Spring ’25 I was enrolled in Drawing I with Professor John Felix Arnold. It was a wonderful class where I learned to draw what I see, not what I think I am seeing.
Here is my early work:
As the semester progressed, so did my skills!
Here is a glance at my Final Portfolio:
The focus for my project was to explore how a single facial element—like an open mouth—can communicate completely different emotions depending on its context. In this drawing, I focused on rage, joy, and shock. All three involve openness and release, but they sit on very different ends of the emotional spectrum. I used heavier lines and more angular marks for rage, softer, upward motion for joy, and stillness and round forms for shock. My goal was to exaggerate the expressive differences without distorting realism.