For my final piece, I decided in the beginning to do what did in the beginning of the year with the inspiration map and the geometrical art and combine them to bring it to a full circle. My interests have changed since the beginning of the year just like my inspirations have so I decided to include my boyfriend, Ryan. He is a huge inspiration and honestly I don't know what I would do without him encouraging me and supporting me.

But after doing the geometrical art, my Photoshop trial ended so I decided to grab Pixlr and try and work with that. I used two overlays, which were this firework and a red tiedye so I can give off how passionate he is about most everything he does. And then I went and dimmed down the opacity to have it fade so it stands out while not covering him up.

I used the quote "The ones that love us never really leave us" from Harry Potter and did the same thing with the opacity that I did with the overlays. While this quote has leaving = dying, I altered the leaving to equal how he is going away to college this upcoming school year. And how I know he will still love me while he is at college and he'll love me just as much, if not more, when he comes back home.

Anachronistic

For this one, I decided to throw some humor in and say "Don't Text and Bike" which is a play off of something that is said today "Don't Text and Drive". Since back in the early 1900s, most people used a bike to get around, so I decided to use an old fashioned bike but throw in the slogan from today and the words text and an iphone.

Pulp Project 2

I decided to go with a space themed pulp design. I can't draw too realistically (unless it's eyes) so I took a picture of my model that I use to practice drawing and used the magnetic lasso to select it, then I copied and pasted it into the green area. Then, I decided to use color it black and used the dark stroke filter to contrast it to the bright green light beam which i colored in, along with the space ship, and then used the plastic wrap filter. I used the model instead to create a genderless damsel in distress.

(Also my 1st pulp cover is on the lab's computer so I will be posting that one on Monday when we come back)

ArtStart

"The experiential test of whether this art is great or good, or minor or abysmal, is the effect it has on your own sense of the world and of yourself. Great art changes you."

- Sister Wendy Beckett

A lot of people like to say that there is no such thing as bad art. Essentially, they are correct, in my opinion, but yet in Beckett's eyes, they are absolutely wrong. The true test to see if a piece of art is good doesn't lie in your preference and style, but what it makes you think of the world and yourself. It's suppose to change your view of the world around you and the world inside yourself, and if it doesn't, then it's not good art. And to an extent, I agree, but sometimes art doesn't have to reach your soul to be good art. Art is about expressing yourself in the most creative way possible and just because it doesn't change everyone's worlds, doesn't mean it's not good or not special to you.  

WIP Pulp Project (2nd)

I plan on using this drawing I did and a space background for my second Pulp piece. I was thinking of putting a damsel in distress in the green space and then using a chrome filter to add an metallic feel like I did with my 1st one so it can be connected together. I plan on using a female as a damsel in distress, due to the fact that in my first one I used Justin as my "dude in distress" so that way they can be polar opposites yet connected with that metallic chrome feel.

Anachronism Inspiration

Okay so by suggestion of Mr.Ross, I decided I would work with the Pre Raphaelite paintings since they were known for their long flowing hair and I was working with the idea of having a girl with short hair way before it was in style. I saw this painting and thought that I could work with the idea of mermaids with short hair. Though I might have to make it a little more conservative for school purposes.

ArtStart: "Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything" - Eugene Delacrois

By seeking perfection in everything, in the end, you'll get nothing done. To try to achieve perfection, it's truly humanly impossible. Humans are supposed to be imperfect beings, not perfect, and that's what's so brilliant about us. That we have to be imperfect to achieve anything in life.

Fairy Tale Project

Okay so the fairy tale I decided to do was Rapunzel (the story version, even though Tangled is truly my favorite version). In the Tangled version, I honestly felt like I connected with the story and how Rapunzel was just trying to escape her mom, kinda like how I am.
Okay so I didn't put this through Photoshop or Illustrator. This is a mixed-media work still because I used chalk pastel and water color to do it, plus a sharpie pen. The background is supposed to be the tower she was stuck in and I decided to fill in the crack of the space with black to contrast the lighter purple like Camille Rose Garcia is known to do. I then took another piece of paper and drew the hair and mix with yellow water color and yellow chalk pastel. Then I decided to take the sharpie pen and made like a braid of thorns to contrast the blonde.

Art Start: Clock strikes 12. You have to hurry before everything changes. What do you leave behind?

Knowing me, I would probably accidentally drop my favorite ring that I always wear.  Though for some reason, I keep imagine an Alice in Wonderland twist to it where it somehow ends up in a teacup and I have to search through like thousands of tea cups to find it. Maybe do like Princess and the Pea style, instead of only me being able to feel it, I can only see it. Then I see like someone almost drinking and honestly, I think that would give me a heart attack.

Invention

This was suppose to be for the Invention project that was due way back when. Now, I used just acrylic paint on canvas and mixed three different colors (pink, grey, and cream) to make the different colors of the thought bubbles. I used Photoshop to color in the background black and give it some sort of faded look near the bubbles.  The different colors are supposed to represent the different thoughts and ideas that are floating through your mind that create inventions. The black background is suppose to be the mind itself. When the bubbles are overlapping, it's suppose to show how different ideas come together and recreate a new idea or invention.

Valentine's Series (Day 1)

Already, I seemed to mess up by making two of Valentine's upside down! That's truly frustrates me to no end, but I wonder if I can just go into Photoshop and just select them and flip them right side up? Or I can just redraw them.

Sandman (Technically Rough Draft)

Alright so I would like to thank Magan for letting me borrow her laptop to post this! I also used it to make it look faded and add the dark edges to it. I based this piece of of the Endless family which why their names are all around the clock. The hourglass in the middle of the clock is suppose to represent how time is endless, connecting it to the Endless family. I have another copy of this where parts of it are colored with pastels which I will have to upload too.

Nefarious (Final)

I could have added a little detail but it was truly impossible when I have people banging on the table and causing me to start over multiple times. So I gave up on this but here is what I have so far on it.

Theme: Nefarious

Kinda a rough draft of sorts for this week's IllustrationFriday theme (Nefarious), Basically, it's the physical copy because I have insane amounts of trouble when it comes to drawing in Illustrator, especially since I'm only using a mouse. I plan on running it through there though on Wednesday morning and adding possibly more vibrant colors and try to add more detail to it if I can.