Hello,
My name is Ben Steeves, I am a freshman, and I am a Mechanical Engineering major. Some of my most memorable life experiences have come from playing soccer and running track in high school. I am also running track here at WPI so hopefully there will be many more great experiences to come. Athletics aside, I have always been interested in art. In high school I took studio art and that has been my main focus when it pertains to art. For anyone who is interested, I put below a link to a website that I created to display some of my artwork.
https://bonnyeagle.digication.com/ben_steeves/Welcome/published
Currently I have focused on 2D art forms such as drawing and painting which leads me to be very eager to learn about the digital world of art!
The deer skull below is a still life drawing that I did with pastel pencils. My art teacher in high school had collected a bunch of animal skulls because they have unique structures and surfaces that are difficult to draw. Many of the students in my class were interested in the collection and we all did a still life drawing of a different animal skull.
The pumpkins are another piece that I did in my high school art class. This is a watercolor painting in which I mainly focused on an interesting composition of the pumpkins.
This ink pen drawing is of my dad’s 1965 Ford Mustang. This piece was created free hand with a fine tipped Sharpe marker. It did in fact take a long time, however, my dad was very surprised when I showed it to him finished.
Below, is my low-res icon image. This image is significant to me because it represents my love for track. The image consists of a track spike with wings, three stripes, and the number eight hundred. The track spike or shoe with wings is iconic to running and thus the focus of the icon. The three racing strips are to portray speed and competition. To me, they also make it look like the spike is tearing through a finish line. I also thought of the racing strips as ones on a car because I enjoy watching Nascar. The number 800 is significant because my primary event in track is the 800 meter dash in which I finished first for the State of Maine in my last high school outdoor track season. Running is a major part of my life and doing it every day at WPI pushed the fact that I had to create a track based icon!
