"Take a look into my Strange Dream."
My drawing portfolio is the host for my Strange Dream series, a collection of artworks centered around the theme of bizarre & melancholy moments shaped by my imagination.
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“Strange Dream”— 24×18 inch charcoal
This entire piece was done in charcoal and rendered with a kneaded eraser & blending stub. Various references were used to craft the gestures of the bodies and fish, but the rest was done from imagination. I wanted to draw what a strange dream felt like, and my goal was to make a bizarre environment seamlessly interact. This artwork was essentially my illustration of brainfogg and ideas slipping away like a fish.
This piece was created as a negative-space study from life (my backyard) in my drawing sketchpad. By focusing on negative space, I visualized a simplistic scene with soft values and a melancholy tone. I practiced using subtly textrue through opossing strokes and erased marks to create depth and a visually pleasing rhythm to the viewers' eye.
“Garden Party”— 18×24 inch Chalk Pastel
“Tiger Fairy Pond”— 24×18 inch Oil Pastel & Charcoal piece
Playing with the concept of layering in a physical artwork, I came up with the scene from my imagination. The idea was to render a playful moment of fairies playing with fish, but have a tiger hunting them in the background. Acting as a metaphor for human predators, the color scheme was kept to grayscale to challenge me to express color without directly using it. The fairies, leaves, and flowers in the corner were all cut out and pasted on top. The tree and pond was glued on top of the black paper to create a layer effect.
“Selective Nature”— 24×18 inch cardboard & oil Pastel
This piece was built from cardboard and heavyweight drawing paper. It was made to repsresnt a scene of a piegon coming back home but not being let inside. The lily on the left corner represents outside objects (flowers) being let inside to contrast with the pigeon. I used different parts of my backyard for reference of the background and I build the window section out of cardboard to make it 3 dimensional. the piegon is meant to look like it is in the motion of landing mimicing the visual logic of comicbooks.