Myah’s Art Portfolio

Art is scary. And so I purposefully pour my heart into it to be judged by the college board 👈😎👈

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Ah! I finally confirmed my email! Hi everyone!

Just thought I’d show everyone what I’m all about now that people can see it lol

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BUG SGRAFFITO VASE

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IT’S DONEEEEEE

Material(s): Oil pastels on Bristol to give a slight foggy/melty look.Fingers blending, paint pen for highlights

Process(es): Context feels intrusive. Viewer feels > distraught than her. Body lang = not overwhelmed, relieved.

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TW: Self Harm!!!

Tried oil pastels just for funzies… IM IN LOVE 😫

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TW: Self Harm!!!

Here are the first uncolored sketches. I really really liked the challenge of the anatomy and how the arms draw your eyes down to her hip, but my teacher suggested I lengthen her hair to add even more leading lines which was a great call imo

Then here are some color variations I did, and thank god for that because the blue contrasts SO much better than the red or purple 🙏🙏

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TW: Self Harm!!!

Here are my first sketches for project 3!!! With this one I really wanted to explore the more… depressing parts of being a teenager. The unhealthy coping mechanisms we tend to have.

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Some sketches I didn’t end up going with

Liked: themes, composition

Disliked: too romanticized for my SI

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Material(s) : Colored pencil on Bristol for real-life features. Paint marker = flat color for screen details

Process(es) : Tried cartoon first, switched to realism = real teen experience. Draw girl, boy over, screen on top

I’m really liking how this turned out! It’s not perfect, and I know it could use a few tweaks with the skin and shading, but I’ll save that for the end of the year when we submittttt 😅

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IT’S OKAY TO FAIL!!!

This was my first try at the piece, and it looked alright… my family liked it, my friends liked it, my classmates liked it… but I thought I could do better. I asked my teacher and he agreed that he thought I could do better. So, I did some quick research on the best way to correctly redo an art piece.

First things first, I stared at it for a LONG time and picked out what I specifically didn't like. Don't worry, I know nobody's got time to physically write it out, it's just a mock-up so y'all can see. I then made some adjustments accordingly.

- did a few face sketches (tracing is great for this to get a feel for proportions)

- looked up some arm perspective tutorials

- looked up how to draw blonde hair (link below)

- looked up how to draw pale skin (link below)

- took irl reference photos and mashups of both the poses and the expressions

Once I liked the sketches and understood the tutorials (try practicing on a separate piece of paper) | started coloring!

Some shading and a bit more googling later, it's just about done!!! But you’ll have to wait to see the finished piece ;)

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Here are some sketches I made for my next piece! I knew I wanted to explore themes of not necessarily peer pressure, but the want to do crazy things with your friends / interest yk?

I thought weed and alcohol were a bit too demonizing for a piece about doing risky things with your peers so I tore a page out of my own life where I shaved a slit in my eyebrow on call with a boy lol.

I experimented with crazy colors too, but I didn’t particularly like them so I decided to go for more realism in the finished piece.

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The finished piece, everyone!

Materials Statement: Base of alcohol markers. Colored pencil on paper, creating sketchy lines showing chaos & disorder

Process Statement: Basic room first w/ intent to be neat, messes layered & messy lines - no time/ motivation to clean

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Pro tip: REFERENCE PHOTOS

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Now, for my first piece I wanted something new, but simple. So I sketched out some ideas keeping this in mind

What I know I can do: Shading, colored pencils

What I want to work on: Taking advantage of space, perspective

The idea I wanted to tackle with this one was messy rooms. Being busy with school, work, friends, and so many other things can make it hard to keep a room clean. Not to mention mental illness.

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Last post for now, my ideas board that my teacher had us create. Something to show the direction we plan to take our SI :)

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Introducing 🥁🥁🥁 my SI!!!

SI, if you didn’t know, stands for Sustained Investigation, which is kind of like a theme or a topic you choose at the beginning of the class that all of your works will revolve around and build off of.

For mine, I already had a direction in mind but I wasn’t sure… I liked something on ADHD, but that seems pretty vague. Plus, mental health is a very popular topic. I’d also considered something to do with clashing aesthetics, but again, I thought that might be too vague. Then, it hit me.

Something that had been on my mind for a long time (especially the summer before I started the class) was the fear of wasting my teenage years. I heard so many stories from my coworkers and my parents of sneaking out, causing trouble, breaking rules. But I’d done none of it. So, I decided to base my SI on the realities of being a teenager.

As of now, my SI is: What is the contrast between expectation and reality in the teenage experience.

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As a little bonus, here’s an exercises my teacher had us do. It really shows the importance of having a reference when it comes to realism. Doing off your head is more generic, while using a reference really allows you to get the finer details of that specific object! So cool!!!

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AP Art is a college level art class that involves lots of classwork, some writing, picking a theme, and recommends 8 hours a week of work outside of class. Sounds like a lot, right? Well, lucky for me, I hate myself 😊!

Here are a few of my older pieces to draw you in ;)