Slides/ Kayla

This is my line drawing i did back in drawing one, I would like to the abtract feel from it and put it into another piece.


I made this piece in class this year when we did the assignment about the cranes. I really like the back ground with the layer of colors i wish i would of done something differently with the cranes.



This piece i did this year also, I did it with ink pen and i like it alot. If i do something else like this again i would like to add more objects to the picture instead of just person. I want to add a bigger story to the picture.

work

Made this last year. Graphite on paper. If you don't know what it is... you fail. it was my toy project.


made this last year. acrylic on masonite. concentration piece.


made this last year, chalk pastel. it went along with my concentration.

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Mine and chirstian's blog. its pretty sweet. We just kinda started working on it, and its some-what art related. subscripe if you want.

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Words of wisdom from a great illustrator...

What advice would you give to an aspiring illustrator?

"Technical competence as an artist is of course essential, but it is merely a tool for the realization of ideas; without a strong imagination, the display of skill is just that – and ‘style’ is interesting, but only if backed up by content. It helps to remain interested in all forms of art, and have a good grasp of art history as well as some knowledge of art theory. This very often becomes the unseen backbone of artistic thinking. Developing a visual sensibility and vocabulary, rather than just technical skills, means that you can be versatile enough to deal with many different projects, and find original solutions.

As long as you are doing something, even if it isn't successful, you are not wasting your time. The greatest achievement of so much creative work is simply finding time and dedication to do it, especially when it seems difficult and less than enjoyable (almost every project seems to involve some kind of confidence-wounding ‘crisis’). Good ideas and talent aren't worth much if they aren't put through the wringer of actual hard work.

Pay attention to criticism, and don't pay attention to criticism! At the end of the day, you are the ultimate judge of your own work, so learn to be critical in an affirmative rather than negative way. All creators - if they are any good - suffer from periods of disappointment, even depression with their own achievements (or lack thereof), that's perfectly normal! Just keep going, if you want to cross that threshold. You also never find out if you've really failed until you actually finish a piece of work.

Finally, for anyone interested in being an artist, illustrator, designer - learn to draw well! It's a valuable foundation, something you'll always use. Drawing is one way of learning to see well, something that takes several thousand hours of practice (and even then, never entirely mastered!). If I only had one piece of advice to a young artist (of any age) it would be that: draw, draw, draw!"

-Shaun Tan

Andy C.

i started off drawing a picture of me. then i drew big arms on the cartoon and realized it wasnt me anymore. lol so i decided to give him some walrus tusks. make it that much more abstract.

im not really sure what happened with this? it started off as a guy

in a box suit to hide his identity while he spread the word of the future

end. then i decided he needed a upside down cross between his eyes to

give it some contraversy. and finally i added "where will you go?" to

make you think when you look at my art. it was a drawing then

i added oil pastel and finally i used water colors. i am a n00b at painting

but i like this still.

this was a drawing of the toys we did. actually it is a chunk of the

bigger drawing done on the news paper sheet but yeah, anyways this

was done with crayon. lol, it was all i had to work with at the moment

so i did what i could. i like the idea of this picture.

Little project goin....

Check out Preston's, Chris', and my blog. its fairly new so not a lot of content.
Keep in touch.

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Trash Galore

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Zach's October pictures

This the crane picture i did. I sketched out the idea and then i went over the picture in ink.

This piece i did in Donahue's class. The idea was to make the picture look like an add. This style is called pop art. I used watercolor and ink.

This is the piece i did with reference for Hokusai. I used watercolor and Gouache. I also outlined the waves.

Miriam's slides

This is my paper crane inspired piece. Its done with acrylic paint and graphite, which will be covered by ink soon.

This is just a piece I did at home, I used water colors, acrylic paint, and markers.

i made this pig in my pottery studio class last year and i really like the end of the snout

Justin Engbrecht, Abstract

I like this piece for it's sense of balance and space. I used plaster of paris to sculpt the rock and then wash painted it. The stands are pvc tubing wrapped in wire. The spine and shingles are made of carboard paper.

Nichole Deatherage, my new 3 pieces!

This was one of my summer homeworkpieces. I used pastel on watercolor paper. I got the idea from a gears of war cover for my xbox. I elongated the jaw of the skull to make the mouth of a cave and made the teeth into stalactites and stalagmites.

This was my crane project. I used a foil and paper crane for my model in order to bend the wings. I made this using water color and colored pencils. I attempted to make my cranes look like phoenixes.

My most recent piece, a bus stop from mill plain. Wyatt is my model. I made this using graphite pencils. During the Alberta trip, I sketched a bus stop and liked what I did and how I did it, so I kind of recreated the sketch.

MIn's 3slides

This is one of my summerworks. I drew a person reading on the couch. I used watercolor pencils.

This is my orgami artwork. I used watercolor.

This is my artwork inspired from my best artwork. This is a graphite of dolls.