Second Semester concentration.

For my concentration I choice to express the child-like imagination in everyone. I am going to express my concentration through dreams since that is something we all no matter how old we, dreams show the child imagination in the: Old, mature, adult and teen, however; what expresses the childish imagination of all is nightmares. The things that keep us awake at night haunt us when we are awake. So I will express this using a comic-book like style for most of my pieces to create on on going story of the imagination in everyone may it be fear, happiness or sadness. This will be a challenge for me as I wanted to express and use different medias for a simple piece I may not be able to do that. As I progress through my projects I have sinked into on kind of style that I can do an abundance with, I may use this style in different media to portray my concentration.

Project 10 Choice

Project 8 Choice

Project 7 Landscape

Bows

Project 6 nature to mechanical

The recent project was changing something that was natural into mechanical, the sketches and idea forming for me was the easiest part because I enjoy seeing how something would look in a mechanical way, however; I also enjoy imagining how the parts would fit together to re-create this animal in the most unique was possible. I had troubles putting these idea into my finial work. I had jumped around in hoped for a better idea other than deep-sea creatures but that didn't come to me. I was then looking at my past works where i made steam-punk designs for a human robot in hopes to re-use it for this project though sadly I could not find them anywhere so I had to make a rough sketch of what I wanted to do in my sketch-book. The ideas I did not enjoy so I went back to the animal idea and started to form new thoughts. I went into this project head-first because the media was pencil I thought I had this project in the bag when to be honest I was just as confused as the table I sat at. I then went back to my original idea of working in a deep-sea type biome but then I had to stop working on the one I started because there was too much going on to focus on the robotic creature I had present in the piece. I had then realized I took a step back into my comfort zone which is something I do not enjoy so I decided to take the risk and do the sketch project in charcoal.

I enjoyed doing this project and the choice of media, I had never worked with charcoal before but I found it surprisingly enjoyable due to the it coming in different hardness but it still being able to shade like no tomorrow, it has come to show me that there is much more I can use other than paint, pencil and ink. I will defiantly return to the charcoal. I am pleased with the outcome and can state that I feel as if this is the best piece I have made for the enter semester. I will return to this media in the choice projects, I will also look back on some of the other projects and see which I need to redeem next which might be the self-portrait. This was good experience for me.

Project 5 self portrait

This project was a personal  challenge for due to the fact I rarely draw, sketch or paint people. I enjoyed using the acrylic paint due to it's easy use and fast drying time. I may possible try to do another portrait not of me anyways of someone else. This was hard for me to grasp and it makes me want to do more of it in medians I do not normally use such as paints. This is definitely another topic to return to in my freetime or as a project. This is something I will try to do again in hopes to improve.