I'm going to take you guys through my high school art portfolio back in 2017. Recently I was tidying my room and I found out that I made so many pieces of art back in high school. They were all great memories to me. Without further ado, let's get started. So I'm actually graduated from high school back in the middle of 2017. I'm currently a junior at college in Hong Kong right now. My major is fine arts and mainly I focus on art history, both Chinese and Western art and also studio arts. Although when I'm looking back the work that I've done from high school with kind of immature right now, I still want to share to you guys the process that I've been gone through. I've got four different art workbooks and they are all based on one main topic. My main topic is about light and dark, which just means that everything or every issue in this world, they kind of have their bright side and dark side. They kind of both have drawbacks and benefits. One of the reasons why I picked this topic is that it's have more space and freedom for me to create whatever artwork that I want. So my first piece of art is this one is called Dew with Devil. Actually, is there a watercolor I'm drawing? I kind of made this like three and a half years ago and is talking about the neck of influence of climate change. So mainly for this painting I use watercolor ink and also a little bit of acrylic. It took me around like five days to complete this one. I think one of the most exhausting or like time consuming part is drawing a draft because like look at this. Like for me, like back in high school it's kind of this size is kind of huge for me and I didn't have enough time to finish it. So as you remember it told me like one to two days to draft this. Especially like here, I've got like many details here and I need to draw like some animals like this man just bury his head in the same. And he is like a candle which symbols like hope of climate change. If we kind of cooperate with different countries in the world. I kind of want to create different scenarios to depict the whole image, the whole picture of this serious global issue. Before I really going to draw to draw it, I try to do like several watercolor test first. Like I try different techniques and I kind of like imagine like which part can use these techniques. So the next piece is also a watercolor drawing. For this one I have two pieces of works under one subtopic which is New York City. I wanted to like use to city to make a symbol that like in the past New York kind of represented like American dream or like a stunning place and attractive place in the world. So it's also like one of my childhood dreams. But I want to point out that it's not only about bright side but also dark side. The way that you see or you feel one thing that they they're not only concentrated on one aspect. So this one is my first watercolor painting under this topic New York City. So I drew like a kind of attractive woman in the center. And then I also like drew like a bunch of skyscrapers on top of this woman. So this woman is representing like the like the usual image of how people see New York City. So this painting is the bright side of New York. I also add some glitter on that like on top of these flowers. So for another watercolor drawing I don't have them at my home. So that one is actually about the dark side of New York. Like some homeless issues or like some serious problem that people might not recognize at first about this city. So my next piece of work that is also watercolor drawing. But I also add some Western calligraphy elements on it. Like got the calligraphy style. I also don't have them on my hand. It's basically talking about humanity. How I feel this topic, what I'm thinking about it, how I thought about this thing. I also wrote some calligraphy words on top of that watercolor drawing. The quote is like this. You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean. If a few drop of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty. So yeah, so that's my start painting. This one is my final work. This one is actually my favorite one I guess. So this is like a three dimension work. I try to use different layers to create like a more pop up effect. So this one is talking about the Hong Kong education system. This is like back in high school or like no matter which ear is it. I kind of feel like even though I'm a Hong Kong citizen, I don't really feel that the Hong Kong education system is doing its good job. It kind of makes people don't know how to pursue the dream or kind of restrict them to do whatever they want. I guess basically this work is expressing how I felt about the whole education system in today's society, especially like nowadays Hong Kong, there's so many things happen. I used one week to finish it. It basically has like 10 layers. So which is kind of time consuming. So for the top, the bottom, the sides and also the back, I use a bone box. And for this part, I went to IKEA and bought a frame. So that I can create like a very pop up effect for each layer. Some of the layers I use cream pictures or like some hand dropped painting or drawing. And also I add some calligraphy on top of it. I also craft some trees like different shapes to make it more sophisticated. Hong Kong is not like before. It is even getting worse or... And one other thing that I've been thinking is that what art can bring influence to others. So that was also one important thing I always thinking when I'm trying to make art or trying to make some works that maybe bring impacts to others or as a rest of messages. So these are my four artworks that based on light and dark this topic. I hope you guys enjoyed this video. If you liked this video, please give me a thumbs up and don't forget to subscribe my channel. If you guys have any questions, please comment down below. 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