Green Eye Painting

Before I changed schools, I took a painting course at my old one, and it was one of the most enjoyable classes I ever took. For this assignment, we were instructed to pick any color we wanted, and paint an eye with that color. It’s strange because although the eye LOOKS easy to make, it’s anything but.

So here’s the result of my assignment, and I have to say, I liked how it turned out. :)

Atmospheric Perspective

I know it's been a while, but things just got busy for me, so...yeah. But I have some upcoming artwork that I feel like showing off here that I did for my classes this past semester.

This was one of my final assignments for my Perspective class. What you see here is an atmospheric perspective, which is basically seen from the distance, like a series of mountains, or in this case, you see here, with the clock tower and the background.

This was pretty much inspired by Peter Pan and Wendy when they fly in the night sky over London.

The final product is the drawing on the right, while the smaller sketches and the building on the left are just to show the process of how this drawing came to be.

I hope you enjoy!

Disclaimer: I was inspired by Peter Pan, I don’t own it.

Analysis of Form: Portrait and Still Life

Heh heh heh...I really like how these projects turned out. The top one was my final project; a portrait of someone. We had to draw out a grid first so that we could get our bearings straight. Once that was done, we could start drawing in the lines for the person, with everything we've learned about the different shadows, shades of grey, and lighting. The portrait is none other than Audrey Hepburn, when she played the role of Sister Luke in the film, The Nun's Story. 

The second drawing, one of the earlier drawings, is a still life drawing. The drawing here consists of different objects that were in our classroom, so we had to draw them out and use what we've learned at that point. 

Sitting Down Model

So for one of my last projects, we had to model the clay after a figure sitting down. We had to make the proportions correct, give a good amount of volume to the body, and basically make it look like the real deal. The back was, for me, the best thing I did on the project. I'm very happy with how the back turned out. Granted I could have done better on it, and with the other body parts, but overall this project turned out well.

Fantasy Head Views

For my modeling class, we got the chance to turn our ordinary heads into fantasy heads, meaning we can do whatever we want with them and turn them into something that was still humanoid, but with exotic features. For my fantasy head, I decided to do my own take on the classic Greek mythological creature, the Sphinx. 

I used inspiration from photos across the Internet and saw that her head was mainly human. So I decided to use cat-like features, the cat eyes and ears, to make her seem less human, but not totally cat-like either. I added the band to give her more of the Sphinx features, and to add a little personality to her. This was a pretty fun project, if I do say so myself!  

Head Sculpture and Ear

Er, sorry I've not been on for a long while. Art school can really take a lot out of you. (laughs nervously) But I'm back! And I've got more to show you all.

For my modeling class, we are currently working on the head. This was a picture I took after we worked on it for the first time. As you can see, there's not a whole lot on there. But we recently added on the facial features, which I'll be able to show you all soon as soon as I'm back to school after my spring break.

By the head, you can see that there's also an ear. This was part of our homework assignment; we make the ear out of clay, and try to match it to the sample our teacher made for us to demonstrate we understand the proportions and all.

Fabric and Shadows

This is one of my very first assignments in one of my classes I had to do. Using a pinned up fabric, we had to draw the fabric in charcoal and on charcoal paper and try to match the different shadows: core shadow, cast shadow, etc.

It certainly wasn't easy! We had about six sessions to draw and finish up the drawing. I believe this was taken somewhere in between or after those sessions. I think it turned out pretty decent, but I know I still have a lot to learn, and I know I can do better than this.