The contour hand drawings and the watercolor mini lessons I think were the most beneficial to me. The contour drawings taught me how to move my hand through the pen with my eye to copy the same shape of the object I was looking at. This helped me later on in bigger projects like drawing the skeleton. I think now I'm better able to accurately resemble shape and proportion. I also enjoyed learning how to use watercolors. Obviously I still need some practice but I think I'll have a good start. In the future I could definitely incorporate the strategies that we're shown to us that can manipulate the material to show texture or other interesting things. Learning how to use the watercolors by looking at apples definitely helped me understand how to use color line and texture with that material. The first photo is a perspective drawing of Legos from the beginning of the semester, and the second is a piano. In both I used colored pencils. From comparing these two we can definitely see that over time I've become able to transition from one color to the next than I could before. once I started using prisma colors that definitely helped it. While drawing the Legos, I had a hard time figuring out the correct size of things. When making the second drawing, I struggled a lot less with finding which proportions were correct in perspective. I think I have a better understanding of the light sources and shadows, as well as certain details, which is shown in the hand in the second drawing. This project I felt was my least successful. It doesn't look realistic, the line work is bad, and overall it just looks sloppy. I think this is because I tried not to spend too much time on it, but ended up resulting in bad work. I also didn't enjoy working with the waxy crayon like materials that we had to use for this. I like to be able to build up layers fast, and with those types of pastels it can't be done. If I could do this piece over again, I think I would want to be patient and take my time with it. I would have also used a lighter sheet of paper since I'm less used to the black ones. It also needs more highlights, contrast, value, color, and better lines near the ends of the wrinkles of the candy. I believe that my best project in this class was my drawing of the diner. This is because I like the composition of it and I think it's interesting. The way I used the technique one point perspective makes it look more realistic as the objects repeat back into the space. I became more familiar with the use of different kinds of graphite pencils, as well as learned how to blend using a tortillion. In the future, I definitely would use this information in my new pieces. I went through a very long process of compositional sketches and adding value. These took especially a long time because of my indecisiveness with planning and how my piece incorporates so many different objects. It took too long to finish everything, but I am pleased with the end result. This was my multi media project. I used a dollar bill, ribbon, coins, glitter, tissue paper, paint, and wrapping paper. This was supposed to represent a Christmas theme, that could connect with the amusement motif that was assigned to us to use. This has many layers, but I regret not making the paint and gesso more see through so it would be easier to see the things underneath. I also expected the corners to be more green, but it ended up being more blue, which I'm not really happy with. I'm also not happy with the red paint, I think it's too pink. If I had more money, I would have done the Christmas tree entirely with dollar bills, but I'm happy with how the tree turned out. In general, I don't think this project was one of my best; probably because the strategy and medium is so new to me. I really like the idea of this type of work, and I'd definitely want to try it again outside of school where I would have more time and access to better materials. This is one of the journals I used in planning. I used book pages, text, gum wrappers, coins, and graph paper. I like the way the colors fit together.a lot of it was basically what I could find in my backpack. |