Tuesday, December 15, 2015

Glass Drawings

Hey guys it's Abbey. So in AP DMA, we've been practicing our drawing abilities. We'v been doing different shading, contour line drawing, and value exercises. It can be difficult, but when I came across this on Pinterest, I realized how simple it was. When coloring a glass bottle like this, you don't just use darker values of green, you start to use browns and reds. I thought it was really interesting, and crazy how complex a glass bottle can be to color.

Sunday, December 13, 2015

I really like this piece that was done in illustrator using the same principles that we recently used to do our illustrated portraits in DMA 1. I liked how the whole thing was done only with geometric shapes with nothing being rounded. I used this same concept on my illustrated portrait and think it does a good job of keeping the realism of the image along with adding a personal touch to it.

Half Dipped Nike Air Mags Drawn by CJ Hendry

 
So I was looking on the internet for some cool art and came across this. This work is done by CJ Hendry. She bought a pair of $9,000 Nike AirMags, dipped them in black paint, took a picture, and then drew them. When I first saw the piece I was amazed by how real it looked and I also wondered why she would do this to such nice shoes!?! I personally think it paid off.  I really like how she made the shoes look 3-D and how the paint actually looks like paint. I looked further into it and found a website I think everyone should check out. http://www.thecoolhunter.net/ It has other amazing art and tells the story of them all.

Friday, December 11, 2015

BALLS & GLORY DOODLE MURAL

With collective Studio Entropica I made this big doodle mural at Balls & Glory restaurant in Brussels, Belgium. Great fun ! Also made some animations for the making of video.




Self Portrait

I think after spending a couple of weeks on illustrator we should all be able to do this amazing type of work. I also like they made the glasses look real even though he did triangles.

Thursday, December 10, 2015






Hi all, Katrina Kessler here. For this week's blog post, I decided to not post about conventionally beautiful art, but the dark, angsty side of things. The unrefined style and messy method of these pieces stick out to me and make me think. They dig into your inner shadow (going T Hicks here) and bubble emotions up from the back of your mind and to the surface. They're all thought provoking and visually intriguing, leaving the interpretation up to the viewer and using the dark quality of charcoal to create dramatic contrast.