Weekly Challenges 9 & 10

I am actually really proud of this picture. I don't usually do a ton of drawing, so I decided for my "Embracing The Weather" weekly challenge, I would do something new and draw it...mostly. I drew the base sketch of the girl, then took the picture into photoshop and colored it and added the frame. I think it turned out really pretty...not perfect, but I like it.

This is my Weekly Challenge 10, which was to just take an image from earlier in the semester and kind of rework it...this is a picture I took while doing a concentration photoshoot, and I think it's cute so I played with the colors to make it a little more interesting and voila. I don't know kind of fun I guess?

New Concentration

Concentration: In-Progress

            “Society Demands Perfection, But We Demand Acceptance Of Our Own Imperfect Beauty." The theme for my concentration is women in society, and the battle between self-acceptance and the constant degradation of society towards women. For this series, I used a variety of medias including photography, Photoshop, and pencil. I chose this series theme because I have been raised my entire life to believe in myself, to be confident no matter what, and not to let society bring me down. I’m very passionate on the issue of the media, the workplace, and society in general constantly teaching girls that they are not good enough, or that men are in any way better than them. Through this series, I try to bring to a head the idea that this simply isn’t true. No matter what we might be told, we don’t need the reinforcement of magazines, celebrities, or what-have-you to reinforce our own self-worth.This series explores the idea of a girl coming into her own against the role society places her in. The main idea behind my inspiration is inner beauty.

Weekly Challenge 8: Opposites

This WC was doing our Artistic Opposites. According to Bert, my opposites are photographing boys, animals, cars, and/or taking super photo-pure pictures. Well...this little montage thing has three of those! This is my little brother and my dog. The only edits to the pictures are adjustments to the color (black and white) and little adjustments to contrast/etc.

Silk Painting

       

              On my silk painting, I give myself a four on the AP scoring rubric. I feel that my piece does show 5D, successful engagement with experimentation and/or risk-taking. I feel that my piece also shows the following qualities of a four on the rubric: 4B, some clear decision-making and intention; 4C, a demonstration of some imaginative ideas and purposeful manipulation of the elements and principles of design in the work’s composition; 4E, evocative and engaging qualities though some lack of confidence or lack of engaging qualities with confidence is demonstrated in the work.

Weekly Challenge 6: Adobe Illustrator

This week's challenge was to create a typography piece in Adobe Illustrator. I did the smoke background with a photoshop brush, but other than that the text is 100% Illustrator. I chose the word "Serendipity". I'm still very new to this program, so the turnout was a little rough but here it is:

Weekly Challenge 7: Pearl Street Field Trip

Our weekly challenge this week was posting our favorite picture from our field trip on Monday to Pearl Street! Here is mine, which was taken at a candy shop which I forgot the name of. It turned out to be a kinda cool gradient picture unintentionally!

Weekly Challenge 5: Bad Fashion

For this weekly challenge, my theme was depicting my favorite "bad fashion" trend. I chose fedoras, because they are pretty much the definition of an overused item that used to be considered haute couture. Anyways, this is my friend modeling what used to be a black fedora...until I turned it magenta, because that's what Photoshop is for!

Narrative Story

Well...this was a really cool idea in my head, but I'm not sure how I feel about the final result. It looks kind of sloppy, and I wish I was a better fine artist so the drawing portion didn't look so strange...Anyways, here's my narrative of a boy (my brother) who finds a magical paintbrush and uses it to become a real person. It's inspired a little bit by Pinocchio, and a little bit by Harold and the Purple Crayon, one of my favorite books growing up.

Weekly Challenge 4

This is my Week 4 challenge, which was portraiture. I was going for an interesting piece that doesn't look like every other picture of a posed model. I'm not sure if I like how it turned out, but here it is:

20 Layers Project

So, this is my 20 Layers project. I'm pretty happy with it, though i think it looks way better in person than in the picture. I am happy with it mainly because it is way out of my comfort zone and I think I handled it pretty well.

Weekly Challenge 3: HDR

My challenge this week was to do an HDR photograph, meaning High Dynamic Range. Basically you stick together three photos: One that is underexposed, one that is overexposed, and one with exact exposure. Anyways...here's what I came out with.

Weekly Challenge 2: Miscellaneous

This weekend, Bekah and I painted my headboard for the new bed I got a couple of weeks ago. It doesn't specifically fit into a category, but it's a pretty cool project and I'm proud of it, so after checking with Bert we are using it as our weekly challenge. It's not quite finished, but when it is I'll definitely post a picture of it!

Summer Artwork

This image was taken when I went to Russia this summer. The picture is totally photo pure, although due to the heavy amount of salt at the Black Sea, the picture looks filtered. I really like this picture because although its very simple, it's unique.

This image was taken at the Vatican in Rome, Italy. I like this picture because even though it's (again) photo pure, it doesn't need a lot of editing since the scene kind of does the talking. The ceiling is incredibly intricate, and the lighting creates a smoky feel to the picture.                                       

Weekly Challenge 1: Conflicting Emotions

For this weekly challenge, the theme I chose was conflicting emotions. The two emotions I was trying to portray in this piece were love (the man) and sadness (the woman). I'm not all that proud of this piece, but for the first week I think it turned out alright. It was originally just a pencil sketch, but I used Photoshop to color it in to make the piece stronger.