Illustration Friday: Breakfast

I took my left over paste paper and made my favorite breakfast which is chocolate cake doughnuts and orange juice.

Step 7: Final Biome Pics

This project was unique and fun but it took me forever. I used many different paper sculpture techniques such as overlapping strips to show bark, wrapping to create a vine look, spirals to create my snake, wrinkling to create trees and branches, folding make the orchids appear to pop out, xacto knife cutting to make my flowers and folding paper and gluing it behind objects to make them stick out and give the biome depth. These are the final pics of my tropical rainforest of southeast asia.

Step 6: My paper sculpture animals

These are my paper sculpture animals. The snake was done in a spiral to make it seem 3-D and more lifelike. The Toucan is perched on a branch with its claws gripping the branch to make it seem natural and the tiger has paste paper stripes to give it depth and lounges on the ground in the foreground of the box.

Step 5: Biome construction

Biome #1

Biome#2

Biome #3

Biome#4

Biome#5

Biome # 6

This is my step by step construction of my biome!!!

step 4: Shadow Box exterior

This is the exterior of my box. The front features a palm tree on the left and bengal bamboo on the right. The back has bamboo as well mainly because it was my favorite piece of vegetation that i researched. It is night time so the sky is a bluish purplish black and the ground is supposed to look like soil on the front and vines on the back.

Step 3: My Texture paper collection

These are my texture papers.... Don't laugh I know there terrible but they're the right colors so they should work! My favorite part was when i had mixed all the paste and put it on the papers and then my dog ran outside and felt the need to try and run through the paste but thankfully she didn't get very far. Anyway, this is my attempt at texture paste papers.

Step two of Biome project

Ok these are my thumbnail sketches for my biome. They're kind of terrible and i'm not quite sure if this was what we were supposed to do so if its not email me and tell me. Thanks

First Step Biome project

First off, I chose the Tropical Rainforest as my biome specifically the one(s) is Southeast Asia. These are the pictures I printed out for Animals, Plants, land and sky.

The land and sky are combined on the last page just because i didn't want to upload another whole page but you can tell the ones that show the forest floor versus the overcast sky. The facts about the rainforest and climate and such are written but they're on the pages with my thumbnail sketches so i will upload those tommorrow. I'm pretty sure this was what we were supposed to do some of the directions were kinda confusing so if i'm missing anything tell me and i'll fix it. Thanks!

Illustration Friday: Midsummers night

This is my representation of a midsummer's night. Its all color pencil but i added pastel in some places to increase color. I like it because it reminds me of when I used to live in Connecticut and collected fireflies in the summer because in most parts of Florida they don't have any, hence why the girl is sitting next to a jar of fireflies.

Color and Space

This is my color and space project. The ribbons going across the page are either orange, red and yellow or their cool complements green, blue and purple. The spaces between each are formed using green and red to create ambiguous space between the ribbon. I like this this because it really makes the design pop off the page.

Complementary Color Scale

This is my complementary color scale, i used yellow and purple as my complementary colors.

Color Wheel

This is my super awesome color wheel, the colors aren't labeled because I felt they were kind of self explanatory but if I need to label them just tell me, Thanks!

Color Value Chart

This is my color value chart, it wouldn't fit on one page of my sketchbook so its on two and i zoomed in, so one pic looks bigger than the other but they're really the same size.

Black and White Value Scale

This is my black and white value scale, not sure if you can read the descriptions but you should be able to see the numbers 1- 10, with 1 being white and 10 being black.

Illustration Friday: Bottled

Ok, so for this illustration I thought of bottled and immediately thought of ship in a bottle. So I tried to draw a ship and around it a bottle. To make the bottle appear more life like I cut up a zip lock bag and glued it to the bottle on the outside and used that to give it texture and make it shine in the light the way a bottle would.

2 person perspective drawing

This is my 2 person perspective drawing of a corner of an alcove in my room.

David Hockney Style Photocollage

This is my attempt at a photocollage. I went to Italy a couple years back and took about a million pics of the colosseum in Rome at different angles and times of day, and also bought a lot of post cards with it on them so I decided to do my photocollage on that. I know i didn't take them recently but i definitely took them at one point so hopefully this will count.

one person perspective excercise

This is my one person perspective of my living room. I think its pretty good for a first attempt but i learned a lot while doing it-about what not to do- and I think if I did it again it would be much better the second time around.

Shape and perspective pictures

These are my pictures for space and perspective.
Pics 1&2: These represent geometric shape.
Pic 3: This represents organic shape.
Pic 4: This show the negative space around objects, the sky in between and above the trees.
Pic 5: This is a one person perspective, everything seems to head toward a vanishing point.
Pic 6: This is an aerial view of a flower.