The VA Core Art Show

Okay, so I don't know if that's really what it's called... I have no idea what it's called. It's up in the HFAC right now. I got a couple pieces put in it and they are currently displayed on the fourth floor...
Sadly, my name was spelled wrong on one (lecia) , and credit was given to someone else entirely on another (a kid named drew from my drawing class).

But on the brighter side I won $33 for getting a jurors award. :D

So it wasn't a total bust, haha.

2D Final Project

- These are all on 24X36 masonite panels.

I love these. Unfortunately madame teacher didn't feel the same.

Rubbish indeed.

Yesterday I was pretty bitter about it...I bought ALL this junk food and ate SO much and felt SO sick.

But now I'm over it. :) "Keep Moving Forward"

Drawing Final Project

So I posted these in order from when I did them. The ones of Lori aren't finished because I've decided to start a third one of her - just not for the final which is tomorrow. The first two were more expiremental...I was just trying to figure out what worked and what didn't...so a lot of it is what didn't work.

These are small, I can't remember the demensions exactly, but there less than 11X15 for sure. Micron Pen and Ink on Stonehenge




Hannah's turned out to be the best in my opinion. Especially because it actually looks like her.


Emily's eyes are just weird. One is huge, one looks evil. Idk. but besides that I think it turned out alright.

As for my self portrait? Weird things were happening in this as well. the lips, the hair especially and everything under the chin. The pictures I used for reference were a bit difficult to work with seeing as half of the stuff I drew, you couldn't see in the photographs. Oh well...

Hurray for the end of the semester! 2d Final will be posted soon.

Two More

black & white

Color! I had a limited selection of colors, but I think it may have worked in my favor.

the end.

On the Steps of a Mayan Temple

...They will Crown us King and Queen.

This is a side project that I'm currently working on. It is about ten times more exciting than actually working on my Final Projects. If you can name the song+artist it's referencing you'll get points.

Until next time. ;)

Project Proposals for 2D Design and Drawing

Drawing Final Project - The Women:

So I'm doing four b&w portraits on 11X15ish sheets of paper of the girls I live with aka my besties! haha ;)

I can't take quality pictures, and my roommates struggle to sit still very long. ;) So here are my reference photos. The idea right now is doing base values with ink, and then going over it with micron pens. Well have to see how well ink takes to the stonehenge.

and then it has to be approved by madame instructor.


Hanney boo.


Lor-bear.



emchien.



this girl just showed up, and wanted her picture taken.
what a weirdo.





2d Desgin final Project


This one is a bit complicated.
I made a group on facebook and had a bunch of people send me excerpts of old journal entires, or cheesy poems they wrote in high school, stuff like that. And then I gesso-ed 3 masonite panels (24X36). I'm currently working on the second layer...transfering the text that was sent to me onto the panels. It's tedious...first I gathered all the text, applied different fonts/sizes, and inverted it so I get the mirror image. I printed all the pages, took them to a xerox machine and made bigger copies of the text on 11 X 14 sheets of paper. Then I used wintergreen oil to get the xerox ink off the paper and onto the surface off the panel. viola! transfered text that you can read. (for the most part, though the text isn't going to be the focal point). After that, I'll paint some cheesey images of hand holding, leg crossing, and an epic kiss for the last one.
Seeing as this all has happened in my head, I'm not sure what to expect, but we'll see.

I've decided...
I should get extra credit since I'm working twice as hard as anyone else probably is.

Highlights from Drawing Portfolio 2

1 Point Perspective.


Box Still Life.


Cubist "Informed" Drawing 1


Cubist "Informed" Drawing 2

Highlights from Drawing Portfolio 1

We had a portfolio due a while back and we put everything we worked on, in class, out of class, inside. Most of the stuff wasn't very good, so I didn't bother taking pictures of it. I'll toss it all probably after the semester is over.

Rock Canyon Drawings -

We took pictures at rock canyon and then used to pictures to make these drawings. We had to do two, although I feel like they're pretty similar. I like the first one better.

Trip to Kanosh

I got to work with this guy, all of Friday in his stuido which is this huge building that used to be a dance hall.
Four other students came with, plus my old Figure Drawing instructor Fidalis.
It was definitely a good experience, and I feel like I learned a ton. :D

Brian Kershisnik

VA112 - Digital Tech

So this class just started on Oct21. It's only half a semester long, but were supposed to learn photoshop, illustrator, and some other stuff I don't remember but this is the stuff from photoshop. We picked an artist out of Michelangelo, Raphael, Da Vinci, and Pontormo. I picked Pontormo because I was less familiar with his art, but its definitely good stuff...a little eerie, but good. We had to pick out a drawing, or a few drawings and make a little 5X5 inch collage thing 'inspired' by the drawigns. I tried to find the ones I used online, but I didn't have any luck. Anyway...I'm not posting everything we did, because most of it I hated (I'm new to the whole digital art thing, and besides that, I'm definitely not familiar with Mac's which is what we use), so I'll just put a few up.

This is the orignal collage that I scanned.

This was supposed to demonstrate value.

And this, rhythm.

I like what I've learned, but I feel like everyone else is already sooooooo much better than me at it. ugh. 'keep moving forward.'

fin.