Dear viewers,

Paul the author has left us to go to arizona, so I'm sorry if I sound like 3rd grader.

This post is about my past work in Beginning Studio Art. I'll have the thumbnail sketches along with the actual projects. Here's the first one; name creatures.

What we did was we wrote our names in cursive on one half of the page and reflected it on the other side. whatever we saw in our names, we drew. I happened to see a lobster.

After the name creatures, we focused on covers for our sketchbooks the teacher gave us. Here are my thumbnail sketches she required from us. 

We had to chose a special font for our name and then incorporate it into our own design.Iin the end, I didn't go with any of these and did a Cross Country theme.

The next project was optical art, art that relied on illusion. We had practice making the various shapes and designs characteristic of Op Art. Here they are for you to see.

Three of these are my thumbnail sketches for my op Art piece. I settled on the design that looks like trees with balls falling into them.

The medium was watercolor and the surface was tagboard. It was an exceptionally hard project because I suck at watercolor.

After the Op Art unit, we focused on observational drawing and contour drawing. 

For some of the drawings we had to draw blind, so that's why they look like scribbles.

After observational drawing, we focused on portrait drawings and creating a likeness. What we did was we made grids on the reference photo and the surface we were going to draw on. Then we would draw and shade based on where the lines and values were. For practice, we took a picture of a person, split them in half on the face, and drew one half of the face. I chose Jennifer Lopez from our limited options.

Can you tell which side is the actual photo?

After practice, we focused on full sized portraits on whatever we wanted.i chose to do BoA, a Korean singer. 

The last project of the year was the audio-visual project, where we had to chose a song we liked, then we had to draw the image that came to our mind using words. I chose Nujabes, a Japanese DJ and his song, "Don't Even Try It". 

The image is sideways because i don't know how to work my mom's Nero PhotoSmart program because it's all in Chinese. 

I hoped you enjoyed this month's set. Stay tuned for more,

The Eloquent Chinese Artist.

Summer Homework

 Dear viewers,

You guys are in a for a treat. This monthly set features the summer homework I had to do for AP Studio Art and there was a lot of stuff. The summer homework includes information of at least 5 artists, at least 20 reference photos, at least 10 reference items, 5 sketchbook drawings, and at least 4 projects of high quality.

First, here are the reference photos.

After the photos, the homework demanded that we have at least 10 items that would inspire us throughout the year. these things include notes, pictures i did when i was younger, and business cards. I'm sorry if some of these pictures are sideways.

 Next, we had to get information from at least 5 different artists. I chose Alice Neel, Chuck Close, both portrait artists, Andy Warhol, a pop artist, Claude Monet,a landscape painter, and Pablo Picasso, the co-founder of cubism. these pictures, unfortunately, are also sideways.

After the art bios, the homework required us to do at least 5 sketchbook assignments with inspiration from our references. each assignment had to include an object drawn from life. It encouraged us to experiment with new techniques and medium and " go down idea wormholes". Like the other pictures, these are also sideways.

Now here come the projects. We were given several prompts we could do, but we had to do at least 4. I chose to do a portrait of my dad, a tempura on canvas still life, a landscape watercolor, and a color pencil cubism piece. The point of these projects was to demonstrate our ability to use multiple mediums. All of this is going to my Breadth section of the portfolio.

Well, that's my work so far. I hope all of you enjoyed what I posted and come back for next month's set!

 Sincerely, Andy Li