Crisis Dragon Drawing Ink

This is my dragon that I drew this past summer. I named it crises and on the bottom I have the symbols for danger and opportunity. I feel like this is relevant because when we go through life we are always in some sort of crises and with every crises there is a danger, but with this danger comes opportunity. Let me know what you guys think!

photography/sketch

CEDAR POINT

                                                                      COLUMBUS

EW

BLOOM

NATIONWIDE

JACOB

The last post inspired me to post more of my photography and I threw in a sketch of an old classmate as well!

Always Bring Your Camera

Hey guys! This first picture I took for the Photography class I'm taking, but wasn't able to present it, so I thought I'd post it on here. The second one is of the dam in Dublin, near the Columbus Zoo, and I took it while I was site-seeing/getting lost around the Columbus area. It is always a good idea to bring your camera along any new place you visit.

Bluffton, OH

Dublin, OH

-Alina Maksimov

Chloe's (really old) artwork

Okay, I know this is a lot. These are photos (some are terrible quality; my apologies) of my old artwork from high school. I worked with acrylics most of the time, but you'll also catch a pencil drawing or two and some done in marker.

Daniel Craig! (Current James Bond)

Pirates of the Caribbean

This was created for a club at my high school.

I think I did this on my iPad or something. Just wanted to mess with her hair, eyes, clothing, etc.

Hi guys this is some stuff I did last year

Photography With No Edits

        Hey guys these are pictures I took of my friend who is thinking about going into modeling. The purpose of us going out and taking pictures was because I love taking pictures and aim to learn how to take good pictures that don't need little to no editing and she was wanting some pictures to start a portfolio for modeling. These pictures aren't edited and are the originals.

        Please let me know what you think about them and how you think I may improve! Thank you!

Old Design Project

Hey everyone! This was the final project of a design class that I took at OSU about a year ago. We had to create a visual narrative using all of the techniques from the different projects from the class. I chose to tell the story of a kid playing around as a cowboy.  Let me know what you think!

Perspective Piece

This was my 2-point perspective piece. It was a bit confusing to create compared to 1-point perspective, but even though it was difficult I prefer it to my 1-point work. I have done other perspective pieces in the past, so I tried to step it up a little. 

Favorite Piece

Not to be narcissistic, but this is one of my favorite works. Unfortunately, I do not have the studio version with me which is actually my favorite version of this piece. I created this my senior year for my graphics class when we had to make portraits of ourselves. I really love to create portraits because they were what I originally started drawing when I was very young.

LEGO Fireplace

Hi friends :)

I plan to move to Denmark in pursuit of a job with LEGO after I'm done with Uni, so this probably won't be the last time you see LEGO-related work on this blog!

I built this cozy scene for a winter LEGO competition maybe 5 or so years back.  Some concepts I used that I'm pretty proud of were making the brickwork in such a small scale, getting the lattice pattern and texture on the carpet, and using minfigure arms as stockings above the mantel.

A similar mood, but a more conservative approach.  I believe this was built around the same time.  The armchair is a 1:48 scale model of an armchair found in my home.  It was part of a project where I was constructing my entire house in a 1:48 LEGO scale model; unfortunately this project never saw completion.

Any criticism is very much welcomed!

Photography

 This is some of my photography work from a photo class I took back in the spring. I had never worked with photography previous to this course and now it's something I really enjoy and work with more often. The top is titled "Little Guy, Big World" and the bottom is titled "Faceless".

Translation. First Week Art submission

Hi guys! I hope I'm posting this correctly! I've enjoyed seeing everyone's work so far! This was a piece I did called translation, which focused on different ways to render the same object. The first is a weighted like graphite drawing, the second is also graphite with values placed, and the thirds was a altered collage piece! Can't wait to see how our work progresses!

Film Photography

In high school I discovered film photography and fell in love with the whole process.  It is one of the most rewarding things to go through such an arduous process but then see an image you created appear before your eyes.  I love doing experimental things, especially using the actual film and the printing process to create unique framings that become a part of my pieces. I hope my images are clear enough, and that they aren't too messed up from the scanner! Thanks for looking at them :)

Colored and Graphite Pencils

Here's a piece that I did a little over a year ago with a combination of colored pencil and graphite pencils. I took Art 1 my freshman year and I've done some work on my own, but I don't have much experience using colored pencil. This was my first time attempting to do something realistic with colored pencil

Pug Painting

Hey everyone! really excited to see everyones work on here. For the first few weeks I will probably be posting work from high school and stuff I did before college. I really enjoy painting. I find it so relaxing to be able to mix the colors and apply layers of paint until I get a piece I'm proud of. This first piece is a little less serious, but I love realistic styles and attempting to make things look like a picture. (Notice how I said "attempt") Enjoy this painting of the ugliest cute dog around!

Thanks for looking, and I can't wait to read some of your comments!

Joel Daniel