ContentChapter 1: Projects Shogun Ramen Cosmic Sushi Wonderland Sorbet Chocolate Lava Castle Chicken Dynamite Junky Tank MK2

Chapter 2: Foundation Figure Study Head and Hands Dynamic Sketching Perspective Design Sketches

Chapter 3: Sketch Art Sketches

Chapter One:

Projects1. Shogun Ramen

2. Cosmic Sushi

2. Wonderland Sorbet

3. Chocolate Lava Cake

4. Chicken Dynamite

5. Junky Tank MK2

1Project Intro

Food has so many textures, tastes, and even emotions that can be felt from just one single bite. It is what connects one society to another in relation to any gender, race, sexual orientation or even species; how-ever, the easy access to food has left a growing impression of indifference in the way that society views food as just a mere source of energy. To counter this growing apathy of food, I’ve created my own repre-sentation of certain foods through art that has ultimately helped me connect with the rest of society and deepen my appreciation for the complexity and necessity of food in our lives.

Throughout all my projects, I’ve tried to capture various tastes into visual representations by using a wide range of colors, textures, shapes and materials. When I taste something spicy, salty, sweet or bitter, specific images form inside my mind and I wish to share these spectacular experiences with the people around me. In a way, it is individualistic in that these are all my own interpretations of tastes in specific foods; however, it has also helped me connect with others. By creating definitions of different tastes, now people are able to recognize and relate with my images as specific foods and tastes, ultimately pro-viding me the precious ability to connect with people on a completely different level of taste.

Paint, rubber cement, paint (3 layers)

Rubber cement and paint on plastic cup

Paint and noodle strands on aluminum foil mounted with clay

Clay, rubber cement, paint with ramen on-ion decorations and jewels

Aluminum foil painted on top

Black tape painted with ramen noodles

Tissue Paper with paint

Pencil shavings with paint

Rubber cement wiht paint

Gel Medium with paint

Gel medium with rub-ber cement and paint

Paint with ramen veg-etables

Paint with salt and rubber cement

Paint with rubber ce-ment and rice

Paint with beads and rubber cement

Material Experiments

To correctly portray different tastes, I researched extensively on various materials. By combining the some of the same materials in different orders, I also came upon different types of textures.

Shogun RamenProject Statement

Japanese ramen has two specific pillars that defines its unique savory taste: noodles and the broth, For the broth I tried to visually represent the rich savory flavor produced from hours of boiling and for the noodles I focused on its springy texture. Lastly, I wanted to capture relationship between these two strong elements and how they react to each other.

Inspiration

I researched images that incorporated rope like structures and unique patterns in order to bring life into ramen noodles.

Detail Ideation

I narrowed down the specific materials and designs that fit my sculpture.

Variation Thumbnails

I experimented with interesting shapes that incorporated different states of matter. The goal was to find the perfect sketch that correctly conveyed the juxtaposition of liquid and solid.

Making Process

Skeleton of the sculpture was created with styrofoam and wires and then wrapped with clay for most of the objects. I then coated them with acrylic paint, adding in decorations and details with beads, wax, and clay.

Lower Base Form filled in with clay and wrapped with mesh wires.

Bottom structure of wax sticks stuck into the clay.

Wax sticks with balls. Imprints created with vari-ous beads.

Beads stuck onto the clay. More wax sticks applied with lots of clay.

Clay design made with knife slices.

Overall look after putting on the main clay structure.

Detail & Texture Ideation

I looked for different variations and small details that created dif-ferent effects on the piece as a whole.

Making Process

Droplets created with wax stick base and wrapped with clay.

Top formation created with stick base and clay.

Noodles and chopsticks at-tached with wax sticks.

Starting to paint with Ar-cylic

Main color for the base of the sculpture.

Adding in salt like texture. Close up on the salt texture drying.

Creating oil like substance with arcylic and resin.

Final Image

Mixed Media11”x 7.5”x 26”February 2015

Detail ShotsDetail Shots

Cosmic SushiProject Statement

My love of sushi has helped me find my own answer in how to portray the appearance and taste of sushi: it is both familiar and mysterious. It has the most immaculate harmony in terms of food, for it perfectly combines simple, elegant components with vibrantly, strong textures and tastes.

Inspiration

I tried to research objects that had unique contour lines and vibrant colors to represent the intricacy of defining sushi’s overall taste.

Variation Thumbnails

I experimented with interesting shapes that had a variation of simple, geometric meshed with sharp, jagged and complex objects. The goal was to find the perfect sketch that cor-rectly conveyed the juxtaposition of simple and complicated.

Color Thumbnails

For these sketches, I went more in-depth on the color varia-tions and textures.

Detail Ideation

I narrowed down the specific materials and color options for these sketches.

Texture Sketch

I tried to look for as many textures that fit into my sushi sketch. There were many different textures that I could work with be-cause of sushi’s broadness in terms of image, taste, and texture.

