Right now we are focusing on perspective, so this project was to do a foreshortened image. I chose to take a picture of myself with one hand close to the camera, making it extremely large, and another far away, making it un-normally small. For this project I just used a graphite pencil to create the values and lines. While I was working on this project I feel that one skill I really worked with was shading and creating value. When drawing a face and body like this, it is important to get the values right, and I feel like I concentrate a lot on this and used this skill to make it look as 3D as possible. I also feel that the most common art element would be proportion/scale. When doing an image like this where your hand looks abnormally large, you tend to make it smaller than it actually is, and the image does't turn out right. For this project I took multiple precautions to avoid this and I feel that this really shows in the final product. The proportions allows one hand to look closer than the other and also helps to make the facial features proportionate to the rest of my body. Overall I feel like I chose a creative but simple image, and that my final product really represents that.
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For this project we had to pick which animal best represented us, and personally I found it was the fox. I started with painting in the background using tempura and then I inked in the lines using a calligraphy pen. In this project I feel that the most important element was value. I attempted to make the lines darker or closer together in certain areas, for example where the legs meet the body, to make it look more 3D. This helps to show the shape of the animal instead of a simple sillhouette. The skill that I really used the most in this project is using a calligraphy pen. I have personally never used one before, and being able to control the pen and make the lines thick or tin really adds to the overall image. All of these things help to make my project look clean, have value and dimension, and to represent me. I feel like I have expressed my curious, excited, and shy personality through this animal and the color choice that I chose for the background.
For this project my theme was identity,and I decided that something that represents who I am the most would be a drawing of myself as a young child, when I first started finding what was important to me. For this project I used colored pencils, and tried to focus on adding detail to myself and making the background more simple.In this project I feel like the main element that I used would be emphasis. This is used because I made the image of me stand out from the rest. I also focused on learning new skills for each project,and in this one I worked on figuring out how to get the proper skin tone color,and getting the shades just right. This is something that I have struggled with before, and feel that I improved as I worked on this project. Overall the emphasis and detail that I used help to show me in a lifelike and meaningful way. By putting the focus on my image I am putting the focus on who I am, and showing myself as I was starting to figure out who I am. This project is colorful, meaningful, and really represents my identity. |
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