Drawing 1

Saydie Roling "5 Seconds of Summer"

18x18, Graphite, 2020

My idea was to take all the members of 5SOS and put them together in a way I have not seen before. It started out with just wanting to do a portrait of Luke Hemmings, which turned out to be cut out portraits of all 4 of the boys. In the process of making this, I used graphite pencils and blending stumps. I used shading to show a more realistic look. The artwork is showing another way to think of the band and by reading the lyrics behind them can show a deeper meaning. I want my audience to take more time and really think about it, and not just think that it is a picture of a band. There is symbolism in the lyrics. Each boy has specific lyrics picked out for them that connect to them on a more personal level. The most difficult part was getting the portraits up to my standards and to the point where you can look at them and know that it was Calum or Ashton. To overcome this struggle I continued working on it and sometimes erasing parts and starting over. If I were to start over the only thing I think I would change is the picture I used for my portrait of Ashton. I think his section could have been represented so much better if I used a picture that spoke to me more. This style of art is realistic and focuses on looking real and 3D. What makes it unique to me is the tore up lyrics in the background and the way the boys are framed around them. I think what I love most about this work of art is that not all the tears are perfect and they aren't glued back together in a perfect manner either. They are not all straight and do not match up perfectly with the lyrics.

Saydie Roling "Wildflower"

11x14, Colored Pencil, 2020

This idea came about when I watched the music video for the song “Wildflower” by 5 Seconds of Summer. The opening scene was this image and it really stuck out to me and caught my attention. Once I started to actually use this image I found the outline and traced it out onto my paper. Then one by one, I added the base layer of color onto the black paper until they were pretty visible. To help make the colored pencil show on paper I used metallic colored pencils. Then after adding all my base layers I went in and erased some spots to help shade and went in with white to add some highlights. This artwork shows a brighter side to things, even though they are in a dark background they still shine through. I want people to look at it and maybe even recognize the song or the video or even get an older aesthetic from it. The most difficult part of this project was the overlapping of colors and getting the highlights to how I wanted them. To overcome those challenges, I just kept working. I kept messing around with it until I really enjoyed the way that it looked. Although, if I were to start this project over I would take more time to add details into the eyes and the hair, even though there was not much detail in my inspiration photo. To me this artwork fits under more of a realistic and abstract style of art. I would say that because while they are portraits, they are overlapping and are partly transparent allowing you to see the dark side of the paper still. This is one of my favorite projects I have ever made and what I specifically love about it is how when you look at it from different angles you can see different points of highlights and shadows because of the metallic colored pencils. I think that makes it unique and special to my styles of art.

Saydie Roling "Waste"

11x14, Graphite and Colored Pencil, 2020

My idea for this work of art actually came from in class. Mrs. Dunlavey had mentioned a still art of a phone playing your favorite song, so I took that and expanded it. It evolved from more to just a phone to more objects that have meaning to me, like the magazine and vinyl. The process consisted of getting the shape and look of the phone and then constructing everything around it. I used graphite pencils, colored pencils, gel pens, and blending stumps to create this work. I started with the phone, then moved onto the magazine and portrait, after that the vinyl and AirPods, and finally the wooden looking backdrop. To me, this artwork is just a combination of things that make up myself. When people look at this work I hope they see a small part of who I am in it. I think the most difficult part of this project was making the portrait of Harry in the magazine. He was smaller and so it was harder to get the detail just how I wanted it. To overcome this I ended up erasing most of the face and details and starting over. In the end, I finally was happy with how it looked after restarting. If I could start this project again I would change the layout of my objects and maybe adjust where they sit.This is a realistic piece of art and is unique to my style because it portrays who I am. The thing I love most about this work of art is that it takes three things that I am very passionate about and puts them into one scene.

Saydie Roling "Teeth"

12x18, Paint, 2020

I was scrolling through Twitter and Pinterest and had seen a lot of people doing similar things and painting the back of their jackets according to songs. After seeing all those jackets I had thought, I can do that. The jacket had a longer process and took multiple days to complete because it took so long to dry all the way thorough. I started with painting the white base and then splattering red paint on top to look like “blood”. After that I used tracing paper to put the outline of my sketch and the words on the jacket. After getting the outline I took paint markers and colored in the rest until I liked the way it looked. This piece of art is taking a song and basically putting into an image. The lyrics “blood on my shirt, rose on my hand,” are being shown by the jacket itself. The most difficult part for me was being able to get the words and rose transferred onto the jacket. In order for the transfer paper to work we had to use the end of a paintbrush and apply as much pressure as possible without tearing the paper. If I could start over I think I would have made the words a tiny bit bigger, but I am still very happy with how they turned out. This work is repurposed fashion, I took something that already existed and made it new again. This work is unique to my style because it takes something I am passionate about and turns it into an image that represents it. I love it because it is a work I can show off and wear around knowing that I own the only version of it.