Alphabet Cards

Each of my cards will be composed of a comic book hero or villian. My medium of choice will be primarily pastels with a hint of charcoal for the villians. Here's the list:

A- Aliens
B- Batman
C- Captain America
D- Dracula or Dr. Doom (Dr. Victor Von Doom)
E- Emma Frost
F- Flash
G- Ghost Rider
H- Hellboy
I- Iron Man
J- Joker
K- Kickass
L- Lex Luther
M- Megatron
N- Neo
O- Optimus Prime
P- Predator or Punisher
Q- Question (The Question)
R- Ripply (Ellen Ripply)
S- Superman
T- Thor
U- Uncle Sam or Ursula
V- V for Vendetta
W- Wolverine
X- Xena
Y- Yosemite Sam
Z- Zombies or Zoro

(Picture is in horrible lighting. Most of those reading this post have witnessed these cards in person; Don't judge too harshly.)

Criticism please.

this is my first post! yay! So as you all know by now, we are doing the A B C project. I for one and randome and have no desire to stick to one certain theme. But I do have ideas for what i will be turning the cards into...PROJECTS.

The first card is eye E! It is a drawing from an image. I find it very satisfying, if it anyway it is deformed in your oppinion, I would like to know! THANKS. As for the idea behind the eye...I am sort of creating a face inspired by the art work of picaso, except i am not using color. The face will be my first project containing;

E for eye

L for lips

S for shoulder

C for chin

N for nose

F for forehead

The second card is pear P! It is a drawing from observation. I do not like it too much, it's a bit plain for my taste. As for the idea behind the pear...I am going to take the rest of my letters but 3 of them and create a bunch of objects that are colorful, because I need to stop constantly working in black and white! I can not wait to finish this project and i hope it turns out the way I have imagined it.

I'd appreciate all hard core or simple oppinions on these pieces. Thankyou

侍 - The Samurai

The idea for my A,B,C project has a Japanese/ Chinese theme behind it, the arrangement of the cards actually forms a character. The character means samurai, every card also has a Japanese/ Chinese them as well. In the small pictures you can see a cherry blossom tree flowing into another card with just the cheery blossom pedals. And from there starts the bamboo forest where the panda bear is located. All the cards will be tied in with each other by the cards surrounding them.

Alphabet Cards Project

Howdy neighbors in the art community! For my 26 cards, I've divided the twenty six into three more or less even groups. The first group will consist of instruments that start with the letters C, F, I, L,O, R,U, and X, eg. xylophone, which will all be painted. the next group will be people that start with the letters B, E, H, K, N, Q, T, W, and Z as in Banker or zoologist, which will all be pencil drawings. Finally, the third group, which I believe I'll have the most fun with and which is displayed above, is fictional or relatively obscure animals using the remaining letters of the alphabet. These will all be pen with colored pencil, as seen above in the Jabberwocky and Gargoyle. My goal with the instrument and mythical animal group will be to have all of the pictures fit together in some artistic way. Above is a more subtle example of this as the negative space of the Jabberwocky's jaw seamlessly becomes the back of the Gargoyle. The black base of the Gargoyle becomes the backdrop of the phoenix and the Jabberwocky's hair becomes grass at the feet of a Vu Quang Ox. The consistency in border and backdrop color are to make them more distinguished as a set.

I've tried to give it a folk-artsy feel, like how the Jabberwocky's eyes are made of fire like it's poem describes and how flat they are and anticlimactic the lightening is as it would be in a tapestry in some old castle. I had to keep my head in the zone of 'artist' instead of 'folk artist' because there were several technical aspects I had to mess with. The Jabberwocky needed texture in his tongue or it would be too flat, same as the Gargoyle's stone surface. Additionally, my rough draft of the Gargoyle had been on notebook paper, so the grey coloring was tinted with blue. When I colored the real thing, the gray was duller and just plain grayer, so I had to add some subtle hints of blue every there and here to get the exact color I was wanting. Ultimately, the mythical animal set will be the less extravagant of the three as it will be flat and depth-less in order to get the feel across that I intend to project, so any suggestions on how to bring in that little extra something without loosing the old-in-days-tapestry feel would be much appreciated. Thanks for reading and please comment!

