Forky Day

Y1S3 Project 1: Retro. Create a sculpture out of found objects.

No glue. No welding. No soldering. Preferably no nuts and bolts. Oh, and metal is preferred.

Drove half my coursemates mad...and I'm frankly disappointed at how many people copied my idea outright. I get it if you got inspired to use forks but...to compose your entire sculpture out of forks, like me? And to copy directly from the Internet?

Come on, I know all of you can do better than that.

And Art Grows Out of Life....

It's a little simple, but I didn't want to many visuals...so. Ya.

Front:


Back:


Comments please?

Crybaby

Here's this week's practical, a Plaster of Paris baby's head.

This much was done in class. A bit more unshaded, the rest smudged slightly with my fingers to see the depth of the tone.


Came back and finished it!


It still doesn't look as nice as I want it to be...but try as I might, I just CAN'T get the tone just right! Sheesh! But in anycase the fixative has been applied, so no use crying over spilt milk now.

Assignment 2's coming soon...please, please give me enough time to sleep. Sigh.

Of you and me and her

...Ignore the misleading title, I don't really know what to write.

Various views of the head (a friend):


And these two are front and side views, male and female:

Pages

Page 1

Page 2

Page 3

Page 4

Page 5, FINALLYYYY

Reduced the opacity of the background to make the words easier to read. Is it better?

*sighs in relief*

I don't EVER wanna do newsletter again, you hear me? No more!

Please comment!

Budding Hearts

For our Valentine's Day edition newsletter background.

This is the original, without gradients.


Gradients added (because scared the black too dark, later hard to read the font):



Which one better? Or should I just design a better one? Should I keep the gradient but change the black lines to gray? Or something else? The font is black. Be honest, now. Hehe.

Anonymous' Anatomy

For this practical we had to observe the human anatomy of both males and females. Reference for female was lousy, I hope I did okay regardless....






Oh and a little blurb for fun: a merger hahaha.



(In reality, I drew her too far right with too little space for the final image...so I had to shift her. Hence the half-ness XD)

Serene

Totally inaccurate. Ugh. Never mind, I'm done with it. Though I dislike settling for less than what I can do...ah well.

Closing Curtains

WARNING: Image-heavy post ahead.

Yeahh so this is the final assignment I was talking about. A2 smooth paper, colour pencils. Phew. Almost killed me with its complexity - and up to this day my friends and I still can't stop evaluating buildings we see for their complexity and (im)possibility to recreate on paper. Lol.

One photo per day, accruing to a total of 7 (yes, I worked on it for a week. With almost no sleep for 3 days and none at all for the last. Woe is me!).

Let the torture proof be shown!

Not shown: Black-and-white sketch of the building. Time taken: one day.

Day 1:


Day 2:


Day 3:


Day 4:


Day 5:


Finally, day 6! *dies*




*is revived*

So ends trimester 2. I wonder what trimester 3 will bring? Hmm.

Oh yes before I forget, here's the cover of my studio journal - a compilation of all my practicals this trimester:



Ciao!

Take Two

My second take on A3 rough paper charcoal drawing of leaves and stones. As aforementioned, I redid it due to some complications with the first one that shaved off a lot of my marks - too much for me to close an eye. So here it is:

First a picture to show how lame my measurement skills (total: 0) are:



Sorry, I didn't manage to take any works-in-progress. Totally slipped my mind. The final piece:



I hope I improved but...is that too much to ask for? Considering I did this in three hours - till 4am. Waa.

Stairway to...Insomnia?

This time I present to you the second out of three assignments I have this trimester: a charcoal drawing on A2 rough-tooth paper.

It cost me a fair few days of precious sleep - and the entirety of the night preceding the deadline - and in the end it didn't even turn out like how I wanted it to be. So I'm fairly disappointed, yes. But what can I do? Deadlines are deadlines. Sigh.

Okay, you know the drill: WIPs till the final piece. Enjoy.


Yes, that weird orange reflection is of my hands holding my mobile phone :(





I'll upload more later; the last assignment and a remake of my first-ever charcoal drawing (due to some complications I lost many marks and felt I had to compensate somehow).

For now, ciao!

Bottle Ball

Whew. Been drowning in assignments and practicals lately! For this practical we had to draw and colour glass bottles, A3 size - with colour pencils. Gosh. Truly glass reflects more than its own colour...perhaps too much for its own good?

Works-in-progress, from sort-of-start to finish:







Will upload the others later; I don't want to clog up this post too much.

Signing out!

Pastel Power

Heeey, for something that looks like crayon (which I was abysmal at when I was young), it ain't half bad. I actually had some fun with it!

First for comparison purposes, here's the actual photo (taken by myself so no copyright infringement here):



This is the final piece:



This is one part of two practicals we have - the last two for this semester, coupled with our first assignment. Talk about ending it with a bang!

I'll upload pictures of the last practical sometime later. Many WIPs for that one because it took me so darn long to finish....

Game of Light and Dark

Now that we're being bombarded by assignments, I finally have something to upload besides just brushing away dust from my writing.

First is a WIP, as usual:



The final piece!



I learned a lot from this piece, and for a drawing without blending (OMG!) it was actually pretty fun! I wouldn't mind doing it again...sans the time limit and worry about scores, of course.

Our last two practicals for this semester will be handed in later this week, so stay tuned for more (scarring) pieces soon.

Practical 4 - Tone and Value

Since I've long been idle in terms of drawings, here's an update:

WIP


...aaaand the final piece:


Charcoal on rough tooth paper. Twas a load of fun even though I suck at it >.< Will practice!

Contour Drawing

Well, it's been a while since my last post.

This is one of four assignments for semester 2 at uni. We're supposed to measure angle, length, width...the whole nine yards and basically just replicate the model (my junk). I think I measured my hatred for measuring too. Lol.

Though some tiny part of me whispers that I dislike it cuz I don't know how to do it correctly....

A little belated, but here's one of my assignments from university: Space (One-Point Perspective).

Book Cover Redesign [Front]

I'm done with the front coverrrrrr! The original looks so much better =( I'll update this when I get a better pic with a camera.

Book Cover Redesign

So this is the draft for my final assignment for this semester.

We're supposed to redesign a graphic design book's cover - complete with almost 2 dozen sketches, coloured sketches and rationale. AND it has to be mounted. Whoa. Talk about getting serious, man!

The final artwork will be A3 size; I'll try to take a photo once I'm done if I can.

Any comments?

YUI Complete

Here are a few more WIPS:



And here is the final piece: