Made it!

Whew!, I made the deadline! I don't know how I did it, but I made it. And they don't look so shabby either-if I do say so myself. I painted my friends Cherie, Lea and Alex. They do need touch ups now that I see them, but I finished the next 3 that are due today (will post them shortly).
For the next four, I will try and avoid this stressful situation by trying to complete as many as I can during my break. I have four due next and I plan on having a head start on all of them.

AP sign up

Last week we met up with Rowsam; Alex and I had signed up online and now have our accounts on the AP drawing website. However, so far Rowsam only took photos of my artwork, minus 3 of my concentrations. Hopefully, that means I'm ahead in that aspect.
But, unfortunately, I'm a week behind on my current concentrations given the week the CSAP (or whatever they renamed it) took from us. However, I'll still try to meet the deadline this coming Friday; yet I don't want to rush them. I think I have a dilemma on my hands, both Alex and I. But I don't want to ask for an extension, it was partly my fault I'm behind-partly school.
First time I'm behind on my AP art schedule-- don't like it one bit!!!!

Artist block

I don't know if it's because its almost the end of the year or because I'm starting to get tired of creating the same thing, over and over again- but my portraits have been slowly losing improvement. As I'm starting my next three-the pre-sketch for starters are very off and are becoming less symmetrical.
Which makes my whole portrait off as well. So, I hope that this is just a stage and I get out of it real quick, otherwise I'm gonna get behind. (or maybe its just my perfectionist quirk-hopefully).
But, looking at my first couple of portraits compared to my newer ones, I think their becoming worse. I don't know how to change that.......

Josh's portrait

I tried to add more to the shirts this time and it was a bit difficult. But it ended up better than I predicted- I was totally on my own with the shirt too, next time I'll have to look at other portraits to help me with the clothing.
I think his skin tone turned out pretty well, I mean it definitely still needs work, but with his eyes squinting and his face tilted, it was hard enough just getting the proportions correct. It didn't end-up like I wanted but it turned out decent. Need help in order to get better.

Jordan's Portrait_disaster

 

No one likes this one. Everyone had told me this one is my worst portraits so far. It was not bad at the beginning, but everyone kept telling me to fix the face and make her slimmer, it was all over the place and now I wish I hadn't listen to them- it doesnt look like Jordan anymore. I think I might end up just not submitting this one.

*side note* I need people who know how to help me with the proportions from my class, or those who would know how changing one thing will effect the entire face. Because right now, I don't have much help or have no one who wants to help me. I'm in an artist-block right now-don't know how to go from here.

Amanda's portrait

I finished Amanda's portrait about 3 weeks ago and have slowly been adding more detail as time went on. She is a little off, but considering I've never painted a person smiling before I think her's came out pretty good. Amanda thinks so too!

Maybe I should change my painting process

Maybe if I paint in this process, I can acheive the realistic look I'm striving for. However, I think the colors are going to be the tricky part, I will definately need to blend better, but I have no idea how to do this, and can not even get the colors that are in this painting AT ALL. I don't know HOW this person did the colors, but I defiately need to try to imitate it, otherwise my portraits will never improve! HEEEEELLLPPPP!!!

My father's portrait

This was really my first time painting a man. I never realize how much diffrent it is to paint a man than a woman. When I first started, I made him look so feminme, he look like a transgender. And since I don't have a transgender as a father (definately not) I had to work on his eyes considerably more and make his eyebrows thicker, to make him more masculine. However, I did like trying something new. And plan on improving to make them look more realsitic.

My mother's portrait

I definitely added more blending to the face this time. I was trying to make it more realistic than the last portrait. With this portrait you can see the brushstrokes-I'm still not sure if that's what I wanted, but it allowed the painting have more depth. The hair, again, gave me the run for my money, it was so much harder to create individual strands of hair than I had thought. However, it is a definite improvement.

Finally finished my grandmother's portrait

This portrait was extremely hard for me to get the right tone. She had such fair skin that the color started to look like the color white, right from the tube. However, about midway I started to make the skin tone darker with shades of brown in it, which brought her face out from the "blendings" of a wall.
*I will definitely have to work on the hair next time, make it more individual than collective.

Ink stamp_coyfish

I found this in my room, it was one of my stamps I created and inked. I really liked this one, it took me a while to carve, but I actually didn't mind it. Its different than what I was used to at the time, but I took a liking to it. And I think I did a pretty good job for my first time using the median.

Georgia O'Keeffe recreation

This was a project (about a year ago) where I had to recreate a painting from an artist. I, of course, did Georgia O'Keeffe. Mine is on the Left. I Love it..and I think I did a pretty good job, it surprized me.

Another still life

I had done this still life almost 2 years ago. And now that I see it again, I see the proportions are off and the depth in the painting is not completed. But this was before I really understood these concepts. And now that I think about it, I grew greatly from here on out. Hopefully.....

More of a Commentary

This, believe it or not, I actually drew in a car on the way to Estes Park! Which probably explains the simple lines and the "off-ness" of the whole drawing. However, I was just having fun. I drew a woman holding a burning tree representing the negative environmental impact humans have on the earth and then I drew a man with his arms around the woman holding an atomic bomb, representing the negative weaponry destruction humans have on the earth. Around them I represented natural disasters, starvation, domestic violence, endangered species, war and death. I didn't have any references to draw from, so I mainly did this from memory AND on the road. I had lots of fun with this though despite the subject.

Old painting

I did this last year. I never had time to finish this. I think I might finish it soon. It would definatley look better.

Charcoal Erasing

I got this idea since I saw one of the ajoining art classes doing this project. I thought it looked fun since it was a real mess. I started by covering the cotten rag with charcoal powder and got it to a very dark shade. then started erasing away!..and wala!...I decided to do an animal since I used to always draw animals and noticed that I hadn't made one in my portfolio. So I made one!. I always loved drawing elephants, they have to best skin to recreate, such beautiful creatures.

Redid my 1st AP art project- Pen mark making

To be honest, when my teacher first gave me this assignment, I didn't know it was an actual assignment-since it was our first week in the class-I thought she was just giving us AP kids something to do before she gave us our"real" assignments. But now understanding the said assignment-I actually decided to redo it. Everything here is done in pen, which particualary made me crindge since if a mistake is made....its made....-nothing you can do about it but go with the flow. However, when finished with this assignment I actually did enjoy this markmaking project, it's diffrent for me, it's a change.