Monday, May 21, 2012

Aesop's Fables: The Fox and The Crow





This was a two part illustration where I depicted the beginning of story how the fox met the crow sitting on branch with a slice of cheese in its mouth and the climax where the fox convinced the crow to open her mouth to sing and the cheese dropped and he caught it.

Wednesday, May 9, 2012

Bad Owners

Acrylic on Illustration Board
  This illustration was inspired by Magritte's paintings of unexpected relationships and using the idea of "memorable but believable." I chose to depict the abusive relationship of owners and pets, however in this image it is the giant squid that is the owner while the human is the pet.

Tuesday, April 17, 2012

Nude Study- Pastel Colors

acrylic on canvas paper
  Typically I refrain from posting my figure drawings, because I'm afraid I would end up filling the whole site with class drawings; however I made an exception for this one because I felt it carried a bit more substance than my usual figure studies. Instead of the same old charcoal rendering of a figure in blank space, the addition of color really adds a emotion to piece. Although this painting is not entirely finished and requires minor tweaks here and there, I am pleasantly pleased the overall drawing and colors.

Friday, March 30, 2012

Relief Sculpture: Camel and Taj Mahal

                                                                                    


 Today's post is a little different from my previous ones. For my sculpture class, my first project was to do a relief sculpture and the subject matter was anything I wanted. Since I was bored of drawing human faces all the time, I decided to try something different. I wanted to do something involving an animal and architecture so I chose the camel and Taj Mahal. The last time I did a relief sculpture was back in my sophomore year of high school, but at the time I was very disappointed with the results. However this time I had a great time, because I had better understanding of how to use my tools with my medium and my greater knowledge of form.

      Although I had really great experience and was quite happy with the results, I decided to destroy the piece. Are you shocked? Well there really was no good reason to do so, except I was being cheap and I had no place to put my artwork. The board and clay weighed a ton and I was almost certain that even if I kept it would get destroy sometime in the future by accident. But no worries, all my efforts were not in vain. In fact I'm already reused the clay and board for a current sculpture project. I'll show the results of it very soon.

Here's a picture of my artwork and I before I said my goodbye.