WONDAR PROJECT
FEATURED PORTFOLIO
A growing body of work displaying the skill of the up-and-coming Chase Gardner. This space exhibits my understanding of value, form, proportion, and composition.
Genesis: Greyscale
Portrait: Gorgeous in Grey
A meticulously stylized portrait of a dear friend. This work displays my keen understanding of proportion and directional mark-making.
Medium: Graphite on medium grain paper
Size: 6 x 9 in
year: 2025
Composition: Gothic Resonance
Portrait: "The Star Parallel"
Portraiture study focused on texture rendering and dark value against lighter value. Texture with value was concluded to push the illusion of hardness.
Medium: Graphite on medium grain paper
Size: 6 x 9 in
year: 2025
A detailed composition including reference from the Cologne Cathedral, drawn to emphasize depth and perspective, whilst also displaying my acuity to linework.
Medium: Graphite on Bristol paper
Size: 9 x 12 in
year: 2025
Composition: "Babylon"
A simple one-point perspective composition done with black pen and marker on Bristol. I also consider this good work because of my successful take on stylized font.
Medium: Black marker and tech pens on Bristol paper
Size: 9 x 12
year: 2025
Portrait: Monochromatic Softness
Portrait done with vine charcoal on Bristol. Not made to emphasize detail or form, but rather to study how certain textures can be achieved with certain mediums, like the softness of skin or hair.
Medium: Vine charcoal on Bristol
Size: 14 x 17 in
year: 2026
Gesture Within Observation
My favorite composition that includes a model drawn from life done with vine charcoal on paper. The detail makes the subject stand out as the focal point amongst the rest of the loosely rendered environment, including a gesture of the drawing itself.
Medium: Vine charcoal on paper
Size: 18 x 24 in
year: 2025
"King Of Monsters"
A composition made to display the terrifying scale of Godzilla. While the background could've included darker value, I maintain my opinion of the success of this composition.
Medium: Graphite and compressed charcoal on paper
Size: 18 x 24 in
year: 2026
Stone Age: exploration of new mediums
"The Women in Green"
These two character designs are representative of my exploration of color and layering, specifically through my primary traditional medium consisting of alcohol markers.
Medium: Alcohol Markers on paper
Size: 9 x 12 in
year: 2026
"Yucky Blucky Fruitcake" song cover
A project for one of my classes requesting a song cover, with credits included, using stock images. The song I chose was "Yucky Blucky Fruitcake" by the popular artist 'Doechi'. The song maps out a scene of a young girl introducing herself in class and being criticized by her peers, but with confidence and certainty of self, she continues to express herself freely. I thought the best way to depict this message of persistence would be to highlight the subject in contrast to the disturbed profiles blending in the backdrop.
Medium: Photoshop
Size: Tabloid 11 x 17 in
year: 2026