Traditional Art Last Semesters Work

Here's just a sample of things I've been working on over this past semester. Sadly I wanted to scan them in sooner but because I lost my camera during a trip in September to New Jersey I was unable to do so until now.
Please note that this pictures are much bigger than my scanner allows me to scan, therefore I had to taker a picture with my camera (thankfully it's a 14.7 megapixel Canon Powershot).


This was I believe our first 2D design assignment in which we had to take an already existing picture and focus in on a specific part of said picture to the point of not being able to recognized it anymore. In all honesty I have completely forget what the original picture was called or who made it because it's been at least 4-5 months sense I had to work on it, that and the fact that our instructor gave had already printed out the pictures and we had to chose from her selection. I know it's not excuse for not knowing my history but at least I'm being honest. All and all this took me about an hour to do.


Well this was supposed to be my 2D design mid-term, but because I was one of only 2 in the class to put as much detail into our pieces, I was given extra time. Eventually more assignments piled up and before I knew it I wasn't able to finish it before finals; she still gave me full credit for it nevertheless.
In this project we were to take two separate pictures and put them together to help lead the eye around the piece. In taking a smaller image and placing a larger image somewhere within the piece, making that your focal point. We were to accomplish all this without making things appear too busy and crowded. We had no choice in whether or not to paint we didn't have any option in that category although she did give us a choice between monochromatic, picking to pictures opposite the color wheel (example mostly green with touches of red to even things out) and an all black and white version w/ touches of all three primary colors.
Obviously I chose monochromatic using the color blue. Eventually I will go back and finish it when I have time, but until then I'll have to concentrate on my other projects. I'm also a horrible painter so this took me far more time that I wanted it to, about four 3 hour class periods worth.
First off sorry about double posting but the forums isn't letting me post all of what I want so I'll have to make do with this for now.


Here we have my first real project of Drawing II, the fabric drawing. We were to take a piece of cloth which our instructor provided and think of different things that fold. In the end I decided on water. I hadn't worked on this for a while up until mid-terms. I honestly procrastinated hard to finish this and worked from 7pm-12am the night before mid-terms to complete this piece (from start to finish). Needless to say it was hard to do but I did what I had to do. Surprisingly I ended up with a B on this assignment, which I'm happy with in all honesty. If anything this was my least favorite assignment of the semester.


This assignment was all about Tension and was also for Drawing II. Here we were to take two objects and put them together to create the idea of tension. For mine I figured pain would easily illustrate this point and in all honesty I got this idea from the Korean film Old Boy. The act of seeing someone being cutting their own tongue out is tension enough left alone actually watching it get sliced in half. Honestly I pretty much half-assed this assignment a little bit. My instructor was on my back the entire length of the assignment about printing out the reference photos rather than draw them from my computer, in hensite she was right but at the time with it's due date coming to a close and me already having a lot of it finished I rushed to put in the things she mentioned and finish it in time for critic. There is still a lot more I'd like to do to this piece, because it's far from finished. I still need to work on the lips and bring out some details there as well as put in more detail on the tongue and chin areas. I'd also like to make the metal a look a bit more metallic than it is.


The final for Drawing II. In this were were to take a fear or in my case a personal fear and illustrate it as best you could without it being too literal. As you could see my fear was obviously the Kraken or more so a fear of the unknown. For me this creature has always been a reoccurring nightmare in my dreams ever since I was a little kid. (In said dream I'm in the middle of the ocean and go underwater after seeing a glowing object underneath it's surface and dive under to investigate, however upon doing so I come face to face with the silhouette of the Kraken and upon seeing it's eye I have a heart attack and drown from fright). For me they represent my true ability, my full potential. Such a massive creature of unmeasurable strength and there's no real sign that they even exist although there are traces of their existence left in Giant and Colossal Squid. All and all this took me about three 3 hour class periods to finish plus or minus a couple hours I spent working on it at home. The soul reason I cut it out was because it looked far too plain on paper. Sure I could've shaded in the background to be much darker and imitate the deepest depths of the ocean, but it just didn't feel right in this case. I apologize for the picture being cut off on the edges, I wanted to get as much of the details as possible and this was the only I could do it without it looking too ******.

 

First I have to say: your username is rather ironic.

Secondly, I love your work. Very creative and nicely done. I especially like your third one. The depth and contour is very nice, even if you consider it your least favorite. lul

 

I love irony what can I say.
Honestly looking back at all these I could've done better, but I'm too lazy to go back and fix them plus I have other things I have to work on now so it would defeat the purpose.