Question 1: The first piece was created for the Metaphor Project, the second assignment of the class. I chose to make it about how specific dog breeds are labeled because of how they look even though they are basically harmless. Sadly, I didn't give the piece the justice I thought it deserved. I had used Prismacolors very rarely before and decided to use them for this project thinking that they would be easy. I was rather wrong and was unable to achieve the look I wanted for this project. It looks childish to me. Careless errors led to flaws in lighting and continuity as well as it being a rather boring piece in general. I learned to plan more thoroughly while coming up with a design so it doesn't end up rushed and unfinished looking like this one. The second piece was created for a project that didn't really have a name, but I called it the Juxtaposition Project, since that was the topic I picked. I got 'Life versus Death' and, though it is rather cliché, I did my best. When coming up with this one, I did lots of sketches and went through lots of ideas, unlike the project before. I also practiced the technique since I hadn't painted digitally before, which I didn't do properly for the project before either. The final design ended up being a bright red bird in a nest, but the nest is built inside of a deer ribcage. I was inspired by a picture I had seen on the internet, so I went and turned it into my own. Overall, I struggled with the ribs the most and am still not quite happy with how they look. I think the colors and shading are off but no matter how much I tweaked them I couldn't get them quite right. I learned I really love painting feathers, since it was rather fun, and also that I happen to use purple to shade just about everything. Overall, I learned: - When trying a new medium you must to practice first - When doing a project, planning is essential even though its boring - When proper time isn't spent working on details, the whole thing ends up not coming together properly. Question 2: My artistic strengths are, when effort is put in, creating interesting composition in a piece and giving dynamic flow to things. I spent a lot of time trying to figure out how to make uninteresting things look interesting, weird angles, shapes, colors, everything, and I do believe it has paid off. My sketches are loose and fluid and it shows in my final pieces if I do them right and with enough time and effort put into them. I also like to think I have a knack for color, though it doesn't always agree with me. I love choosing color pallets and messing with what goes together. Like adding a purple overlay onto a mostly red and orange piece, or purposely figuring out how to stuff a whole rainbow into a painting. None of the artworks in this class have shown this really, well the first project maybe but those are mostly warm tones with some blue, green, and of course purple tossed in for dimension. Much of my artistic weaknesses can all be summed up into one word. Laziness. When I don't have full passion for a piece, I rarely give it anywhere near my all. I work without motivation, if it can be called work at all, and end up with trash that will almost absolutely be discarded later on. And if I am passionate about a piece, I will still procrastinate as much as humanly possible for whatever reason I have come up with so I don't keep working on it. Even if I'm genuinely enjoying creating the piece, I will simply put it to the side and do absolutely nothing instead of working. Why? I have no earthly idea. This causes me to rush for deadlines, which in turn causes mess ups, half-finished jobs, forgotten elements, and overall a ruined work that actually had potential. Aside from my olympic level procrastination skills, I have a rather hard time placing light sources, which could just be fixed with simple practice. I'm learning proportions, so that is becoming less of a weakness and more of an ability, though not a strength yet. I think a great way to improve my art on so many levels is to simply get myself in gear and set to work instead of procrastinating. So, so much time could be saved as well as progress made if I took that simple step to not be so lazy.
If I were to go back and do this project again, I think I would add more orange into many of the petals, as a lot of them ended up overwhelmingly yellow. The color shift is too abrupt in my opinion and doesn't sit well with me aside from the one front-facing flower, where there isn't nearly as much yellow. I also think I would have planned out the green leaves better because they look like they were placed in as an afterthought rather than as part of the design.
