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This is the still life I made in Drawing & Painting class. I am extremely proud of it. It was very interesting drawing from direct observation and working on proportions, perspective, triangulation, shading, and highlights. I believe this piece will help me with even digital art because when it comes to it, the skills I used in finding shading and manipulation of contrast are used just as much in digital art.

The idea in this dreamscape is that I hate unfinished things, and almost everything in this is unfinished. The house only has its foundation, the road is only half-paved, the plants haven't all been kept up, and the man is only half-made. It is also a double image of a spider with the moons being fangs and the fingers on either side being legs. The moons are actually not two moons but one moon. The idea is that there was a crack in the moon, which wasn't fixed all the way, so it split into two. The fingers are meant to be mine. There are so many things to keep up that I am unable to do everything to compleation. Also, the shadows face each other on either side due to the light cast from the "two" moons. My initial vision was for the print to be red on black as seen in the digitized version, the ink wasn’t vibrant enough, so I decided to invert it, creating my favorite and cleanest print, I then decided to experiment and produced the red and white on black that has a 3D looking effect.

My first sketchbook page is the page I used to prepare for my final draft of my lino print. I used the rule of thirds to place my horizon line, where I then put my vanishing and focal points. I actually prefer the detail and shading on all of the unused ideas for my lino print, but in the end, I decided to go with the final design seen in my second submission for two reasons. I liked the double image of a spider, and it translated the best into a print. Many of the thinner elements seen in these renditions, like the overgrowth inside the house and the nails, had to be removed for that very reason of having to be made into a print. If I hadn't removed these elements, my print quality would have significantly been lost because of the nature of lino prints. In the end, I believe that it was the right decision to remove these finer details not just because it made the print quality better but because the simple design worked better for the two solid colors.

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