Pancakes!

This is from the photoshop tutorial on pancakes and mouths. I used different pictures of pancakes and a fish and a shark instead of the pictures Mr. Sands used mainly because it was easier to google them instead of actually finding the real pictures.

This is the first one i did. Clearly, the merging didnt go well and adobe kept crashing so i had to use gimp which i havent gotten around to messing with too much. I got bored and messed with the different presets in gimp brushes and made the shoop da woop thing below.

reflection eternal

This was my most successful project because Mr. Sands said that this project deserved an A and that is good enough for me. I liked how the blue highlights the tree and the mantis along with the background. The details on the leaves were pretty cool and the orange and blue stood out on the yellow paper. This print was one over the more vibrant ones out of my normal green/blue/brown variations. Since this project completed all the requirements and the teacher praised it, it is clearly the most successful of my art projects.

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Out of all my art projects, the value scale portrait was the one that I learned the most from. Learning about all the shading and different shadows that show on a persons face was interesting and fun. After completing the value scale project I learned that I should be less afraid of the dark and focus more on highlights of the lips, eyes, and hair rather than the shadows. Highlights bring the picture to life.

paper jam

I liked this project alot. Although putting the image onto the piece of rubber was kinda annoying it was fun carving out my praying mantis. I liked the way it turned out overall. I tried messing around with the main colors brown and green to try and get the setting right. The one on the left I tried giving the tree a specific brown color and the mantis a nice green turquiose color along with the leaves.

The print on the right happened after I did the second print over my first one. Although the blue doesnt really go with the brown and green colors, I liked the highlights of the blue on the mantis. If I could do this all over again, I'd probably do the hippo instead. I love hippos and they're my favorite animal anyways.

sprayyyyyyy

I enjoyed this project entirely. It was fun to do all parts of the projects. From tracing the outlines of the different stencils to actually stencilling my face and making the frame. Doing hands on work is definitely more fun than bookwork.

 Initially I misaligned my stencils while tracing and the black parts were off a bit from the blue. This shows up clearly on my final product. It kind of looks cool though so I dont mind. Messing with the spraypaint was the best part and I liked the different textures that arose from the uneven spraying of different colors.

Zombies: Beware!

Drawing this was alot harder than I thought. Learning all the facial geometry was pretty cool like how the eyes are one eye apart and halfway down the face and how the nose and lips and ear placements are all connected somehow. Implimenting these while drawing my face was the hardest part. After measuring my facial features individually, when I put them in their specific places they didnt exactly match up evenly the way we were told. For example, my lips were too small and didnt end in the middle of my eyes. My ears are non-existant (I just finished them overnight) and I kept messing up my eyes so I decided a dead zombie look would make it all better. I like my hair though.

I got bored halfway through and messed around with the mirrors. It turned out pretty cool. It'd be better with colors and maybe better design patterns