- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Drawing II: - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Refined Contour This was a fun exercise for the beginning of this course (past the rough contour, at least, which was still fun but was also the same as this, so why throw in two of the same thing, yknow?) Past that, refined contour as an assignment was just drawing the room. Nothing much more than that. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Gesture & Memory Of course, it’s always nice getting to do assignments before you can see what you’re writing down, and its even better when you aren’t running around blind. Joke aside, this was a fun assignment. I got to mix mediums around, and as such, this drawing has something of a graffiti-esque touch to it that I kinda gravitate towards. Just for the sake of cool art overlapping, anyway. There was an artist we were imitating for this and I wish I could remember him just to say this all better. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Mushroom Contour I don’t get to flaunt the fact that one of my earliest artistic influences was a caricature artist, so getting to do a big nice and polished contour line focused project like this felt like home to me. Even if I may have made some compromises with the log in the piece, I think I went playful enough with the lines to keep this feeling somewhat bold. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Panoramic Contour I’m fairly sure this is panoramic gesture at least. I’m still pleased with how I rendered out the view of this city building and everything beyond it. That said, my keyboard carpel tunnel is kicking in as bad as it was by the time I got to the end of this drawing, I think I only used a pencil for it. And on big paper, that hurts bad after a while of working away. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Museum Inspired Modelled Drawing I desperately wish I could still pull up my old written analysis on the bust that this drawing is based on, because it was beautiful. It was a very well- defined bust that allowed light across it in such a way that it was very contrasty. After seeing this again after so long, I think I did a good enough job of capturing those qualities. Plus, I think I had quite good edge quality on this, he almost looks sharp in some spots. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Modelled Woman Out of every method of using charcoal, I’d have to day that the modelling method is definitely both my favorite, and also the least painful. Plus it often gives really nice and striking results easily, which is another bonus, I guess. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - “Iconoclast” Archetype Final For this drawing, I thought it would be fun to bring together an older version of the iconoclast archetype with a newer one. As such, I drew up a punk cowboy. To best illustrate the differences between these 2 versions, I modelled out his face/jeans and used subtraction for the jacket. It came out well I think. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Intro To Digital Photography: - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Aperture & Shutter Speed Figuring out how to get through a digital photography class with a miserably outdated phone and an even more outdated mid-range Walmart camera was one of the hardest challenges I had to overcome for this course. And subsequently, this first two sets of photographs. Lots of inaccurate colors, very bad light balancing and weird shadow tones plagued any photos from this old camera. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Color Strangely enough, my savior would come to me in form of an 8-dollar 35mm camera I found in my local thrift store. It at the very least, was cheaper than a proper DSLR for me for a while and helped teach me a lot of patience and technique that got me out of knowing nothing about how to take pictures. This set was the first to benefit from this. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Still Life & Landscape Of course I didn’t learn good picture taking immediately (and I had a bad habit of using pictures from before I picked up my old SLR for a bit), but that only cut into progress so much for this project. Out of both sets, these are definitely the best photos from them. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Abstract & Self Portrait I also still had to resort back to quick shots on my phone and Walmart cam for projects like 6 & 7, mostly just for convenience's sake. But by this point in the course, I had learned enough to not take horrible phone photos anymore. Mostly. Every shot here is pure digital. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Best Of Visual Poetry If anything though, I was smart enough to make sure that this final project was shot entirely on film, and it looks great because of it. Even if the theme running throughout it is a little bit flimsy. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Two-Dimensional Design: - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Motif & Balance I wouldn’t have figured I’d have been through 3 different design principles classes in 3 years, but honestly it kinda did help nail it all into me. Getting to really tangle with concepts I only think of vaguely like motifs and balance for this project was fun. Not much more else I can say. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Line Book Having the time to work on a full spread of illustrations was really nice to have for this project, but even then, I think I went a bit too far. I still ended up having to scramble to get it done over a full night, and on the day it was due, I still could’ve just come back the next day to save myself the exhaustion. Given the progress of this slideshow, I’ve learned nothing since then. The final for this class was also just a powerpoint, so oh well. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Survey In Contemporary Art: - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - “Trash Of America” (Dadaism Assignment) Really, the photo makes this look more striking than I think it was. Though I suppose destroying a good chunk of old garbage and painting a big dumb flag on it in a desperate plea to make something worth showing off, could in fact, be the most Dadaist thing imaginable. That or the most American thing. Who knows. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Ceramics I: - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Brickhouse Teapot Love this teapot. I have it sitting up on my old shelf with a buncha knick knacks, it’s so cool. I forget if I put anything in there, actually... I hope nothing’s in there. Though it’s a pretty sturdy teapot, so I shouldn’t worry too much. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - The Glossy Succulents Months later, and I can’t fit literally anything inside of this thing. I made a whole secret compartment in there, and for what?? I can’t throw change in there because it’ll get stuck, I can’t imagine eating or drinking out of this, and it even has the guts to barely fit in anywhere among the other decorative stuff in the room. Why did I let this plant into my home. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - “Sock” Clay Figurine This was just a goofy extra thing I did at the bare end of ceramics just to prove that I could make a cute novelty figure by myself. And it’s still holding strong! So I’m pretty happy with it. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Painting I: - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - “Two Tubes” B&W Composition Exercise As a first exercise in my first proper painting class, I could’ve done more for this piece. But as a piece on its own, it does well enough I think. The lighting could’ve easily been improved with shines, light bounces and extra details. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - “Sat On The Countertop” Color Composition Exercise For this second piece, I tried to go further, and managed to come out of painting it feeling proud of the work I put in. That said, the construction could’ve been more solid, I admit. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - “Did I Get Her Face Right?” Model Capture Exercise I Did Not. . . . But the piece came out nice regardless. I think I did an effective job at reproducing skin tones and shadows on this.

This section contains material from: Drawing II, Intro To Digital Photography, Two-Dimensional Design, Survey In Contemporary Art, Ceramics I, & Painting I - alongside personal work.