Selected Works
✦ AP Drawing Portfolio ✦
What are Selected Works?
CollegeBoard defines the Selected Works portion of your portfolio as pieces of art "that best demonstrate skillful synthesis of materials, processes, and ideas." This entails shipping five of your best pieces to the CollegeBoard facility for overall review. Below are my Selected Works and additional information on them.
Koi of San Juan
9"x13" ✦ Procreate Drawing App ✦ Oct 2021
Prompt ✦ Invoke the feeling of serenity for the viewer using a place from your hometown.
Processes ✦ A local koi pond I would visit with my grandma. Focused on color composition and mark-making.
To Game
19"x24" ✦ Graphite, Bristol Paper ✦ June 2021
Prompt ✦ Draw a still life that expresses an interest or hobby that denes you as a person.
Process ✦ Set up a still life. Focused on composition, shading, and realistic rendering of various materials.
Create in Chaos
Featuring Izzy
19"x24" ✦ Ink, Paint Pens, Ripped Paper ✦ July 2021
Prompt ✦ Find a corner and show its purpose in your life. What is the energy it cultivates?
Process ✦ Layered the ink and paper to create depth and chaos. Focused on using expressive mark-making.
First Cut
19"x12" ✦ Graphite, Colored Pencils ✦ July 2021
Prompt ✦ What is a defining moment in your life that transformed you for the better?
Process ✦ Storytelling through adding color and abstract hyperboles. Emotions of agency and empowerment.
A Dicey Dilemma
24"x19" ✦ Charcoal, Bristol Paper ✦ June 2021
Prompt ✦ Tell a story through a still life of objects. How could the items come to life?
Process ✦ Still life. Storytelling through light/dark values, the directions of objects, and mark-making.