This 3rd quarter has been very excellent with increasing my artistic experiences. I feel that I have improved greatly with my artwork and I have a greater interested in more genres of art. I tried new and different kinds of art and it has been very successful. With many of my drawings I used a fair amount of shading and creases that makes the art work look realistic. Lining and the shading falls together to make a shadow in many of my artwork that is posted below. I enjoyed this quarter and hope to do just as well for the final quarter.

self-portrait

​This quarter in Art has been a wonderful learning experience. We experimented in different areas of art, and it proved to be rewarding in so many ways. Developing skills in drawing different subjects with different mediums pushes our own concepts of art, and propels us to experiment more with the unknown.
I am especially thankful for the various projects this quarter. The pieces that I have completed can now go into my portfolio, which I will continue to build in order to achieve my dream of going to the Parson's School of Design. Developing my skills as an artist by going outside of my comfort zone and embracing the unknown have certainly helped me gain a perspective on my future art. I can't wait to see what's in store for us next quarter.
In conclusion, I am very thankful to Mrs. Hull and the projects she gave us, for they are rewarding in more ways than one. I am very proud of my progress in art this quarter, and I will continue to build upon my skills, and become a better developed artist.

​In quarter 3 I had many difficulties. I had already made up my mind that I couldn't draw and everything I did would come out horrible. My full body drawing was misplaced and That was my biggest accomplishment. I think the things I learned most this quarter was how to do shading and shadowing to make the most accurate drawing. Trying to portray realism was difficult because while drawing a persons already has a sense and idea of how they think that figure and or object looks like. I kept a repetitive saying in my head that Ms.Hull said to us she said" draw what you see not what you think is there." That is the only thing that kept me going in this project. My self portrait had to be the task that I used that saying the most. I kept saying I'm pretty sure that is what I look like, but turned out the final product looked nothing like me. I then started over and drew exactly what I seen, the project came out just the way I wanted it to, just like me. This quarter has been a challenge but I learned a lot from it that is the most beneficial.

Self Portrait Second edition 
My still life Photo
 


The very first realistic drawing of our hands. 

This is the first try to my self portrait. 

 

This is the large version on my bottle. This is the smaller version of a different bottle. 

My work represents me and how I try. As I know I might not be the best artis but I try my best and what separates me from a lot of people is that knowing that i am not good I still try. This that you see is what I was able to produce  

The first photo below was photoshopped to show that no one flower shines brighter than the other.

​For the third quarter, we had to complete various drawing that I found quite challenging. I had to teach myself how to draw these pictures and make them proportionate. I also had trouble with putting some things into perspective. My favorite part of this project was getting to pick an artist and copy their work. My inspiration was Vincent Van Gogh. He painted both of the pictures that I copied but I altered it and used charcoal. Charcoal is my favorite to work with because I can get the shadings just right. I did work very hard on all of my art pieces, I hope you like them!

 

I decided to study graffiti. I think graffiti was really a challenge because it's a very complex form of artwork and is often controversial. A lot of the graffiti I used to do were just sketches on paper and now I think I'm really more into the style of graffiti. 

I did a lot of different things this quarter. For one, I decided to use a lot of inspiration. The main inspirations were a picture of an eye and some modern L.A graffiti. Here are my inspirations:

​My first piece was my own rendition of the graphic eye. It took a lot of tedious work to get all of the lines just how I wanted them. I stuck only to a few colors because I didn't want to make my first piece overly complex.

After finishing most of the eye, I really wanted to work more on my lettering. I decided to use my Aim name and turn it into something cool. The hardest part for me was making the letters. I couldn't decide on how I wanted them to look.

I only have to finish the backdrop for this and erase any excess lines from the pencil.

            I didn't like is project that much because I feel as though we did not have enough time to complete each parts. We were given a week to complete each parts which is not enough time if you are trying to do it right. There are two of my arts that I did really well on, I guess is because I spend more time's doing them than I did for any other ones. If I were given more time, my project would have been even better. I did worked hard on each one of my arts, and I worked best to my ability. 

