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Showcase Three follows three of Honors Contracts across my college experience as I developed my skills and direction as an artist. Each contract brought me a step closer in figuring out what I should be accomplishing with my art and shows how my skills portraying these subjects have improved.
Squirrelly Confidence
Sweater Weather
Anthropomorphic Animals was a contract from my second year as a college student. It is made up of four animals, anthropomorphized to have human-like characteristics.
Squirrelly Confidence Shows a cocky squirrel ready for the next adventure. Sweater Weather shows a squirrel curled up in a chair reading a book. Painting the Walls shows a silly sea lion making a mess and Mirabelle shows a bear ready to take action at a fancy party.
"Each contract brought me a step closer in figuring out what I should be accomplishing with my art ..."
Painting the Walls
Mirabelle
Leap
Cat Nap
Wildlife in the Wild was the next Honors Contract I completed. It is a collection of realistic vignettes and larger illustrations of wild animals.
The illustrations include tigers, wolves, and wood storks. This project helped me improve the accuracy of my wildlife art and experiment with different ways to portray species.
"This project helped me improve the accuracy of my wildlife art and experiment with different ways to portray species. "
The Prowl
Pups of the Pack
Landing
Meet Up
After Wildlife in the Wild, I did my Digital Parks Honors Contract. It is a collection of digitally drawn illustrations of parks that I consider to be underappreciated.
They include large national parks, state parks, and small community parks. In this project, I worked on improving my digital drawing skills and my ability to illustrate landscapes successfully.
Opossum Lake Community Park, Carlisle PA
Glacier National Park, MT
Kings Gap State, Carlisle PA
Swallow Falls State Park, Oakland, MD
"These specific projects have been big steps in getting to that point since they allowed me to really experiment with my interests and how I portray them in visual art. "
These projects track my growth as an artist over the course of two years and show how my skills improved and the goals of my art solidified. Starting college I knew I wanted to be doing art about the outdoors and wildlife but I really did not have any idea what that would look like. Whether that would fully in the character design/fantasy space or a more realism, scientific illustration space, I did not know.
Today, my current niche has found itself to be somewhere in-between with an emphasis on realism in wildlife, plant and landscape illustration. These specific projects have been big steps in getting to that point since they allowed me to really experiment with my interests and how I portray them in visual art. I hope that the skills I developed through these projects will help me as I complete college and being using my art skills in professional settings. These are subjects I want to be creating art about and these experiments helped me figure out how.
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