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I came into Art 3 with a lot of goals I had hoped to achieve. I entered the class with very little diversity in the works that I completed. I tended to stick with 'anime' or cartoon styles of art, all of which I had been doing for a while. Continually doing the same kind of work over and over wasn't allowing me to challenge myself.
Let me first start off this by saying I am a VERY stubborn student. It takes a lot of pushing from other people to get me to want to challenge myself and put a lot of effort into my work, so I am extremely lucky to have had Mr. Sands as a teacher in this course. Whenever I was being unproductive, he would encourage me to create new pieces and he would help me work with new mediums and give me tools to assist me in creating new pieces.
I eventually got bored with doing the same style of drawings over and over again. One of my goals when entering Art 3 was to explore new mediums. I had never tried watercolor, I always avoided it because I tend to like acrylic more and I didn't ever try to use watercolor. I was messing around one day and decided I wanted to make a piece that included lyrics of Ryan Ross' song 'Lonely Moonlight'. What I had envisioned was Ryan sitting on a moon that contained his lyrics (for our Text Art project), and in the background I would paint a watercolor galaxy. As I was painting it looked less and less like a galaxy and more like a tree, then it just changed into weird colors in the background.
I actually ended up liking it, I like the color combination a lot.
Another thing I wanted to try in this class was mixing two mediums that aren't typically used together. I decided to try graphite pencil and acrylic paint. I painted a sketch then used a toothbrush to flick acrylic paint onto the sketch. I like how it looks like a typical drawing, but the acrylic adds an abstract feeling to it.
and I tried to make my own version of it for our "Artists Steal" project, where we make our own versions of something that has already been made. After using the grid method and shading using graphite and charcoal, this was the outcome.
I can honestly say this is my favorite piece of artwork I have ever completed. I was ecstatic that it came out looking realistic, and it actually resembled the person I was attempting to draw in the first place. After I drew this, my confidence grew, and I tried out some more realistic drawings.
This class has been the cause of a lot of my creative freedom. Having it 4th period allowed me to put a lot of the ideas I had during the day on paper, which was really cool because it actually changed the kind of pieces that I would create. This was my second class with Mr. Sands, and I definitely learned more in Art 3 than I have in any other art class. I've taken Art 1, Art 2, and Computer Art & Animation, and this one has been my most productive in terms of coming out of my shell and creating things I never thought I was capable of.
Mr. Sands wants me to try to take me drawing cartoons out of the sketchbook and do something different with them, so I'm trying something I've wanted to get better at for a while. I want to color one of my sketches digitally, so I would scan it and color it in photoshop. I'm excited because I really want to know what a digital sketch of mine would look like, so we'll see how it turns out!
Before I did my digging deeper/challenges blog post, I wanted to post a planning post before so that I can gather my thoughts about this particular project. Instead of incorporating a visible clock, watch, etc. into a piece, I want to use time itself to create the art. I had an idea, and I'm not sure if this would work, because it involves science and art. I want to take a perishable food item, and put a few drops of food coloring in certain sections of that item. Then I want to compare the mold that grows in a non-colored portion to the mold that grows in a colored portion. The mold that grows on the colored portion might even be pretty!
My text art project is complete! I finished it on Friday. After I painted the entire canvas, I decided to repaint it because the green parts looked streaky. After I decided the colors were smooth enough, I outlined "Minecraft" in pencil, and filled it in with black acrylic paint using a small brush.
I've started this project with paint and a canvas. I applied gesso to a previously used canvas to prime it, then separated the sections that I will put different shades of green in. The outcome is going to be a creeper from minecraft, with the word minecraft under it's face (or above, wherever there is more room). So far I've colored about half of the canvas, but the way the paint is going on, I think I'll need to do more than one coat.
I like this one because it's Gir from Invader Zim. It creates the outline of his character using periods, letters, and numbers.
I love how realistic this one looks, even though its made from letters.
This tutorial is going to show photoshoppers how to take a portrait and add the illusion of makeup, nice hair, and smooth skin!
Step 1: Choose a high quality image of a person's face, preferably with little to no makeup. I'm using this image of Taissa Farmiga from American Horror Story.
Step 2: The first thing we want to do is smooth out her skin. Select just her face, and paste it onto a new separate layer.
Step 4: Select, noise, then median, and adjust the settings for your desired smoothness.
Step 5: Bring visibility back to the first layer, the place the smooth face over the original. Change to opacity of the face layer to make it look as realistic as possible. Mine is set at 53%. Then merge that layer down to the original.
Step 6: Eyebrows! Fill in sparse areas with the paint tool at a low opacity, using a color you think matches your person's eyebrows.
Step 7: Now it's time to brighten the eyes/face. Use burn and dodge to add contrast to dull areas and highlight key features!
Step 8: Add eye makeup using the paint tool. You can add black eyeliner by creating a thin black like above the eye, and smokey eyeshadow with different shades of brown paint! Watch the opacity levels, 100% is WAY too much for this portion.
Step 9: Change lip color to your desire! Select the lips and feather out the edges. Then click on image-> hue/saturation and change to your favorite lip color!
Step 10: The last step used is to create a filter layer, and increase contrast/brightness/hue to alter the hair. Invert the layer then paint it onto the places that her hair is present. I increased contrast and lowered the hue to a redder shade.
Final product! I hope you had fun trying out this tutorial!
1) When I first came into this classroom, I was COMPLETELY lost as to how to use Photoshop. Within the first week, I had already gained basic understanding on how to use the program. Within 2 to 3 weeks, I was able to start doing my own things using the resources that the tutorials had taught me. From then on, I became pretty good at managing the program. I think part of what helped me do it so easily was that I explored it on my own time at home. My MacBook came with Photoshop already installed, so after learning the cool things I could do with the program, I would use it at home. Ultimately, I was skeptical about taking this class because I’m more of a drawing kind of art student, but I ended up really enjoying it! I looked forward to this class every day.
2) My favorite project that I completed was the cartoon project. This was where we were supposed to insert ourselves into a cartoon world. I’m a huge fan of Minecraft, so I put myself into an environment where I was being chased by a zombie and a creeper in a Minecraft world. My friend liked it so much that she had me make one of her in a Minecraft world, which I thought was funny. I used new tools in this one, and I enjoyed learning how to use them in a fun way.
I had a lot of trouble with this. I thought I had set it to stop motion but my phone didn't work and it did a time lapse- but it's not like I could redraw it so here's what I have. I'm proud of the drawing itself though!
I'm an art student at Apex High School. I've completed Art 1, Art 2, Art 3 (H), and Computer Art & Animation. I am currently enrolled in Drawing.

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