My favorite and most proudest artwork would have to be the Object where I had sketched in choc a pendant that I had always wore around my neck all the time. I loved that artwork the most of all mainly because it has to be the most realistic piece of art I have ever created.
I feel like I would have liked to redo the college, because it just doesn't look right to me. Even though it is supposed to be a college and most colleges will not look perfect but mine conveys a meaning. It has to do with self evolving of how my art skills used to look back then up until now. It also shows my past that back then I would draw and cut out little figures and play with them when I was bored. I've learned that a artwork doesn't have to be perfect in order to be amazing. For example the College. Just pieces of paper glued together with melted crayons running down the page. At some point in my life I may have to do something that doesn't have to be perfect but should instead convey the truth and the owner has conveyed a deep feeling of some sort. I wish I could've done more with the oil pastels. I did draw small sketches while using the oil pastels but never really turned them into a real artwork. I will also include a small sketch that I have done while using the oil pastels. The images of the drowning girl is the sketch I used with the oil pastels. I think I messed up on the hair and head because to me just doesn't look natural.
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My landscape is of a post apocalyptic night time scenery that I have taken while playing Fallout 4. The color mostly consists of a variety of blues in the background. There are close up trees without any leaves on them. It's not winter but because of the nuclear radiation has stripped the ground of any grass and color and has basically destroyed the entire environment. The color of the trees looks very similar to black but is actually just a very dark brown. There is a brightly white painted full moon in the left hand side with a glow around it. Throughout different parts of the landscape there are other spots of faded highlights. There are also dots of stars all around the entire area.
I created my artwork by looking at a picture that I have taken from a video game while I was playing it. The game is called Fallout 4 in case you didn't know from the other blog posts. I created this landscape using acrylic paints and thin lines from the brushes to give the branches a more realistic feel. I couldn't really find any other pictures that I really wanted to use so I just decided to see what I had and came upon this which was a picture that I had taken back in the summer of 2020 While understanding the art worlds based on the original picture, I know for a fact because I took the picture that this is from an actual video called Fallout 4. I gained inspiration from other artists who have also done something kinda similar to this except that they do not paint the scenery. They take pictures of in game scenes and then post them. I personally took the picture in game, kinda during the night because the sunrises, sunsets, and night time sceneries are the best in the game. I have observed my other peers with their landscapes and compared them to mine. Most of them included a large scenery unlike mine where it is solely focused on the trees and the midnight scenes.
I was really able to experience the hardships while doing this artwork. A really good example of a hardship is that I was going to finish it before I slept and me being dumb I decided to actually do it and I started the collage late at night at around 9-10pm and fully finished by 2 in the morning. I was able to engage and persist when problems arise especially when I had cut the paper wrong and just went with it, and when I was hot gluing the crayons to the cardboard and once in a while the crayon would slip down and not stick. I needed to envision my finished project the entire time, because most of the time I just went with the roll of it regardless of what it actually looked like. The only thing that was actually going through my mind is that "Its the thought and the memories that count".
This collage is based upon my childhood and the fact that I was obsessed with drawing and cutting out figures of weird things and played with them as if they were dolls. I never really like dolls as a child but I was really into creating my own playable characters. So I decided to find very old cut outs that I have created from over the years to about 2 years ago. 2 years is the closest to now but goes way over 5 years ago. I also glued different colored paper and even overlapped them to give it a more original and creative background even though that colors of the cutouts clashed badly with the melted crayons as well. Foe my final artwork of myself I will be choosing to do myself in a anime style. I want to do something a little different for a self portrait and do something abstract like anime because its not something you would expect from a self portrait. I'm gonna try and envision myself as an anime character so I can try and attempt to draw it. I will reflect off of the many different animes that I have watched before. I have lost the picture of the anime character that I have drawn already of a toon version of myself and I was going to use it but couldn't find it.
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Think Drawings are sketches that you make before actually creating the artwork. You then use the sketches to work out and plan your actually artwork. Thiebaud uses the think drawing by first creating sketches and then choosing from those sketches which one he will use in his final sketch. During his final artwork he will often go back to his first sketches to get ideas as he goes. It has been seen with his artwork on ties. I believe that he had purposely singled out some of his ties as to show the viewer that he had gone back to looking at another sketch that he had created at some other point in time. Often before his final artwork was even done. 2. Yes I used a reference photo, freehanded it but copied it from an actual photos that I had taken. This drawing took my above 10 minutes to complete. My guess is around 30 minutes. Part 1: Painting Boot Camp During my time while working with the acrylic, I have learned that should problems arise I need to just Engage & Persist and just work with that problem. For example when painting small images I kept overlapping the colors and even making the wrong colors either too light or too dark. While I was practicing with the watercolor paint I had forgotten to take a picture. Though I can easily say that working with watercolor is actually quit difficult in a way as the colors will cross paths with each other and mess up your coloring. I can use my Develop craft skills to learn to do something entirely new that i'm not normally comfortable with, such as using the watercolors. Part 2: Landscape
I'm not completely done with my landscape just yet but i'm getting there. I just can't make the right colors before putting it on the page. I first wanted to take a picture from a video game scenery but after I already took the picture it just didn't look right so I went through my camera roll and found another amazing photo that I had actually taken from Fallout 4, as you can see from the leafless trees and lack of snow. He wasn't an ordinary painting artist, he liked to look at landscapes for inspiration such as taking a trip to valley fair and taking pictures of the scenery and the rides. He also got some inspiration from a highway and a snow skiing place.
I basically just drew mine based on memory without looking back on his painting as to not make it so closely related. His world collided with mine as I was searching for a artist that is when our worlds collided. I feel like the snowy mountain landscape was brought out with the ski lift as to turn everyday scenery into something to be remembered. My object is of a monochrome pendant which holds an image of a molting tree that fades in some areas. The pendant was drawn on the wooden table the wooden table in the art room. The lighting was from the way the lights are shaped in the art room. I normally add my initials somewhere in my pictures that I create to indicate that I did intend drew them. The sketch has no scale in size but it is larger than the pendant.
I created this piece by using a charcoal method. I used a combination of pencil, eraser, white charcoal pencil and black charcoal pencil. I firstly started out drawing the bottom of the pendant. My big idea is that anything, no matter how small or common it is can be turned into something great if you just try. Even with this common necklace. My only goal during this was to not using any color besides small amount of grey, black, and white. Also I was the first to finish because I already knew what I wanted to draw even before the project started. My thoughts on this well done drawing is that I never knew that I was capable of drawing something like this. I never took into account of the lighting in any of my artworks. I usually just shade and add dark areas. I have been practicing my observation skills in this project by looking at my pendant. While looking at the pendant I have noticed that not adding all the color kinda makes it both more easy for my to complete and more difficult. While I can fix my problems with a little bit of hard work I can engage and persist them with my accuracy. As I kept going more and more with the detail it kept on becoming more and more difficult to keep up and I had to consistently fix each and every mistake.
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Caitlyn MiersHello I'm Caitlyn and I'm currently 17 years old. I enjoy quiet times by myself, sketching objects and nature and playing video games. Archives
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