my EOY work

My chosen topic is "barrier".Therefore firstly i started from exploring things that can be under the concept of barrier.There are physical barriers and spiritual barriers. 

medium: pencil and watercolor

Thus i did portrayals of several physical barriers, including roadblock, well,stone and wall.A prison can also be a barrier which stops prisoners from going free.

medium:watercolor

I found that emotional and physical barriers can be combined in the case of prisoners .For them ,jail is a physical barrier and it is also an emotional barrier which deprived them of love and family.Thus, i wanted to explore how it could be like if a person is trapped in jail.I searched for pictures and I also tried to pose by myself to capture the postures of prisoners who wanted to break free from jail.I wanted to stress the pain and desperation the prisoners felt when the bars became a barrier between them and freedom .

medium:pencil and watercolor

I then explore the facial expression of prisoners.To show the agony of the prisoner, I tried to explorethe facial expression which people have when they feel painful or desperate.
I also explored how it would be like to tear a paper as shown on the right side of the work so that i could use it as a separating line between contrasting images.

medium:watercolor
Next, i wanted to explore the  contrast between prisoners and happy family life they enjoyed before going to jail.Thus i portrayed several family scenes.

medium:watercolor
To emphasize the contrast,i decided to add in some toys played by children in their childhood. Such image would help to illustrate the agony that the prisoner have since the toys remind her of the happy time she had before going to jail.

final work medium:acrylic paint
This shows the contrast between the life of a prisoner when she is in jail and before she got in .I made use of contrasting colors and i put words like loneliness,hatred,tear between the torn paper to show the feelings of the child left behind by the woman.

abstract painting

This is an abstract act practice we had last year in class. We were required to choose a photo and do 20 abstract painting from that .

original picture
This is a picture of a town near water in China called 'Jiangnan Shuixiang'.I thought this scene is quite peaceful and nice so i chose it.

1-4:color pencil and water color.
I tried to catch important things in the photo and emphasize them in my abstracts ,like house,tree and boat.

5:pestle
This time i emphasized on the colour of the major components of the photo so it is kind of blended .Then I drew certain things clearly to help audience understand what the colours represent. 

6.medium;pestal

7.medium: marker
This one is quite straightforward.

8.medium: pestle
I used a lot of lines.

9. medium: watercolor

10. medium:watercolor
The tow lower ones are inspired by artists, one is a Chinese artist and the other is a Spanish artist.

11.medium : watercolor
I was a bit running out of ideas so though maybe i  could use different shapes like rectangles and lines or dots with different colors to represent tree water and house.

final work medium: acrylic paint
This is a combination of flowers -which my partner chose and house and water-which i chose.

sketches of cube and pot

a cube made of sponge

a wooden cube

the structure of a pot

Medium: pencil

Here are a few sketches that i did during drawing practices last year.

For the cubes, we were asked to think of different materials that the cube would be made of .

The wooden cube is one that i sketched from looking at a real wooden cube , so i was able to catch the lines on it.However ,for the sponge i was not able to find a proper picture so i sort of imaged that by myself and was, sadly, quite far from what it should be like.

The pot was a quite tedious work that i had done. It had quite a number of layers between its cover and its body so it  was a bit difficult to draw all the layers proportionately .I revised them quite a number of times and finally produced something that was not too far from real, i hope.

My fashion design

These are the products of the fashion design course i had last year. Actually i had wanted to be a fashion designer from  primary school .I was fond of drawing figures with different clothes everywhere like on my desk. So i was really excited that  i had such a course.

This was the beginning of the fashion design.I looked up for interesting designs on the fashion magazines and i drew them down.

This is the skeleton that i drew from the three figures above so as to better understand the structure of human bodies. 

Then ,i tried to design on my own based on the inspirations that i was given.

The left one looked like some ghost associated with snake which was quite funny. 

For these two , i tried to let the models' hairstyle match with their clothes .

For this one i tried to see if it would be nice to add many details to almost every part of the clothes. Unfortunately, it turned out to be a bit too excessive.

Then ,i decided not to put too much decorations on the clothes and i tried different styles . For example the above four are four different types:delicate,gay,cool and gracious. 

Finally, I decided to choose this one as my final work. The material on the body part is carefully weaved and looks delicate while the lower part of the dress is made from silk so it is quite shiny.


Then i started to add on background for the design.It was the first time that i ever tried photoshop so it was quite hard for me to manage the applications, so i gave up cutting the figure using computer but instead turned to scissors .I also used photoshop to adjust the color of the figure to make it match better with the color of the background.

This is the final work-back

this is the final work-front

My imitation of famous artist's work

This is the product of my first few lessons in GAP class :D I was like to imitate a painting from Reminiscence. It was the first time that i had ever tried paints so i was really afraid of failing. It was still fine when i used pencil to draw the outline but when i needed to blend the colors ,it was really a big challenge for me. The paints dried quite fast so i needed to use new paints to mix to get  the same colour several times. Sadly ,it turned out that some parts of the hair does not have the same tint as others.

Moreover ,since it is really the biggest painting that i had ever done, i almost lost patience in drawing the hair,which really looked quite alike to me and i felt like repeating more times.

Although the final work did not quite resemble the original one, i managed to learn many new skills from the experience such as blending and i am sure that i do achieve some improvements in controlling brushes.