Two portraits (Drawing course)

I chose to do my sister's portrait for this assignment

(chacoal) 

(pencil)

Two exteriors (Drawing course)

(charcoal)

(charcoal)

Two interiors (Drawing course)

(charcoal)

(oil pastels and colored pencils)

Two figure drawings (Drawing course)

(charcoal)

(charcoal pencil)

Self-Portrait (Drawing course)

(oil pastels, colored pencils and acrylic paint)

Assemblage (Elements of Visual Thinking course)

We had to create an assemblage (3D collage) with any elements we found thought were interesting enough to create the assemblage with. However, we weren't allowed to make it representational in order to let the viewers to see and believe what they want when looking at the piece. 

 

Bahama Mama

 

These are some sketches from my sketch book.
I drew them while I was on vacation in the Bahamas a few months ago.
While I was sitting down on the beach, I just started sketching what I saw in front of me (the palm trees, the clear water, my little brother playing in the sand etc.)

[pencil and black marker]

"FAR BENEATH THE SNOW, LIES THE SEED THAT WITH THE SUN'S LOVE, IN THE SPRING BECOMES THE ROSE..."

"Far beneath the snow, lies the seed that with sun's love, in the spring, becomes the Rose" are the last lyrics of "the Rose" by Bette Midler.

I wanted everything to be dark except the flower. The public's attention should be drawn to the bright colors. The picture might be  bit darker than it really is: the scanner gave this effect...

DARK TREE

This is my latest work. It was more of an experiment that turned out to be a finished artwork. 

Most of my work is very colorful and joyous, but I decided to try something new with no colors... I used charcoal and pencil for this artwork! 

[Pencil and charcoal]

THE DANCER

I rarely work with watercolors, in fact this is the first time I use watercolors for a finished piece...

I wanted to create movement with the dancer's body and position. I stayed mostly in the warm colors except for the scarf that's in purple... 

[Watercolors]

"SHE LOOOOVES ME"

This is a comic strip based on a story about my little sister and our cat when we were young. 

I tried to make it very cartoon-ish and with not much details, keep it simple and clear. I didn't use much words, I wanted to try telling a story only with the illustration. I did it on my own time with my own inspiration so I only enjoyed this work!
















[Pencil and black marker]

RAIN ON MY PARADE (ANIMATION)

This is my final animation project that I called "Rain on my Parade"...

(It's maybe better to keep it this size because when it's enlarged, the image isn't very clear...)

FINAL ANIMATION PROJECT

Our final project was anything we felt like doing!!
I wanted to create a short animation with a cute story behind it... It was a lot of work and we didn't have much time at all. At some times it was very frustrating but in the end it was the best experience!


I started by drawing a very basic storyboard:

                        

These are some snapshots of the animation video:

And these are other snapshots of the video that I had printed out in posters:

MORE ROBOTS

More snapshots of the robot...
I spent most of the time on the wings, it was the hardest part.












And the posters below are part of the final presentation of the robot. I added two different backgrounds and put the robot in two different positions. I had fun playing around with the robot, unfortunately, we were supposed to have it printed in 3D, but the special printer had broken down so we were unable to...

ROBOT

In this same animation class, we had to create a robot.
These are some detailed pictures:

MUSIC VIDEO (ADAGIO FOR STRINGS SOUNDTRACK)

In the animation class we were asked to create a short music video using the 3d max. We had to chose 30 seconds of a song; I chose "Adagio for strings" by DJ Tiesto.

This is a snapshot that I printed out as a poster for the presentation:

ALIEN PLANT

At the MICA pre-college program this summer, I took 3D animation and gaming courses, as well as illustration.


This very short animation simply rotates around a 3D "alien plant" that we had to create from scratch on 3d max. It was our 1st big assignment in this class; it wasn't easy at all even if it probably seems so!

These are two huge posters we had printed out at the end of our month at MICA:

In this one, I took my alien plant and put it in an environment of my choice. I tried to make it fit as well as possible with a little help from Photoshop.

This one is just an option we have on the animation program. I just thought it was interesting because we can clearly see the distinctive layers of the object I created.

MIDDLE EASTERN CD COVER

At the MICA pre-college program this summer, I took an illustration course.


The first assignment was to illustrate a CD cover, either for an existing band or an imaginary one... I decided to invent my own and bring my lebanese cultural background into the picture. 

The difficulty here was to give this CD a true middle-eastern feel to it besides just having the title written in Arabic. I think the background design was the most important aspect to accomplish, as well as the colors. The woman with the microphone had to fit into the spirit of this CD, so I studied her clothes very carefully.

This is one of my favorite works because I feel I was able to respect the assignment and make it my own at the same time. My illustration teacher loved this one! 


[Pencil and colored pencils]

THE SCREAM-FEST POSTER

Another assignment in the illustration class was to design a poster for a horror festival.


With this assignment, I wanted my horror festival poster to be original by giving it some humor... I used simple colors and simple cartoon drawing techniques so I could mostly work on the originality of this piece.

[Colored pencils]

Peter Pan

One of my illustration projects was to use a famous book character and make it our own. I chose Peter Pan. As you all may know he stays young forever: so to make it my own, I made this character old but without changing his significant characteristics so he could be recognized: he still flies and has the same outfit(just a little small on him haha) 


I had lots of fun making this work, it was an interesting assignment!