Robot

 I am pleased with my final out come. I like the position that I painted it in with the view looking up at the robot. I do feel that it is slightly lacing in character though. I think that could be down to the fact that it does not have a face.

 I then made a silhouette­­ of its body shape to work from. I was quite pleased with it at this point, I worked quite hard with the perspective getting it right.

I began with a random chest shape and worked from it making light and shade. 

I took one of them farther, but then felt it was not quite what I wonted to do for my final image.

I started my robot brief by silhouetting some quick ideas for robots.

ROBOTS

On this mood board I was mainly inspired by the top right images and bottom left image. I rely like the quick messy style they are in and I would like to try and achieve a similar effect.

Surreal

I am pleased with the final out come. I like the style I used to paint it. I am happy that I went back to my original idea. I think it had more potential than I originally realized.

I went back to my Bone nana idea, and decided to try paint the image realistically.

I found these images of a peeled banana and of a human bone on the Internet. I used these as reference pictures to paint my Bone nana.

After getting to this stage of the image, I was not happy with it, and decided to start something different.

 For this image I was very unsure what to do. So I came up with the strange idea of a bear on a child’s bike flying.

Here is a quick image I painted. The idea behind it is that the word banana, when pronounced can sound like bone nana. I thought this would make an interesting surreal image.

Surreal

This weeks brief was to create a surreal piece of art.

These are some images that inspired me. The work that attracted me to it where piece that used humours in there images.  

War

I am very happy now that I went back and finished this piece. I put a lot of work into this image, and I am very happy with the out come. I think the image fits what I first envisioned, and has gone through a long process to look like guerrilla warfare.

I then found a picture of an AK47 on the Internet, and paint my own in the correct perspective to fit my image.

As you can see this image has come along way and changed dramatically. I decided to stand up the gorilla giving it a human’s posture, to try and strengthen its presence. I am extremely happy with this piece, and I do feel it is one of my strongest paintings that I have done.

Although it is a good finished painting. I do not feel it has met the brief as I intended it to. It seems to have lost the image I had for it. I think I will have to go back and paint the gorilla holding a gun, as he was in the originals.

At this stage I was rely struggling to get the gorilla looking right. I felt that one of the reasons I could not invasion a finished piece, was because I had not used any reference images. I looked up gorillas and could instantly see my mistakes in the anatomy.

Adding in a gun and a bandana to see how they looked.

I then began adding lighter features to define him.

I started painting the shape of the gorilla, so that I could make sure everything was in proportion.

For this week, we where ask to come up with a concept piece using the word war. The idea that I came up with was to use the term guerrilla warfare, and literarily paint a gorilla holding a gun as a comical message. Here is the progression for this piece.

Self-portrait

This is my finished self-portrait. I decided to use pencil for this piece. I found it easier this way so that I could look in the mirror, and use a note pad to draw my face.

I began by drawing my eyes and then mapping out my features. Once I started to get the perspective right I realised that I had only just left enough room to fit in the rest of my head. Luckily I did not have to start agen, but should have been aware.

I am very pleased with this image, and I enjoyed drawing myself as a caricature. I think it looks like me, and I manage to hold my personality within it. 

Before starting my caricatures I drew out some human features, trying to get the feel for the style of my self-portrait.

Self-portrait

This week brief was to draw a self-portrait. When look for research I found my inspiration in caricatures. What attracted me to that style was how they exaggerate key features on the face, but still manage keep the person’s identity. The challenge is not to warp the face too much, or you will find the subject is unrecognisable.

These are some good examples of caricatures that I found.