Coursera - CalArts - Required Assignment 1

In this task we had to take a photo of several objects and assign a meaning to the composition.


Title: The Four Temperaments: Phlegmatic, Melancholic, Sanguine, Choleric
Even though the temperaments are described and studied, each person is still a mystery - we can try to look into the hole in people's metaphorical shell that protect their personality, but we cannot enter their personal world to explore the smallest coils of the helix. :-)

Assignment 3 - Coursera - CalArts

The task was to create a portrait based on a text in death or marriage notices. (I missed the part about where the text should have been taken from, but I hope it doesn't matter, as this is an optional task anyway.) The first idea I had was to draw Sei Shonagon, a Japanese writer of Heian period, based on how I pictured her after reading The Pillow Book. Actually there's no description of her appearance (apart from her mentioning she wasn't beautiful).

From My Sketchbook

These drawings aren't based on any real person or work of art.
Only the quotation in the second picture is not mine - a student from the Coursera on-line course suggested it for discussion.