Variety is my forte, I enjoy sketching vehicles, robots, animals, etc, I would rather be jack of all trades and master of none. However, my exhibition is focused on the theme of landscapes, environments, world-building, and storytelling through visual communication. People often draw and develop characters yet cannot manage to place them in an environment. But you have to be proficient at illustrating a background, and even then with perspective, before you know how to combine the two. One of my art teachers told me something along the lines of “how will you know where to place your characters if you don’t know how to draw landscapes?” Landscapes and environments also force me to fill up most, if not all, of the canvas. I have difficulty finishing projects and drawings, most of the time I opt to just sketch. I want to become as great as painting, illustrating, and photobashing landscapes as the people I look up to, such as Finnian MacManus, Noah Bradley, Ismail Inceoglu, and Sparth.

I played around for a bit with the arrangement of my pieces, but I put the smaller artworks to the side so that people can come up to view them more closely, and people who wanted to take a look at my sketchbook won’t have to be crowded. Or they can look at the process slide that would be under the “Raven Cave” painting, which shows thumbnail sketches and references I used to paint it. I looked at last year’s senior’s exhibition and there was usually a table in front of the artwork wall to place sketchbooks and 3D pieces. My sketchbook is one of the most important pieces of my exhibition since it shows the variety and sometimes the process that I do for a finished piece. Sometimes my preliminary sketches and thumbnails are better to look at than the final product. The arrangement also closely follows the order I put them in the exhibition slides, where the piece I made first, “Graveyard Girl,” is on the left, and the later pieces go from left to right like reading. The piece “Ravine Village” is on the right because it is one of my favorites and I want to continue making more illustrations similar to that, except in color. It is also a page from my sketchbook, so it would be scanned and printed out. Despite being one of my favorite artworks, “Ravine Village” has a book seam in the middle of the work, so I like “Poppy” and “Campfire,” my most recent works, to be the focus along with “Raven Cave.”