Button Owl

And last but not least, my most recent piece from the semester is this one, a gift for one of my friends for Christmas. She requested an owl, so I did one in watercolor and then, because I was feeling particularly adventurous, added buttons as well. First I tried to sew the buttons on, but the buttons kept falling off, so in the end I just hot glued everything down.

Toothless

For Christmas I decided to make my six-year-old cousin a drawing of Toothless, which is one of her favorite characters. Watercolor pencil on watercolor paper.

The 5 C's of the Art Room

So my art teacher asked me to do a poster for the room about the 5 C's, so here it is. It's digital. Not a whole lot else to it.

Senior Tile

So I graduated this year (yay!) and our school puts tiles up on the ceiling by each senior. I couldn't really think of anything clever to do, so I just made a sort of shattered design with each of my favorite fandoms represented. I also made each segment's design a pattern, because I think it helped with the composition. It's acrylic on tagboard but it's pretty sloppy, mostly because I figured it'd be up on a ceiling and no one would really stare at the details too closely anyway.

Going around from bottom middle clockwise: Doctor Who, Torchwood, Supernatural, Night Vale, Star Trek, Vlogbrothers, Sherlock, Harry Potter, and then just a generic "time" theme, because I like clocks and stuff. ;) I've replaced my name with my tumblr URL to protect my anonymity.

Welcome to Night Vale

My largest and most extravagant piece this semester, "Welcome to Night Vale" is a map of said town. Night Vale is a town in the podcast "Welcome to Night Vale," and because it's entirely an audio series, the listener is free to come up with their own interpretation of the locations in the town based on the vocal descriptions, which is what I did.

I won't lie; this thing took forever. It's pen on tagboard and is several feet tall. I designed the entire town and the border as well, which I made using a handmade stencil. 

Starting on the top we have the Night Vale Community Radio Station. On the left is the Glow Cloud, and on the right is a helicopter (what color? we will never know), a pyramid (probably the one that spouted off all that philosophical stuff), a "To Desert Bluffs" sign, and an old oak door to a desert otherworld :(  . Moving down the lefthand side, we have the post office, Tourniquet, the Whispering Forest, the dog park, Mission Grove Park, Carlos' lab, the Arby's (complete with lights, sign, parking lot, and an Erica), Telly's barber shop, the Public Library (outside which is Tamika Flynn and her army of teenage rebels) and the Museum of Forbidden Technology. Moving down from the right side is City Hall, Big Rico's (complete with Wheat & Wheat By-Products Speakeasy and hooded figure), the Night Vale Harbor and Waterfront Recreation Area, the Desert Flower Bowling Alley and Arcade Fun Complex, Radon Canyon (the view is literally breathtaking!), the Moonlite All Nite Diner, and Dark Owl Records.

Here's a zoomable version, also available here.

Here're some close-ups!

              

  

Starstuff

"The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of starstuff." -- Carl Sagan

Here's my lone attempt at coming up with something deep and meaningful this semester; pretty much the woman's footsteps sort of give off a mist of "starstuff". In reality, the swirly cloud this is a mixture of the floral, anatomical, mathematical, and astronomical. 

Acrylic on canvasboard; I tried dripping some of the paint down in streaks but it didn't really work. *sigh*

Face Study Part 2: Clara

Following up on Cas, I switched to doing Clara in acrylic on canvas. She's the current companion on Doctor Who. I did alright with her, but the resemblance isn't nearly as good as Cas's. The nose is by far the best part, and I don't think I went dark enough around the eyes and shadowed side of the face. *sigh* Alas.

Cas in Pencil

I've had art class all semester and am just getting the chance to take pictures of my art from that period, so I'll be posting it here in chronological order over the next couple weeks.

This was my first piece, a drawing of Cas from Supernatural that I did for my sister for Christmas ;). I used it primarily as a face study and to help me improve in that area.