DTIYS

Well I learned a couple things during this lesson, 1. I also lean towards realism which can be frustrating when your trying to stylize something, and 2. I DO NOT like to draw food, fruit and veggie stills, yes, prepared food, no. lol! This is a good thing though! Part of learning something, especially when trying to pinpoint your specific style, is learning what you don't like too.

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My Style Guide P.1 - 9 Faves

Here are my 9 favorite pieces I've done. I chose to only pick my analog work (some from a few years ago) as digital creation is so very new to me, I haven't created anything yet that makes me truly happy that I've made it. I had trouble choosing words, but I think I chose correctly. As you can see I kind of style-hop because I love to play with mediums and textures.

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Form

Once I got out of my head, I had a lot of fun with this. It was difficult thinking about what more I could do to them. Not that I thought they were awesome, but I definitely thought they were finished. This whole exercise has really got me out of my comfort zone and trying new things, thank you Brooke!

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Texture & Style

I did experiment with color and line a little but even leaning into the artists I'm drawn to, I found it difficult to change any of my three sundaes to even remotely borrow bits of their style. I don't think it helps that who I'm drawn to are largely abstract and use bold color blocks over painterly strokes. I had fun with the texture on my geometric sundae though!

BEFORE

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AFTER

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Shape & Style

These were fun to do! I admittedly had trouble finding somewhere in between organic and geometric so instead did one in the style of Robert Delaunay

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Masters Study - Robert Delaunay - Portugeuse Woman

This isn't my first masters study, but it was one of the most challenging!! Delaunay's circles really tripped me up on several occassions!! I did and redid several of them over and over. It was really fun to get in his head and try to find his process. I discovered color blocking was key to recreating this. Some of the proportions and positionings are still a little off but I'm overall happy with the final result. Did this in Procreate and did find it a little difficult to mimick the paint brush strokes but was also good to learn how to recreate some of the textures digitally. I didn't use the the shape auto tool in Procreate to create ANY of the artwork in this.

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Mood Board

This was once of the most intense, yet eye opening, art lessons I think I've ever done!! I learned a LOT about myself doing this and what kind of art gets me all fired up. This took me a LOT longer than I anticipated! I've always looked at art and liked, loved, not loved all sorts of works and artists, but never have I thought about which ones I was drawn to let alone WHY I was drawn to them. This took me about a week to research and put together (working boring job 9-5). Finding the artists was the hardest part to be honest, I do have two or three I knowingly gravitate toward and have since my teens but I wanted to branch out and find new artists (not including Vaserley of course, he's one of my top 3) I had not yet discovered yet. I stopped at four because it was really taking me too long to find a fifth and I wanted to continue with the course. I know the board looks more "high school project" than a mood board but I learned so much about myself and the art I'm drawn to doing this, the words just kept coming!

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Mel Messina

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