Anamorphosis Critique

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. We went on photoshop to transform the picture into a bigger and deformed picture by raising the scale for height.

2. How did distorting and stretching the object allow for you to create a drawing that would look different to the viewer?  This made the top of my cupcake stick out making it look like an anamorphosis and stick out to make the perspective look 3D.

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

Making sure the grid was lined up with the picture was important otherwise the picture would look off. Blending colored pencils help make the picture look real. The shadows were pretty hard for me and they didn't turn out well.

Big ben stencil

1. Explain how you changed your photo in the lab to create a stencil. We went on photoshop to change the threshold of the picture. The pictures contrast turned to black and white to create positive and negative space.

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. I took a collage of magazine paper and I used pictures that related to old time fashion, Europe, or city like things because that is what London is known for. I used the color purple because it is a royal color and England is considered a royal country because of the kings and queens. The composition of all the colors looked pretty well.

3. Discuss the way positive and negative space was used to create your stencil. I took the details of the clock on my stencil and turned that into negative space. I wanted to keep my collage a background so I did.

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 the xacto knife, you need to cut away from your body. It was frusterating after a while to cut the whole stencil out because you had to make sure you didn't accidentally cut something you didn't want to cut.

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. Spray painting was fun. I used a just regular black with a light purple around it to make it stand out. The background and the stencil balance well because of the paint I used. If I used a brighter color the background wouldn't stand out as much.

Perspective game board drawing

I did a picture of chess. It was a bit difficult for me to do the lines of the chess board. It was hard to line them up perfectly. The pieces were pretty good except I didn't make them smaller towards the back. The washes of watercolors and colored penciles are good and the shadows looked good but could have been stronger. The blending and overlapping of the colored pencils and watercolors went pretty well. I think I should have colored the background because it would have made the perspective of the picture better. Everything lined up with my vanishing point on the horizon of my picture. The overall values were good. I learned that you have to be very patient in order to get the perspective to look right.

Ink print

1.     Describe the overall composition of your artwork (balance, unity, rhythm and movement).

I think my overall balance was pretty good. I had an even amount of ink and background. The movement was pretty good except my lines got messed up a little bit. The elephant blended with the tree but overall it was pretty good. 

  

2.     How did you add texture and contrast to your print? Is this important? Why?

        I added texture by putting lines on the elephants body to make it look like its skin. I also added texture in the tree to show the trunk so it didn't look like a line. The elephants trunk had lines in it to show its texture too. Texture is important because it makes the effect of the elephant skin. It helped make the picture seem more realistic and not flat.

3.     Explain how you used positive and negative space to show your image.

        I used postive and negative space by making the sky the paper color and the actual elephant and tree the ink. This will help define my animal and make it have an equal amount of ink and paper. If I did it the other way around, it would look boring and wouldn't be as defined.

4.     Describe the craftsmanship of your print. (How good the project is technically crafted)

        The craftsmanship was okay overall. Some of the lines got uneven. The ink at one point would go over a spot I did not want to have ink. The ink smudged a bit. I think that the lines should have been deeper in order to avoid these problems.

5.     Were you able to achieve depth by showing a foreground, middle ground and back- ground? Explain.

         I was able to show a foreground and background and a little bit of the middle ground. The paper at the top is obviously my background. The middle ground is supposed to be where the tree branch is but its kind of hard to see with all the ink. My foreground is obviously at the bottom wheret the elephants body ends.

6.     Explain your experience with Printmaking. What were the obstacles and advantages?

        I think printmaking was fun overall. The biggest obstacles would be carving the lines in the molding and rubbing the ink on. It was challenging to roll the ink on because I knew I only had a few chances to do it right so I couldn't mess up.It was also bad if you accidentally cut somewhere you didn't want to be cut because you can't fix it. Advantages were that you could add lines whenever you need to in case the ink messed up somewhere.

Print Sketch

1. Why is texture so important to have in your sketches?

 Texture is so importnat to have in your sketches because it makes the picture look real. Without texture, it could look really flat and people won't be able to tell what it is sometimes. You want to make sure the picture pops out at people to make it look like its really there, not on a paper.

