The skeleton’s name is Frank. He is like me, dancing with the blue background of depression.

Just wanted to make a flower artwork. I like the colors i chose. Its some lilac that i have painted.

The piece shows the complexity of the human experience and how your perception of moments in time can be completely warped by your view or angle, this is shown by the different zooming in and zooming out panels showing all angles of the riders experience the rider himself doesn't truly understand what is happening and simply goes along on the ride like many of us in our daily life.

It's a portrait-style artwork of Seeyitt Belleavit, a character i made up in my head and designed. I'm rather proud of the design and the shading, and this artwork in general. I've got ones i'm more proud of, but unfortunately they feature characters i do not own, owned by people i cannot ask permission to submit. but hey, next best thing!

My artwork represents how Michael Jordan’s career took many ups and downs but it made him into the man he is today as one of the greatest basketball players of all time.

The meaning behind my artwork is how we are still constantly changing every time. We are never the same or the same person a few seconds ago because we tend to have actions in our minds continuously, working, functioning, and living. We take time for granted and slow down. We are prone to consumerist things that give us pleasure. We are advancing rapidly to the point where we live in a world where we constantly focus on the future too much to the fact we bind ourselves in the process of being present here right now, which affects our mental and physical health. The second theme is the whole reincarnation. I have strong beliefs in the endless cycle of birth, death, and rebirth. The things we do good or bad will be the things we are soon to receive or at the end of our lives. We continue learning even past our lives by always restarting and having a new life. We may experience new or old things, but we may never know due to having different lives, and that is what makes life very interesting.

I designed this piece to be a part of the Youth: Water is Everywhere exhibition at the David Brower center in Berkeley in May. I wanted to channel the exhibition's theme of global water issues while also incorporating my own thoughts and feelings about climate change. My goal was to make it a piece very open to interpretation but also one that can show in some sense how all the carbon and oil we have burned to fuel our societies has polluted our air and water and even ourselves. Then building on that to convey how that pollution is slowly creeping more and more into our lives and having a larger effect on us as we try to shut the gushing spigot we created. Those were the central ideas I attempted to build my piece around and I tried to shape the person and their posture and body language to this purpose. I also used color as another of my crucial tools to give the emotions and feelings I intended to the audience. I spent a lot of time going through many iterations until I found the colors I felt created the strongest effect. The initial prompt I used was crucial to finding inspiration to create this piece but I also used it as a sort of jumping off point to create my own interpretations and ideas to convey.

Making this shoe I reflected on the world as it is but if things were altered, what effect might be in place? For this, I chose to change a shoe to become into cheese. It shows how the mice use this as a home and a source of food while the cat is lurking behind in the dark waiting to catch them. Although it may not make sense, art isn’t supposed to make sense! I had a lot of fun creating this and I hope to continue this series soon!

Each name in the picture comes from a specific album cover. Can you guess which album it is based on the name and color scheme? Some are given to you already.

My Art piece was made with acrylic paint. I painted a purple butterfly because purple is my favorite color, and butterflies are my favorite animal/insect. I painted the repeating background red because the colors red and purple have special meaning to me. I painted the background yellow because it is the contrast color of purple.

My favorite part of drawing and sketching is being able to create scenarios in my head and escape the intimidating environments and situations that life brings. The exciting scenarios I create in my head work as a prompt that leads to my process, and style. As I arrived at the Palace of Fine Arts, one of many impressive architectures of San Francisco, a necessary prompt appeared to me. After responding to pressure all day, I needed to de-stress, allowing an electric build-up to release from my body and hands, and into my paper. Not only was I making the prompt in my head, but I was living in it too. I needed to feel a race of speed and messiness. The prompt in my head was to draw as fast I could, with no constrictions or rules. To capture the view as rapidly as I could was the goal. My artwork represents no boundaries or worrisome, but just my pure joy of capturing the general shapes and shadows of the architecture.

Written by the iconic Dizzy Gillespie, “A Night in Tunisia” is a vibrant composition that draws influences from Afro-Cuban rhythms and bebop brilliance. The tune starts off with intricate harmonies and rhythms, taking the listeners on a nostalgic journey though timeless melodies.

This painting means a lot to me.

