Saturday, May 23, 2009
My Drawing Tribute to My French Teacher: Mr Wilson
French is my 3rd language which I enjoyed learning in US. Mr Wilson is one of my favorite teachers and he hoped that I can do a drawing for him so that when he has his own classroom, he can hang it up as a decoration and memoring me at the same time. With my respect to him, I made this drawing for him. I hope he will like it!
Wednesday, May 20, 2009
T- shirt designs for Senior Boat Party
This design was inspired by Asher Roth's hit single: I Love College.
This design was inspired by The Lonely Island featuring T-Pian's 2008-2009 hit: I'm On A Boat.
Sunday, May 10, 2009
My Design: A Study for A College Professor
Frank
This is my interior design of a study for a college professor(just some basic ideas). This design includes its floor plan, furnitures( all the big furnitures in this paper are originally designed by myself) and explanations.
This piece of work took me more than 9 hours, from designing to sketching(both in pencils and markers)
This is my interior design of a study for a college professor(just some basic ideas). This design includes its floor plan, furnitures( all the big furnitures in this paper are originally designed by myself) and explanations.
This piece of work took me more than 9 hours, from designing to sketching(both in pencils and markers)
Cogressional Art Competition
Frank
My drawing: A Friend, went in Congressional Art Competition and I went to see the exhibition several days ago. I used to think this drawing is not good enough to enter this kind of big competition and I should suggest my art teacher to submit some of my art works which at least took me ten hours. To my amazement, this simple drawing went in! It was just an amazing experience to me, a exchange student from China. I saw my drawing when I went to the exhibition room and you can't believe how excited I was! A flash of light was deliberately designed for my framed work! It looked so much better with the ray.
Everything just went well and I saw some really awesome art works that day. Surprisingly, I met Congressman Jim Moran and took a picture with him.
Special thanks to my art teacher for submitting this drawing!
My drawing: A Friend, went in Congressional Art Competition and I went to see the exhibition several days ago. I used to think this drawing is not good enough to enter this kind of big competition and I should suggest my art teacher to submit some of my art works which at least took me ten hours. To my amazement, this simple drawing went in! It was just an amazing experience to me, a exchange student from China. I saw my drawing when I went to the exhibition room and you can't believe how excited I was! A flash of light was deliberately designed for my framed work! It looked so much better with the ray.
Everything just went well and I saw some really awesome art works that day. Surprisingly, I met Congressman Jim Moran and took a picture with him.
Special thanks to my art teacher for submitting this drawing!
Commission: Lisa&Bre
Frank
This is a drawing tribute to my best friends in Calorado: Lisa and Bre. Actually they came up the idea and I'm glad to do a drawing for them.
This drawing took me a while to figure out how to express figures since they provided so many well done photos and I couldn't decide which photo should be used.Finally I came up with this composition in which Lisa looks down and Bre's eyes look at the audience. I used to consider making the whole drawing darker and erasing out the highlights. But after doing some experiments on the figures, I eventually decided to keep my style.
Commission: Kids
Frank
This is the first commission in my life. My math teacher asked me to do a drawing for her kid and a couple of friends of her kid. This drawing took me 13 hours and I got payed, this is the first time I got payed for my skill of drawing.
This is the first commission in my life. My math teacher asked me to do a drawing for her kid and a couple of friends of her kid. This drawing took me 13 hours and I got payed, this is the first time I got payed for my skill of drawing.
Tuesday, April 28, 2009
Allegorical Images
Frank
The topic this time is about symbolic and allegorical images related to religion. Honestly speaking, this topic did give me a hard time since my knowledge about religion is so limited. I finally came up several images that take place constantly in art works.
No doubt, Christian cross is very common in art works. Through out art history, from our ancient ancestors to Renaissance in 14 century, from flamboyant Baroque style to a variety of modern art styles. The trace of cross is passing through from generation to generation as the faith is heriting. I'm sure that the image of Christian cross will keep passing on is art works. There is a wisdom in those old school painting when the figure of Jesus and cross are always shown together in the painting as the way it should be.
