I created a sculpture of a woman pouring paint. It is a black and white woman and the only color is from the color she is pouring on the floor. I wanted to recreate a famous photo of the well-known sculptor Lynda Benglis.  To create my sculpture, I used tinfoil, clay, acrylic paint, wood, hot glue and various clay tools. I first used the tinfoil to create a basic shape to mold the clay around. After I was able to mold my clay around the Torso I had created out of tinfoil, I then let it air-dry. I painted the platform and the clay woman in white and black paint and let it dry. Then I took plastic wrap and poured red blue and yellow paints on to it and then proceeded to swirl it around to create a pattern. This gave the illusion of poured wax on a floor. Once everything dried  I made a bucket out of clay glued the acrylic paint onto the bucket and then glued figure onto the white platform. My current work is very similar to my previous work because I created a clay sculpture in my last project too. A new technique that made my sculpture easier to create, was the tin foil method. By balling up tin foil, it made my project lighter and it caused the clay to crack a little less when dried. I am proud of this overall project because I believe it looks very nice, and it stays true to the original idea I had about it.

My artwork consists on the main character of a pretty famous manga and anime called Tokyo Ghoul. In my art I drew the main character, Ken Kaneki, with his mask in ghoul form. His mask covers all of his mouth and half of his face (downwards). It has an eyepatch that is also attached to the mask and covers his right eye, which is the eye he can’t turn into ghoul form. My second artwork is Kaneki’s best friend, Hide. He has very punked up hair, always seems happy and is also smiling, unlike his friend Kaneki, which is in the drawing, saddened. Lastly, my last drawing is based on Kaneki’s crush, Touka. She is a girl that wears a bunny mask and is a ghoul, unlike Kaneki, who is part human. The reason why I choose this trio of characters is because each one of them is equally important. Hide, Kaneki's friend, as a character, plays off the remaining human aspect of Kaneki while Touka plays the ghoul side. That is the basis of my artwork. In my artwork I just wanted to reflect how much time and dedication I gave towards Kaneki. He is a combination of two worlds and is a very conflicted person. Besides being a ghoul and being conflicted, in a way, I can kinda feel related towards the character as I am come from a different place than where I am from right now. Also I understand concepts that other people cant due to me having experiences from two perspectives, the hispanic side and american side. Due to these reasons, coupled with the fact that the artist I choose to do my artist study, Mark Crilley, also did the same drawing some time ago.This gave me the motivation to do this project based on the series and the style in which it was done. The only tools I used when drawing the whole thing were a point 2 pencil and eraser, no other special tool. As for this artwork, I kinda find it standing out from the rest as it is very different from my past work. This one involved me more time as well as effort, while my usual drawing and work don’t.

When I started creating the work, the thoughts that mostly came up in my mind where two, where does everything belong, and where is the light hitting the character from. This and some images of the characters allowed me to draw the project. When I needed to add more darkness to a certain spot, I just cutted a piece of led from my pencil and with a fresh side, I would add more detail to the drawing. As mentioned before, the artist that inspired me to do this work was Mark Crilley, the reason being was because I loved the styles of art he made due to them being similar to mines, and the fact that he drew the same character a long time ago. This made me even more motivated to draw, and made me do the work in a more dedicated manner. A technique I used a lot in this type of drawing was to always look ahead of the drawing, kinda like foreseeing the future. The reason for this was because I was working a lot with lighting and if I were to redo something then it needed to be before I drew it, since if I did it after, then I would have the eraser marks in the final drawing, which would look awful. So planning ahead was a very helpful technique I used. I am most proud of this work due to the fact that I was able to do such a high detailed drawing with lots success. All that I got was positive feedback and it made me very happy to finish the drawing the way I did. If I could change one thing about the drawing, then it would be to change the neck size, since in the final drawing it was a little too big. In conclusion I can say that the making of these drawings were very helpful to me and made me notice that I could accomplish very complicated things, as well as be able to do it on my own.

