Illustration Friday - Breakfast

For my final Illustration Friday picture ever, I wanted to pay tribute to the word Friday as well as showing the word breakfast. So I drew the scene from Rebecca Black's famous Friday music video in which she sings about eating breakfast. She says "Gotta have my bowl; gotta have cereal" and as cereal is usually my breakfast food of choice, I found this even more apropos. Even though this song is no less than obnoxious, it obviously has its uses.

Biome Project: Showcase

A front view to give a "detailed" look at the Project

 Side angle to view depth, interior, and a changed perspective.

 Another side view to show the interior, shadow movement, and changed perspective.

Biome Project: Creation

Step 1: Land and Air

Step 2: Vegetation 

 Step 3: Turtle and Added Vegetation

 Step 4: Lid/Top

 Step 5: Otter and Added Vegetation

 Step 6: Fish and Finishing Touches

Paper Sculptures

Animals

 Plants

Shadow Box Exterior

This is the outside of my box! Unfortunately, in an attempt to get a cool shadow effect from the back of the box whilst I let the glue on the front dry, I had to lean it against a chair. So a bit of the back is cut off, though the idea is generally understandable.

Biome Project: My Textured Paper Collection

The top four pictures are of paste paper I made, and the bottom is a stack of scraps that I used. I tried to think of what I would need most, and seeing as a river biome consists mainly of water and plants, I tried to collect and make a lot of blues, browns, and greens.

Biome Thumbnail Sketches

My sketch of a turtle, like what might be found in a river biome (webbed feet!)

A fish (just a generic fish)

 An otter, which may be found only in certain river or river esque areas, and also in zoos.

 A [rough] sketch of a river with sandy banks and rimmed in green vegetation. 

 Some trees and bushes, generic looking, commonly found plants.

 Some reeds and flowers, to stress the large variety of plant life found near rivers.

Biome Research

In case my labels aren't particularly legible post-photograph, my pictures show examples of (from top to bottom) air and sky, land, animal, and vegetation examples of what may be found in a River Biome. It was difficult to find examples of atmospheric conditions, as they vary depending on the time of year, location, etc. of the river so I just used the generic "pretty day" setting. I tried to find cute, while still accurate, animals, so I picked otters and turtles over frogs and snakes. Vegetation also can vary, so I tried to find examples of a few different things such as trees, reeds, bushes, flowers.

Illustration Friday - Midsummer Night

I was needing a little inspiration for this word prompt, and I knew the dictionary would be less than helpful for this particular word, so I stepped outside. It was about that time when the sun has started to set, when it's about halfway down, and the bright blue sky is starting to mix with the orangey glow of the setting sun. I immediately thought "complementary colors!" which I guess is what happens when you've been in art mode all week. Anyway, it was really pretty (and it is kind of mid-summer) so I thought it'd be apropos. Watercolor seemed like the best way to show the pretty, mixed colors. 

Color and Space

For this assignment I wanted to mix warm and cool colors in a way that made the cool colors seem to shadow the warm colors (because cools tend to recede and warms seem to come forward). So I put the red and orange in the center and shadowed them with their cool, complementary colors. Then I shadowed said complementary colors with the color that lies next to them on the color wheel. I think I was able to accomplish my intention of creating an image that draw the eye toward a focal point in the center. However, in an attempt to fill up the white background with color and shape, I think I created a separate image that draws the eye away from the intended focal point.

Complementary Color Scale

Now this was especially difficult, especially due to my aforementioned war with the oil pastels. But looking at it now, I suppose that's how it was supposed to look. If not, I'm still going to pretend.

Color Wheel

I don't know what it is about these oil pastels, but they never seem to do what I want them to. Nevertheless, here is my color wheel. Ta-da!

Color Value Scale

I also had some trouble figuring out how to shade with color. This one didn't turn out quite as well as the black and white, but I do think I was able to show a sufficient range of blues. 

Black and White Value Scale

Here's my black and white scale. It took me awhile to figure out how to do the shading and all that, but I think it turned out pretty well!

Illustration Friday - Bottled

I wanted to think outside the bottle (pun) on this one, so I thought I'd tackle the definition that means something along the lines of trapped. And since I'm such an avid Disney fan, and an hourglass is similar to a bottle, I thought I'd try to recreate the scene from Aladdin where Jasmine is bottled /is trapped/ inside a ridiculously oversized hourglass. I used oil pastels for the interior and metallic pens for the outer "shell". The background I did in crayon.

Two-Point Perspective

For my two-point perspective I picked a corner in my room. Unfortunately, I think I sat a bit too close to the subject of my picture which I realized too late. Thus, everything seems pretty big and the angles less extreme. but I think I captured the main idea. My door on the left slants towards its vantage point, and my window and dresser towards the other.

My Photocollage

I've spent probably too much of my time at the lake this summer. It's my chill-spot, my getaway, my place to relax and forget everything else. Plus I already had so many pictures of my friends and family and I there, so it seemed perfect. I did start to run out of pictures of the water, though, so I enlisted the help of some magazines. I figured the mesh of different colors would also be a good representation of how the lake is always busy and changing, what with all the fish, birds, and boats around.

One-Point Perspective Exercise

This is a picture of my living room at the lake. It's a particularly tall space, therefore the perspective part of the picture can mainly be seen in the ceiling and floor, as well as in the slant of the chair. The large mirror at the center I tried to represent by the reflection of the overhead lights, however I'm not sure how well that comes across to everyone else.

Shape and Perspective

I liked this picture to show geometric shape because it's entirely linear. Well, minus my feet.

This picture shows organic shape because I can't imagine a very clean geometric formula for a bush.

The openness between the boat and the dock shows enclosed space.

This is a picture in one-point perspective.

Since the objects in the picture become less clear due to the sun as they move further away, this shows aerial perspective.