 

One of my arts was not done because it was suppose to be Callie Monros but she was out of school for about three weeks and I could not complete my art without her. I would have done so much better if I had enough time to finish. I’m every grateful for doing those arts because they make me feel like I have learn so much about art. That I can draw a picture on my own without anyone’s help.

 

 

           My current work I do them because I had to do them but I really work hard on this one. Doing this project send a message that I’m really doing well at drawing, I guess is because I now understand the messages behind my arts. Art wasn’t always my thing because I thought art had no purpose and you can’t express yourself with art like how you can with words. I was wrong because I’m expressing how I feel about my own work and how seeing my own work like this, affects me. I’m looking forward to the next project.

​ So basically in quarter three, I focused on a vast variety of things. The main focuses of this quarter were shadowing, still life, and the human body. To mirror those focuses is my art work. Behind all of this though, each picture is supposed to show something about myself. 

The first drawing of this quarter was just a pencil drawing of a hand. IF was the smallest picture of the year. In the picture that I drew, the hand looks like its reaching out for help. From the shading and shadows of the picture you can tell that something is hanging over the hand. The picture is symbolism, saying that there are always things that hang over our shoulders and try to hold us down but it is up to us to try to get ourselves out from under them. 

​ The second drawing of this year was a pencil drawing of myself. For this picture what I did was take one of my favorite picture of myself and then just try to remake it with pencil. In this picture, I was wearing a hoodie and my head was tilted down. When i tried to portray the tilt in my drawing it didn't come out as well as I'd liked but the picture was still okay. Once I finished the picture in pencil I went over it and colored it in just to enhance the emotion behind the art. The picture gives off deep and somewhat sad pictures. 

​ In the third drawing of this quarter I had to do another self portrait but this time it had to be bigger and in charcoal. This was my third favorite picture to draw this quarter. In this picture I attempted to draw myself looking off to the side again, using a picture I took of myself as my model. This picture was hard at first because it took a while to try to proportion out the drawing. At first the head was too round or the shoulders came out too far. In the end though, I was proud with the outcome of it. The picture shows a stronger, serious version of me which is a side of me people aren't used to seeing. 

​ The fourth picture in this project was a full figure charcoal drawing of someone. I chose to draw my friend Michael Chase. I had took a picture of him a day or two before hand and so I used that picture in order to draw. This was the most annoying picture of the quarter just because I could not, no matter what i tried, get the picture perfectly the way I wanted. Lines were too far up or down and I couldn't figure out how to fix it. In the end I just gave up working on it and stuck with what it was. 

​ The sixth draw was a still life of a an area in the art studio that Ms.Hull set up for us to draw. This drawing was the most fun because I wasn't really interested in doing it but I did anyway. It turned out okay.

​ The seventh drawing was a charcoal drawing of a clear bottle on big paper. I enjoyed making this picture slightly just because of how I set it up. I placed the bottle in a window seal and then attempted to draw literally everything in the picture. That included the car driving by that got caught in the picture. I think this is one my my favorite pieces because of the fact that it can be taken to have a humorous yet sinister tone. When I look at it, it makes me think that an evil bottle is looking down onto a car that it's hated for years, plotting ways to bring harm to it. 

​To finish this off, I'm going to talk about the finale piece. For our final piece I chose a specific genre and then drew a couple pieces that took up 6 hours. The genre I chose was anime because it's my favorite type of art. To display it, all I did was take my school lab coat and then design on it something pertaining to anime. The reason I chose to design my lab coat is because I've always looked at clothing from stores like fye and hot topic and liked the cartoons and anime themes that are placed on them. I've always wanted to design my own. So I did. 

On the lab coat I drew a girl playing the flute because that's what I love to do. And so the theme of the coat is music. 
Originally she had arms and hands but it was very difficult to draw on the cloth so I ended up just not giving her them. 

 

After I did that I decided to make two hand draw sketches of anime and then on on a white board. 

​This quarter we had to do many different drawings based on different things. Mostly perspective and shading. I found most of these drawings different for me because I'm not used to drawing things that need specific specifications. Each week we had a new drawing to complete. Most of the drawings were the same just a bigger size. I'm proud of my art work and I hope you enjoy. 
Self portrait small 


hand drawing



 
Clear bottle Small


Self portrait large

 
Bottle Large 


Still Life