"Pleeeeeeeeeease?"

My class is making a 2014 calendar, and each of us have to make an artwork for the month we were given. I chose the month July because I wanted to do something.... summer-y!

Original sketch:

aaand the actual calendar:

I'm excited to get it all printed!

Existentialism

For this assignment we were supposed to create an artwork about our own experience as an artist.

This is basically about my insecurities..... ahahahaha.......

You're supposed to start from the left, then make your way to the far right (where I am standing).  THE PEOPLE ARE NOT HOLDING MAPS! The lines are supposed to be the trace of my eyes going through everyone else's beautiful art. :'D

They are all proudly holding their work and showing it to others. However, I on the other hand usually have a lot of trouble showing people my art. I don't exactly know why... I guess I just never think it's good enough? It was even hard to post my stuff on here, to be honest! haha

But uhhh. A lot of people who saw this thought I was holding money??? I'm actually (trying) to hold my art together but it's not working. :'D

SO UHH IF YOU EVER ASK ME TO SHOW YOU MY WORK IN THE FUTURE AND I HESITATE, NOW YOU KNOW WHY??? imsorryguysbutitshard

I actually really enjoyed making this since I've never made anything so long before! Colouring it was very quick but I had fun choosing the colours :)

Fight the Power

One of the first assignments we got in my Gr. 12 Computer Arts class was called Fight the Power. We were told to "create an artwork that fights against oppression, authority and the mainstream, and gives power back to those without a voice". In order words, create an artwork about people affected by the media or how they overcome struggles created by it.

I decided to talk about how children grow up surrounded by media and how they are affected by what they see.They see the importance of beauty and become self-cautious, they watch violence and see no problem with it. It's almost as if... the real parents are the media, teaching kids from a young age all sorts of things.

Even though not every child is negatively affected by this, it is still a very common issue. Sooo this is what I decided to show in my assignment!

Please try to ignore my inability to shade. :'D IF THERE IS ONE THING THAT I URGENTLY NEED TO PRACTICE FOR NEXT YEAR, IT IS PAINTING.

New header?

I finally added a header on here. :'D The emptiness from before was bothering me...

I just made this one quickly on photoshop... It's not that great so I will probably change it within the next few months once I have something better to put up there. Right now it's very simple and cleeeaaan. The colours remind me of cupcakes for some reason. Does it remind you of cupcakes? I don't know. Okay.

Anyways, I'm going to post some of the stuff I've worked on this semester for my computer art class. High school is almost done and ahhhhhhhhh. I'm looking forward to next year!