A FINE ART STUDENTS JOURNEY 
By Faith Jacobs

This artist doesn't draw or paint his images, he is a photographer, what draws me into his works is his double and triple exposure...

Another artist I enjoy looking at is Kelsey Knobe, instead of using the standard white paper, she creates her portraits with white...

My second influential artist is Kate Zambrano, she creates fantasy style images using pencils and other materials to give her artworks...

I have chosen several artists to look at for the change of my NLP, these are primarily artists who use pencils, graphite and inks. First...

It's been great seeing other students works in a gallery type setting, and it has sparked a variety of emotions within myself when my...

I went from working on portraits of made up people, by doing this I have been able to easily place the fundamentals of basic portraiture,...

I decided that from the initial plan of work, where I wanted to create A body of work based around astrology and the star signs in male...

Aquarius was the one I was most looking forward to working on simply due to the sign being progressive and forward thinking, this piece...

Aries was a little more complicated then Taurus due to the bone structure in the rams horns and the braided hair. I wanted to stick to...

This is my final work up of Taurus, I decided against using the wasted materials in my images just simply because of the restriction I...

I knew I wanted to do something different so I decided quite early on that even though I was going to work on primed canvas, I still...

Character: Scorpion Element: Water Season: Autumn Traits: Loves to be in charge, ambitious, brooding loner, into bands or dark magic,...

Character: Ram Element: Fire Season: Spring Traits: Centre of attention, capable, vulnerable, confident, warrior, passionate, brave,...

Character: Bull Element: Earth Season: Spring Traits: Soft - lover not a fighter, stubborn, patient, fixer, stoic, non chalant,...

Once again, the masking tape comes into play (I do use an ecofriendly, biodegradable, cruelty free masking tape, which I will be using in...

So again, I have used the maskign tape method to protect the sketch as best as possible, I was thinking about using masking fluid as I...

I have started Aries by prepping the first sketch with masking tape so I can start on a background, it has been tedious but I don't want...

I decided to change up Aquarius quite abit, I felt in the original draft she looked too much like a cyborg and I feel I lost the human...

With Taurus, I decided to play around with the delicate, empathic, nature theme, being a Taurus myself I find it easier to play around...

This is my first draft of Aries on canvas, the canvas is 30x20 inches, so it gives me room to expand on the original draft, I was going...