Abbi Kalin – Italy Retro Poster
Sponsor: Mrs. Beam
The assignment was to recreate a retro poster in Adobe Illustrator. This project took me around 2 weeks to complete with class time.
Abbi Kalin – Deer Forest Album Cover
Sponsor: Mrs. Beam
The project was to create an album cover using your own photos, photoshop, and Adobe Illustrator. I spent around 1 week in class creating the album cover.
Bridget Confer – Little Italy at Night
Sponsor: Mrs. Beam
My project is based from my trip to New York City when I visited Little Italy and took a photo of the glowing sign. When I came back from the trip I used that photo as inspiration for my art. I used Adobe Illustrator and focused on the perspective and main shapes before the details. I spent about 8 hours on my project from start to finish.
Audrey Osborn – Áki, Ambassador of Sheol
Sponsor: Mr. Culver
This piece was a part of my 2021 summer work for Art 5-6. The assignment was to create a show piece using a new medium.
I created this piece in Blender 2.8 over the course of the summer, trying to learn the program and produce an image worthy of my standards and the assignment's requirements.
One of the largest parts of the process was modeling the character. Besides just sculpting the basic form, I had to go back over the entire model with a process called retopologizing, which is laying out the geometry in a way that will allow the model to deform in a more realistic way when moved around. I ended up not showing the entire model in the image, as I ran out of time to rig the whole thing and I decided to just make shape keys for the face, which is an alternative to rigging every single little way the face can move. Basically, I just sculpted a bunch of different expressions on the face, and I toggle between them using a set of controllers I had to program in. I can slide the controllers to show varying degrees of an expression and blend them together.
Another part of the process that took a while to figure out was the shader. Blender doesn't just come with setting for automatic lighting- you have to set up all the lights yourself and then quite literally program the way you want the shadows to behave using blocks called "nodes". I wanted a more "2D" cel shaded look, which ended up being a lot harder to implement than I thought it would be. It took me over 4 weeks to get it to work properly, and in the end I had used over 70 nodes to program the shader.
Cadence Kempf– Trice Crossing
Sponsor: Mrs. Beam
This piece was originated by a graphic art class prompt. It was made with Adobe Photoshop where I took three of my senior photos and created a unique compositional layout. I added certain gradients and overlays to great visual stunning affects. I am new to the graphic design world, especially when it comes to software like Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator, however my best put out efforts paid off for this amazing piece. It took approximately 4 to 5 hours to create, lay out, and produce.
Maxwell Hunsberger – Geometric Artwork
Sponsor: Mrs. Beam
Didn't take too long to make, Mrs. Beam showed us a couple examples and everyone made something on the basis of using geometric shapes, line designs, and a color scheme with at least 4 colors.
Aubryanna Waterhouse – Boho Bookmarks
Sponsor: Mrs. Beam
The artwork I am entering is a class project we did, where we created bookmarks for march reading month.
Ben Nelson – Kinda Trash
Sponsor: Mrs. Beam
Its a pile of wrappers, I took a picture, added a filter, and voila, trash.
Chloe Cluff – Good Kid, Maad City
Sponsor: Mrs. Beam
An album cover created and designed in photoshop. This project took me about 4 class periods to complete. This piece is inspired by Kendrick Lamar's album cover, "Good Kid, Maad City."
Ellona Jones – Ken Kaneki
Sponsor: Mrs. Beam
My project is a retro poster of Ken Kaneki, a fictional character. I created this piece using adobe illustrator, the assignment was to create a retro poster using adobe illustrator, or photoshop. I would say that it took me about 7 or so hours total.
Jacob Miller – Triton Retro Poster
Sponsor: Mrs. Beam
I made this poster using adobe illustrator by copying a separate poster. The assignment was to create a retro poster using adobe illustrator. This project took approximately 6 hours from start to finish.
Isaac Weber – Retro Poster
Sponsor: Mrs. Beam
Used Adobe Illustrator pen tool for Graphic Arts 1 assignment.
Emma Teng – July
Sponsor: Mrs. Beam
This is an album cover project completed in Graphic Arts I. It was created using an original photo of mine and edited in Photoshop. I spend about 5 hours on it in total. It's a cover that's meant to convey the jubilance and freedom of imagination that always accompanies summer.
Emma Crossman – Album Cover
Sponsor: Mrs. Beam
I created it through Adobe Photoshop. I used the crop tool, and the lettering on there. I spent around 1 1/2 doing this.
Livinia Rosenthal – The Deadmen's Voyage
Sponsor: Mrs. Beam
This is a poster I made for mine and my friends Dungeons and Dragons campaign. We have been playing weekly for nearly half a year now and this poster shows our characters and progress as of late. I used AutoDesk Sketchbook and my Wacom tablet to make this piece of digital art. In all, this project took upwards of six hours to create. I would like to mention that while I did the art all story credit goes to Matthew Hutchinson and character rights go to myself, Joe Paine, Aaliyah Hill, and Daniel Gonzales.
