Introduction to Class - Andrew Diaz

 My name is Andrew Diaz, I love to make digital art of cartoon characters I enjoy to watch. Ever since I was little I constantly drew fanart with nothing but a paper and a pencil. Animated designs with simplicity and incredible fluid like animations that inspired to draw at my best everyday and improve.

1. “It’s tempting to want the work of art “explained,” but that term implies that we have solved all the complexities and contradictions inherent in the work of art and come to some final “answer” about what it means. Works of art, like all things that emerge from the human imagination, don’t work like that. One reason for this is that “the work of art emerges at once out of a collectivity and out of an individual consciousness”

I chose this quote because it explains that there is so much emotional complexities that have went into creating art. There is no single answer to a piece of art that answers questions but the answer can be anything.

2. “Art history helps objects that have largely fallen mute to speak again and reminds us that the way we see the world around us—at a particular place and time—is just one way to see. When we try to “explain” art, to find a single, narrow meaning, we risk closing down possibilities for empathy with others and with the past, and with aspects of our own humanity. In the Humanities, we seek out multiplicity, complexity, and ambiguity, as difficult as that can be.”

I chose this quote because it provides a notion of how historical art can make people view the world and humanity in a different but positive way there endless possibilities behind the meanings of every art piece that was created throughout the thousands of years.

The artist that inspires me to reach my full potential is Andrew Wyeth. Wyeth’s art demonstrates a beautiful take on realism, the warm colors, the perspective, the atmosphere. What I love most about his art is the emotion that he brings out in his work like “Christina’s World” for example as it portrays a sense of dread and sadness and can’t help but admire it.

A photo of my charcoal painting of my mom in her home workspace

A photo of a charcoal portrait that I made of one of my classmates 

A digital drawing of a bird flying in the sky that I drew in Procreate

A digital drawing of Sonic the hedgehog I drew for his anniversary on Procreate 

A digital drawing of Vox from Hazbin Hotel in Procreate

 

    I’ve been studying Illustration in college for about 2 years now. Been focusing on certain aspects of drawing when it comes to dimensions, painting, structure, realism, and angles. Even though most of my studies involve drawing on paper, I mostly enjoy drawing on Procreate, there are so many possibilities when creating something digital. The amount of special effects that comes with Procreate would really bring out of drawings in the best way possible. My artwork can come across as bouncy, sharp, and cartoony, I can’t help of but draw fictional cartoon characters I’ve grown to love to this day while still trying to improve my own sense of style.

There are some other modern animation and comic artists I have always looked up to who also have influenced my art throughout the years, my biggest animation art influencer would have be “Vivienne Medrano” who is the creator of “Hazbin Hotel” who has influenced my art with it’s sharp and edgy style but with a lot of heart. There is still Andrew Wyeth I that still look up to as I mentioned before, when I try to push my limits to creating real life art while looking back at his work for inspiration. My main motivation to create art is making deep connections towards the audience that see it and how they feel back. A motivation that involves genuine emotion and strength that speaks out to me and to others whether it’s silly or angsty, it’s what gives me so much passion to draw and for everyone to see.