Alicia Keys and Pop Art

Artist Statement

As an artist, I create art to demonstrate the meaning of self expression and freedom. I hope to achieve the gift of attracting someone to explore that art world, who doesn’t like art. My goal when creating art is to do something out of usual or express creativity. I started off thinking art was just for people who loved to draw, but art is for anyone who loves to create the unexpected like me!

Part of my process before I begin any of my art is to think about what I like and to research any type of art that fits this category. The techniques I utilize is if the art form matches a part of my identity.  

My current piece I’ve just created is “Alicia Keys Pop Art.” I created the theme of the piece by I like Alicia Keys and how pop art favors a lot of famous people. I am attempting to show how Alicia Keys can be n pop art too without using a computer program system.I used shading with various color pencils to sharpen her features. I used markers to make certain parts of stick out. I chose to sketch the picture of her from her album cover “As I Am.” The color of her lips shows how fierce she is. I wanted to make the features and colors of her face dramatic.

As an artist, I try to just gather all my current emotions into a funky idea for an art piece.

Reflection

My project was involving the concept of pop art. When I researched pop art I found that many famous people are involved in it. I chose one of my favorite R&B artist Alicia Keys to do my pop art on. I chose a picture from her “As I Am” album cover.

The knowledge I have already have about the project before I started was pop art was sort of vintage and colored oddly. Also, pop art was in a lot of comic books. Pop art targets the face of a person more than the body.

I wanted to acquire skills on shading, outlining, create all different types of pop art, and creating sketches of people.

I did accomplish this goal.

I know I accomplished this goal because I shaded, outlined, and created a great sketch of a person.  

Other skills I learned along the way was creating realistic eyes.

I’m most proud of how I actually sketched a real life person because it was hard for me throughout the project.