My theme is about social pressures and their effect on the youth. This is a boy student sitting on a classroom looking out a window imagining a starry sky with rocket ship and other creative imaginative things. I still have lots of shading to do. On top will be an alphabet and on the left will be a shattered clock. It is supposed to show how schools and things of that nature are limiting kids imagination and creativity and telling them to grow up more quickly. What other things should I put in the window? Also, any other interesting techniques or materials would improve this?  Thanks!

project 8

For this project I am doing a modern looking town house in a neighborhood to mix things up. I had an original house drawn out but changed it up after I began adding in trees. I will be cleaning everything up in the bottom left corner too. I'm adding in dark greys and pops of orange and greens but I was wondering what color the door should be. I can't decide if I should make it brown wood or a bright green.

Project 8

Once again, my theme is the observation of how emotion and consciousness relate to human identity. 

The first photo is my project, and the second is a reference photo I took last summer while visiting my grandparents' super rural Greek village. 

Basically, the idea behind this project is to relate self and identity to material possessions. To give you some insight to the subject of consciousness/to this project, here are some quotes I've incorporated into my piece by a super rad neuroscientist named Antonio Damasio: 

"You still only have one self and one identity. However, self, identity, and personality are not things, they are not objects, and they are certainly not rigid. Instead, they are biological processes built within the brain from numerous interactive components, step by step, over a period of time."

And #2 

"The wonder is about the fact that we all woke up this morning and we had with it the amazing return of our conscious mind. We recovered minds w/ a complete sense of our own existence, yet we hardly ever pause to consider this wonder. We should, in fact, because without having this possibility of conscious minds, we would have no knowledge about our humanity. We would have no knowledge about the world. We would have no pains, but also no joys. We would have no access to love or the ability to create."

Sorry, those are really long. But, they relate to the ideas I'm trying to convey through the next couple pieces. 

Questions:

I plan on incorporating people sort of lurking about, but should I draw them gesture-y or realistically?

More quotes up front? Yes or no? 

Thanks ya'll! 

Are we seriously on project eight already?

Hey there, my sweet egg children. Here we are with INSTALLMENT EIGHT! This picture is a take on The Night Watch by Rembrandt, specifically, a zoom in on the front three men, but as CHICKS in like, I dunno, some hip modern girl gang. It's my theme, the one and only, ERAS OF WOMEN IN TRADITIONALLY MALE COMPOSITIONS.

The infamous chicken from the painting has been featured as well.

I love that chicken.

ANYWAY. My questions are: What the dink should I do with the background? I want to give it a settling similar to the original painting, but I'm unsure of how to do so. Annnd should I darken the middle girl's skin? It's a bit more pigmented in person, but it's no where near as pigmented as Blue Haired Babe's skin is.

Gstoute theme project 8

Hey so the basic idea behind this piece is a commentary on manual labor and how advancements in technology have begun to diminish its place in common society and eventually make it obsolete. At this point I have the background almost done. I was trying to go for that "busy" industrial look with a lot of grays and darks with hints of warm colors in certain areas. I think the gray may have overpowered it for the most part though. Any ideas on how to make the background more natural looking with acryllic paint? Should I be adding more detail to the background?

oh yeah i need a title this is project 8 i think

to be honest I'm probably like 50 percent done but I had to work today so. basically this connects back to my first project. Domestic abuse relating to sirens and such. the first one had her with bruises and she was drowning and this one focuses more on the freedom after escaping the abuser idkk

1. How do i make the water look more like water?

2. should I make the water do the bubbly thing?

I should add that the think of her is going to be cut out and put on the circle 

Theme 8

Heyo, time to do this again. Theme 8 (in my case 7), the last project where new characters are being introduced, showcases two military operatives that are barely ever apart. The girl is Elara Valentine, and the guy is Mercer Rawson. She's a timid and shy warrant officer who acts as Mercer's personal subordinate in times of peace, and he's a confident and proud second lieutenant and womanizer. Elara has a complex where she feels the need to impress or otherwise make Mercer notice her above the other girls he meets with, because she digs him. Also she has no self-esteem and needs consoling words and approval from others in order to not feel like crap. But mostly the liking him thing.

I tried something different with the background, having a good amount acrylic and the rest watered-down tissue paper and watercolor to get the texture stuffs. I will add the quote, which is Mercer saying "You know, it'd do you good to start making your own cocoa. 'Cuz someday I won't be around and you'll be off doing amazing things!" So Mercer does give Elara consoling words and advice, and believes in her wholeheartedly, but she almost never takes it to heart because he's never noticed the fact that she likes him.  

Anyway. First off, I wanted to put steam coming out of the coffee/cocoa mug in Elara's hand. Should I use watered-down acrylic or charcoal? And secondly, which places need more values?

Also what color should the quote be; because it might alternate between black and white depending on what the background behind it is and that might jar some people.

Sienna Theme Project 8

So my theme is urban landscape through expressive line and graffiti. I'm also incorporating the LGBTQ movement into my pieces which is why I chose the word peace.

1. To fill in the skyline should I do a light wash so it won't take away from the sky?

2. Do you think I should make the letters thicker? 

Theme 8

Haley here! So to reiterate, my theme is "an exploration of architecture and organic forms using an impressionistic style".

For this project and the next, I'm doing Romeo and Juliet balcony scene esque paintings in watercolor with charcoal. I plan for the line and form of the windows to relate to the architecture while the flowers and people being the organic forms.

So as you can see, I'm not finished. I plan to add vines and flowers crawling up the windows, add a figure of a girl in the top left window, and dark values overall. I was thinking of adding another figure someone else in the painting. Thoughts?

Also, how does one do bricks in watercolor?

Mira Theme Project 8

Here is my project. Sorry for the poor image quality, I obviously haven't finished yet. For this project, I am creating three cakes inspired by the artist Wayne Thiebaud (as shown in the middle picture). Once I finish decorating the cakes, I will arrange them in a composition/still life that is similar to Thiebaud's, and then photograph it. What should the third cake look like? What style, color, size? I was thinking about creating a cake with a piece missing, as if someone had cut a slice out. Thoughts?

Project 8

Here is my project.  I photographed this dog when I was in the line to go into the Empire State Building.  I didn't originally think I would submit this one for a project; I just liked the dog.  When I edited it, I realized that I really liked the texture of the ground and on the dog's fur.  I thought it also stood out more in a dim color scheme.  Do you think it needs more color, or does it look ok in the sort of black and white tone?  Does the dog stand out enough?