Crash! Bang!

For this assignment, I was given the words "crash!" and "bang!" and had to create an interesting drawing based off of them. For crash, I decided to draw a plane crash in the ocean because it's a fear that I have since I travel in planes a lot. I chose to do it all in pen since I'm used to drawing in graphite pencil, which ended up taking a very long time. The use of black, red, and blue ink created an interesting color scheme but overall took about 4 hours with all the little details. For "bang!" I was inspired by the Big Bang Theory and decided to draw the solar system. Outer space and the unknown is another fear of mine which I chose to represent. I like my use of value but I wish I had done the drawing in color to make it more interesting. 

Expressive self portraits

In my first portrait I got too focused on the small details and shading instead of the overall expression of the face. I fixed this mistake by barely shading the next few portraits and focusing on portraying emotion instead. The emotions are (in order) serious, dreamy, surprised, confused, and sad. These expressive self portrait sketches will help me when I'm trying to make clay molds with expressive facial expressions. 

National AIDS awareness day

For national AIDS awareness day, we were given the task to create a poster to raise awareness. I chose to focus on myths related to AIDS and HIV. Here my progression from sketchbook to quick ideas to final poster is shown. The final product was more word focused than illustration focused than I would have liked but I like the background and the block letters. I would change the writing if I could to make it more readable from far away and I would add more drawing elements. I also want to coney a better message across to the viewer to make it more engaging.