Crayon Crazy

So here's another excellent example of beautiful art I found on the Internet. This gorgeous eye was drawn with crayon, which I find to be an interesting medium for creating work as detailed as this. I've done something similar before, drawing realistic portraits with crayon. I think it's fun to create fine art with unconventional mediums!

Disco Alarm Clock!

     This piece was very fun to make. I made it for a prompt from this site. It allows you to spin a series of three wheels which together give you a random theme, adjective, and subject. I got the theme of Invention, the adjective disco and the subject alarm clock, and sort of made this model of what I would consider a disco alarm clock. I mean, wouldn't it be fun to wake up to a disco party?
     So, I started off by thinking out my color scheme and style. I wanted to keep the style of the clock minimalistic so that focus would be led more to the disco lights in the center. I used the shape tool to construct the parts of the alarm clock and the lights, and the type tool to make the numbers.I wanted to convey what I saw in my head, which was the lights shining and rotating around the center, so I used the flare tool to give each light a bit of a glare. I made the background black to emphasize the white of the clock, the contrast of the colors, and make the light paths visible.

Optical Abstract

I like how this piece uses various colors and shapes to overlap and create a pattern. Like with many optical art style pieces, there are several images you could see in this. I see a letter 'X', a square in the middle, and various large triangles.

The Heart of the Christmas Spirit

Pattern!

      

    This was a 'slam' assignment or, in other words, something that is done quickly and to the best of your ability. This design was done using the word 'pattern' as inspiration in Adobe Illustrator. I knew that there were patterns already pre-programmed for use, so my main consideration was where to put them, and how to make them interesting and appealing.

     I began to use the shape tool to draw one large rectangle, and then smaller ones inside of it, filling each with a different pattern and trying to keep a somewhat harmonious/cohesive color scheme. Then, to contrast the pure bright patterns I created various shapes in black and white and arranged them on the patterns. Then, to add some final interest, I used the flare tool to add the white spots in the middle and the darker ones behind the patterns.

 

 

 

In honor of the Doctor Who 50th Anniversary, here is a painting of an exploding tardis!

     This is one of the designs I made of academy t-shirts for my school. This one features the engineering academy. I made this working in Adobe Illustrator. To fit with this subject, I used the pen tool to make gears and then used graphic effects to create the metal texture. For the background I used a certain graphic effects brush and for the words I just used the type tool and added effects.