2024 Drawing Gallery

BUENA PARK

PROUD NATIVE
Jennyfer Lopez
Idea: The bird represents my cultural background. Pride and confidence of who I am and where I come from.
Materials: Ink, paper
Process: Experimented w/ various color inks and added construction paper to the background for complementary contrast to set a mood.

LUMINOUS
Melody Mekdad
Idea: Connection to nature, growing with whats around you. Taking care of beauty of the planet, admiring nature. Inner healing.
Materials: Prismacolors
Process: Photographed model, illustrated using contrast, saturation, and color. Experimented on black paper.

INEXCUSABLE
Melody Mekdad
Idea: Palestine’s hardship in war. Crow representing power of change, community connection, death and misfortune.
Materials: Ink, color pencil
Process: Layered color pencil then red, blue and black pens with different line weights.

SERENITY
Kaylaa Huynh
Idea: Multiple personalities that work or clash with each other and form the essence of one's personality.
Materials: Markers, Graphite, Prismacolor, Thread, Glue, Watercolor
Process: Freeform marker line art and reforming into artistic elements relating to SI; experimental elements

FULLERTON UNION

HEART OVER HEAD
Emily Kugelmann
Idea: A spin on the concept of heart vs. head. I focused on the idea of listening to the heart's wants and desires and the idea it should overpower any anxious doubt.
Materials: Charcoal
Process: I drew an anatomical heart and brain on 2 separate brown paper bags. Then I crumpled the brain bag and kept the heart bag pristine. We took reference photos in a mini light studio. Then I sketched the peice onto a large brown charcoal paper. I filled in the shadows and highlights of the subject. Finishing it off by darkening the background and adding wood grain to the table.

NATURAL STATE
Noah Ervin
Idea: In free body diagrams in physics you can't tell whether or not the mass is moving with constant velocity or is stationary. I connected this with a real problem in life, that sometimes you can’t tell if you’re stuck in the same place or continuing to move.
Materials: Ink. chalk pastel, oil pastel
Process: Create neoclassical sketch and label them with a free body diagram showing constant velocity or stationary with the force vectors applied to the mass

LA HABRA

STILL LIFE
Olivia Jauregui

GUITAR PLAYER
Sandy Arrieta Montoya

UP A TREE
Jeanie Rhodes

PAPER DOLL
Noah Esquivias Collado

FACE VASE
Diego Magana

OBSERVATIONAL SKULL DRAWING
Melanie Contreras

SONORA

A KNIGHT'S TRUE WEAPON
Orion Gordillo
Pen & Ink

WIZARD'S CALL
Isabela Juarez
Colored Pencil on Bristol Board

TWO
Jenice Alcala
Pastel on paper

SUNNY HILLS

MID-LIFE CRISIS
Michelle Lee
Idea: Depicts lacking identity through tiny little cells that look like DNA b/c it is in DNA to search for meaning in your life
Materials: I used watercolor paper, ink, and a sharpie pen.
Process: Added ink with big brushes, after multiple rounds, went in with Sharpie pen and added little details

TO LIVE INSIDE A MICROWAVE
Laurel Henderson
Idea: I wanted to explore living inside a microwave and being watched by the all seeing eye of the giant outside evoking anxiety.
Materials: Graphite
Process: -1-point perspective using a variety of values

INNOCENCE
Raelyn Corona
Idea: I wanted to show the childlike aspect to life and how fun and colorful it was.
Materials: I used ripped paper to collage the background. And I used colored pencils and crayons for the drawing.
Process: I first drew the main drawing and then collaged the canvas and pasted the drawing onto the canvas.

ITALIAN FROM ALBANIA
Mikaela Kim
Idea: I wanted to illustrate the beauty of mixing cultures together, specifically through immigration.
Materials: Charcoal
Process: Using detailed shading and a wide range of values, I tried to convey my subject’s emotions.

ALL NATURAL
Marisa Thienprasiddhi
Idea: I wanted to bring awareness to harmful beauty standards promoted by the internet & social media.
Materials: Charcoal
Process: With a wide range of values & intense imagery, I aim to expose the painful side of beauty standards.

NIGHTMARE OF LIFE AND DEATH
Sydney Zarate
Idea: I decided to express my pain and fears through art, searching for hope and healing.
Materials: Ink and Pen
Process: Explore techniques, contrast, and rearrange for emotional impact.

TROY

BLOOMING IN SODA
Erica Tsai
Color Pencil

AN UNTOUCHABLE DREAM
Katie Yang
Graphite

ADMIRATION
Xuanyu Chen
Graphite

DONIMANT
Katie Yang
Graphite

IN-PROGRESS
Yohana Kim
White Charcoal

SELF-PORTRAIT
Laurencia Chmielarski
Acrylic Paint, Colored Pencil