some close-ups:







Sorry for talking too much XD I just liked the process and maybe if you're artsy you'd like to try something like this as well! I'm not gonna hog all the fun. I don't make art to please other people or to be unique or quirky. I make art because I enjoy it and I really feel happy when I'm doing it. I want to learn/show other people how much fun/how relaxing it is. Give it a try sometime :P

That's it for now. I'm working on an oil painting (oh jeez) of my dad and my brother for my dad's birthday towards the end of July. Plan on spending the next two weeks on that. Should be decent :)

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