Intro to Design

My final Words...hehehehe

What i want to say is that i'm having quite fun in making these artpiece. Credits to my friend Eric who guided me in this project, I'm quite satisfied with these arts although I'm stressing to do it. Before I forgot, i'll just show ya'll the layer that i used to make it look more like canvas art. Last but not least, hope everyone liked my artwork :D

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My best choices art piece named CHOICES XD

As for the last piece which I named it Choices, I refer the artwork from 2 artist, one is Jesse Reno and the other one is Casey Mcglynn. I re-do the artwork to fill in the whole paper because Mr.Deepak said that my previous artwork is too plain. So I eventually used my hand size to draw on the A4 paper, then I implement the previous idea on the artwork. At first, I wanted to separate the hands, but at last I just crop it and tried to combine like what I did for the previous sketch. Then, I implement the “Rules of Third” for the design layout to make it more interesting. Then I started with thickening the outline. For the background color, I actually followed the reference artist background because it looks more like a road color with dirt which represents the obstacles that we’ll meet along the life. The stars is actually representing traffic light on the road junction which means we have to think about which road to take when we reach there. I used light cyan color on one of the hand to represents the starting of our life where we followed majority to make our life choice. The red color hand is actually represents the choices that we’ve made and go towards it. In the middle of the hands, I actually merged the color to show that we’ve slowly made our mind towards our choices. I add on white sharp teeth effects on the red hand to say that some people sometimes addicted to what they do and drowned inside without realizing that they’ve lost their purpose. At the other side of hands I also drew people who eventually slipped down from their own choices because they followed fame, ranking or money too blindly. Lastly, I do the same as the other artwork where I add on the layer of canvas.

Jesse Reno's artwork

Casey Mcglynn's artwork

Below are the progress of the artwork Choices

FA of Choices XD

2nd design of Artsy

For the second artwork, I didn’t use the food culture sketches because I don’t know how to elaborate much with that piece. So I changed it to artwork called Double Sided. For this artwork I based on a references artist called Sara Kovanda, she’s actually a musician and based on her artwork, she is said to drew her arts with full emotions and raw expressions. She likes to use basic color RBY in her artwork, so I also use it. For the first stage, again I started with my sketches, the middle part represents the head of a person. I call it double sided because when people talk, they sometimes didn’t really meant it and they tend to say the other way round. For the teeth part, I use sharp teeth to represent the person who always talk bad about people. For the non-sharp teeth part, it represents a person who always cares about the way they are talking. For the snake-like shapes, it’s actually the words that came out of a person’s mouth. Eventually, people nowadays tend to be both. I started with thicken the lining of main character. Then, as referred to Sara’s artwork, I used yellow as head background to emphasize the main character. I then used red color for the good part as normally warm color represents positive. As for the bad part, I used cold color to represents negative elements. I actually spent most time on the snake-like part. For the good part, I drew a lot of pattern using thin stroke brush tool to represent the words that were said, it means that we carefully said out the words so that we won’t hurt any people easily. I zoom in the artwork to make it easier to be done. For the bad part, I simply drew the pattern on the snake-like drawings to represents a bad emotions that were used when we are talking, I also put the sharp teeth at the end of each of it to represents the hurts that others felt through our words. For the eyes part, I used the positive and negative color that represents good and bad mood because sometimes when we’re in a good mood, or bad mood, we might also talk something bad or good. Other than that, I just play along with the color to make it more creative. Lastly, I apply the layer at the back to make it more like canvas draw.

Reference artist : Sara Kovanda

Below are the progress of the making of the Double Sided Artwork.

The FA of Double Sided

Last minute art piece :D

After few weeks of experimenting the photo shop, I still don’t quite understand how to really use it, but I just simply press any options in the toolbars to use it. I actually asked help from a friend of mine who is studying in Dasein Academy of Art in the process of making these artwork because as the due date came nearer, I have no idea on how to finish my artwork. He guided me along the way including the changes that I made in the sketches and he actually lend me the Wacom tablet as it’s similar to hand drawn stroke. The Wacom tablet make my work easier to be done completely. I also change the sketches to be made and can be seen even if the artwork is placed upside down.

Back to the sketches, the first one that I modify is the day & night sketch. Based on the reference artist is Julie Stenner, she’s not a very famous outsider artist but I just like her design. Her artwork that I refer most is the face series type. For this Day & Night artwork, you can see that in the middle of the sketches is a table and a bed that I combined together. Both faces looks numb because they are tired of their own daily life. For the first stage of coloring, I drew a thick outline to make it easier to be colored as referred to the artist. After that, as guided by my friend, he teaches me to use the complementary color harmony on the artwork. For the morning part, I use blue-ish green for background and warm orange as the face and the sun’s color. It’s also implemented in the night part of the artwork. After I put the background color, it’s actually looks too plain, so like what my friend advised, I just draw something behind it and at the same time enjoy playing with the Wacom tablet. Then, like my previous sketches, while the guy is doing work, he wanted to sleep and while he wants to sleep, he actually thought about the work. So, I used the transparent layer on the side of toolbar and changed the opacity to suit the background. For the last part, to make it more to a real canvas arts, I actually applied the texture on the background using the layer tool.

Below are the pictures of reference artist, progress of making the artwork, and the last workpiece: