May+Hang's+Portfolio


 * May Hang//'s//** //**Portofolio**//

// __May's Artsist Statement__ //

As you can see, my artworks are more bright, happy and sometimes colorful. I grew up watching a bunch of cartoons and fun, exciting characters were always constanly popping up on T.V. I couldn't help but be amazed at how animated and interesting they always appeared. I want to portray that into my works. I want it to be fun, loving or peaceful, but at the same time, it's serious yet entertaining to me. Deciding on what to do for my artwork, I sometimes challenge myself or I decide to keep it within my boundaries based on the medium and the concept of the art piece. Usually, the artwork is about anything that comes into my thoughts whether it's going to be my own cartoon character, a mountain landscape, or a talking bunny. Either way, they'll all be under my own original idea. As an artitist, I'm not those type to stick to one final idea, because I will always add something, take away something or even completely change the whole thing in the end. Most of my works, I base them off of knowledge I've acheived before or it can just be something totally random. I try to challenge myself by using a new kind of meduim or trying to improve a media I'm not so good at. Either way, I find both situations difficult to deal with while I think of a way to overcome the struggles. Usually when I find myself having a hard time, I'll get really upset that I can't do the job at my fullest. However, the ending results are always surprising. I always feel proud of what comes out from my artworks.

// __MAY'S FIRST PROJECT__ //



I got inspired to draw this Korean Star, because of my sister. She really likes him and so I wanted to draw him for her. When I started this, my goal was to make it look realistic. Although it's not the best realistic looking artpiece, I like how it turned out. I really enjoyed challenging myself to something I haven't completely mastered. What was easy about this project was that it didn't involve any colors & so I didn't find much difficulty. Overall, it was really fun.

// __MAY'S SECOND PROJECT__ //



For this drawing, I wanted to have something to deal with water. And so I came up with a lily pad theme for the drawing. I added ripples to the drawing; that was the fun part to the project. In the beginning, I didn't know how to make it. But I tried various ideas and this one looks the most like water ripples. The difficult part of the project is to make the fish look like it's underwater. That's a failed... But then I love the colors I added to the drawing. Without it, I think the drawing would've turned out really dull and lacking something bright. I liked this project.

//__ MAY'S THIRD PROJECT __//

This project is something I never tried before. I've seen my friends tried it due to the artclass they took, but I've taken that artclass in my junior highschool already so I never got the opportunity to try it. Therefore, I took this chance to give it a shot. I think I didn't do so bad on it. I've tried hard because I wanted to do individual portraits instead of just one. So there was a lot of work put onto me, but I loved that I didn't give up and faught through the stress. The hard part of this project was the shading because it was all in black and white. After I tried it out with just sketching it first, it soon turned pretty easy. I was able to add shading into the artpiece. This was really a challenge for me, but I enjoyed it.

// __MAY'S FOURTH PROJECT__ //



For this art piece, I wanted to create a design based on the way I like to draw. So I came up with this small comic strip with the main character plopped on top of it. The comic behind her is nothing important but just apart of the artwork to create a whole piece. I really had fun with this because I felt like I could do whatever to make the drawing look fun. I think I did successfully. // __MAY'S FIFTH PROJECT__ //

This was a very fun project, because to me, it was rather difficult. I wanted to test out my painting skills and I guess this is how good I can get. Usually, my painting turns out worst than this, so personally I think did an amazing job! As you can see, I added some swirl to the paint strokes because I wanted it to focus on the ballown. I successfully accomplished that which I'm proud of. Although I'm so horrible at this media, I enjoyed it and I loved the result to this painting. // __MAY'S SIXTH PROJECT__ // This project was a last minute thing. At first, I wanted to go with something simple. But then I decided to change it to this. I wanted to show an evil character that will pop up as a villain in a story. I wanted to add an Asian aspect to the look, making the face white like how traditional Chinese and Japanese always powdered their face white in their colorful dresses. So I wanted to bring a unique look to the character like that. Firstly, I believe I completely accomplished my goal by succeeding the evil look concept. But over all, it was sort of a rush. If I had more time, it would have looked much more complete. However, I still love how she turned out.