This piece is about the concept of not being able to ever truly know someone. No matter how long you may have known your spouse, friend, or relative there will always be a part of them that you, as an outsider, can never understand. I believe that women can relate to this concept the most because throughout history women have been resigned to an outlet for the sexual desires of others or a tool for reproduction. The figure in this piece represents how women are scene by society, ie. void of personality, and the pink abstraction at the top of the piece represents the complex world of women's thoughts, emotions, and soul which can never be seen through objectification.

The ‘Warped Woman’ in this drawing is me. To be warped means to be distorted, to be changed from one’s normal way. As a person, but especially a woman, I am warped in many ways. When I was thirteen, I developed an eating disorder. It ravaged my life, my body, and my relationships. When I looked in a mirror, I would ache with the shame of having flesh. My body became unknown to myself—I was my own stranger. Now, years later, the girl in those photos is just as strange, but the woman I see in the mirror is not. It is in part because of this disconnection from myself that I explore and exhibit my body through art. As I drew her this time, seated at an easel in my school’s art classroom, I observed the people viewing me. Some were shocked, intrigued, aroused—all emotions that have been aimed at me over the years. There is no escape from being watched, so I purposely laid myself bare. I dare to trust myself, as I did with this piece, to create through my intuition. Some think I dare to be vulgar, but I disagree. Here, I may be doing any number of things, and most of them come with social stigma attached. Self-pleasure, shaving… I am at my most vulnerable and my most powerful. In a world that continues to create shame around women’s bodies, minds, and creations, I hope my artwork stands in defiance of this.

I created this artwork for an assignment in my english class. Based on The House On Mango Street we were told to create a piece of art that represented the female experience. I used quotes from the book, well known sayings, and songs I felt fit the prompt. Drawing on my own experiences I began to create my piece using elements such as water colors, craft paper, markers. The craft paper accentuates the wounds left by each experience and the effects on her life. Each pattern was chosen with great care to represent the loss of innocence, femininity , dreams. One such wound left by the dagger of society displays writing, which is the main characters biggest coping mechanism. The girls head is pictured as a brick wall symbolizing how many close themselves off to the world due to such experiences. I chose colors that are significant in the novel to paint the girls body. Then I highlighted words with red pen to have a greater impact. Lastly, I left the girl in my art faceless and nameless so, the viewer could see themself in my art no matter what they look like.

This art was all about expressing my feelings. I used patterns and lines to explain what I feel on the inside comparing to what I show or display on the outside. I used friends, school and other things to show how they effect me each day. So by showing what hurts on the inside sometimes and the fake me I express on the outside, all tied together into creating this portrait. Around me are patterns I used to express what ties me back into what I love and things that take me back to my happy place.(traveling, sunsets,music). I used more of darker colors on the inside and lighter colors on the outside. What I think makes this such a strong piece is that how I explained my art could maybe make people think more about how they treat others. I’m my artwork I had drawn my neck being tied on a rope with blood coming down it. I think when people look at that they think about me commuting suicide or feeling really depressed, but it was more of almost like me being on a leash. For a long time I was in a lot of drama, dealing with broken friendships and just life in general. But even still now it still feels like I’m a slave or a servant to them. As they tie me on their leash. Then around me, I have new friends that make me feel free, safe and welcome. They bring me to happiness.

Red is a piece about the hyper feminization and over sexualization of teenage girls in modern society. Utilizing a digital format with composition similar to that of comics and graphic novels I illustrate the dehumanizing emotions most teenage girls and young women experience.

This piece began when I was working towards depicting emotional deterioration through external processes. I began planning by creating small sketches with little detail to find what composition and design I would use. Once decided what the symmetry of my painting would be like, reference photos of myself hanging off a stage were taken with assistance of a friend. Once the photos necessary were taken, a sketch of what the painting would look like was created in a sketchbook and then sketched with watercolor pencil on watercolor paper. As I began to sketch I realized that my painting did not have enough depth and was boring. After thinking I decided to add vines to portray a sense of constriction and of organic processes taking over. Eventually the meaning shifted into being about destructive emotions and relationships. The plant constricting the body was ivy which is a very common invasive plant, similar to how destructive situations are very common. Once the main focus was complete it was difficult to decide what to use for the background, the original idea was to use decelularized ivy leaves with watercolor, however that subtracted from the main focus, therefore dirt became the background as it showed more contrast.

This painting is a depiction of heartbreak and alcoholism. I used a muted color palette and desolate setting to enhance the theme.