Old Artwork from high school

As some of you may know, I transfered in as a sophomore even though it's my first year of college. This was mostly because of dual enrollment credits since my high school (New World School of the Arts) was right next to a college, but I'm assuming it's also because they thought I was capable of the workload. At the time I didn't realize how awesome going to a magnet art school was. Now I can see how I was prepared and having experience in stuff like figure drawing and acrylic paint has been helpful.

So here is some old artwork I did from high school. This is mostly stuff for my portfolio that I used when applying to all the kewl art schools. enjoy :)

Mixed media



Acrylic

double self portrait in charcoal. the shy side, and outgoing side.

figure drawing in oil pastel

charcoal

Acrylic self portrait

acrylic toilet painting that won me an honorable mention in scholastics! lol

cartooon

my friend cat with her power animal the dragonfly.

I really loved traditional black and white photo class. I did a lot of sky pictures that ended up being part of my portfolio. I thought of it as more conceptual which I'll get into eventually.


lol

double exposure of crazy flock of birds


near my house

on the road

my stomach has a mind of it's own

woah fisheye

endless


junior class caricatures


piece called satisfaction. she's unsatisfied with the plain ribbon, so she takes it upon herself to fix it and is finally satisfied.



I'll post more soon. I have more conceptual stuff that would have made this post too long.

-Kristen

inspired

I'm have so much inspiration right now, but I don't know what to do with it. I feel like there's not enough time to explore what I want to because of the hassle of homework. I've absorbed what friends, teachers, and artists say and want to jump right into things. I want to make the most of this break by working. If not on assignments for school, then on personal assignments.


On a side note, maybe I should drink tea more often.

On another side note, I wish I knew how to speak more eloquently like when I write. My history of illustration paper on Jessie Willcox Smith sounded so good! Big words and thought out sentences. If I were to talk about her in person, my nerves would get the best of me; I wouldn't know what to describe or where to begin, and I would stumble, forget words and UHH about 50 times. I want to work on that, to catch all the "likes" and learn more vocabulary.

I'm excited!

i feel weirdd

It could be the new pill I'm taking, but I've been feeling sorta off (more than before). Slight mood swings, dissatisfaction with things, skin feeling numb, blah blah. Then again, it could just be that I'm a woman! and those are things we are known for. I've been going out to sushi a lot, which is hurting my bank account. It's not my fault the food at school is sucky. Mexican and Tampa rolls are my favorite. Eel sauce is tasty. Tevi came over for vday weekend and it was comforting having him here. Cuddling and getting crumbs of food on my bed were some of the highlights.

I checked my mail and got my absentee ballot!! I requested it about 4 months ago, but now I can finally vote!!!! ugh. On my way out of the mail room, I glanced at the garbage and saw a thick set of pages. I pulled it out and it was a perfectly, untrashy issue of Elle magazine. wtf?! at least recycle it-shit. ANYWAY, I'm reading the watchmen for inspiration to come up with a comic idea for the comic/graphic novel club DIP. We'll see what happens.

Here are some stuff from my yellow sketchbook:


rub on letters.



rachel

intro to ill notes



leaf plus yarmelke





i had stained the page with tea sort of. history of ill. i'm sure everyone will have a sketch like this by the end of the year lol.

hay grace ;)




and this was great...


ps. I'm seeing Dr. dog tomorrow in tampa and I drew this thinking I was seeing the one in orlando.



:)
-kristen

Figure work

I've been horrible in updating this. For the longest time I've been wanting to put my old artwork up here to show what I was doing before, but it's all formatted 4 by 6 with black borders and I need to crop them. They'll be up eventually. This new spring semester is promising! My classes are all benefiting me in one way or the other, and history of illustration reminds me of ap art history with lutness (but not as fun necessarily). I feel overly prepared for Intro to Illustration...I have to take it to graduate eventhough I've been taking Illustration 1 last semester and this semester lol. Greenberg shows us different contemporary illustrators like Marcos Chin, Sam Weber and Anita Kunz and asks who's familiar with their work. Barely any of the freshman raise their hands but I guess thats how it is at first. Familiarizing yourself comes later.

Here's some figure work to tide you people over. I think I work best with vine charcoal which is funny because everyone hated it in high school and preferred charcoal pencils. I was so ignant.




















P.S. I hate it when people look at your sketchbook, give it back with a half smile and say nothing. WHAT IS THAT?

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IT'S ALMOST BREAK!!!
ps. i love national geographic books.

batman bakery

So I did this like a month ago in French's class. Natalie and I were talking about how ugly Maggie Gyllenhaal was in the new batman movie so I drew her and some other characters (Batman and Two-Face if it wasn't obvious lol). Two- Face was also like
"WHERE'S RACHEL YOU GUYZZ?" for most of the movie so I drew that too.

Thanksgiving break was awesome. Seeing family, Tevi and turkey was what I needed to sustain me for the next week and a half till Winter break. AGHOISDGHSODK i want it nowww. I'm scrambling just like everyone else so I'm going to finish an essay and French stuff. Laterz

figure stuff

I've been really busy balancing class and for the past 3 weeks, 2 jobs (Alumni Relations and Development office assistant and Phonathon caller). With the phonathon, a group of students and I called up old alumni to update their contact info, see what was up with their life, and ask for a donation for the school. It was a great experience since I'm not afraid of answering/ talking on the phone with strangers and I got some good advice from Illustration alumss. Gotta keep truckin. I need to rent a camera from IT and take pictures of my work so far lol. So this is some stuff I posted to my figure classes blog. Here you go!

p.s i just killed a bunch of ants that were feasting over a hersheys kiss on the floor with FEBREEZE! mmmmmm


One of my first drawings in conte, learning the half lights and half darks.


Charcoal, but using mostly shapes.



Watercolor. I really enjoyed doing these.



Quick sketchy gestures which are pretty fun.


Eyes from my sketchbook. I had lots of different reference, and it was cool drawing all of them :)