Energizing Tone

Transferring my work digitally was a challenge because this is the first project in which I had to grid a drawing and then transfer it that way. Overall, though, the experience helped me grow the most in the digital arts realm because it forced me to learn about the certain apps that we had to use for the recontextualization. Digitally, I think the artwork is much more difficult to process than the hand-drawn because it’s just a process that I’m not used to yet. Drawing portraits is one of my favorite things, so doing this project was actually quite fun, but it took more time than I thought. 

Energizing tone was a really interesting concept for me to indulge in, and it was a much longer process than just shading the shadows but it helped really bring the pictures to life. The energy that was created through the short marks is such a cool idea, and having it transferred on the 2D subject was what kind of blew my mind. I enjoyed the outcome of the digital work more than the drawing just because it has the appearance of looking more “official” and “finished” to me, but that may just be my opinion. 

I chose to do some portraits because I’ve only done one other portrait, and I didn’t wear any makeup in the picture I chose, so I decided to do a more accurate representation of how I like to present myself. The process of studying my face and transferring it on paper was interesting to me because it forced me to kind of study myself in a way, and see myself in a different light. I enjoyed this project a lot because of that process. 

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Obsession

Haiku

Haiku

I chose the haiku specifically because I knew I could create something more dark with it. When the poem talks about heavy rain, I was able to envision in my head exactly how I wanted that image to translate on paper. For me, art is my way to express my emotions in a more orderly and healthy way, and at the moment I was feeling stressed and anxious, and the poem helped me translate that into the work I created. I created a digital image of a gray tree, along with a darker gray image of a person crouched underneath it, and I also put in some abstractly dashed rain marks. I chose the rain marks which obviously was incorporated in the poem, to create and set a darker, sadder mood, but I also chose to do the silhouettes of the images to show a more abstracted, yet simple design. To me, this helped get my point across without overcomplicating the idea. Haikus are simple in the way that there are few words you need in able to express a certain idea or feeling, and that is exactly what I wanted to try and accomplish in my work. Simplicity is something new to me because I am used to doing realism and shading, so linework is more difficult and challenging, but it was something I wanted to branch out and try and do. I enjoyed creating continuous lines and focusing on the “big picture” of what I wanted the viewer to see and feel, without overcomplicating it in my head. I wanted it to feel lonely and cold too, and I feel the simplicity of the design helped accomplish that as well, overall. 

Shorthand Tone

      

The process of line drawing turned out extremely fun to me, actually. At first I did not know where to begin, but as soon as I began to follow the outlines of the faces of the people I really looked up to, (as a woman),I fell in love with the project. The lines were able to help me really focus on certain aspects of the faces of the women and decide what I wanted to deepen or darken, or keep light. By changing the length, thickness, and tone of the marks, I was able to create depth in the images. I chose to focus mainly on the faces and hair of the women, and the direction the marks flowed, rather than the whole image itself, because this process seemed to be a lot more simple this way. I used less opacity to create shadows and highlights in the already simplified image to add more depth to it too. 

I, again, was confused on where to begin and what sort of decisions I wanted to make during the creative process, but I am extremely happy with how it all turned out in the end. I remembered to focus on the light-work of the marks rather than to go into to much detail because the beauty, to me, is in the simplicity of the faces themselves. Using the empty space to fill in the gaps of the faces, while also creating movement and style I believe helped strengthen the overall image and look of the artworks. In conclusion, I'm proud of how far I have advanced my skills in digital arts, and I'm very happy with how it turned out. 

Lamp Gradient

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