Digital Artworks

Digital Painting

In my painting, I tried to depict a soft and timid feeling. The girl in the painting, closely resembling myself in some aspects, has a seemingly somber expression. I don’t think I really had much going through my head at the time making this, and I really just let out every idea I had that came to mind. I tried to make a painting that seemed comfortable, yet you could tell there was something inside that made the feeling almost uncertain. A hint of fear and mystery mixed in. in my opinion, makes the artwork flow and not seem too boring. I tried to make it seem almost like a watercolor painting, but smoothed out a bit more. I used different brushes to create contrast in texture and brush strokes. When lowering the opacity of certain brush marks I created, it made the color appear different than before f\because it mixes in with the other colors beneath it.

In my opinion, drawing traditionally is much easier than drawing digitally. There’s just something about the way my pencil gently scratches against the paper that is satisfying to me. Though, this project was very fun. I think that it is a nice challenge and step from my comfort zone, which I enjoyed. I think the hardest part was drawing the sketch and making the proportions look anywhere close to accurate. I think I did well with the coloring and tones I used to make it feel warm and soft.

Photo Montage

In my project. I went with the ‘self’ option I was given as a prompt. I was heavily influenced by my Native American heritage. I use flowers and vines to show my love for nature. I used a sad, almost worried looking girl for my base. I used this because I have many inside feelings of self doubt and hatred. I included musical themes in my artwork because of my love for it. Even though I love it, it can be very difficult to learn. I added music pages on fire to represent the burning anger and distress I feel when I’m working on music and struggling. I definitely was a little overwhelmed by all the choices and options I had to pick from. I like traditional art better because it is much more simple. I think my best part of this project was making the thumb move, because it was very hard and I had to use my own drawing to make it look as though the hand had the rest of the palm behind it.

I think I did an okay job, I was just a bit nervous and intimidated by the program and the usage of computers in general. I think I could’ve done better had it been traditional art. I think next time if I wanted to do better, I would study the tools more and do better in trying to make precise edits and make things more realistic looking.

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