Question 4: Coincidentally, the piece above, the first piece, is also my favorite from the class. I hadn't ever done stippling before, nor had I used sharpies in an actual art project, and here I put both into one. It was interesting to do and fun to see take shape. I did a bunch of practice flowers and loved them more and more as I got familiar with the technique. It is my favorite because of the bright colors and the range of colors used, since I was able to fit as many as I could into the project even though I had a limited number of markers. They are also my mom's favorite flowers, which makes the piece a little sentimental/gives it more meaning to me. And it makes me even more glad that it turned out so lovely. I think this is my best, not because it looks the best (even though I do think it looks really lovely), but because I genuinely enjoyed working on it. Despite the sheer amount of dots, I honestly liked seeing the colors blend and flowers take shape dot by dot. I complain a lot about stippling, but I find myself using it more and more in things that aren't stippled, like the last project of the class. This piece shows how much color I like to use and how much effort I am able to put into my art as the artist, even if they are just cheap sharpie markers. It is full of contrast and life and I couldn't have asked for it to have turned out better, especially that focal point of the big, open, front-facing flower, which is my favorite part. This project was called Artists Self Directed, meaning we could pick whatever we wanted to do, and also shows what kind of artist I am. I didn't pick the idea first, I picked the medium. I knew I wasn't comfortable with ink, so I went for something even harder, colorful ink. And then I chose my colors and picked something I could do with those colors, which ended up being flowers. My artistic processes are backwards and a little upside down sometimes, but when I'm passionate and given free-range, I can do what I set my mind to.
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For this project, we were asked to create a piece of art that had symbolism and meant something deeper than its surface.
I chose to pick how specific 'aggressive' dog breeds are portrayed in the media, like pitbulls and rottweilers, and show they aren't anywhere near the monsters they are said to be. As someone who has owned a pitbull, two pitbull mixes, and a rottweiler as well, I know first hand the treatment these poor dogs face when all they want is love. So, for my project, I drew three cowering, malnourished puppies of those breeds with the label 'monsters' above their heads. Bystanders are around and doing nothing to help the helpless dogs because they are told they are monsters, even though they are actually far from it. I wish I had done this piece better, and will probably revisit it again, but as my first piece in colored pencil I can't complain about how it turned out. The person I got for my blind portrait said they liked clothes, music, drawing and not doing physical activity, while they didn't like things that required getting out of bed. From this description I decided to make a little sculpture of a bed with a sketchbook, pair of headphones and a shirt on top of it. The person wrote in blue pen as well, so I painted the bedsheets blue. I really like how this turned out, as I hadn't done clay in a long, long time, and thought it was fun to finally do another one. I like how the folds in the cloth turned out though I wish I had more time to have painted some values and some more details on the whole thing.
This is the first project I've done in Art 3 Proficient. I began with a general idea of wanting to use some form of ink, since I wasn't very comfortable with the medium and hadn't had a chance to use it much in previous art classes, and stippling since I hadn't done a project in it before. I also knew I'd like to do something colorful. This posed a problem because ink is typically in black and white, but when I had the idea to use the sharpies my teacher had in his classroom I was really glad to see the range of warm colors he had. I did a few practice flowers in my sketchbook before starting the actual, final piece. I found a rhythm and techniques to blend the colors together and create a uniform gradient that showed as few of the dots from afar as possible.
Once the project was over, I cut the flowers out of the artist's board and mounted it onto a black sheet of paper to show contrast with the black, white, and then pop of bright yellow and orange. I really like how it turned out and it ended up much better than I thought it would be. The stippling was really time consuming but I'm proud of the effect it made with the markers. 4 Types of Paint:
1. Spray Paint- comes in a pressurized can 2. Acrylic Paint- thinner than oil paint, thicker than watercolor 3. Watercolor Paint- needs to be mixed with water to use 4. Oil Paint- dries very slowly, thick consistency 4 Non-Paper Materials You Can Create Art On: 1. Yourself/Skin 2. Walls 3. Canvas 4. Pavement/Road 5 Non-Paint Materials Used For Black and White Artwork: 1. Charcoal 2. Graphite 3. Colored Pencil 4. Markers 5. Ink 5 Materials To Use For 3-D Artwork: 1. 3-D Printer 2. Clay 3. Paper Maché 4. Folded Paper 5. Wire 2 Items I Have No Idea What They Do: 1. Tar Paper- waterproof paper used on roofing 2. Light Table- Used for tracing lines and making copies 5 Materials I Didn't List Already That Could Be Used To Make Art: 1. Ribbon/Yarn 2. Fabric 3. Metal 4. Chalk 5. Airbrush - |