The following students were in the Spring 2017 Drawing class:
Lorraine Anderberg, Angel Au, Nathan Au, Brooke Bannon, Nick Brouwer, Xitlaly Cruz, Olivia Edwards, Yostina Eshaq, Gerardo Feria Ortiz, Nicholas Garrett, Sarah Geis, Celli Herman, Matthew Jaehn, Vanessa Leon, Abisai Lopez, Ericka Lopez, Jennifer Lopez, Tristan Mccoy, Monica Nares, Arianna Pimentel, Daniel Rosales, Michael Sayson, Deven Sestina, Linda Silvasy, Chance Stahura
Still life drawings drawn live in the studio.
I am hoping to evoke an emotion of sadness and hope in my photomontage. I found an image of a homeless guy holding a dog tightly to him, and it inspired a feeling of hidden divinity in the least likely places. I chose a bleak alleyway as the backdrop for the peice with a misty portal in the background as if leading to heaven or valhalla or wherever. i made the misty quality from a collection of cloud and cigarette smoke images with a starry sky for the irregular dots. i added graffiti to the walls of the alleywy and adjusted the lighting to make it pop. I added wings and a halo to the homeless man showing the hidden divinity in even the least likely places and made them ethereal and transparent with a glowing nimbus that tied in with the lighting effects on the wall nearby. I also adjusted the homeless man’s color to apply the lighting to him as well.
This showcase from Palomar College features student projects from ARTD 150 and ARTD 100. Some of the students in ARTD 150 created interactive PDF portfolios using Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop and InDesign.
Instructor: Jeff Kahn
I knew I wanted to have some typographical element in the piece so I used it as a connecting thread to what I was trying to convey in my project. I want it to have something to do with unity/disunity in a fallen society that is of another world or realm, etc. I want to take photos of my friends and meld them along with other elements, together to create a form of what a society would look like if it were one person.
This project was inspired, by a dream I had. I didn’t have a particular artist in mind when I made this. I just felt that I wanted recreate that paticular dream. It was not exactly like this, but it was very similar. I’ve been inspired to make a comic with the same theme, but it never really worked out. So, I felt that this photomontage would be the perfect opportunity to recreate this dream. The dream was about my adventure going through an abandoned amusement park alone. And, all the attractions had their own theme and monsters or ghost that would try to keep me from leaving the park. It had a very eerie presence to it so I tried to add fog, lightning, glowing eyes, and creepy characters to capture that.
I’ve always had an interest in art since I was young. I would start doodling on notebook paper until a friend told me to get a real drawing sketchbook. As I would draw more in each page, I noticed every drawing was better than the last page and I would be so proud of myself. When I was in high school I had one of my most influential teachers, Mr. Greenway. Greenway is the teacher who introduced me to the Photoshop. All I wanted to do is learn to draw digitally using a tablet and a drawing program because I wanted to create great works of art like the many art bloggers I’ve seen on the internet. Greenway would encourage me to draw, only after I’ve finished class work, but I would stay in the computer lab for as long as I can to draw whatever I can. Before I knew it, it had developed my Photoshop skills that other students in the class would come to me if they wanted help using a certain Photoshop function. Back during high school, I didn’t have a computer with and Adobe programs or a drawing tablet. The only time I could practice my digital was at school and Mr. Greenway would let me draw after school for as long as he could. Greenway would always tell me that digital drawing is good but that I could do much more. He suggested that I should be using programs like Illustrator and After Effects like the classes I’m taking right now. Mr. Greenway will always be a great inspiration to me. As for the art style, I’ve always been inspired by the gothic Victorian era because of it’s association with fantasy in the film industry. I draw inspiration from complex, yet elegant, designs.
The title of my montage is The Creator. I wanted to portray that there was someone creating existence. I planned to express my idea by having an individual in a cave or landscape and as he walks/stands, the universe and life begin to form. I also wanted to show that the individual is the center of creation and so, in the picture, animals and planets are being formed by the fragments of his cape.
I was inspired by an artist named Ron Gonzales. He has numerous of surreal paintings and my favorites one were those that involved the creation of nature such Here Comes The Flood, Aquatic Mountaining, Chalkboard Universe, and Phenomenon of Floating.
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