This semester, I switched over to Sculpture; however, Drawing & Painting just started their final acrylic project that restricts color use to the three primary colors, plus white. This is a way to experiment with shadows and values using different colors such a blues for darker shadows. I’m definitely excited for this project, since it means I’ll have a short break from monochromatic portraits! Here is what I plan to do for my final!
Daily Dose of Inspiration
Here are some pictures I had taken of the fairy lights out on my deck last week, some during a clear skied sunset and others during a cold, cloudy morning.
Final Piece #4
He’s almost done! This is my artwork 4 piece nearly completed. I have found monochromatic painting to be both fun, yet difficult. I do enjoy having a break from skintones, however, I never knew how drastically different a piece could look with such a slight color change. With just a tad more red or blue, my purple tones changed from magenta to periwinkle, so finding a balance between the colors was definitely a challenge.
Sketchbook
This was my interpretation poster drawing of the Scarlet Letter after reading it for AP Lit.
Sketchbook
While trying to experiment with drawing realistic portraits, I’ve found that I have a natural style in mixing realism with cartoon-like animation, where the people in my drawings look fairly realistic, with features that are more exaggerated or outlined.
This drawing was a way for me to experiment with realistic portraits, by practicing using my friend as the subject. To see if my proportions were accurate enough, I sent the drawing to multiple other friends, asking whether they recognized him, even partially completed.
Sketchbook
This is a portrait of one of my favorite Korean rappers. I wanted to experiment a little with colored pencil since I’m mostly familiar with acrylic paint, and I found that they are fairly similar when it comes to blending and layering. I’m excited to continue using colored pencil in future sketches.
Sketchbook
Here is my other book character, Niko.
Sketchbook
For my creative writing class, I’ve been working on a story that has to do with a nineteen year old girl named Emiko. A lot of times I find myself getting stuck in my writing, so I thought drawing her might help me think of other creative ways to express and describe her character.
Sketchbook
This sketchbook piece is actually in honor of my mom, who’s birthday is today. In this drawing, I wanted to capture, not only her beauty as a person, but also the beauty of her culture. I chose to incorporate the lucky Chinese colors, red and yellow, and added flowers throughout her gown to symbolize the simplistic beauty of life. The red panda was a last minute character that I decided to add just for fun, because my mom likes cute animals.
Final Piece #1
For my first piece, I started off unsure of where I wanted my concentration to go. I had an idea of what I wanted the main focus to be: people. I think it is really important for us as artists to be able to weave in a deeper message into our pieces; I feel like the most powerful way to connect with an audience is to be able to provoke some sort of emotion or deeper thought process within each individual. Art is not what we put on display, but every person’s unique interpretation of our story.
Through experimenting with this piece, I was able to focus in on the identity of my overall concentration: ironically, due to my struggles trying to settle on a specific concept, my concentration became identity. I know that personal identity is something that everyone has some difficulties in finding, so I wanted to leave my art open-ended in a way that allows my viewers to choose their own interpretation of its meaning.
In this piece, I wanted to disclose a specific emotion of unrest by manipulating the paint in a looser style and being selective in my choice of color. I do admit that the background became a lot busier looking than first intended, however, I improvised in using that to help drown out the figure of the girl subject; I think it really enforced the idea of a lost identity. I made red, and the warm hues in the skin tones, the dominant color in this piece, because I wanted to portray a tormented, almost violent feel. Red can be a color of many meanings: passion, love, pain, regret, brokenness. Whatever feeling my viewers feel is completely in their hands. How they identify the color crimson, due to whatever thoughts and emotions that lie behind it, is their personal preference.
“I SEE CRIMSON”