Making Process

Skeleton of the sculpture was created with styrofoam and wires and then wrapped with clay for most of the objects. I then coated them with acrylic paint and rubber cement, adding in decorations and details with beads, rice, aluminum foil, clay, and pencil shavings.

Lower Base Form filled in with clay.

After wrapping clay with aluminum, overlayed with acrylic paint.

Acrylic Paint mixed with rubber cement for see through effect.

Beads attached with clay before painted on top.

Finished clay piece with de-tailed work.

Finished clay piece with de-tailed work without wires.

Rubber cement lathered on top of beads and acrylic paint.

Pencil shavings painted and glued onto clay with rubber cement.

Final Image

Mixed Media11”x 7.5”x 16.5”Sep. 2014

Detail Shots

Restaurant Interior DesignI used a photo I found of Sushi Planet’s restaurant interior and added components of my art piece to convert the restaurant into my own per-ception of a sushi restaurant design. I added designs similar to that of my actual sculpture as wallpaper, chair and pillar designs to show how my work could be implemented into the real world of business.

Pattern Design & Quick Thumbnails

Final Image

Wonderland SorbetProject Statement

Because of my love-hate relationship with sour things, I was eager to find the perfect representation of something sweet and sour as that of my strawberry lemonade ice cream art piece. When I imagine the taste of a Wonderland Sorbet, I feel something sharp, tingly and overwhelmingly bright. At first glance, the Wonderland Sorbet is deceivingly attractive and teasing but as you look closer, you see that it is all a facade to hide the sharp and mischievous nature of its sour component.

Inspiration

I researched on objects that clearly conveyed the feeling of sweet and sour. As an ice cream form, I also tried to find the best way to convey the liquid, mushy feel of ice cream.

Variation Sketches

Many of my sketches dealt with something pointy to represent the feeling of sharpness when eating something sour. I played mainly with different amounts of neon yellow and pink to find the per-fect ratio that represents sweet and sour together.

Color Thumbnail Sketch

Liquid pattern study with colors.

Detail & Texture Ideation

I looked for playful and light textures that would draw the au-dience into my artwork which emanates the seduction of sweet tasting food.

Making Process

Skeleton of the sculpture was created with styrofoam and wires and then wrapped with clay. It was then coated with acrylic paint, pom poms, fabric, aluminum foil and beads.

Clay wrapped with alumi-num foil and pom poms at-tached with pins.

Initial molding of clay over styrofoam.

Wetted clay to smooth out cracks.

Dried version of clay after smoothing.

First base layer of paint. First layer of paint com-plete.

Third layer of paint with de-tail.

Fabric cut and attached with hot glue gun.

Final Image

Medium: Mixed MediaSize: 12” x 18” x 9”Date of Completion: Sep. 2014

Detail Shots

Restaurant Interior DesignI picked a 50’s themed diner because it most closely related with the personality of the Wonderland Sorbet in terms of it’s overly phony brightness which was an attempt to hide history’s darker elements of danger and death at the time. The already bright colors of the original interior was an asset to my design and helped to bring an even stronger representation of my designs.

Pattern Design & Quick Thumbnails

Final Image

Chocolate Lava CastleProject Statement

It is common knowledge in the world of cooking that the chocolate lava cake is one of the most difficult desserts to create successfully because of it’s two contracting elements of melted chocolate covered in a completely hard cake sur-face. I wanted to make my own visual representation on the difficult nature of this dessert. It deals with two completely different substances that somehow magically coexist to-gether, forming one of my most favorite dessert dishes.

Inspiration

I looked for both simple and complex objects to experiment on in or-der to figure out which shapes would best exemplify the nature of chocolate lava cakes.

Variation Sketch

I explored various forms and matters in my sketches to see how I could convey hard and liquid substances together in different con-figurations.

Color Thumbnail Sketch

Colored version of my final sketch design.

Detail & Texture Ideation

I tried to find textures that were classy to represent the feeling we perceive from chocolate and also patterns that were both sim-ple and yet intricate at the same time.

Making Process

Skeleton of the sculpture was created with styrofoam and wires and then wrapped with clay. The middle body was made with a plastic cup base that was then covered with acrylic paint. The lower half of the object was coated repeatedly with gloss to prevent cracking and create a shiny coat.

Basic lower form. Full skeleton base finished. Clay detailed work for top portion of sculpture.

Cleaning up edges with brush for detailed work.

Adding in detailed grada-tion for droplets with acryl-ic paint.

Finished engraving and carving out details of stems.

Paper strips wrapped around stems for detail.

Glossy medium layered mul-tiple times for glow effect.

Final Image

Medium: Mixed MediaSize: 12” x 7” x 19”Date of Completion: Sep. 2014

Detail Shots

Restaurant Interior Design

Designing this dessert bakery was quite fun because of how well the designs and patterns matched with the actual interior of the store. The designs incorporated onto the walls and floor helped accentuate the feeling of a classy, chocolate theme.

Pattern Design & Quick Thumbnails

Final Image

Chicken DynamiteProject Statement

Spiciness is an element closely related to fire and heat. I wanted to solidify this image into an actual object that screamed “hot”! To me, a bite of a spicy hot wing is like an explosion of sharp points that consume my mind.

