Anrey+Chekis


 * Andrey Chekis's Art Portfolio. (Benchmark Q1)**

Alien

Dario

Grandma

Sheep

Dj Sava

Super Blob

Lugio (Mario and Luigi)

Cold Owl

Thinga thing(Flower)

Artist Statement. I draw because it is fun and because it doesn't have to be perfect but mostly to express ideas. So as long as i can remember art was always something where you could let your imagination run around and just do whatever you want. There really is no really goal for me when I'm drawing something but more of a self relief after I am done with it because for me the enjoyment of drawing something is good enough then making it perfect and making it look fancy, to me those things do not really count. Art is not suppose to be stressful but what you should do is have fun with it enjoy the time that it takes you to draw something instead of thinking that the art piece must be perfect.

Most of the time what I do when I draw is I just start to thing of think of anything and I just start with something. For example I just draw a couple of line and then these line they, after few more lines, start to form an image. For me its usually something unusual but I just keep on going and I don't really care about what people will say about it because its just something flows after I have stated like the picture called "Dario". Before drawing it I was talking with my friend at the table and he gave me an idea about him being hunted down by a dear. At that moment i was like "oh my god i should draw that" and i did i though it was funny because he didn't really like the fact that he was the one in the picture being hunted down. All that matters is that i was having fun doing it. For me inspiration is everywhere, when i draw is pretty much anything that comes to mind, it usually starts with a couple of line but then it starts to draw itself.

The work that you see on the top mostly came from me just drawing things in class just for fun. It didn't really have a motive because drawing weird things is just something that I'm good at. The ideas most of the time came from me just talking to people and just doodling random things that eventually found it way to look like something that i like and don't really care what people think about it.


 * Andrey's Amazing Picture (Benchmark Q2)**

I draw because it is fun and because it doesn't have to be perfect but mostly to express ideas. So as long as I can remember art was always something where you could let your imagination run around and just do whatever you want. There really is no really goal for me when I'm drawing something but more of a self relief after I am done with it because for me the enjoyment of drawing something is good enough then making it perfect and making it look fancy, to me those things do not really count. Art is not suppose to be stressful but what you should do is have fun with it enjoy the time that it takes you to draw something instead of thinking that the art piece must be perfect.

When I was doing the drawing for the second quarter at first I did not know what I was going to do because the thing that I enjoy doing is drawing and that was what I wanted to base my project around. At first it all started when I just drew an eye on the paper and kept looking at it to see what I could make of it. Later I made a face that matched the eye and from that point it all connected together and the rest of the drawing had a flow of being drawn. The first problem that I encountered was the drawing of the hands because I am not good at drawing them so I had to look at some other pictures of hands that were drawn and I was able to solve that problem. The last problem that I had was the colors to choose when drawing this. For me its had to tell what is going to look good with which colors because for as long as I have drawn I never colored my pictures so I don't have a good eye for the color coordination of my pictures. But in the end I just colored in the picture with colors that I liked and seemed like they could fit in the picture.

The final product is located on the top of this Artist Statement. I didn't have a motive in drawing of what I drew but I did want to draw something that looked a little serious from what I drew last quarter. It was something that I didn't attempt to draw in a long time because drawing cartoon thing was always fun and it never needed to make sense and I tried to add that component into the drawing you see above to make it more of my style.

Monkey in Space!
 * Andrey's Portfolio (Benchmark Q3)**

Rock Star

Radioactive Rabbit

Hungry Strawberry Experiment

Alien and Friend Koala Bear Gir!!

I draw because it is fun and because it doesn't have to be perfect but mostly to express ideas. For as long as I can remember, art was always something where you could let your imagination run around and just do whatever you want. There really is no really goal for me when I'm drawing something but more of a self relief after I am done with it because for me the enjoyment of drawing something is good enough then making it perfect and making it look fancy, to me those things do not really count. Art is not suppose to be stressful but what you should do is have fun with it enjoy the time that it takes you to draw something instead of thinking that the art piece must be perfect. Inspiration for the anything that I draw comes from anything that come to mind, most of the time I just draw a couple of lines and see what they could look like or I even draw an arm or a face or even an eye and see where it takes me from there. Other times music is what inspires me to draw some of the things that I have drew, its the thing that relaxes me and I draw because its relaxing and fun.

When beginning something new I always have trouble getting started because I am unsure about the things that I am able to do or even what I'm comfortable in doing. These are some of the things that confront me when I'm about to start something new but most of the time not to be held back by that I just start and most of the time that is all it takes. I pick up my usual materials, which are my pencil and an eraser and just start to scribble anything on the paper and work off of that. Most of the time the decisions are made on the spot one thing leads to another and thats where everything begins for me. My material up until now have never changed because drawing is my favorite form of art so the only thing that I will need is a pencil and paper to make the magic happen. Realizing imagination is where its at!!

For this quarter I have done another portfolio of the drawings that I have done during class periods. This time when I was drawing some of my influences to drawing what I have drew was different then it usually is because this time TV was the influence for my ideas. When I watched TV I saw things that I wanted to make my own by making them in my own style, which led me to make the "GIR," "Koala Bear," "Radio Active Rabbit," and "Alien and Friend." For a fact I know that when I made "GIR" the show Invader Zim came back on for the first time since 4 or 5 years and I just wanted to make a kind of a tribute to that show because I liked it so much when I was a kid. The other things that I drew where me trying to make some of the things I saw into my style and I enjoyed doing because It challenged me to work of of someone else's work. I remember that thats how everyone started to draw, they were always tracing DragonBall Z and other cartoons like Spongebob Square pants. This is how some started to get ideas to draw something that they liked and that is what I wanted to do for this project and it was to try something new that I haven't done in so long and get some new ideas about what I could do for the future.


 * Andrey's Portfolio (Benchmark Q4)

I draw because it is fun and because it doesn't have to be perfect but mostly to express ideas. For as long as I can remember, art was always something where you could let your imagination run around and just do whatever you want. There really is no really goal for me when I'm drawing something but more of a self relief after I am done with it because for me the enjoyment of drawing something is good enough then making it perfect and making it look fancy, to me those things do not really count. Art is not suppose to be stressful but what you should do is have fun with it enjoy the time that it takes you to draw something instead of thinking that the art piece must be perfect. Inspiration for the anything that I draw comes from anything that come to mind, most of the time I just draw a couple of lines and see what they could look like or I even draw an arm or a face or even an eye and see where it takes me from there. Other times music is what inspires me to draw some of the things that I have drew, its the thing that relaxes me and I draw because its relaxing and fun.

Whenever I work on my art I usually just sit in the seat for a little bit and then start to make lines on the paper and imagine what I could look like and connect them together. For as long as I can remember I have never had a method of drawing except for the fact I always need to start to draw the eyes first before I draw anything else because I gives me a type of a layout of what the person/creature in the picture would look like and gives me a stepping stone.

For the final art project what I did was a final portfolio. Not much has changed about my random picture drawing because that is how I draw and I can't change that very easily. Many of my choices for drawing came to me through my surroundings, the things that are happening at the time. Nothing I drew was planned out just basically I though of something on the spot and began with a line and continued with it and made the drawings that I did. Sometimes I would get frustrated with what to add to the picture so I draw something that might not fit in the picture just because it makes it look batter.

Burnt Toast.

Dog and Rabbit Thing.

WAR.

Dario's Fantasy.

The Real Dario!

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