Skating By

For this project we were asked to create a skateboard design and then color it in with markers.  Ms. Martin told us about this project on a Thursday, and that night I went home and sketched a mini skateboard design in my sketchbook, because since the minute she had told us about the project I knew exactly what I wanted to do.  I have a really bad obsession with the Grateful Dead, especially their infamous skeletons and roses! (I own two vintage t shirts and now an old vinyl with that design)  Anywhoo although this design took me forever to complete with all of its crazy details, in the end it was totally worth it.  I sketched the whole thing first while eyeballing every last detail, and then went over everything in PrismaColor Markers.  I used grey to create some shading on the skeleton's head but for the most part stuck to my color scheme of my favorite colors, blue and pink!
My art was one of very few skateboard designs from school that got taken to the art show, definitely an unforgettable experience.  Attached is the address you can find other pictures of the show at:
http://palosverdes.patch.com/articles/opening-skate-art-reception-is-off-the-hook#photo-8360835


So here is to you Grateful Dead!  You have been the best muse I could ever asked for!!!

Meet Bones :)

Icons ' R ' Us

 

For this project Ms. Martin asked us to draw six different icons in boxes in order to create in the end our icon.  I choose six of my favorite designs, a modern rose, a heart with love in it, my signature paisley design, a lotus flower, the outlines of a monarch butterfly, and a Koi fish.  All of these were hand drawn by me, and then just simply outlined in sharpie to give them a sharp finish! Enjoy!

DREAM ROOM!!!!!

Sooo I think just by this picture you can tell that I am obsessed with flowers.  This project was based on creating a one point perspective room of anything yo want, and I created my dream room!  With a glass bottom floor with a Koi pond under it and cherry blossom grafitti on my wall.  Plus I took a risk by creating another room under mine!  My own personal library!!!This detailed picture truly exemplifies my ocd when it comes to detail in art, and hey it seems to work in my favor :)  This is one of the most beautiful sketches/drawings that I have ever drawn, and I wish I lived in here!  Too bad it isn't in real life... it's only paper drawn with sketching pencils!

Kate Bosworth Portrait

For this project I choose to use a simple picture of Kate Bosworth that accentuated the difference in the color of her eyes.  Once again I only used shading pencils and my paper to create my art work.  This time I was really successful with my shading.  I accomplished leaving no part of the picture white and instead creating a full value of shading! Sorry for the distorted picture, much prettier in real life than in picture :P like me.....

Profile Picture of Leighton Meester!!!

First of all who doesn't love Leighton Meester?! So when I was presented with my first real project in art for the year, to say the least I was already inspired.  The project assigned to my class was to create a profile view portrait of anyone of our choosing and to find a picture to use for our portrait.  So I spent that night researching pictures of my favorite actresses, starting with Kate Bosworth, and then finally finding the perfect picture of Leighton Meester, which you can find below (don't wory Kate Bosworth got to be my muse for my second project :P).  Using only shading pencils, I attempted to recreate the very sensual black white photo of her. 

I believed that I succeeded in my portrait, but with all forms of art there are strenghts and weaknesses in the work.  Let me start of by saying that I haven't taken an art class since I was in first grade, so found my work to be fairly impressive.  The picture of my portrait isn't of the best quality so I will try to repost a better one later on.  But it is good enough for me to give you an evaluation of my work.  I attempted to show a whole value of shade, and succeeded, but I now know as the year has moved on in the class, that I should have used a lot more shading in my translation.  Texture is a large part of my photo since I constructed Leighton's hair by drawing each strand individually.  Her hair looked almost as if it is was alive since the swirls of strands added volume that kept her hair from looking flat. And lastly I feel that the drawing has a lot of movement which makes her almost come alive.  The slight curvature of her back, and the bending of her neck adds to the very interesting element of movement in the picture.

Overall I believe that my picture of Leighton Meester is quite fabulous if I don't say so myself :)  Although it might not have done Ms. Meester's beauty the highest possible justice, it did do the job of portraying my favorite actress!  Hope y'all like it!

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Step Away From that Keyboard....

Hey everyone! Welcome to my blog!  I am a total newby at all of this so please just hang in their with me :) All posts you will find here are of me documenting my progress through my school art class throughout the year. Please feel free to leave any comments on my artwork, and if you have any requests on a project I will attempt to not let you down! Thanks for your time!