Art 211

This is my attempted grid art of Marilyn Monroe. Unfortunately it did not turn out how I hoped, but this was also my first ever attempt at grid-art. I definitely would give it another try.

I have only been to two Broadway shows: Wicked and Legally Blonde. I loved both of them. Broadway marries my three favorite things: music, dancing, and acting. I find it much easier to get into a Broadway show than an Opera show as the music is broken up by talking and dancing. I preferred Legally Blonde to Wicked, but they were both very humorous and enjoyable. Legally Blonde was about a sorority girl, who gets dumped by her boyfriend because he has been accepted by Harvard Law School, and wants to date someone of the same intellectual status as him. Elle Woods, the girlfriend/sorority girl, then sets out on a course to get into Harvard and win her boyfriend back. She ultimately ends up far exceeding him in her academic career and finding a new boyfriend. She doesn't accept her ex back when he attempts to get back with her. Wicked is a spin off of Dorthy and the Land of Oz. It is set to predate the story of Dorthy. It is about the witches before one becomes the wicked which and on...

I really enjoyed looking at the different ideas expressed with ACSII. You can tell that this form of art takes a lot of work and planning to achieve. I love that it pushes the limits of what can be achieved with art online. Some of the drawings are very elaborate such as the ones below:   I can't imagine taking the time to create something like this, but I definitely applaud the work of others in this area.

This is my flip-book of a caterpillar cocooning. This was my first time ever making a flip-book. I enjoyed the process of trying to imagine the caterpillars movement frame by frame. Movement is not something I typically play around with, but now I might attempt to more.