 

2. Why is it neccessary for you to have several references of each animal and each background? Explain.
It is neccessary to have several refrences of each animal and each background because you can use different things from each picture. If you took just one animal and one background, it could look boring. But if you took, for example, a tree from one background but the sky from another than it looks more like you created it yourself and more detailed.

 

3. When you look at your sketches are you able to see which sketch is the strongest and will make the best print? How do you know this? 

Yes, when I look at my sketches I am able to see which sketch is the strongest. I can tell depending on the amount of detail each picture has. One of my pictures I know will not make as good as a background as the one above. This is because it takes place under the water and there is not a lot of detail in my background so it would not show up as well as a print, it would just be boring.

Chalk Mural

1.  Explain your experience working on a team and executing your ideas for the mural.
 I thought the experience of working with a team was pretty fun and cool. It was cool to hear everybodys creative ideas about what to do and don't do. We were able to use each of our ideas and mix them together to make a mural.

2. Explain the importance of collaboration when working on a team.

Collaboration is important when working with a team because  you need to make sure everybody agrees with everything. You need to make sure peoples ideas are mentioned and that if you disagree on something that you let others know. Collaboration makes what you are working on agreeable and full of different ideas.

3.  How successful was this project? Explain how and why.

I think our project was pretty successful. Although it took us a long time do complete, we were able to get it done. Along the way we had obstacles or ideas that would get in the way but we were able to work through them. I think that our mural came out really good thanks to everyone in the group.

4. Explain how you feel about creating artwork that others can interact with. Ex. Invoving the whole school?

I think creating artwork that everyone can interact with is really cool. Instead of having  to work really hard on a piece of art that you just hang on the wall and look at, you can work hard so that others can interact with your art. I think that it is a good way to use your artwork and it doesn't really go to "waste". I think the students at school think it is a cool thing to be able to interact with artwork as well.

Value Portraits Art Critique

                                                                                                                                                        

Self evaluation (must write at least 3 sentences for each question)

1. Explain the process you went through to develop your drawing.

I used tracing paper and sketched the values and shades of a portrait of a girl in my class. Then, I colored the whole back of the tracing paper with the led of my pencil. I then put it in my sketchbook, picture side up, and reshaded over the spots I did to make it show up in the sketchbook. By shading the back of the tracing paper with led, the portrait shades were able to show up in the sketchbook.

2. Explain how you found the different values in the portrait?

I found the different values in the portrait by seeing which spots on her face were darkest. I shaded the darkest spots onto the tracing paper. I looked for the values in the face and hair and found a lot.

3.  Did you achieve a full range of the different values within your portrait?  How?

Yes, I did achieve a full range of the different values within my portrait. There was a lot of darker spots in the hair. In the face, the closer you got to the face features, the darker it got. The farther away you got from the features, the lighter it was.

4. Describe your craftsmanship.  Is the artwork executed and crafted neatly?

My craftsmanship is kind of neat. It was hard to do the hair because she has a lot of curls and it was very detailed. The hair was probably the least neatest part. The face was somewhat clean and neat, more than the hair.

5. List any obstacles you had to overcome and how you dealt with them.
 Like I said in question 4, I had to overcome the hair difficulty. I had to erase many times but was able to figure out the values as best as I could. The way I shaded was difficult. Instead of starting very lightly with my pencil, I started kind of dark which caused problems. I erased a few times and made sure to start out again very lightly.

Value Study Drawings

1. Describe your overall thoughts on the final piece.
   I got better at it towards the end than when I first started. It was overall fun.
2. if this was a group project, what was your contribution?

3. How successful do you feel this piece is and why?
    This piece was pretty successful but wasn't perfect. The values were still a little off but overall it was pretty good.
4. What worked about this project? What didn’t work?
    Drawing the shapes worked well for me but blending and shading didn't work as well.
5. If you were to do this project over again, what changes would you consider making?
    I would try to do better with the shading and blending.
6. What was the most difficult part about completing this piece and why?
    Getting the blends and shades exactly right for each shape was hard. It was hard shading to the way the light was going and making the transistions from the dark and light shades.
7. What did you learn from this piece?
  I learned how to shade and blend better then I did before even if its not perfect.