Chandelier project

Here are a few pictures of the step by step process of our chandelier. Our plan is to fundraise enough money to buy a 20,000 well for a school in Africa. Our chandelier is one of three in our class and they all came out great. It sounds like someone already wants to donate money for one of the three chandelier.

Charity: Water/ Postcard

In creating a postcard for fundraising, for wells in Africa. I had a couple of ideas that I created quick sketches. My first sketch was a tree with charity clearwater in the vines, and implying that the water helps life grow. this was my favorite idea, but it would be very hard to create a stencil for this.

My next idea was to imply looking through a big water drop falling from a water faucet. And on the water drop I would create some kind of text. For the stencil this would work the best. So I decided to scan it and fix it up on illustrator.  

Here is the outcome of my final postcard stencil.

118 book designs

For the last two week the class has been working on Designing an illustrated book based off of an Oscar Wilde poem. The class came up with many subject to work on from innocence to war and violence and corruption. I decided to use one basic thought, Youth and innocence. And the first thought that comes to my head from this subject is my son. Looking at him in my view shows much innocence, from his smile to his crying. Below are some of my images that will be in the class design book. I see innocence but you may see something else, it all depends on the viewer.

2nd 4 color text drawing

With these two designs and my next design I was inspired by Art Chantry. Some of his drawing that I was interested in were very messy but clean and they had great compositions. These two drawings I wanted to create a picture of a martial artist that I have always loved(Bruce Lee). Overall the composition on both of these were good for me and I am content with them.

This next design I had a thought of a clock and I wanted to make an abstract clock with just 0's and numbers. WIth this picture I am fairly satisfied, and I think the layers are well composed.

4 color text drawings

My first Image I drew I had a thought of a mouth with abstract things around it. I incorporated text around with blue,red ad green. This turned out well in an overall composition. 

On this next picture I decided to try and reconstruct an ink drawing I did in color and really did not like the way it turned out. The composition is way off for me and the colors are way to dark. I plan on eventually repainting this with maybe lighter paint colors.

On my last design I tried to incorporate sign-language, and text. I really enjoyed doing this design because I included my son. Somewhere in this I lost the foreground. I guess I just need to keep at it and keep learning. Somewhere I need to figure out how to use my messy creativity on the computer. 

3 color abstract

On this picture and all my other pictures I really tried not to make and image or realism. Starting on this drawing I used pastels and I just started to draw the lines from fragments of my hand. After doing so I connected some lines and colored in some shapes and created a background. I think overall this was successful.

On my next abstract thought I wanted to keep things simple. I created some hills and used three colors that I thought would balance well. With that I created good foreground. 

This next picture I also used pastels and I wanted to experiment with basic shapes. With doing this I created a picture with a little bit of 3 dimensional ability. 

My last picture I drew I wanted to experiment with mostly color and big shapes, and how they can balance together. Using the forest green pastel it created good foreground and helped the rest of the layers. 

2 color abstract re-cap

With the critic on this project I noticed that I needed to have more foreground. With all the colors that I put into all three of the pictures somewhere I lost my foreground. So on my next projects I will try to put more foreground into them, and not as much color yet.