Scholastic Art Award

Scholastic Art Award

I recently entered these three pieces of mine in to a Scholastic Art competition and did fairly well. Each piece won an award getting a gold key, silver key and honorable mention. This is the first time I've ever received an award for my art and it's pretty sweet. The third piece was actually also entered in to the Beth El art show (sorry if the spelling is incorrect) which is again, a huge accomplishment for me and im very pleased.

Archicad

Archicad

This post also corresponds to my most recent blog having to do with my current progress in archicad. Recently, as you can see in the project, by pure serendipity I discovered how to create terrain. What I have so far represents northern Russia. The housing represents the large cities and massive population, the church (a model of Saint Basils Church) represents the strong religious devotion, the ships represent the strong naval and really just overall military force of Russia if you look closely in the air to the right of the church a satellite is there representing the devotion to the field of astronomy and of course the famous "space race".

Archicad

Archicad

I don't have an image this week as I have been working very thoroughly on my architecture and didn't have time to get a screen shot. I have actually figured out my latest problem of creating terrain which is a very big step in my learning process. Now my creations can have that official look of a green grass yard or sand on a beachfront property. I will upload an image as soon as possible next week but until then, until then...

Asia Room

Asia Room

This week I have begun working on the 3rd room in my surreal room. The room is going to represent Asia and so far I have done Russia. I'm really learning the software more and more now. My next thing I would like to learn is how to create terrain.

At The End Of The Tunnel

At The End Of The Tunnel

This is a piece that I made for a contest on worth1000.com. I didn't finish the project in time for submittal but I did make a decent piece in my opinion in a fairly short amount of time. The idea of the piece is to illustrate the hope or the light that is in everyone no matter their situation or state of being. Also if you would like to view my finished Dali piece The Birds it is below this paragraph.

The Birds

The Birds

This is a piece I like to call The Birds. It's a piece I'm making somewhat based off a tutorial yet I'm putting my own spin on it. As you can tell I'm not done yet but its going well so far. I started with nothing but the background (the sun/sky) and made the orbs, selected the woman and inserted her, created the meteors with nothing but an image of a rock and a brush, and have made multiple (A LOT) of custom color adjustments to get the surreal feel and integration. I should have it done by friday and I'm hoping it comes out nice.

Surreal Room: Americas

Surreal Room: Americas

The lag that I have been talking about in my blogs recently has thankfully been fixed so now it's back to work on the surreal house. So far I have done a little work on the Americas room based on, as you might have guessed, the Americas. I would like to be further along but in the process of making the room I ran into some problems importing some .3DS files and that slowed me down a little bit. Though the beginning of this project might have been a pain, I find out more and more about the software as I go and it's turning out to be a huge learning experience.