concentration 5

Reference Picture:


For this concentration piece I did a forward facing portrait of Seymour Krelborn (Rick Moranis) from the 1986 musical movie, "Little Shop of Horrors". For this piece I put an emphasis on expression and details in the face that are usually ignored, such as the geometric shapes you can break a nose up into. My goal was not to recreate the picture, as you can see I changed the expression and tone, moreso i just used the picture to help make the face accurate to the person i based it off of. Because of this, I believe it is one of my  most successful and good looking concentrations. Looking back to my first one, I can really see progress with my ability to draw faces which was my goal with my concentration. I think this whole project has been very helpful to me, as i had really hoped it would be. There are some parts of this piece I dont like, such as the eyes, but mostly they were accidents that weren't meant to look like that. Overall I am very proud of the facial structure and expression, which was the focus of the concentration as a whole.

Galaxy boi2.0

This watercolor painting features two of  my characters dancing through space on an ice walkway, above a black hole or other planet the ice ring is orbiting. They're both part of a story I'm developing,they're a race of cosmic beings hence their spacial appearances. I used a lot of contrast in this piece with blue and orange  colors. This helps make the image more visually interesting and convey a sense of danger , as the orange and mysterious body below where they're dancing could be troubling and they're risking something by doing what they're doing. Overall I'm pretty proud of this concentration, I feel I am getting closer to my goal with the concentrations and they are really helping me improve. I referenced the poses used here from a wallpaper I saw when visiting North Carolina:

Once I saw this, it really inspired me and I knew I had to interpret into my own style somehow. I think for the most part I succeeded, although I unfortunately am still quite unhappy with the poses and anatomy of the faces, I can see I have improved greatly since starting my concentration and I am getting closer to my goal.

Galaxy boiiii (concentration 3)

My concentration has changed a little bit since i started, my original intent was to practice the make up of the human body by "breaking down" our bodies into muscles and skeletons and studying them as a personal attempt to grow as an artist. Since then, my idea has changed more to just focusing on yhe human form anf practicing it. For this project i did a head on shot of once of my characters to help me go out of my comfort One a bit and draw a persons face.

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concentration 2 (also late sorry)

For my second concentration piece I wanted to push myself more than my first, doing a full body drawing, along with the challenge of doing a complicated outfit and shading. The model i used for this project was Barbra Streisand in the movie "Hello, Dolly"

My goal was not to recreate the photo, but to make it in my own style and i feel that for the most part I succeeded at that. I am very proud of the dress and clothing, with the shading. I like how the gray watercolor looks on the white background. Overall, I think this project will be a great form of personal growth as I believe I excelled at many of my goals with it.

However, I am still very unhappy with this project. The proportion, especially on the head and arms is very off. I mistakenly shrugged it off when I was sketching, without realizing how prominent it was. If I had to do this project over again I would fix that. I also had an idea to "break down" the image in a similar way to the first project, possibly using a skeleton doing the same pose and wearing the same clothes. I didn't do this because of my ultimate dissatisfaction with the project, and maybe if I had been more proud of it i would have fully realized the idea.

Overall, I'm proud of the work and progress this project represents but I still am not happy with it.

Very late concentration 1

Title: Concentration 1
Mrs Kolesa

This concentration project is a personal project that is meant to help me grow as an artist. One of my biggest flaws as an artist has always been realistic proportion and anatomy, especially when it comes to human faces. My goal with this project was to break down the structure of a face, to hopefully improve my drawings in the future when I master some more difficult elements of human facial anatomy.
I am very happy with the progress I have made as a result of this project. My favorite part of it has to be the watercolor work on the skeleton and muscles. Watercolor was a secondary interest of mine, since I had been using it  a bit but never really worked on improving my skills. I think the coloring on this project came out very nice, and as a result it is pleasing to look at. I also quite enjoy the concept behind this project, with the deconstruction of the face.
However, my main issue with this project comes with the complete face in the bottom right. I don't know why it was so hard for me to make it look realistic when the other parts of the project, in my opinion, look quite nice. I was happy with it while I drew it, but looking back I'm not very proud of it. If I had to redo this project, I'd base this person on an actual photo. A lot of people thought it was supposed to be a self portrait but that really was unintentional. A good was to improve it I think would be to draw myself, rather than a generic face.

cut paper

1/2 Project

             

Describe

This piece is monochrome (red), depicting a scene from Andrew Lloyd Webber's "The Phantom of the Opera". The medium of the piece is watercolor, and it is shaded using layering of the paint, creating the monochrome look while still retaining the depth of a shaded piece. In the forground is Erik (The Phantom), crying and looking really upset, yet crazed. In the background you can see the broken chain, and the chandelier falling, along with silhouettes of Raoul and Christine.

Analyze

This piece takes place during the song "All I Ask of You" in the aforementioned musical. During this song, Christine rejects the Phantom, for her other suitor, Raoul. After this, he infamously cuts down the chandelier, which is one of the most thrilling parts of the stage show. I tried to capture all of this in my piece, from the intense emotion the Phantom is feeling to the literal events occurring during this scene. To do this, I included a chain of the chandelier breaking in the mid ground. This symbolizes both his break in sanity and the literal image of the chandelier falling. Another detail I included was the platform Raoul and Christine were standing on. As you can see, it is crumbling, almost as if the world is falling to pieces are the Phantom finally realizes his only love has rejected him in favor of someone powerful, and traditionally thought of as attractive.

Interpret
The main intention of this piece was to capture the raw emotion in this scene, as I believe that, besides the finale, it is the most effective and moving in the show. It shows the Phantom's change, from..rather morally questionable, to completely insane. I tried to convey this, mainly with the chain I mentioned earlier and his expression. The expression on his face is important, as it shows him grinning wildly, but as he does, he is crying with tears streaming down his cheeks. This was supposed to convey a very pained soul, which is what I was meant to get across with the piece as a whole.

Judge
I am very proud of this piece. I think it displays the emotions I intended well, and I am very happy with how it looks considering how I am not very experienced with watercolor. If I had to do it again, I would probably do it on watercolor paper and try to avoid some of the mistakes I made with this version (such as Raoul and Christine's shadows..I messed up a few things about them). Overall I like it a lot, but I could have tweaked a few things about it to make it better.