#ap portfolio

[asterjeje]

[fanqiees]

"makeup bag" - gouache and acrylic marker, 14.5x42 cm

a deconstruction of the various eyeliners i've tried and used before, in chronological order and with a mini me :) descriptions under the cut

-nyx epic ink liner: i actually never did makeup before i picked up cosplaying. i bought this liner for my first ever cosplay, alhaitham from genshin impact (alluded to by the little sprouts). it's a bold, dark eyeliner and i wanted to reference some anime-style motifs

-nyx micro brow pencil: bought this at the same time as the ink liner, but sometime later decided to try tightlining with it. didn't work very well because it's a brow pencil and also light gray but that's okay

-covergirl, not sure of the specific name: this was the first time i figured out an everyday lower-lining look :D the pencil is quite nice to use and i am brandishing it at the viewer

-sephora 12h waterproof: the one i currently use. friends dragged me to sephora and i came out of it with a singular spoil of war. worth it! at this point i was just worried about following the color scheme

[drvr]

AP 2D Portfolio that scored a 5 (With Tips!)

My Sustained Investigation explored the things that shape us into who we become and analyzed to what extent we have control over who we become. Nietzsche famously believed that we have no free will, whereas Sartre believed that from birth you have complete freedom. How much of who I become is within my control. I’ve dealt with anxiety almost my whole life and a big part of my fear is that I am a bad person, by looking through my identity I allow myself to see who I am from the bones out. I can see that I am not actually a bad person, and I can find my natural biases to overcome.

When I submitted my portfolio, I ordered my pieces from most to least free will in that influence. The last three pieces combined the ideas and symbolism I had developed throughout my pieces, to fully synthesize my ideas. With every piece I learned something new that I would implement into the next piece. At portfolio day, colleges told me I should get more experimental in my work, which drove me to making my own paints from spinach, turmeric, charcoal, or combining dirt with glue and working on rock. Crochet became a bigger part of my practice this year. I think my level of experimentation and synthesizing as well as my communication of each process is why I received a 5, while other fully qualified artists did not. When you make a tedious piece, use a composite slide to show your process, let text he secondary. There’s already minimal characters. Within that maximize what you can say by dropping vowels or spaces, they cannot count off for grammar or spelling.

Writing is truly the most important part of the exam, look at the rubric and examples. If you can’t communicate your ideas, you have failed. I revised my writing into the dirt, I had my teachers and parents revise it over and over. Work in a google doc and write as big as you can, covering all the ideas and details you did. Save that and just rewrite it until you fit all that depth in the character limit. I had like 5-10 versions of most text boxes. Write as you make your art, you don’t want to forget anything.

Good luck and you’ve got this!

[rubberducky8609]

AP SEASON IS OVER!!! REJOICE!!!

Unless you’re taking makeup exams, to which then good luck and try not to fail?

You’ll do great!

[yogurt-bird]

Ap Art #8

Onto the eighth piece, this piece is honestly my all time favorite. Didn’t have too much of a hard time with it. This one’s about losing hope/clinging onto hope that’s fading off

[knifecat111]

more portfolio stuff

[alooverra]

“I’ll do it tomorrow”

36 x 40 acrylic on canvas, found objects and fabric

I don’t really post too much about my paintings on here but this one’s been resonating with me lately! My ap portfolio explores the idea of hell as a teenage girl and here I particularly wanted to explore sloth and the sullen, sort of how it becomes easy to cut people out and drown in your bedroom. It’s quite feminine, one of the reasons I like it and also the mixed media aspect.

A couple of the sketchbook pages the brought me here

The mixed media aspect was an add in after critique cause I did not finish on time 😭

[h0urglcss]

One of my favorite pieces from my AP art portfolio :D