Figure Drawing Analysis

          The importance of scale and proportion in drawing is so the piece can have overall balance and look realistic. I used dark thick lines to show volume, while using light thick lines to show where the light was hitting it. We did many warmup exercises to help us; one we did was gesture drawings. The timed ones helped us understand that only a few lines were need to show the movement of the body. The ones were were were supposed to take more time on helped us to work on proportion and balancing the differnent elements of the body. I liked using different medias because it allowed me to experiment with  different materials. I think that experimenting with different medias helped my work because it allowed me to get darker with my values and be looser with my drawings. The struggles I had with this piece were, getting the body to look like it had form and mass and not just doing an outline. Overall I loved this activity and I think it helped me grow as an artist.

Oh the Places We Will Go, Project

When creating this piece I had tree ideas; Italy, France, and walking in the rain. I started to draw out my thumbnails of my ideas when I realized I could combine two of my ideas into one unique idea. I combined walking in the rain with Paris and had the idea to draw a girl from pairs waiting to come back home sitting by train tracks. I used pen for her umbrella, her hat, the rail road tracks, the Eiffel Tower, and for general shading techniques. I used marker for her coat, her suitcases, her hair, the grass, and the mountains in the distance.I used water color for the sky and the ground to give the effect that it was raining in the picture. Overall, my struggles were creating the tiles for the ground were she was sitting, and the rail road tracks. I think had a easier time shading her coat and her suitcases. I was proud of myself for drawing her hair in a way that gave the effect of having curly hair. Overall, this project let me experiment with pen and marker in different fun unique ways.

Interesting Point of View Drawing

            At first I wanted to draw a Alice in Wonderland tea set. but when I started looking at the backgrounds of Alice and wonderland and all the unique settings they had I wanted to draw that instead. I wanted to Incorporate some of the famous characters into my drawing and immediately thought of drawing the cat, however, I realized that he has been overdone so I settled for drawing the caterpillar instead. I also knew that I would have to draw many big extravagant flowers and mushrooms too. I chose the 1st point of view for this piece because I thought it would give more attention to the background and all it unique factors. I knew I had to be very creative if I was going to draw Alice in Wonderland so I exaggerated everything I could, I made the mushrooms huge, as well as the roses. I also gave each piece of my drawing very detailed shading so that each piece would pop. Also I gave each part of my drawing texture so my drawing would be unique and unforgettable.

paper bag project

           Value is important because in order to depict depth and add a realistic quality to drawings you have to add many values to your work. I feel like I achieved this quality of volume and 3D by adding value. I added darker values to where the bag was crumpled in and put lighter values for the parts of the bag that were being hit by the light source.  Also when a fold was in the bag I used darker values for the edge of the fold and put lighter values under the fold to make the fold look like it was 3D and coming off the page. I used the paper bag by crumpling it and the folding over the top of the bag to give it a unique fold. The hardest part of drawing the bag for me was the top and inside of the bag; I had a hard time depicting the drawing so it looked like you could really see inside the bag. The part I was most successful at was the front of the bag. I feel like I really depicted the folds and the overlapping of the folds well and did a good job at adding the dark values to the folded in parts of the bag. Overall, this project helped me grow in my shading abilities and taught me how to use the value scale correctly.

game drawling

Vocabulary to use: perspective, washes, watercolor, gradation, blending, colored pencils, overlapping, horizon, vanishing points, value, highlights, shadows

\Describe your overall thoughts on the final piece.  
How successful do you feel this piece is and why? 
What worked about this project? What didn’t work? 
If you were to do this project over again, what changes would you consider making? 
What was the most difficult part about completing this piece and why?
What did you learn from this piece?


my overall thought with my game drawling was it was both fun and changeling. the back round of my game drawling was really hard to draw for me because everything was blurred together. Although using the water colors and light washes was fun. i also really enjoyed using the color pencils to blend together colors.

I feel very successful about this piece.  because I used lots of perspective, and value to make my drawling look 3D. the vanishing points, shadows, and the horizon line really helped me do this. i found that wend use the technique blending, and added highlights to my picture it made it look allot better.

what did not work in this project  was adding black washes to the border of my picture because it made it blur and you could not tell what it was. what did work was the techniquce  gradation

anamorphosis drawling

Grid              colored pencils            anamorphosis            photoshop        transform         scale

Perspective      shadows             value                    

               

1. Describe the process you went through to change your object into the correct perspective to create the drawing. This is when you were in the lab. first we had to choose a everyday object, i chose a cupcake. then we went in to Photoshop and clicked on the transform tab and changed the scale to the whole canvas. then we took the corners to the picture and dragged them sideways so the picture was bigger on top.

2. How did distorting and stretching the object allow for you to create a drawing that would look different to the viewer?

 distorting and stretching the object made it look like it was standing up when you took a picture from a certain angle. or in other words it turned into an  anamorphosis drawling. it changed the perspective of the picture to 3D, or made it life like.

3. What were the most important concepts in the project to make it successful? 

the most important aspects of this drawling were, the grid, shadows, and value. how the grid was important is you had to draw it exactly the way it was on the photo otherwise the 3D effect would not work.  you could also add shadows to the object to make it more life like and seem like it standing off the page. value was a very important factor because it made it seem like the drawling had depth. you had to color in darker shades of the color on the edges of the shape by using colored pencils. overall, with the help of these aspects, and colored pencils the drawling transformed into a real life object.

stencil critiue

Stencil                 Spray Paint       Xacto Knife        Positive/Negative Space

Composition    Collage                Photoshop        Threshold              Contrast

1. Explain how you changed your photo in the lab to create a stencil. first in the threshold of our project, we added pixels to our photo, and made our photo black and white in Photoshop so we could choose how to cut the outline of our picture. then we had to make a stencil  by protecting our photo on a wall and tracing on to a piece of poster board. after that we picked whether to cut out the black or white i choose to cut out the white part of my photo by using a Xacto knife.  however it was important to have a frame around our stencil other wise our image would get lost in the back round of our collage. 

2. When creating the collage background explain your choices of colors, materials (magazine paper, books pages, etc), and placement. How does it relate to your topic? If no relation discuss general idea.

when i created my collage for my stencil of my punch buggy i picked color and images that would relate to hippies who are the type of person i would think would drive a punch buggy. because hypies wear tied allot i picked random bright colors i also picked flowers and neat designs which reminded me of the thing that would be associated with a punch buggy.

3. Discuss the way positive and negative space was used to create your stencil.

i pick the white space of my punch buggy to cut out, or positive space so my colors of the spray paint i chose would outline my photo. i also chose this so the black parts or negative space could make up the picture of the bug. also the negative space made all my details. the positive space however outlined them.

4. When using the xacto knife, explain the safety procedures, how to use the knife and any challenges you had to overcome while cutting. when using a xacto knife it is important to cut away from you because you could cut yourself if you don't. also it is important to have the blade tightly secured so it does not fall off. the most important thing is to have the parts directly underneath the knife to be secured, otherwise the knife will not work. i had a few times where i accidently cut my self because i was going to fast but other than that it was fine.

5. How was your experience with the spray paint? Discuss how color choice is important, placement of stencil, and any other concepts you noticed while creating this. 

when using the spray paint i used bright neon color and had Lacey fabrics that a sprayed over to create texture. the colors i chose were, pink, orange, purple, white, yellow, red, and blue. i out lined my stencil with purple at first to go with my theme of hippy style. but i figured out that it did not out line it very well and used black and faded it out into the purple which i think made a overall very good composition  and made a very nice contrast with the colors showing up inside the frame of my buggy..