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.