Easy as ABC? I think not...

Ello, and welcome to the newest experiment of mine. I assure you that is nothing like any of my pieces seen before...

I'm focusing on extreme contrast, which I hope to have mastered by the time I finish this project. For so long I have been strangled by the fear of color! This year I am breaking free. The one to the left is probably not the finished product.

When I get the courage, I will make it darker.

*sigh, baby steps.

At first I did not like this assignment, the reason being that I wasn't sure if I was going to be able to make a masterpiece of my own. I wanted to do something original! Something that forced viewers to think like never before. SOOOO....

my theme (lack of a better term) is: Qualities of Human Nature.

For starters let me say that as a human race we are evil. The more I think about it the more I think it's true... but not the point, I did manage to work in a few positive aspects of our intriguing presence on earth.

It was hard.

The one with a reddish glow represents mischief. I question if this quality makes me scorn... or even smile. If a smile is present, it is a guilty one.

The one with the ice cold, blue tint was my imagination's product of the word curiosity. This one is my favorite of the two, because I don't think I want to add any more to it. The other lacks something that I have yet to realise. Please share your ideas of why that is, I will carefully consider all suggestions and appreciate advice no matter what.

Much Love

Gretta

I CAME UP WITH A DIFFERENT IDEA AND THESE 2 WILL NOT BE INCLUDED IN MY PROJECT!

When Mrs. Glenn told us our assignment would involve the alphabet I started to think up stuff that started with an A. The first thing that came to my mind was a japanese band I listen to so I decided that my theme would be asian stuff. Some of my things are people or logos from asian bands I listen to (I like korean and japanese music) and others are just random things. I'm doing all my cards in colored pencils and I was planning on making it look like a checkard board with warm and cool colors but I have two left over so I'll have to put them at the corners or something, or maybe draw more than 26 to even it out.

The two pictures I put up are my G and T. The G is for geisha and the T is for Tea and I drew a tea cup. I also wrote the word in japanese, korean, and chinese. But in the tea cup one I only wrote it in japanese and korean.

Hello fellow art nerds! Have I ever mentioned how much I absolutely abhor drawing in tiny spaces? Well, I hate it. However, for this particular piece, Mrs. Glenn is having us draw 26 individual pieces of art on 2 and 1/2" by 3 and 1/2" paper. One card for each letter of the alphabet. Though it is not my favorite project thus far, and probably will never be, I have to admit it has been a challenge and I've really enjoyed myself. For my artwork I decided to portray the 26 pieces as a whole. Here you see only 2 of the 26, my bindlestiff (hobo) and my lamp. Once the final product has been reached, you will see the pieces joined together creating the rooms of a motel. In my motel are both usual and unusual objects, some you might actually find in a motel,and some you may not. However, the final product is no where near ready. But, please enjoy the two previews and any comments and criticisms are welcome. Thanks!

Alphabet Cards

Art 4/GT and AP art students are currently working on a project where they will have 26 Artist Trading Cards measuring 2.5 x 3.5 inches. Students are to use the alphabet as their inspiration, will choose their media and how they will mount their final piece which may be mount as several different pieces. 8 cards should be created from observation, 8 cards from photographic reference and 8 cards from imagination. The other 2 cards are student choice.

The first set of 7 cards are due completed except for mounting on Thursday, September 30. The second set of 7 cards are due October 18. The final project is due completed by Friday, October 29.

Students should post two cards by September 30 to explain their idea. Post one 'weak' piece for comments and feedback by October 12. A final post of their project is due by November 1.

Weezy F. Babie

what brought me to creating this peace was the idea of Lil wayne's hand, i was assigned to draw a work of art that had any thing to do with hands. So i thought of some thing a little challenging than just ordanay hands of course. As i was listening to my ipod, one of my favorite Lil wayne songs came on and thought to myself why not draw lil wayne and his famous cup and cigaret? i began to look for pictures of him in all kinds of posses and actually drew my own arms and hands in the possionas you see. i enjoyed working on this peace very much and think of and a few thing later on to enhance the drawing.

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