For this quarter of Advanced Art, I decided to focus on the human anatomy, more specifically, the skeletal system. This is due simply to the difficulty that comes with properly drawing bones, skulls and joints. I decided to draw 1 hand, 1 normal skull, and 1 sugar skull. The sugar skull was just something different that I wanted to do in order to step outside of just normal skull and bones. Although their are few pieces, the quality of each piece is what I wanted to focus on, which meant spending numerous hours on each drawing. The minimum amount of time I spent on a single drawing was 4 hours, with 7 hours being the maximum for a drawing, that being the sugar skull. I also noticed over time that my drawing and specifically details were getting much better. I'm proud to say that I've definitely grown as an artist this quarter and I hope to expand that growth in the near future. 

This quarter, we continued our artistic journeys through the lessons on drawspace. Here are my favorite drawings of them. Most included using skills of shading, crosshatching, and starting off from shapes to get more realistic drawings in the end. Please enjoy. 

This quarter I continued to practice shading but I also learned new skills about drawing animals and cartoon characters. One of the things that I enjoyed this quarter was learning about how to draw some portions of people such as lips and ears. Some of the drawings this quarter had to use different colors and so I had some practice with colorful drawings. 

This quarter, I spent a lot of my class time working on painting another ceiling tile. This time, Arshelle, Leah and I all worked on painting Olaf from Frozen. This was really fun, and I think he turned out really well. It also taught us a lot about painting, we learned how to paint shadows and create depth on the tile.

link to work: ​http://prezi.com/78vlpo_banbn/art-drawings-aateeyah-sharrieff/ 

This woman's nose is an oval.

This penguin is sad because it has been taken from its arctic home and left alone in the big city.

Robert Plant. Get it?

This is some kind of cylindrical cat.

This bird lives in fear of its captor, who keeps it locked in a metal cage.

The frog is happy and smiling because it is young and ignorant of the pain and suffering in the world.

This snake lies waiting in the road for chickens, ducks, rats, etc. to cross the road so that it may make a meal of them.

This is a photograph of Edgar, a student who sits across from me in class. I took the photograph with a Nikon L830 and a 50mm f/1.8DAF lens. 

This woman is ironically thanking God for her life.

This self portrait represents all that I've erased in my life.

This young boy on the beach has just found a pair of giant sunglasses that must belong to some kind of giant.

Above is a version of the drawing that I created in photoshop.

This is a photograph of Edgar that I took with a Canon EOS 1100D/Rebel T3. 

This is Frank from the movie Donnie Darko. Lacking all creative intellect, I copied this image from the internet. However, the fridge is my own artistic touch.

This is a lone chess piece on a lone hill among many lone hills.

Man with a tattooed face. 

This is a drawing depicting a man in his car with a bug on the windshield. The question is: who's screaming, the man or the bug?

Einstein.

Ladies and Gentlemen, Hillary Rodham Clinton.

Here is a drawing of a giraffe perched upon a mountain of cocaine, and below it an image I created on Photoshop. I call it, The Cocaine of Giraffe. 

Here we see Hitler behind Heaven's pearly gates. He's upset that God admitted him into His palace because all of his friends are down below in Hell. He prays to Satan every night to bring him down to his fiery kingdom to be with his old pals.

Here is a drawing and Photoshop image of a satanic cat, just one creation in my satanic series.

Here is my Satanic Santa, the second installment in the series.

Finally, Satanic Spongebob, my personal favorite. Yes, I did create these images.

Here is an image of a wine bottle I created with Sketchup.

This empty, discarded pack of cigarettes represents the disgust I feel for mankind.

This is a photograph of Big Ben, the largest and most famous clock in England. I captured this image with my iPhone 4S. 

My name is Julian Makarechi, and I am a junior at Science Leadership Academy. This year I decided to become a better artist by taking Ms. Hull's. In her class I am able to explore any different parts of art I wish to. So, I decided to create three major pieces. Each piece of art has multiple steps. First I created four collages using Keynote. They consisted of pictures from google of puppies, kittens, sheep, and horses. I then drew Mr.Potato Head. There were four stages to this piece. First drawing him in pencil, then sharpie, then colored pencil, then colored pencil and sharpie. I went through the exact same process but instead I drew Piglet. 

Here is the link to all of my work: https://www.flickr.com/photos/92669946@N03/sets/72157643793768935/