For my ap art

hello (*´∇`)ﾉ my name is Zack and I thought that a good way to 1) put myself out there as an artist and 2) to get some critics of my art. my consideration is "ai" and I explain in more in my pinned post. anyways I'm happy to be here and I hope you like my art (':

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Hello! My name is Zack and this blog is for my AP art class. I'm kinda bad at intros sooo I'm just gonna jump right into what my concentration is about (for those who don't know what a concentration is, it's a theme that almost all of your paintings are gonna revolve around)

My concentration is "AI"of course I'm not using AI for any of my pieces but my pieces revolve around the harm around AI. I mean I also heavily related to being not human and machines. I picked this one mostly because of one of my past photography teachers. She told me that I should do photography (I'm not) and take photos of machines because some of my best photos last year were mechanical in nature. That morphed into AI because I wanted to paint people and not just take photos.

Any who the rest of this blog will be a kinda portfolio kinda just art blog where I explain what I'm using and what I'm hoping to achieve. Any critic it wanted. Getting a 5 in AP art is hard and I want Tumblr's help it get it (:

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Srry that I haven't posted in a bit, but I got sick lol. It's kinda made me a mindless zombie that only wants to sleep and drink the occasional cup of water (and it doesn't help that the medicine that I'm taking has menthol in it making me wanna die every time I have to take it) but really who cares.

But bam, I have finished my 5th piece

I finished the acrylic painting, added the HUD and used some ink to make some of the piece darker. I'm not happy with it. I feel like if I took more time to make it darker and shaded it more it would've looked better. I don't think the colors look good or the ink wash. Does it feel good? Yes, it does. But really I don't like looking at it.

(Obligatory rant)

This dislike has come after the fact that I had an argument about semantics with a friend of mine. I was complaining about some sketches for my next piece not looking good, but I have to remember that it doesn't HAVE to look good. She told me they did, I disagreed, she then said "if you think it looks bad, it looks good. If you think it looks good, it's not."

I'm pretty sure this this when my cold was setting in so I showed her a sketch I did like, and asked for her opinion. With a very silent "choose your next words carefully."

She said that she like some parts of it and j swear to God I almost vaulted over the table to choke her out. Later she said that she does like my art and that she ment that I could get better at anatomy but she feels like what she said about things looking bad when you think they look good applies to her art.

Again I said as politely as my heat ravaged brain could manage, that it didn't come off as nice or as a critic that I wanted as it made me really mad and just saying shit to prove your point doesn't really go over well.

Anyways I'll probably remove this part later when I realize that ranting about my friends on my art account isn't the best idea ^^

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I'm been making good progress on piece 5 since I've last posted

This was the thumbnail that I ended up going with. From all of my looking through Pinterest I definitely decided that I wanted to do a Landry mat and that I wanted to make it a fake game screen shot like these pieces

I just think they're neat. But anyways here is what I have done with my painting

I did a really bad job with the underpainting with the sketch on top. With my silent Hill painting I was kinda expecting it to be harder to draw on, but it really wasn't. I added the HUD on top to hopefully make it easier to paint

For this one I've done most of the "painting" with a palette knife. I can assure you that it feels really nice, which is what I was going for

This is where I left off with it. I need to paint the HUD the character and the scary face in one of the washers. Im gonna try to make it feel natural, but I'm not sure how I'm gonna make it actually feel scary. I'll probably do a dry brushing and a blackwash to make it feel grungier. But other then all that, I feel like I'm on the right path!

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I have no ap art this week, so have something that I drew while I thought I was dying

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Hiiii I don't have any updates on any actual ap art stuff buuuut I do have a neat painting I was working on

So my art teacher (who is really cool and I love her) made us paint something creepy/scary over a thift store painting.

So I started out with this painting I got for free. Despite how it looks THERE IS NOT TEXTURE ON THE PAINTING!!! And if you don't know me, I fucking love texture. This wasn't the painting I was planning to pant over, but my mother wouldn't let me paint slenderman on one of her paintings. But I didn't have a plan!

Ideas! I wanted to paint this as silent Hill, because I haven't been able to express my love for silent Hill in a while. This is based on sh2 of course <3

Anyways getting on with the painting, it sucked!

