Figure Drawing

"One must from time to time attempt things that are beyond one's capacity"- pierre-auguste renior

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Midterm

Are you stressed out or just unorganized?

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Artistic statement on sketchbook

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One long pose of my choosing

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Final Portfolio

- Color museum artwork

- Counter drawing

- Cross counter

- Ink cross hatching

- Tonal study

- Skeleton feet studies

- Half skeleton study

- Rib cage study

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Artistic statement:

When I first enrolled for this class I thought it was going to be because it’s figure drawing. In my mind I thought I was just drawing the figure and that’s it, but I was wrong. I learned how identify where the spine is, so I can guide myself through that. Than creating lines to slowly build up the figure ( woman or man). Learning the anatomy of the figure was very intriguing for me because I learned new tips and method on how to better my figure drawings, but I definitely know much more about figure drawing that I usually did. One tool that I loved using was the charcoal sticks, because I enjoy getting my hands dirty with paint or when I’m helping my mom with our little garden we have in our house. Art is about having fun and find a style you love doing, also is another way of showing your talent, and telling a story through it. This semester was so fun and stressed out at the same time, but I enjoyed it a lot. I didn’t quiet do the final drawings due to personal reasons just to say that

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Skin color value chart with watercolor

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Artistic statement

Visiting the museum virtually was very different from being there physically. throughout my entire semester, I have only went to one museum ( the de la Cruz) I enjoyed it very much. the three museum I visited last week virtually were fascinating. I learned so much about very composition for different painting. just to clarify I am not very well with paragraphs or essays

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With my final artwork for this drawing I wanted to create the scene that human figures are waiting for a train at a train station. I used yellow and a little bit of white to create those little light, the red spot on the painting I was going to incorporate the initial of New York, but I did not have time to do that, but as a result i am good of my art work

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Final artwork

I decided to create a story about three human figures that are happy and living life. Mixing paint to get the skin tone was very complicated for me because I am not very good with acrylic painting and since it dries up so fast I couldn't blend in the paint very well, that is why it look kind of sketchy  

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Sketch ideas

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Second artwork

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Second museum I choose:

National museum of modern art and contemporary Art, Korea

First artwork

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Second artwork from the Solomon R Guggenheim

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Museum assignment

First museum I chose was the Solomon R Guggenheim

First artwork

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Title: Are you stressed out or unorganized?

I had an awesome time doing my midterm. I had second thought about doing a full body portrait or just half of the portrait, but since I love to challenge myself I decided to go with a full body portrait, although it was complicated scaling the proportion on the Bristol paper I managed to make it fit. I spent everyday working section by section on my midterm, since my art history/computer art Professor. Gomez had a lot of medical problems we didn’t have class everyday, so I took the time and work on my midterm. The objects I added was to create the scene that either I’m stressed out or just very unorganized. I also added the cup of tea because I drink tea as well when I’m stressed out, decided to added regular paper , ripped paper, broken wooden pencils, and a paper trash just to create a more dramatic scene to my midterm. I own a little cabinet where I keep all on my clothes and added it to my midterm. For the shoes I didn’t sketch it out properly that’s why one is big than the bottom one. For as the clothes I decided to wear what a day in my life is with a white simple shirt and blue shorts. Whereas the pose it was a struggle due to the fact that I was standing up for a long period of time and had to erase a lot and I was getting frustrated and stressed out. This experience took a lot of turns, but as a result I am very proud of myself for this artwork.

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Midterm progress

Almost done

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Midterm progression

Adding elements to the background