Filter and Sketch Portraits

Filter portrait. It's just a bunch of filters on duplicates of a single photo. I like how it came out, but I know I really have a problem with over-cluttered images.

The swirls in the front remind me of an octopus. And the wave filter is one of my favorites now.

Sketched portrait. I'm not really sure what the point of this assignment was, but it was probably to just get more into using a tablet and not strictly using lines [a cross hatching exercise, I suppose]. I started doing a sort of reverse cross-hatching in which I would cross-hatch with black, then with white. It looks like a comic book drawing to me, so I am totally okay with that. 

More Current Projects

Some say it's good to have numerous works in progress going on so you can switch from one to another again and again when you get burned out on your current project. 

This one is a long board for one of the residents. I haven't done anything to it, so don't think I'm amazing. I think I'll have to scratch out a lot of the paint, paint some acrylic on there, and then put some kind of gloss over the whole thing. Hopefully it'll stay on. I'll have to do some research. 

This one is a gift for a friend that I disguised as a class project to kill two birds with one stone lol. It's oil on regular canvas. For this project, we were learning how to glaze with color like they did in the olden days. However, by the time we started glazing, I hadn't finished my painting yet, so... I didn't use glazing as much as I would have liked to. I will definitely keep it in mind for future paintings.

The concept is: What can vegetarians do when vegetables attack? My friend is a vegan and she's really against killing animals and stuff... but what about if vegetables turned into living creatures like animals? And what if they were violent creatures? Would vegetarians and the like kill or be killed?!?!?! WHO KNOWS. 

Really liked my professor's advice on painting some of the broccoli dudes and then swiping them with a cloth while the paint was still wet in order to create a sense of motion. However, finding a light source is super difficult. At first, I wanted it to be similar to an old retro advertisement for a monster movie, so I thought maybe there would be a camera flash on this photo... but then in the background, my light source is coming from somewhere to the right... so I had to change a lot. All of these progress photos are of the painting after I drastically changed the light source on the woman from the left to the right. What a pain @_@ 

This is the most current version. Still got to work a lot on it. My favorite part throughout all of this is the spaceship... I don't know why. 

Lessons learned thus far:

1. Always have a reference photo [which I don't.]
2. Always do a preliminary sketch to figure out composition and light source, etc. [which I did not.]
3. Always give enough time for the paint to dry completely or else you risk scratching it off unevenly with another layer of paint. 
4. Learn to draw boobs

Self Portrait Project Progress

What a tongue twister, eh?

Minimal differences. Added really thick paint for the greens and Kwong told me to add more highlights so... well, fuck my hair is hella bright lol

ALSO, forgot to mention that after starting this self-portrait, I realized that it looked way similar to Lin's portrait of me that she did for her class projects last semester, except that hers are actually masterful and stuff haha Dear Lin, I would link to your art, but you have no link. 8****C She does amazzzinnggg photography, so if anyone wants to commission her... just sayin... contact her!!!! lol

This is what's going on right now. Gotta somehow make that look more like a slice of quesadilla, might add some kind of tbell tattoo on the prominent arm. Gotta fix my... left cheek, make both eyes a bit darker at the top, elongate the... left eyebrow... add some more darks on the... right side of my head. Very confusing switching these all around. Hm.

This is what it looked like the first day.

This portrait pretty much represents me as a savage eater. I like the energy of it, but the composition isn't great. I still have a lot of trouble with depth of field. Arg.

WIP & Practice

Blue Violence

Oil on acrylic. Not sure if I will add different shades of blue. I kind of like the dichotomy of the two colors. The red gives it an almost violent abusive feel. It is angry, stressed, irritated. The blue is the sadness, the depression, the surrender.

Ref: http://www.flickr.com/photos/45472463@N07/4175939472/

Blue Violence: Mini Canvas

Just for practice

Self Portrait: Mini Canvas

Just for practice. I am really scary. And I feel sleep deprived. And blue. And ugly.

Trolling ChatRoulette

Beginning Digital Art: Scanner as Camera Project

For this project, we scanned items, then photoshopped them into collages, etc. 

#1

I really liked the concept, but the final product is pretty bland. The background is really flat, needs to be brought back. The gum wrappers could probably use a filter to look more like buildings. Maybe add some fires or explosions. 

 

#2

I liked this one a lot better, but it is still pretty cluttered, I guess. I don't really know what else to do with it. I was going for a tyrant overlooking a machine factory that processes some kind of weird dinosaur meat or something like that. 

  

I guess what I really have to focus on now is really getting my concepts and meanings together. I have to know what I want to portray with these images, and I have to be able to confidently explain them. Oh goodness, this is going to be a long process.