Part 1: My most challenging project was the 'Look at that View!' Project where I decided to use the perspective of being on horseback approaching a jump. I've ridden horses since I was 10 and I've seen that view plenty of times, so it was rather hard capturing it just right. The moment before a jump is always the most important, and I wanted to convey that in my drawing. Planning this drawing was hard, since I was trying to remember just how the view looks and, if I am to be honest, usually when you're riding a horse you have to keep your focus on what's in front of you. Eventually, and with some image and video searching, I was able to recreate how the moment looked. But that wasn't all I wanted to do. I wanted to show just how the moment feels. The anticipation you get when you're nearing the obstacle, the attention the horse pays to your every move, the steering you have to tweak to get just right so you don't knock the rail. I wanted to get all of it into this picture. In beginning this project, I had a lot of doubts. I'd never drawn a horse from that angle before, I've never really practiced backgrounds, wasn't very confident in my ability to draw hands, and this project had all of them! Eventually, though, with help of my peers I was able to power through the obstacles and in the end I'm very happy with the outcome of the piece. I'm proud of my use of value in this, though looking back I wish I had used more pencil weights to up the shading and make the darker values stand out more. I think my favorite part of this piece ended up being the horse's mane and ears, though they were the parts I was the most iffy about when beginning the project. Part 2: I think my most successful project was the Still Life we had to do. The last time I drew a still life was in 7th grade and I didn't really take it very seriously. This project was really fun to do, even though I was dreading it in the beginning, and ended up being one of my favorites of this semester. I like how I filled up the space completely, no matter how much of a pain it was, and I'm glad I chose graphite rather than charcoal as I originally intended. The little details and subtle values would have been very challenging with charcoal and I like how this turned out with graphite. I chose to do this view because the skull in the center was the piece I brought in and I wanted to draw the folding fabric, basket, and flowers. If I were to go back and add more to this project I'd probably go back in and darken the shadows more. I'd also add more texture to the cloth in the background towards the top corner. When I continue to do art in this class, I plan on putting this piece in my final portfolio because I like how it turned out so much. The two mini lessons I enjoyed the most were when we had to draw the hanging fabric and when we had to do contour line drawings of our hands. I used vine charcoal to draw the hanging fabric and it was really enjoyable and effective, since it blends so easily and smoothly like the soft folds of the cloth. I liked the hand contour drawing because when we started out I used to avoid drawing hands like the plague, and wasn't looking forward to an entire lesson on just hands. But, by the time it was over, I was really proud of how the drawings came out and even prouder that they were done in ink. Even after that lesson was over, I could see an improvement in how I drew hands in my own personal art and I'm really glad we were able to do that lesson. When we'd finished the cloth drawing, I started out not liking charcoal one bit. I hadn't ever tried vine charcoal, however, and it turned out to be one of my new favorite mediums to draw in and I've used it an two other projects in this class since. All in all, I'd happily do these mini lessons again since I enjoyed them so much.
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