Portrait 2

Portrait 2

This is another coloured pencil portrait that took about four hours to complete.  This is a portrait of the lead singer of Panic! At The Disco, Brenden Urie.  I don't like to do backgrounds for pictures so I got done as much as I had wanted to.  The photograph that I was looking at for reference had him wearing a slightly different shirt that I didn't think would look good in this sketch so I found a different picture to look at for the shirt.  Portraits are always my most rigorous projects because they are so time-consuming and have so much detail involved.

Doodle For Google

Doodle For Google

This piece took me about 45 minutes to complete with coloured pencils and a pen outline.  Google was asking for what you think the future will look like, since their examples were flying cars and robot future, I assumed that they wanted very distant future.  I don't have the most optimistic view for that far into the future so my doodle for Google is more of a dystopian future.  The "G" is a burned, ripped, dirty kids stuffed rabbit toy.  The first "o" is a bloodied bandage over an arm or a leg.  The second "o" is a burning fire.  The "g" is an old fashion WWII style gas mask.  The "l" is a destroyed burning building.  The "e" is supposed to look like a stamp or graffiti.  The theme would be dystopian future or post-apocalyptic.  I wanted to do a bit more detailing on the smoggy sky and dark ground but I didn't want to mix it too much with the letters themselves so I changed that and just did a dark colour mix with more of a grey and red at the top and some greens for the ground.  As much as I like the dystopian future idea, I don't draw it very much.  I liked learning to do the more rugged edges of things and torn/used style.  

Portrait

Portrait

This piece took me about four hours with coloured pencils.  It is a portrait of a youtuber, Nathan Sharp.  I was trying to get this piece to look as realistic as possible, the main challenge was doing his hair. I finished what I wanted, I don't like adding backgrounds to portraits.  I started to do a different picture of him, but I had a hard time with parts of it, so I changed my idea a bit and used a different picture for reference.  I think it was very successful.  This is one of my better portrait pieces, I think.  I've always had a hard time with ears, since he has gauges it added another layer of difficulty but I think I managed to do it pretty well. Portraits are always very rigorous because it takes a really long time to get the shading just right, but if you over shade it looks too fake.

Non Objective

Non-Objective

I used black out lining pens and sharpies to do this piece.  I did a combination of round flowery lines and straight blocky shapes to do this piece. This took me a little over an hour to do because it was hard to overlap things correctly without using a pencil first.   This was just a random, floral piece.  It fits the assignment because it's just random shapes and lines that meld together, it doesn't really make anything.  I filled most of the page which is what I wanted to do so I'd say I completed what I wanted to do.  My idea didn't change too much.  After a little while, I realised that I was using the same shapes over and over again and had to look for more pattern ideas.  I think this was really successful.  I like to do black and white pen things and the lines in this look really clean and straight.  It looks good.  It wasn't too terribly rigorous because I didn't do much more than draw lines.  The most rigorous part was just finding a variety of ideas and layering things well.

Still Life and Aberrant Scale

Still Life and Aberrant Scale

I did this piece with coloured pencils.  I originally filled most of the page with a rubber band ball.  To make it look huge I added a small desk with a chair and a ceiling light.  I finished it by adding a little bit of shading for shadows. I wanted the sketch to be pretty simple.  I didn't want to add a whole room or any other objects. The rubber band ball is my still life piece, the chair and the light are there to make the rubber band ball look huge.  I had originally only wanted to do the rubber band ball but I added the other objects to fill the requirement.  It actually looks pretty cool so I think the project was a success, I usually draw cartoons or realistic portraits so drawing still life was kind of a challenge.  I had to redo it a couple times to get shadows and angles right.  It was relatively rigorous because the rubber bands are hard to follow so there was a lot of going back and fixing lines that I didn't realise connected.

Repetition

Repetition

I did this piece using alcohol based markers. I drew a simple human skull with multiple butterflies on or around it.  It took me around two hours to finish this project. I was trying to make this project dark with a slight 'beauty' element, hence the butterflies.  This is a repetition piece because there are multiple butterflies and they are all the same type of butterfly.  I pretty much finished what I had planned to do.  It would have been nice to have a few other butterflies, but I also think that would make the sketch too crowded.  I knew I wanted to do the skull but I wasn't sure what I wanted to put around it. After scrolling through Pinterest I saw some cool pictures of skulls with butterflies that I liked and decided to go with that.  I think the project was pretty successful.  The markers I was using were pretty new so I learned a lot about how to use them.  They are pretty different than Copic markers, which I have used before.  The project was pretty rigorous because I had to test the markers before I used them each time to check how they would blend together and how the colour transferred to the special marker paper I was using.

Custom Playing Card

Custom Playing Card
I did this playing card digitally using Inkscape.  The card I was assigned was the Jack of Hearts.  After much debate over how to complete this card I realized that my favouriteYoutubers' name is Jack, and he is known for playing a game where hearts paly a large role.  It would fit the assignment perfectly.  I did a cartoon version of him surrounded by the coloured hearts from the game.  This card took around three hours to complete.  I had hoped to get a bit more shading done but I was having some trouble with the computer program and didn't manage to get that done.  I just layered the colours a bit more to compensate for the lack of actual shading, this was the only big change to my idea. I think this card was very successful.  I was really happy with how it turned out.  When I use Inkscape I will usually sketch out my first ideas on the program itself, this time I sketched it out on paper first and then scanned that into the computer.  This really helped a lot and I learned how to layer my lines better to get smoother edges.  This project was pretty rigorous because Inkscape is a rather difficult program to work with.  I had to redo a lot of my work in order to get it exactly how I wanted.