This month, and this new year, I've decided to revisit a medium I grew fond of quite a while ago but haven't used in a long time: digital. I created original art and continued to focus on skin textures and tone variances like I had said last post. I definitely think I improved and I took risks by trying to correspond shadows and highlights present in the skin depending on the skin color. So, say if a character had a purple undertone in their skin, I'd use an unnatural shade of light purple to create highlights, and I must say I am quite proud with how it turned out.
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This month in AP Art Studio, I focused on skin textures. As an artist, I tend to work with portraits the most it seems to me. And when working with portraits, I tend to feel comfortable by constantly using mediums I am used to, like watercolors or gouache. I wanted to work on different skin tones this month, and see if I could possibly go out of my comfort zone and take risks by using a new medium or a medium I am not as used to, such as acrylic. I was able to develop skills by creating a realistic skin texture with acrylic or regular paper, and although it isn’t the best work, I am confident with my start in this specific area. I am proud of myself for going out of comfort zone with skin tones and skin mediums.
This month, I took a bit of a break from my oil paints and worked on mostly paper for my breadth pieces. I hadn’t explored colored pencils much before and wished to take risks by attempting a semi realistic portrait of a witch. I layered my colored pencils as I worked on the detail on her face and realized this was much more difficult than I had planned! I am not normally fond of color pencils as they appear bland to me but over time I discovered how to dilute them into one another and solved problems by blending many colors to create one uniform tone. I used color theory to make my witch pop. I am still working on the hair which is very detailed. I have made a few other pencil sketches as well, and I plan to test my color theory with pencils on those soon. This month, I also delved into working on line variation, something that I’ve dabbled in once before. I created a portrait of a girl and used a permanent marker to create thick and thin lines. The end result is a really nice illusion like effect. I plan to watercolor in the large piece, although the marker might bleed with the water. To test it out, I sketched smaller studies of facial features in marker and watercolor it in, and it was fine. I also set aside some time to plan my upcoming concentration portfolio, which I have decided to focus on Religious Imagery. This is a really interesting topic for me as I love Catholic, Renaissance, Medieval, and Turkish art. I wanted to focus on heavenly portraits, mosaic tile collages, and perhaps calligraphy. Most of the portraits will be oil on canvas/ wood. I’m quite excited!
This month, I took risks by trying Blind Contour. Blind Contour is an art style where one draws someone or something without looking at the actual paper, and rather focusing on the object being drawn. It creates very interesting abstract pieces that appear alien and otherworldly, yet uniform. From a deeper evaluation, you can observe the details that were incorporated into the blind contour and it is truly remarkable. I also developed skills by trying to create another painting using oil paints. Oil painting is something I am not very used to but would like to learn, and this being my second painting, I developed skills by utilizing prior knowledge to make my second painting better.
I collaborated with my peers on our“Welcome to our Hive” project. We created individual pieces, each representing 7 different aspects of us and our personalities, and and then combined them to create one large, uniform piece. It represented who we are and how we are all one big community. I also observed myself when I collected data for the Drawing with Data assignment, where we drew an abstract piece in accordance to things we liked, such as dogs or cats, what country we were born in and reside in, whether we were a morning person or night person, or if we even slept with our phone in our beds.
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