INKtober

Hello everyone I suggest trying this out! This is an exercise where you do one drawing a day in october. I know its a few days into october but that doesnt mean it's too late to catch up or start :) It would be cool to do in your mole skin as well. You can post your outcomes on here, or one of the websites it suggest ! I know Im going to try to do it, and it would be fun to have people to do it with !

The link below will give you more information :)

INKTOBER

Rainy Days

Here is an acrylic painting I did called Rainy Days.

Two little mushrooms ready to come out to play now the moisture can work to their benefit :)

Supplies for Room Drawings

Hello everyone


I was just wondering what the best place is to buy materials for the room drawings such as the scaled ruler and stencils?

Rick and Morty

Hello everyone! Hope you all are having a good weekend :) Here is my submission of the day. I don't know how many of you are familiar with the cartoon Rick and Morty on adult swim but here is a kind of spin off I did of it in one of my personal sketch books. Me and my friend Nik love this show (and I'm highly anticipating the new season) We often joke and act like the characters from the show and quote them often. So one day bored waiting for class I decided to draw "Nik and Dani". On the left is me and Nik in the cartoons style of drawing and on the right is kind of my own rendition. 

One thing I regret is on the right making that hard line on our necks kind of incapsulating the cross hatching under our chins. It would look better with out that hard line x.x but over all I like them both :) If youve seen the show whats your favorite episode? If you havent and enjoy cartoons I suggest it, its pretty funny but for mature audiences (obviously if its on adult swim but just warning so no one gets offended.) 

2-point perspective exterior from a photograph

Here is my submission for the 2-point perspective drawing of an exterior from a photograph. Overall I'm satisfied with it - I'm very interested in architecture, so I'm thrilled that this actually turned out looking like a cool new building. The boxy aesthetic was actually harder to implement than I thought, but with enough practice of drawing boxes in perspective, it was possible. The apple logo is really more of a place holder for any logo, but I thought it conveyed the sense that this building could house a store on the bottom floor and offices or labs above. One thing I would like to get better at is drawing an exterior with the point of view of an interior designer - how can you convey interior space with an exterior?

1-point perspective interior from a photograph

This is the drawing I submitted for the 1-point perspective interior sketch from a photograph, and I'm SUPER CONFLICTED about it. As you can see the quality simply isn't good - originally I had designed a pretty simple room that only featured a floor, back wall, bed, and furniture. I liked how it was decorated, but eventually I realized that it should be focused on the design of the space, not the decoration. I ended up scrapping my old design just hours before it was due, and tried to make a better one. In the end I'm happy about the design of this room - as a compact dorm room, I think it features more in the way of design than a well-decorated master bedroom. Yet I'm not happy with it in that it was rushed, and the drawing quality suffered for it. Would it have been better to stick with the original, or was this the right decision?

First Illustrator Work

This is the first independent image I created in Adobe Illustrator, in an effort to get used to the software. It's currently used as my facebook cover photo, and I have to say I'm pretty pleased with it! It doesn't have much dimension, but I enjoy the simplicity of it. That being said, I wouldn't mind learning more of the ins and outs of the program.

This was one of my art projects during my senior year, it's a paper-mache Slavic (Russian, Belarusian and Ukrainian) girl. She's completely made out of newspaper, wire, tape and paint. Although, I never got around to name her. 

Since it's October, here's another paper-mache project that I did in my junior year. She really does have an authentic black hair wig, vampire fake teeth, plastic spiders and no eyes. I named her Arachne after the Greek myth-http://www.goddessgift.com/goddess-myths/goddess-arachne.htm

People constantly say that she's creepy and scary, I admit that she is but that's what makes her unique.  

Hey all!
For my first post on here, I thought I'd put up some of my artwork that I did for competition in high school. These 3 all won in their respective categories, and I had fun making them.

I made this print in 9th grade. It's essentially just a crappy print of some trees in the desert, but the judges felt like it had some hidden meaning, so it won 1st place. They said the branches were like hands reaching up to the sky...

This is a (mostly) one-line drawing of my backpack using my non-dominant hand. I think I made it my junior year, and to color it, I put wet colored paper over it. I guess you can see a lot of my high school work was very abstract, but I guess the judges liked abstract.

This final project was made during my senior year, and it's easily my favorite piece I did in high school. It's a batik, so the material is actually cloth. To color it, I put a white cloth in a bowl of colored dye, then put hot wax on the areas of the picture I wanted to stay that color. You just keep repeating that process until the whole thing is colored, then iron the whole thing to melt away the excess wax.

Ceramic Woodland Owl Jar

Hello Everyone!

My post today is a piece I made back in August and it actually found its way to being sold and shipped to a patron in Washington! This is a ceramic piece is just painted and glazed. I took the owl sculpture available but then explored the theme of nature to come up with this design.

As I said before I believe it is important to not limit yourself to one medium and to try a little of everything so you can find what you are really good at or could possibly deeply enjoy. Over the summer I spent some hours in an artist loft where you can paint ceramic pieces called Kelly Maries located in Pataskala (incase anyone wanted to check it out !). Another thing that I feel is important is also trying to do your work not in just one place. Explore areas and explore your talents, go fresh places to refresh your mood and work. Always open your mind to any and all possibilities.