For my artwork I tried to create something that I would care enough to work on. I decided to paint my indoor soccer shoe with watercolors. The materials I used were my shoe for a reference, a paint brush, watercolors, and a watercolor piece of paper. The shoe was based on the galaxy theme and I tried my best to recreate it. I then for the background continued the galaxy so the background and shoe can complement each other. The colors I used were red, black, white, orange, purple, and blue.

I don’t think I have ever made something as cool as this and a piece of are as good as this. I really tried on this one and loved the outcome. I love soccer and I felt like the color wave of the shoe and having it to do with soccer, would be fun for me to create. I learned how to contract make colors flow and how to take my time and care about your art piece from this assignment. If I were able to do this all again I would change nothing but the colors. I want this piece of art to be a reflection of me as a person who loves soccer and whose talents can possibly take him out of this world.

For my quarter 4 project, I studied David Choe. He’s known for his street art and his figure paintings, which explore themes of desire, degradation, and exaltation, are characterized by a raw, frenetic tone that he has termed "dirty style." In my project, I tried to do my own interpretation of his style with a rough, imperfect, graffiti style look using multiple tools and a few of his many characters he’s known for drawing. To create this, I used acrylic paint, oil and acrylic paint markers, spray paint and ink. The spray paint was used for the green overspray while the ink was used to make the drips on the top left corner. Everything else was used for the background and to fill in the characters. Through this project, I learned how to use my resources to their best ability to recreate a specific style or look in my artwork. My tip to anyone trying to do this project would be to observe every small detail about the artist and find similar tools to the ones that the artist used. This project has inspired me to use other styles and techniques of artists to use in my own artwork.

When you first look at my work you might think it's some kinda graffiti mess and it has no meaning at all but that's not the case. My artist Jean Michel Basquiat has this kind of graffiti style since he is a graffiti artist. His artwork you might not get just my looking at it for a few moments but after a deep look you can understand it. Firstly i think most people will see the eye on his forehead that represents the third eye. This represents a sign for people to find knowledge beyond what they are told, And also explains why his eyes and mouth are closed . Don't believe what you see and don't trust what other people say. The only 3 tools i used to create this , Colored pencils, Crayons, and Sharpie marker. I drew most of this with the Pencils because of the sharp tip it was better for the detailed work and the crayons to fill everything in. This also added color that i couldn't find with the pencils lastly i used the sharpie to make certain things bold like the crossing of the eyes , mouth and the third eye.The thing im most proud about this work is when i show people some people understand but most don't this doesn't necessarily show if someone is smart but it shows if someone is woke . being woke means you are self aware on the left side of the face you can see BWSW this means ‘Be woke stay woke’’. From this project i learned that artwork doesn't have to be visually arrtractive for it to have a deep meaning and for it to catch peoples eye.

The art piece that I’ve choose to draw for my quarter 4 is a picture of Chadwick Boseman looking at the observer wearing a black suit with yellow leaf designs. In this piece, I wanted to communicate that a mixture of generations. For Chadwick is very famous now, while the art style he was drawn in was popular in the 1950’s. For this project, I simply used color pencils to fill in his skin color and suit. I also used a very bleeding ebony stick to color most black things in the picture like his hair, eye, or eyebrow. The latest work I’ve done was a draft of what I’ve just completed (Nothing special).

First, I outlined the entire drawing in pencil. Next, all the black areas were colored with the ebony stick. Lastly. Everything else was colored with color pencils. The Artist I studied is named Alex Katz. The special techniques the artist uses is fact that his art is not very detailed to the point of real life, but the person in the end is recognizable. I even learned a new technique of shading in terms of Katz’s art style (Which is coloring different areas of his face with a darker shade of brown).

In this artwork, most proud of how similar my mine was to the actual artist’s. If I could change something about my work, I would use a different material of coloring the black areas because the ebony sticks bleed a lot and if you brushed against it, it would get everywhere. In conclusion, my was difficult to make because of materials used and art style my artist used, but I think this was an overall successful art piece.