Junior "Thesis" @SVA! Marie Antoinette

I finally got around to scanning my Junior "thesis"/Junior project from back in April!

Our theme was "Kings and Queens" and these were our guidelines:

"The most important rule this year is that your character (or characters) MUST BE REAL!  They must have drawn breath!  Therefore legendary, mythic or imaginary characters are not to be used.  However, they do not have to be actual monarchs.  If you wish, you can design projects around those who are the kings and queens of their field: Edison as the king of inventors, Elvis as the king of Rock and Roll, Sarah Bernhardt as the queen of the stage, etc."

We had the entire academic year to complete eight finished works.  I went with a really obscure queen, Marie Antoinette...you may have heard about her before, probably not though...

Medium: Dip pen and ink.

 

Draw Machine: Segundo Capítulo

A few classmates/friends of mine started a drawing group over the past summer with weekly drawing challenges..with the goal of not getting rusty over 'vacation'. First week's challenge was to illustrate a song or other miscellaneous musical composition.
I decided to go with: 

Song: For Today I Am A Boy by Antony & the Johnsons

I'll be updating this blog regularly from here on out with my Draw Machine submissions as well as other miscellaneous work!  

Draw Machine

Steve DeFrank + some more personal work

I took Steve DeFrank's drawing class Spring 2012 and I'll be taking it again this coming semester.  Something tells me I'll be doing more of this type of work...cathartic for sure.

Junior Year/Fashion Illustration

I had the privilege of taking Marcos Chin's Fashion Illustration class...again one of the highlights of my time at SVA so far. Amazing instructor and teacher and a mindblowing artist to boot.  Here's some of the work I did in his class.

Draw Machine

A few classmates/friends of mine started a drawing group over the past summer with weekly drawing challenges..with the goal of not getting rusty over vacation.  Clearly, I did not participate every week. It was really fun regardless, and the other artists did amazing work so do check their work out!

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Zine!

Sam Weber's last assignment was to create a zine...This is what I came up with.

 
 
 

 

In Sam Weber's class, one of the assignments we had to do entailed creating a garden for a deceased individual.  We had to think about what sort of plants, animals, and structures that would be found within.  I decided to go with my grandmother from Brazil and ended being overwhelmed by all of these beautiful memories I have from childhood, of when things weren't complicated, of family, food, and happiness.  So, I made two more pieces to go along with them..and created a mini-series of sorts; simple depictions of my childhood and my sweetest, fondest memories.
           

I never did work like this...overly obsessive, inundated in patterns, and dots. LOTS of DOTS...but Sam Weber noticed during an in-class assignment, that I seemed to enjoy it and encouraged me to embrace it. Thank you Sam!