Favorite Artist: Hsiao-Ron Cheng

My favorite artist is Hsiao-Ron Cheng. She was born in 1986 and is a Taiwanese digital artist/illustrator. She started as a freelance illustrator in 2012, and in that same year her work was shortlisted for the Young Illustrator Award. She has created art for well known fashion brands and design agencies worldwide.

What is art to me?

Art is a way for me to visualize my feelings. Rather than thinking about the things that disturb me all the time, writing and drawing is a way for me to let it out, and I like to be able to look back at them and think about what I was feeling at the time. Looking at other people's art inspires me, and makes me feel like I can do better than already am, and knowing that people are always working to get better makes me want to continue to try. So, art, for me, is just what I use when I want to be better, whether its emotion-wise or creativity-wise.

Funny Image(?)

I had done something like this before, so I wasn't that hard for me to do this one. I basically made this to represent a joke a lot of people have about him. This looks kind of messy, but I'm unsure of how to fix it.

Pepsi Ad Change

AVPA Logo

I actually messed up and put the wrong name, this is actually supposed to me the visual arts logo, but I made this simple, so it was easy to do.

LOGO

At first I didn't know what to do, and I made a few others before I settled on this one. I used colors that I liked, and tried to work with the white background by the letters so they looked like they were cut out. In the end, I got the effect I wanted, and I really like this logo.

Self-Portrait

When we were told to do a self-portrait project, it reminded me of the one I painted in the 8th grade, which was relatively similar to this one. I tried out a lot of different effects, because this was my first time using photoshop.

Animation Project: Pink Cat

This is the first animation project I've done. I chose to do a cute, pink cat walking, with a red scarf flowing in the wind. This was a lot harder than I expected, but in the end I got the result I wanted.

Photoshop Tutorial: 3D Effect

I looked up a lot of effects on Google, and found this one. It was cool to do, but it was also a challenge.

Mac Background

I messed with the brush settings and ended up making this cool effect, so I painted with different colors and made this my background.