Over winter break I revisited an older piece and drew a brand new one. I was going to finish the graphite/colored pencil drawing of my cat, however I think I want to redo that piece - I just don't like how it's turning out. Anyways, I deepened the shading on the first picture of my cat in a box and added the shadow of the box and her head. I was going to add the tiles in the background like in the actual picture, however I decided to let this live for a while and then decide. The next piece is an ink drawing of my cat, taking my original idea of doing a "magical girl" theme for my concentration and mixing it with the concentration I chose; my cat. I feel like I'm going to redo this and do it less sloppily, so I didn't bother to mount it yet. Also, in real life it isn't terribly large, so I may make it bigger. I adore the eyes on this though! That's my favorite part and I wish the rest had turned out as well as I would have liked. When I redo it I will also make a better, more sophisticated background.
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Okay, so this week I started a painting completely impulsively and saved my pencil drawing for holiday break. I really love the picture I based the painting off of, which is why I chose to paint it. I'm sure I won't run out of pictures of my cat to paint/draw/alter, however I'm wondering how to keep them all different enough while still showcasing my full potentials. The idea of a "concentration" is still unclear in meaning to me. I am having fun making all these cute artworks of my cat though, so I guess as long as I don't plan to submit my portfolio to the College Board.... Does it really matter if the concentration makes sense or would score well as a whole?
Over this week,I finished a piece I had started quite a while ago - and I still don't think it's 100% finished. I may add another piece to finish this as a diptych. However, at this moment in time, I feel incapable of accomplishing my envision of the accompanying piece. I will hopefully come back later to add that when I improve. I also started another drawing, of my cat of course. It is extremely far from being done. This piece was SUPPOSED to be my second finished piece, but that didn't happen. I'm not sure that it will even be my third finished piece honestly. However, I feel strongest with graphite, so even though it takes me the longest to finish this pieces, they are my strongest. I hope that in the end it will be worth it.
My first finished piece!.... That I hate and am redoing part of!! Well, I love 2/3 of them.... I bet you can guess which one I don't like. The "contour" line drawing is LITERAL trash and I hate it. I'm redoing it in charcoal and realistically like the ink and graphite ones. If I don't like that one either... I guess I'll just die or something. It took me a while to even come up with that one, out of four other failed attempts. It was really aggravating. However, I do really like the pencil and ink ones! I'm much more comfortable in both of these techniques/styles.
This week, I finished the first graphite drawing of a triptych in which I plan on doing all the same piece but in different mediums, like ink or charcoal maybe. I drew it from a picture that I think conveys our relationship and it's my two favorite things - my cat and sleeping. I think it looks very pure. The second thing is a sketch for a possible drawing?? I'm not sure I like it though. I don't know if I will be turning it into a finished piece or not.
These are just a few works in progress (WIPs) that I have been working on over the past few weeks. I have experimented again with watercolor, as seen in the self-portrait and the first half of what will be finished as a diptych. The other is a sketch I did actually quite a while ago, but I want to revamp and recreate it because of how well it fits my concentration. A trouble I am having is COLOR. I SUCK WITH COLOR. But I'm learning! I think my self-portrait is actually pretty good and the soon-to-be-diptych is supposed to be unrealistic, dream-like colors, which still needs some experimenting. I still need to see what palettes and colors I like best with the scene. I wish there were more pink than what I had put in this study. The sketch I am in LOVE with, because it has a lot of sentiment to me. My cat is like my baby, and she's been through everything with me! So a picture like that is really precious to me and I think sums up how much of a crazy cat lady I am.
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