Heroes Project

For my heroes project, I am going to focus on all my musical heroes. What I want to do is draw a concert at a large outdoor open venue with all my favourite artists performing together and the crowd going nuts. Perhaps I will draw myself front and center or center with light hitting me and a space between me and the rest of the crowd so that I stand out and the artists stand out. I am going to draw a peaceful environment out of COLOUR which I have not done yet this year. Light colors, pastels, bright blue sky, fresh green grass. I'm going to play with light and they way light hits people to show connection.

Symbolic Still Life (Portrait)

I will be making a symbolic portrait of the characters from my favourite show, The OC. The four main characters are Marissa, Ryan, Seth, and Summer. It is kind of difficult to show them through the objects that I want to use because I do not necessarily have access to these objects.

In a perfect world, here are the objects I would use to represent them:

Marissa: Flask

Ryan: Boxing Glove

Seth: Comic Book

Summer: Credit Card

These objects really do ring true about the characters but perhaps I am thinking a bit literally.

No matter what the objects may be, I would position them all very specifically. Ryan and Seth have a "Bromance" meaning they are best friends. Marissa and Summer are the same way. But Summer and Seth are dating and Marissa and Ryan are dating. I feel that the objects would all be very close but maybe I will play with the shadows.

What If Concept Development

I am trying to communicate that if we just left the world, perhaps animals would become the new humans and start to do the things that we as humans do right now. But I'm also showing that if we left the world alone, maybe the natural world would have room to take over and become central once again. I am going to draw a train coming forwards with 3 animals popping out of the door onto the terminal. I will then draw the train terminal sort of decayed and with trees growing from the inside. Maybe a hole at the top of the terminal that lets sunlight in. That would be the only source of color. The rest of my picture will be in the gray scale probably made of the different shades of pencil and maybe some charcoal. If I do the sun idea then I will use colored pencil to make it look accurate but mainly just regular pencils.

What If Source Images

What If Project Brainstorming

Coral Reefs Deteriorating...

Over Consumption & Waste...

What if we continue to dump waste into the ocean?

What if we no longer have fish?

What if the 25% of underwater species just die?

What if we continue over using what is not ours to take?

What if our resources are completely depleted in 2 years?

There are many different ways to make positive impacts on the deteriorating state of the worlds environment. As a group, the most important thing we can do are to use only what we truly need. As guidance, we can take and interpret Thoreau’s mantra of “simplifying our lives and get down to the bare necessities.” Mainly, this means DO NOT WASTE! A modern version of this saying is, “Reduce, reuse, recycle.” There should also be an implemented class throughout high school that teaches teens how to take environmental initiative in order to make a difference and progress in the everlasting effort to conserve the environment. Once our generation graduates from high school, we will need to begin cleaning up the tragic mess that the environment is, but unfortunately, we are very unprepared to do so. Another huge issue that must be resolved is that the world in general is simply uneducated about how degraded the environment is. The world needs a public service announcement of some sort that does not sugarcoat any of the cold hard facts; we need to know what is really happening. It would also be crucial to set up available recycling bins throughout large cities and towns that way people are not as likely to just throw out a bottle or can and have the opportunity to recycle. Furthermore, if the government would stop subsidizing fossil fuel consumption and would lower the price of manufacturing alternative energy sources then homes and businesses could afford to convert to solar or wind power. Pressure needs to be put on our government to enact regulations and policies friendly to environmental health.

I am stuck between my first what if question and my last one. I have two ideas that can work. For my first question I would draw the ocean with a huge cruise ship perusing deadly over the water. Then I would draw waste dumped into the ocean and a coral reef underneath with happy fish swimming, but then to the side in all black and white, what the coral reefs will look like if the waste disposal into the ocean continues at this rapid pace. For my last what if question, I would draw a city with savages living in it, having to sacrifice townspeople for food. I would draw a city filled with disaster and death with no escape. I could also draw just one person affected by the depletion and show different stages. For instance, day 1 vs month 7 and so on and so forth. But that could also be a separate part of the same drawing.