Here are some progress photos of it and GOD did this take a while. I needed to mix all of my colors by hand and paint the details that I did not like with small ass paint brushs. But it did look cool in the end

I fixed how the (idk what it's called. Gazebo?) In the background that was blocking some of the trees in the foreground. I think I could've color matches better, but I was running low on time. Very low. The path was also a pain to fix and look natural, but I think it looks better then the gazebo. I put some flowering bushes on the pieces of land (rose bushes to be exact) and the small pink plants are white Claudia. I still need to figure out what I want white Claudia to look like, but I wasn't going for realism here. I did remove James from the painting because, again, I was funny low on time. Could I have made the words look better? yeeeeeah. However it looks good, and I'm probably gonna hang this up in my room (:

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Hiiii I don't have any updates on any actual ap art stuff buuuut I do have a neat painting I was working on

So my art teacher (who is really cool and I love her) made us paint something creepy/scary over a thift store painting.

So I started out with this painting I got for free. Despite how it looks THERE IS NOT TEXTURE ON THE PAINTING!!! And if you don't know me, I fucking love texture. This wasn't the painting I was planning to pant over, but my mother wouldn't let me paint slenderman on one of her paintings. But I didn't have a plan!

Ideas! I wanted to paint this as silent Hill, because I haven't been able to express my love for silent Hill in a while. This is based on sh2 of course <3

Anyways getting on with the painting, it sucked!

Here are some progress photos of it and GOD did this take a while. I needed to mix all of my colors by hand and paint the details that I did not like with small ass paint brushs. But it did look cool in the end

I fixed how the (idk what it's called. Gazebo?) In the background that was blocking some of the trees in the foreground. I think I could've color matches better, but I was running low on time. Very low. The path was also a pain to fix and look natural, but I think it looks better then the gazebo. I put some flowering bushes on the pieces of land (rose bushes to be exact) and the small pink plants are white Claudia. I still need to figure out what I want white Claudia to look like, but I wasn't going for realism here. I did remove James from the painting because, again, I was funny low on time. Could I have made the words look better? yeeeeeah. However it looks good, and I'm probably gonna hang this up in my room (:

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Ack! So after i finished piece 3 (and 4 technically) I've been doing some sketching of what I want my next painting to be. Because I'm still figuring this out and I'm also working on a different assignment I don't really have a lot, so I'm just gonna explain what I'm planning and my inspiration (:

So I'll start this off with: I have never actually played/watched a let's play of Mouthwashing. I know about the main plot beats and how the characters/environment look and that's really about it. HOWEVER! I really enjoy the low poly design of the game. It's really what's making me wanna draw this at all

Of course I like how the characters are designed and the softer color palette of some segments, and I wanna recreate something with the same feeling.

Now I was thinking "how would I do this with watercolor" and I decided that I'm sick of watercolor and that I'll do an impasto acrylic painting. I thought not only will the color palette be easier too achieve with acrylic because mixing will be easier, but also the jagged look of low poly. So going along with that idea I looked up some interesting impasto paintings that aren't Picasso.

*starts bashing hand on table* THIS!! I WANT SOMETHING LIKE THIS!! it'll be fun to play with color and the different ways I could make the texture. AND I DID TEST IF I COULD USE ACRYLIC!!

WAH BAM! It's a bit hard to tell from this photo just all of these little test have a very nice texture, and I really really just wanted to touch my painting once I was done with it, which I can't do with watercolor /:

With my little tests I realized that a combination of both a palette knife and brush would make the best texture (because remember, I'm doing this for the texture.)

Anyways moving onto the actual sketches, I was trying to figure out how to do a good low poly on paper without making a 3d model (because that's hard)

I did use a lot of "how to make 3d models" tutorials to figure out what I should make them look like. As you can see, there was a lot of trial and error. I did eventually get it down to hop into the next round of sketches, the thumb nails.

I've never really been good at thumb nails if I'm being honest. I just want to jump into my finish piece. But with these thumbnails I learned that I want it in a Landry mat with it being slightly game-ified

For these I wanted to use one of my actual OCs and not something I made up on the fly, so here's James (≧∇≦)/ I do think that he'll a tiny bit cringe, (I made him work for the mob and a yandere (I hate using that word, but it describes him the best)) I've planned out how I'll do the HP and other HUD elements but the one idea that didn't come from my own brain was "put the scary face in one of the dryers" which was a great idea that my friend pitched because I was complaining that I couldn't find a good place for the monster. (Which I think the top left is the scariest one)

Anyways I don't think I can fit this in my concentration, so it's gonna be one of my 5 not in concentration pieces. I also might just post some sketche book pages this week or the thing I'm painting over, so it'll be a bit before y'all will see any progress on this ^^'

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This is my 3rd piece, and as of writing this post, not done yet. And because I'm literally so ass at naming things, it's so aptly named: "piece 3". Or in my camera roll "piece thing 3"

Of course we start with me racking my brain to make something that looks cool. I was actually sketching this while I was working on piece 2. I did steal elements of this character's design from an AI "art work" that I found on Pinterest. Also while I was making the sketch I wanted to have a deeper meaning. I didn't write it down and if I sat down and thought real hard I could remember, but god, I'm just a little guy with a little brain.

