I had to make this artist trading card very quickly at the end of class one day because I procrastinated it so much. So, I just made a mini version of a watercolor and sharpie that I did earlier in the year.
i think that i will probably include all of my pieces from this year, as well as a few specific pieces from last year, in my AP portfolio. because i am always trying out new styles/themes/mediums, so i don't think that i'll struggle with the breadth aspect of my final portfolio. as far as a concentration, i think that it'll be some strain of "people," "humans," or something alone those lines. i love expressing emotion in my work with color and i want to explore that further as the year goes on. hopefully i'll be able to get across the different feelings that make up the human experience without needing to explicitly draw them out. although i enjoyed it, i think that using the colored pencils to make portraits is too literal for my concentration. i don't know exactly how i'm going to do what i want to do, but i think it will be fun to figure it out.
i'm not finished with either of these drawings yet. for my identity piece, instead of drawing myself, i wanted to show the identities of different people from different backgrounds. i used prisma colored pencils, and these drawings were the first time that i had ever used colored pencils to make real art.
the color choices are very limited so i have to layer and layer and it takes a lot of time, but i really love working to make accurate skin tones.
i love trying out new mediums and materials, so for my map piece i wanted to attempt embroidery. this is still unfinished, i intend on tracing more of the roads and bodies of water with embroidery floss. this is more tedious than most of the projects that i do, and i think that's why i'm having such a hard time finishing it.
maintaining proportions while pulling from life was a challenge for me when drawing this pepper. in addition, conte crayon was a foreign material to me and i learned that i really enjoyed using it. this project inspired my next piece, which was mixed media.
experimented with rushed sharpie drawings over watercolor backgrounds. my goal was to contrast the muted, calm feeling that the watercolor gives off with the rushed emotion of such stark drawings.