Inspiration

I tried to diverge from the typical fire pictures and instead followed my own abstract feeling towards spiciness.

Variation Sketches

As I explored with various sketches and shapes, the sketches that gave me the strongest impression were those that had a solid base and sharp exteriors.

Color Thumbnail Sketch

Final line sketch of sculpture and study on various fumes.

Detail & Texture Ideation

Creating a main texture/pattern for this project was very inter-esting and exciting. Instead of combining many different textures into the object as I did with previous projects, I wanted this art-work to have one main pattern surrounding the whole object.

Making Process

Diverging from styrofoam, I instead used actual food for the base of this project, incorporating jalapeños, onion and shallots. After connecting all the main objects with wire, I painted it over with acrylic paint. Then I attached the decorations that were made out of clay.

Raw onion base. Raw onion painted with pattern.

Jalapeño withe paint and chopped.

Jalapeños drying.

Jalapeños all chopped off and painted.

Jalapeños filled with clay and attached to wire.

Top base made with shal-lots.

Main base attached with wires for the jalapeños.

Final Image

Medium: Mixed MediaSize: 5” x 4” x 9”Date of Completion: Sep. 2015

Detail Shots

Restaurant Interior Design

I wanted to see what my artwork would look like in an actual restau-rant that sold wings, so I picked a Wingstop picture to design. The de-signs helped to emphasize the spicy element of the food more and also brightened up the restaurant so that it looked more appealing and in-teresting.

Pattern Design & Quick Thumbnails

Final Image

Junky Tank MK2Project Statement

I wanted this project to address one of the more prominent issues in our society: the war on junk food. As time passes, unhealthy food is significantly over powering and overwhelming our society increas-ingly more and more, destroying any presence of healthy food. The gigantic power that junk food holds over society had a clear connec-tion to the massiveness of tanks in our world of violence and terror-ism when I initially came up with the concept.

Inspiration

I studied on tank designs mainly from World War II and on various visualizations that personified foods into vehicles. I also had to research exten-sively on all types of candy, junk food, and desserts that would fit my tank’s design.

Ideation Sketches

I experimented with various junk food that would make the base of my tank design. I had to extensively sketch and plan out how my tank would look from all angles in order to pinpoint the details that would be added onto my tank.

Photo Bashing

To get a better idea on how color would fit into my de-sign, I also made a draft of my tank on photoshop.

Making Process

The base of the tank was created through foam boards and wire. I had to make the wheels separately and then attach them to the base once it was complete due to maneuvering difficulties. Because of the oiliness of junk food, I had to reattach all the items by painting and “gluing” them together with melted chocolate. In the end, the only glue that was used was to initially attach the styrofoam boards together. Everything else was either attached with wires or toothpicks and ultimately reinforced with melted chocolate.

Three fourths of the sup-plies.

Half of the drinks for the caps.

Main base with foam boards. French fries attached with chocolate.

Main top nearly complete. Treads made out of french fries completed.

Whole treads completed with caps attacked with chocolate.

Attached onto base with hot glue gun.

Attaching cooked bacon and sausages to the rear of the tank with toothpicks.

Inside of tank filled with waffles and foam boards for support.

Attaching wheels to tank base.

Creating camouflage look with three types of choco-late.

Glue created by melting dif-ferent types of chocolate.

Plating glued on with more chocolate before attaching camouflage layer.

Back of tank view work in progress.

Side view of work in prog-ress.

Final Image

Medium: Mixed MediaSize: 12”x 15”x 30”Date of Completion: July. 2014

Detail Shots

Chapter Two:

Foundation1. Figure Study

2. Head and Hands

3. Dynamic Sketching

4. Perspective

5. Design

2

Figure StudyWork Statement

I studied live models with various time limits for sketches, gestures, long poses with various mediums, such as charcoal, graphite pencils, color pencil, progresso, and acrylic paint.

Female Head 60 min. Graphite 9” x 12” Aug 2014

Female Head 60 min. Graphite 9” x 12” Aug 2014

Female Head 120 min. Charcoal 18” x 24” Apr 2014

Female Sitting 20 min. Charcoal 18” x 24” Nov 2014

Female Sitting 40 min. Ink 18” x 24” Dec 2014

Head and Hands

Male 3 hrs.Charcoal 18” x 24” Mar 2014

Dynamic SketchingWork Statement

Study on perspective drawings of objects from everyday life, focus-ing on line weight, cross sections and color control.

Perspective

Work Statement

Part 1: Study of one point perspective through design of a room. I wanted to change my room into one where Joker may possibly recide in.Media: Ink and PaperSize: 24x18”February 2015

Design IWork Statement

Study on the relationship between negative and positive shapes cre-ated through only one geometric object.

Medium: PaperSize: 11x17”February 2015

Motion Study Acrylic Paint

Paper Cutting Projects

Chapter Three:

Sketch3

Prismacolor Pencil Drawings Dec 2014