2D Studio Art 2

Work in progress!

In this project I did a close up of a leaf with the veins and a little caterpillar on top of the leaf eating it.  All the color is in watercolor besides the background which is a colored mat board.  The actual leaf is different shades of green and red and a bit of colors that lie between those two colors.  The veins of the leaf are a very light shad of green which is hard to see from the picture.  It is raised about a half an inch from the base mat board.  The caterpillar is based off of the caterpillar from the children's book,  The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carl and a cute picture of one that I found on the internet.  That caterpillar from the book has a green body with a red head and purple antenna and was one of my favorite books when I was very little.   One element of art that I used was space.  I used this in the difference between the foreground of the leaf and the background dark green mat board.  The el...

For this project I tried to focus on using different mediums as a comparison and also working on perspective and drawing shells.  I have never drawn a shell before for some reason so I figured this was a good time to do it.  I figured I would struggle the most with the shell from the side angle, and I did.  I ended up doing it though, and I don't love it, but I did enjoy doing it.  I did it in colored pencil, which is probably one of my least favorite mediums to work with.  I like how the inside edge turned out a lot on that one.  I haven't done a project in just colored pencils since draw 1 I don't think so.  It was good to practice it again, but I still don't like it much.  I did a sketch shell from a top angle in graphite and I like it, but it doesn't match the color scheme of the rest of the shells that I tried to keep consistent.  The two in marker, one with Sharpie and the other with the better drawing markers, I don't like a whole...

     I painted a picture of a jellyfish in watercolors.  It is blue and purple with lighter blue in the background.  The background is a box that the jellyfish sticks out of, creating depth.  The box that the jellyfish is above has light blue in it that is more concentrated at the bottom edges and gets more watered down as it goes to the center and top.  The most details are in the head thingie (cap? head? thingie?) of the jelly fish, drawing the viewers eye to that first.  I tried to make the tentacles help with that by adding less detail and not as much concentrated color as in the head, and by making them, for the most part, point back to the head.  The jellyfish also appears to be closer to the viewer in parts because the tentacles get bigger and the shading isn't as dark.  The darkest tentacles look further back because of their dark color and that they get much smaller in the places where they are supposed to be farther a...