Thinking about next symbol, I was inspired by the painting hanging on the wall. Basically the painting is about the story of Noah's Ark, specifically, the landing moment of Noah's Ark. The focus of the painting is Noah's family which is gathering around in front of their colossus ark from which pairs of animals embarked on the earth. It is kind of incredible that the artist actually paint the figure of Jesus on top of a mountain watching what is happening in the world. The sad thing is I did not find this painting on line.
I found two more paintings related to this story on line. Although both of them are depicting the end of the story, the background setting are just totally different. The one on the top shows the darkness when storm and misery are about to come to its end. In contrast, the one at the bottom is the brightness and clearness shown from the painting. Isn't that amazing?
Another image that you may see in paintings in 14-16 century is a beam of light penetrating the clouds, mist or whatever it is, something really block the way between human and God.
In Giovanni Bellini's Saint Francis, which is the one right below this paragraph, is the picture of Saint Francis welcoming the coming of sun, some call it "a rendezvous with the sun" from the gesture of Saint Francis, it has been a long time since he saw sunlight. But that great amount of amazement can be only felt by Saint Francis because from the color in this painting, the sunlignt already fill this world with color and jubilance. Yellow is basically touching every corner of the world, warming the city far away like a blanket, swirling into the leaves, flashing on the face of rocks.
I'm not really sure whether I should include angels as an allegorical image because angels are not objects which is not belong to the genre I'm talking about. But in another perspective, angels' figures are far beyond their own meaning. Angel is becoming an image that can represent religious direction and meaning of a painting, although I do not try to deny that the presence of angels in some art works is more like a joyful character which has already lost its original meaning. Some artists even pick angel as the theme of a paiting.
The topic this time is about symbolic and allegorical images related to religion. Honestly speaking, this topic did give me a hard time since my knowledge about religion is so limited. I finally came up several images that take place constantly in art works.
No doubt, Christian cross is very common in art works. Through out art history, from our ancient ancestors to Renaissance in 14 century, from flamboyant Baroque style to a variety of modern art styles. The trace of cross is passing through from generation to generation as the faith is heriting. I'm sure that the image of Christian cross will keep passing on is art works. There is a wisdom in those old school painting when the figure of Jesus and cross are always shown together in the painting as the way it should be.
Thinking about next symbol, I was inspired by the painting hanging on the wall. Basically the painting is about the story of Noah's Ark, specifically, the landing moment of Noah's Ark. The focus of the painting is Noah's family which is gathering around in front of their colossus ark from which pairs of animals embarked on the earth. It is kind of incredible that the artist actually paint the figure of Jesus on top of a mountain watching what is happening in the world. The sad thing is I did not find this painting on line.
I found two more paintings related to this story on line. Although both of them are depicting the end of the story, the background setting are just totally different. The one on the top shows the darkness when storm and misery are about to come to its end. In contrast, the one at the bottom is the brightness and clearness shown from the painting. Isn't that amazing?
Another image that you may see in paintings in 14-16 century is a beam of light penetrating the clouds, mist or whatever it is, something really block the way between human and God.
In Giovanni Bellini's Saint Francis, which is the one right below this paragraph, is the picture of Saint Francis welcoming the coming of sun, some call it "a rendezvous with the sun" from the gesture of Saint Francis, it has been a long time since he saw sunlight. But that great amount of amazement can be only felt by Saint Francis because from the color in this painting, the sunlignt already fill this world with color and jubilance. Yellow is basically touching every corner of the world, warming the city far away like a blanket, swirling into the leaves, flashing on the face of rocks.
I'm not really sure whether I should include angels as an allegorical image because angels are not objects which is not belong to the genre I'm talking about. But in another perspective, angels' figures are far beyond their own meaning. Angel is becoming an image that can represent religious direction and meaning of a painting, although I do not try to deny that the presence of angels in some art works is more like a joyful character which has already lost its original meaning. Some artists even pick angel as the theme of a paiting.
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