Nathan Erickson – Untitled
Sponsor: Mrs. Beam
My project is a simple creation made with Adobe Illustrator. All I did was make the perspective different. This took me around 2 full class periods to finish my project.
Isabella Johnson – Great Gradient
Sponsor: Mrs. Beam
We took a picture and tweaked it up a little, we used different gradients to make it very artistic. I spent probably 2 hours on the art piece. I tried to kinda create something that's more modern with something with an older meaning.
Victor Hernandez – Faces
Sponsor: Mrs. Beam
This started as a side project then it developed into a full on project. I spent about 3 hours coming up ideas and the design. I was inspired by gender neutral themes as well as the pastel pallet.
Hadley Matlock – Candy
Sponsor: Mrs. Beam
I created this candy bar using adobe illustrator in an assignment for graphic arts class. We had entire lessons on what goes into the design process of chocolate bars and brainstormed for a while what we wanted to do with ours. In total, I probably spent about 8-10 hours on this project, a little over a week of class.
Sam Hosbein – Retro Poster
Sponsor: Mrs. Beam
I created this retro poster in Adobe Illustrator. I worked in class every day for about a week to complete this assignment.
Alex Nelson – Space
Sponsor: Mrs. Beam
I took an image, took random parts of the images in specific shapes and copied them and made a shape in the center.
Remi Johnson – Album Cover
Sponsor: Mrs. Beam
We had to take photos that we have taken and make an album. After we take the photos and put into a template we put our most favorite songs on the back.
Paydon Woodall – Landscape
Sponsor: Mrs. Beam
I used adobe photoshop to create the project, I spent about two hours on this project.
Grace LaFayette – Drifting in a Lover's Dream
Sponsor: Mrs. Beam
The couple depicted in this diptych was created with gouache and oil pastel, which I then took into Adobe Photoshop to add a yellow background and a scan of sheet music that I found at the thrift store. After that, I took that edited version of the painting into Adobe Illustrator and made a black and white mirrored image to create a somber contrast to the original. I probably spent five hours on this project in total.
Ethan Nguyen – Retro Poster
Sponsor: Mrs. Beam
The retro poster is based off a poster of an anime but with the characters with power ranger outfits rather their original outfits. I used a common art style that people used for anime characters that removes their facial expression making it simple and bright. I outlined the characters then personally drew and create the ranger outfits I chose to use. The shaded areas were traced by the original artwork and colored in by a dark or light color to add shading for the characters. I created it using Adobe Illustrator and tools I used were: line tool, shape builder, and curvature tool. The assignment was the retro poster. I say it took me roughly 35 hours since I used my class time to work on it as well as over spring break.
Daniel Gonzales – Beast of the Mountains
Sponsor: Mr. Culver
I made my piece in Blender 2.9 on my personal Windows Surface 4 laptop. This was made for my AP art portfolio and it took me about 36 hours to finish and get everything how I wanted it to be. I modeled the mountains out of a flat plane and used a bunch of different nodes to get the texture and look of the rock and snow. The clouds are volumetric and the monster is made from cubes and textured to look like rocks.
Marshall Piersma – Dodgers
Sponsor: Mrs. Mellott
My project is just an infographic that gives you information on why the dodgers will be a great team.
Remington Johnson – Element Superhero
Sponsor: Ms. Shuster
The project was to create a superhero from an element that you choose. I did research on the element that I chose (Yttrium) and then used procreate to create the finale product.
Amelie Beam – A Relapse of Judgement
Sponsor: Mr. Culver
I created a digital drawing using my 'Small Wacom Wired Tablet', and 'FireAlpaca' as my digital art software. The project was to draw my Teifling D&D character, Evelyn. I spent 6 hours and 37 minutes from start to finish. The character itself was a human paladin, after an accident turned into a teifling.
Yazan Farhan – Focused Cat
Sponsor: Mrs. Hunter
I was taking a video of my cat and I took a screenshot of the video with a clear frame and now its my favorite picture of him.
Aaliyah Hill – Cold Brew Design
Sponsor: Mrs. Beam
In Graphic Arts 2, we were assigned a proposal/choice project. This assignment was the golden opportunity for me to show off my passion for design. I spent approximately 7 hours in total. During this time, I searched for other similar designs, color palettes, and current design trends.
Jack Klitchman – The Fool, the Magician, and the High Priestess
Sponsor: Mr. Culver
This piece was made in Procreate for the iPad. It's a collection of three separate pieces inspired by Tarot cards ("The Fool" on the left representing innocence, "The Magician" in the center representing power, and "The High Priestess" representing mystery). The three pieces took a combined total of 21 hours to complete—eight hours on The Fool, six on The Magician, and five on The High Priestess.
Jack Klitchman – Be (Not) Afraid
Sponsor: Mr. Culver
"Be (Not) Afraid" was made in Procreate and took fourteen hours to complete. It was made as part of my senior AP Portfolio exploring schizophrenia. This specific piece illustrates religious delusions and how religion can be a huge source of upset/discomfort for schizophrenics, when many others find solace in it.