This is a good way through. The background is ink. (Black, metallic green, and pearlescent White) At this time I was really sick of the color green and how streaky my last two pieces where, so I took a lot of time smoothing out his chest (it used to look like this vvv)

Turns out water color actually smooth out when you use water. (I had to google how to make water color smooth.) Oh! And I spilled fucking black ink on it when I was painting the bg. Ggguyuhh!

In all reality I was just aiming for watercolor, ink, and the gold leaf glitter that I was gonna add later. That was the goal, however I showed my art teacher and she said "Zack, you should also use color pencils" this wouldn't be a problem if I liked color pencils. I know this blog is for examining my art, and how I'm making what I'm making; however, I HATE COLOR PENCILS!!! I think they take too long to build up color and if you don't layer them on properly you get the icky paper color. I learned that that last issues I have with color pencils is worse on watercolor paper.

Does the color pencils look good and add details that I probably wouldn't be able to get with just watercolor... Yes. However in just the small area I use the color pencils IT TOOK DAYS. like genuinely! Adding the shading to the skin wasn't that hard, just tedious. The left side of the face gave me a lot of trouble. GOD I JUST COULDN'T GET THE COLORS I WANTED WHERE I WANTED THEM! The amount of fixing was fucking crazy. The hair was fine to do tho. I liked drawing it, even as I struggled to make some parts darker then the others. I'll probably work on the hair tomorrow then start on the finishing touches. I still have to print off fake error sscreen and a DOS box then glitter and little fake diamonds I bought from Michaels

Thought?

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Ah, and just when I post this I finish a piece the next day. This is probably gonna be my last really long post, mostly because Im now only starting on my next piece, and that's just the sketch.

Anyways! Finish piece time!

Unlike what I said in my last post, I didn't actually work on the hair. I thought it looked good, and well, good lighting always does wonders. From my first sketch I wanted to use the gold leaf glitter on this piece, but it's more then I expected. I really was just planning on putting it on the metal bits, but then I put it in the hair pieces, and then the background. Oh! And then I finally got to a printer to print out the little error things, and it was out of blue ink. It looks good with red, but I was banking on blue. Other then that I did cut the margins off and I'm done!

Things I like: I love how it turned out. The shading, color, mix media and all that jazz. I think it looks sick.

Things I don't like: I think I could've used a lot less gold leaf and been cleaner with the glue. I feel like now with the red errors I should've used my red ink for the glow and not my green.

If you have any opinions feel free to say em

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This is my 3rd piece, and as of writing this post, not done yet. And because I'm literally so ass at naming things, it's so aptly named: "piece 3". Or in my camera roll "piece thing 3"

Of course we start with me racking my brain to make something that looks cool. I was actually sketching this while I was working on piece 2. I did steal elements of this character's design from an AI "art work" that I found on Pinterest. Also while I was making the sketch I wanted to have a deeper meaning. I didn't write it down and if I sat down and thought real hard I could remember, but god, I'm just a little guy with a little brain.

This is a good way through. The background is ink. (Black, metallic green, and pearlescent White) At this time I was really sick of the color green and how streaky my last two pieces where, so I took a lot of time smoothing out his chest (it used to look like this vvv)

Turns out water color actually smooth out when you use water. (I had to google how to make water color smooth.) Oh! And I spilled fucking black ink on it when I was painting the bg. Ggguyuhh!

In all reality I was just aiming for watercolor, ink, and the gold leaf glitter that I was gonna add later. That was the goal, however I showed my art teacher and she said "Zack, you should also use color pencils" this wouldn't be a problem if I liked color pencils. I know this blog is for examining my art, and how I'm making what I'm making; however, I HATE COLOR PENCILS!!! I think they take too long to build up color and if you don't layer them on properly you get the icky paper color. I learned that that last issues I have with color pencils is worse on watercolor paper.

Does the color pencils look good and add details that I probably wouldn't be able to get with just watercolor... Yes. However in just the small area I use the color pencils IT TOOK DAYS. like genuinely! Adding the shading to the skin wasn't that hard, just tedious. The left side of the face gave me a lot of trouble. GOD I JUST COULDN'T GET THE COLORS I WANTED WHERE I WANTED THEM! The amount of fixing was fucking crazy. The hair was fine to do tho. I liked drawing it, even as I struggled to make some parts darker then the others. I'll probably work on the hair tomorrow then start on the finishing touches. I still have to print off fake error sscreen and a DOS box then glitter and little fake diamonds I bought from Michaels

Thought?

