Graffiti - watercolours

For this piece, the main concept of it was graffiti art, and I included my name in it as well. I made my name bold by outlining it in a darker color so it catches the viewers eye. Around my name, there are different designs that I added to give off the 'graffiti' look. I choose to make the colors really vibrant and exciting. There are different ways to do so. On some parts I colored completely (with water color pencil crayons), like the stars and heart, to make them look bolder. On other parts like the red background and blue arrow, I  colored an outline, then with a paintbrush and water, went over the lines and created layers. These layers are what gives off the fading look to the color, which starts off bright then slowly fades lighter. My main goal of this picture was to create graffiti art that was bright, captivating, and caught the viewers attention.

Using Computers

Photo 1

Photo 2

These two photos are examples of a program called Fireworks (on Mac), and what you can design using it. There are many different features and different things you can do to the picture to make it what you want it to be. On the first photo, I simply used the brush, choose my texture, changed the colors, then made a background/ made my name. On the second photo I used a little bit more of a variety of brush strokes, like in the sky, the brush stroke has a "dabbed" look, and that is to create the illusion of a sunset. As for the water, I used a tool that gave it a reflection look, changing the shades of blue. I did these quickly, but if you actually take your time, there are a lot of cool things you can make with this program.

Shading - cars

The car I chose to draw is the Pontiac Grand Prix-Reborn. I picked this car because it's my dad's car so it was the first one that came to mind. When drawing it, I first started sketching the basic rectangle shape of the car, and drew lines alligning where the details would be. After that, I just looked at the original photo and sketched what I saw. After doing so, I shading in regions that best suit the car so it adds more depth of the photo rather than a plain outline of the car. Shading in different parts requires you to foreshadow the overall "look" to the car, and how realistic-looking you can make it to be. I shaded in the tires black because they are the darkest thing on the car, then the rest of it was shaded in gray in some areas creating depth. Finally, I added in the details to such areas as the headlights, inside the tire tracks, etc. This photo took a lot of shading and time to complete.

Remember Art Attack?

      Art Attack - Neil Buchanan

Halloween theme collage

In this collage, i choose to make the theme a halloween theme by choosing a scary setting, and then finding pictures that well suit this scary setting. It's not a realistic collage since there are cartoons included, but i feel that it gives more of a variety rather than just having a vampire or something of that nature. The characters from the shows/ movies I used in my collage are characters from The Simpsons, South Park and Charlie Brown. As for movies, the movies I used were The Grudge and Halloween. All of the familiar characters are what makes the picture complete and fun to look at.

Collage - About Me

This is a collage I made using iPhoto to edit the photo and Fireworks application to make the collage itself. Using fireworks, I cut and rotated the images to make them look good. There are pictures of things that represent myself, first is my picture with my name. There are my favorite music artists like Wiz Khalifa and Eminem, and there are things to represent the different genres I enjoy to listen to. There are also pictures of my interests and what television program I like to watch. This is basically a "About Me" collage.

Quick Sketch – James Franco

This is a picture of James Franco I sketched with a No.2 pencil. It took about 20 minutes to sketch and shade in. I started off with a basic “head” shape with two crossing lines to align the nose. eyes and mouth on his face. I shaded in his hair and used a wavy shape to make his hair look more realistic like its sticking out. I also shaded in his facial hair in a lighter shade to create more of a dynamic.  Last but not least, wrinkles. I drew in some of his many distinct wrinkles.  When drawing wrinkles you have to proportion them right or else they may look awkward on the person’s face, or you might make them look “too old”.

Realisitc - Wildlife

Baby leopard with it's mother.

This piece was a school assignment where we had to choose an any animal from a magazine to sketch. I choose a picture of a mother Leopard with her child by her side. For myself, this image represents the love and care for others, like your loved-ones and friends. Personally, I really like animal print of various of animals, like cheetah, leopard, zebra, and whatever else you can think of. So this picture was really good for that because it met my needs in what I wanted as my image to sketch. Before sketching the image, I folded the originally image into a grid and did the same to my canvas paper. After having a grid on both papers, I carefully drew what I saw in each box. I did this to make sure I had the correct proportions so it looked more realistic. Then, after that, I  mixed pastels and colored what I saw,  making new shades and creating different textures to give off a realistic look to it. An example of textures I made, were the texture of the fur, creating shadows and different shades.