Canvas Painting

This is a painting I did of a sunrise in a savannah. If I were there, it would probably feel warm and a slight cool breeze. I might hear some birds, but otherwise it seems like it would be quiet and peacefull. If I were in the painting, I would feel very relaxed and maybe tired. I would feel all of these things because of the colors and shades I used in the painting. The bright and warm colors invite you to feel relaxed and refreshed. The smooth brush strokes in the sky also add to the effect. The hardest part was trying to make a smooth, seemless, transition in the sky from a darker red to the lighter yellow. I think that it turned out pretty well, though.

Adobe Illustrator Flowers

These are flowers I made using Adobe Illustrator. They were originally star shapes, but I bloated and layered them to look like flowers. There is also a 4 color gradient. For some of the flowers, I used a roughing effect to make the pedals bend or sharpen.

Clay Sculpture

The top picture is a model I made in the media center using an IPad app called "123d Sculpt", which I used as a reference to make the bottom pig. The objective of the sculpture is to make a clay rattle. To do this, I first had to make 2 bowls, put a couple of little clay balls in one bowl, then scratch and slip the other bowl on top of it and smooth out the edges. That made the base. Then I had to mold the clay ball into an oval shape for the pig's body. Then I had to add additional parts of the pig such as the eyes, nose, ears, and tail, by scratching and slipping each one on as well. The hardest part was keeping the shape of an oval without the two clay pots coming apart when trying to mold it. It is also hard to know if the little clay balls inside of the pig are going to stick to the inside of the pig, which I hope doesn't happen. The pig is currently waiting to go into the kiln where I hope, when it is done, to hear the balls rattle inside of it when it comes out. This is one of my more favorite projects and I can't wait to see how it comes out!

Mud Zentangle

This is a zentangle that I worked with on a team using mud on the courtyard wall. A zentangle is just a big mess of patterns, with no pre design or reference, you just draw patterns and put them together. Zentangles are designed to be soothing and relaxing, which it was. It was also very hot a couple of the days we were out there. In the pictures it is not completely finished, we were still filling in the empty spaces. The hardest part was trying to come up with different patterns, but in the end it looks pretty diverse, just a little bit cluttered.

Forced Perspective

This, I thought, turned out to look very real and very cool. I held up a spray can and had my team take a picture so it looked like I was using spray paint, but really it is a cloud. It worked well because the coud actually looks like what the spray paint would. It took longer and was harder than you would probably think. One thing that was hard was that the clouds kept changing shape and size, so when we thought we had a good angle, the cloud could have changed by then. It also took many many shots to get it to go exactly with the tip of the cloud so it looked like it was coming out. After a while, with a lucky shot, I think it turned out very good.

Angry Pancakes

Angry Pancakes. Made in Photoshop.

Midterm Reflection

Most Successful

I feel like my value scale car is my best work so far. This is because most everything worked out just like I hoped it would. I included almost the full range of shading value throughout the car. It was also a very fun unit for me, which made me want to work on it more and do a better job on it. There are a few mistakes here and there, such as the tire looking a little bit flat, but overall, I am very happy with the way it came out. It was the most successful in my opinion because one of my strengths is in shading, and I feel confident doing it, so that made the car look more realistic.

Learned the Most From

Although it may not be my best drawing, I feel that I learned the most from drawing the skeleton (before drawing on right, after drawing on left). This was the very first drawing I did in this class, so I had no previous knowledge on how to draw not only a skeleton, but a lot of things. Drawing the skeleton for the first time was hard because I was sitting on the side of it, not looking at it straight on which made it hard to draw. I learned all about perspective in this unit and that you should only draw what you see, so from where I was sitting, I drew what I saw in the left picture, which turned out much better than the first. I also learned about the bones in a skeleton, and how they should be drawn. With these things I learned, I drew a better drawing than the first time.