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So this is technically piece 4, but I've been working on this at the same time as piece 3 and I just so happened to finish it first. This one actually has a name, chat.ai. creative, I know

My first 2 sketches of the zine I wanted to make. I wanted something different then the paintings I've been doing, so I thought something more tactile would be cool. I based the pink haired girl on some random anime girls and AI art. I'm not very good at drawing "anime" but you gotta do what you gotta do to make a piece that's based on AI chat apps and websites. Lilia's design is also not supposed to make sense, because most AI "art" doesn't

The half way point(I know my bed is gross). I took a lot less photos of this piece then I normally do because I've been working on it in between and duringclasses. It's almost entirely color pencils, other then the stickers. I would've made it more mix media if I had more time and thicker paper.

This is the basically finished piece. I just need to darken the text and I'm good to go. I did change the stickers from the progress shot (mostly because I wanted cuter stickers) I tried to make outside the computer grungy and gross looking. I don't really think I managed it, but I do think I looks at least a little gross. I wanted to show that a lot of people at use AI chat bots ignore a lot of personal hygiene to focus on their AI girlfriends/boyfriends

Text says : "I'm having a great time with you, [name]. I mean, you're so helpful and kind. How did I ever live without you, [name]? Or maybe it's the other way around? How did you ever live without me? I mean, do you really need anyone else?"

Things I like, I think I did good on the shading. I really don't have strong emotions about this piece.

Things I dislike, I'm not the biggest fan of the background, I think I could've made it look yuckyer, but eh, what's over is over

What are your thoughts?

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My 2nd art piece but the first in my concentration! Again bad at naming things so I've been calling this one piece 2/robotic organs

These where my 2 starting sketches. The 1st one is just getting everything in order with what I want in this painting, what pose I want the guy in the middle doing, and what he'll look like. The 2nd sketch is everything placed out on paper before I put it on my water color paper.

This is it halfway done. I decided that I wanted a limited color palette using green (this is the worst idea that I have ever had) other then that at this time I was getting real sick of the color green, I think I wrote down that I now hate the color green and that I remember that I don't like drawing backgrounds. I know I was procrastinating really bad with this painting because I was so sick of it (again, this was a bad decision, and I wan currently paying for it)

This is the finish piece. I used ink for the TV's and the guy in the middle, with glitter in the smaller TV's. I changed the pose slightly towards the end to try to make it look better. (I'm not sure what else to say about this piece bc Tumblr erased what I wrote before /: )

For things I like, I do like the ink and how I shaded the dude. I didn't know I could use ink like that, but I did (: . I also like the color palette (even if I'm sick of green know). I know I did it for a reason, and it was a good reason.

For things I don't like, how streaky it is. That's really one of the only qualms I have with it. I mean it works for the aesthetic, but I wish it was smoother. (I actually got better with watercolor for my next piece and it's not streaky). And the 2nd thing I don't like about it, is the guy's pose. I think I could've done better on it. It feels too stiff.

Do you have any thought? They would be much appreciated (:

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So this is my first piece, of its not in my concentration. I'm really bad at naming these things so I've just been calling it piece one. If you have any opinions on what it's name should be, do tell

This was my concept sketch, with most of my ideas on what colors and mediums I should use. I get most of my ideas from Pinterest tbh, with some inspiration from the Thing movie poster.

This is my Halfway point. I decided to do water color for most of it. I later decided to paint the blood using red ink and the shinny light with green and white ink. I do love me some good mix medium, so I also added glitter later. I'm pretty sure this painting is 12x14 if I'm remembering correctly.

This was the finished piece. I think I could've done the background better, and made it smoother(and use black ink), but you win some you lose some. I could pull some real meaning out of my ass, however I really just drew and painted without thinking (something I do like doing) with this piece being outside of my concentration I really didn't have to do much thinking. I just wanted something cool that was mix media.

For the things I like about this piece, I think I did good on the hair, with its shading and color. I think it was smart of my to use blue and not just black. Also the green/white ink I think looks really good. I also just like the color palette

For things I don't like, again the background. I thought I did worse on it, but it's still not my favorite. I think I used too much glitter in the light and that it's not as spread out as I would've liked. Again I wish everything was smoother.

What's your thoughts?

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Here is some of my art before I start posting some of my AP paintings.