Stencil :)

1. Explain how you changed your photo in the lab to create a stencil?

I chose many different jets. Then I opened up photo shop  inserted the pictures i chose, and started to mess with the threshold. This helps show the positive and negative space well. After I messed with the photos I chose the one I liked the best and printed it off. 

2. When creating the collage background explain your choice of colors, materials (magazine paper, books pages, etc.), and placement. How does it relate to your topic? If no relation discuss general idea.

For my collage background I wanted to do something that looked like it dealt with the war. I tried to make it look like a generals desk, messy with papers every where. I ripped pages out of books, some pictures out of magazines, phrases out of magazines, and some maps of countries. I made a coffee stain on the bottom left-ish of the poster and painted some of the pages to make them look burnt. Giving it a nice contrast, in my opinion.  

3. Discuss the way positive and negative space was used to create your stencil. 

I used the positive and negative space to help me cut out my stencil. It helped me to be able to pin point the shapes I needed to cut out to make my stencil look right when I would spray paint it. 

4. When using the xacto knife, explain the safety procedures, how to use the knife and any challenges you had to overcome while cutting. 

The safety procedures are pretty straight forward and simple. Don't cut toward yourself, use a cutting board, and when your done don't play around with it. The challenges that i had to over come while using the xacto knife was the presser you apply to it, being careful around a bend and the feel of it. My main challenge was trying to cut it smoothly. I kept going to far of hacking off a nice piece  but I guess in the over all picture it turned out A.-O.K. :)

5.How was your experience with the spray paint? Discuss how color choice is important, placement of stencil, and any other concept you noticed with creating this. 

I had a lot of fun with the spray paint! It's probably my favorite thing we've done, well that depends. The color choice is important because it gives the picture depth. Also the placement can be crucial I'm at a block for words on how to describe it, but placing it in the perfect middle can make your picture cheesy or too plan, i guess... Unless it really does look good then i guess your good to go. 

Game Drawings in Perspective Critique

My overall thought of the piece, well it wasn’t my favorite. It looked off all the time. I feel pretty good getting it done, but I felt that I could’ve done a little more. The colored pencils worked out ok, but the perspective of the overall sketch was terrible. It looks like my board is dent. I’m not really sure if I’d do this project again, but if I had to I would try and do a better job of drawing the lines to make it look a little more in perspective. The most difficult part about this piece was the water color, blending it, the washes, overlapping, the horizon, placing the vanishing points correctly and drawing the pieces. If one was off they all looked off. I learned its more difficult than it looks to draw a game board in perspective, but getting value, highlights, and shadows were probably the easiest part and the fastest.

Anamorphosis Critique

I went online and chose picked out an object to photo shop. I transformed the photo by changing its perspective and scale. Then I was ready to start drawing my anamorphosis drawing. Distorting the sketch and drawing the distorted sketch was hard, but it did make it look like  it was coming out of the page.  By stretching it, the object looks like tall one view and the other view it looks normal.

 In my personal opinion the grid, shadow, and value held the most importance in the drawing; though I wasn’t a huge fan for the colored pencil.

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Print Sketch Critique

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

Texture adds dimension and also it makes it come move alive.

 

2. Why is it necessary for you to have several references of each animal and each background? Explain.

If were trying to draw an animal in a different pose then the one we printed off we can look at one of the three pictures and see what it looks like in that view. Also if the animal that you chose doesn't have a good background you'll have other sources that you can look at and transfer that animal into that type of background.

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? 

When i look at my sketches its easy to see which one was drawn better, but to know which one has the better print is hard. I know which one is the better sketch because of how it looks. Though i still don't know how to tell which one is going to be the better print.

Outer space!

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

Explain your experience working on a team and executing your ideas for the mural.

Working on a team compared to working alone was nice and more efficient. It was also nice to have other ideas or good advice about things. I prefer to work on with a team then alone, though it will have its ups and downs.

Explain the importance of collaboration when working on a team.

Collaboration is the key thing when working with a team. If no one communicated, no one would know if they were doing something wrong or not. Also it helps by giving you feed back about something that you did or worked on.

How successful was this project? Explain how and why.

Our project in the end looked good. It wasn’t great, but it was good. We didn’t have the colors that were needed and sometimes the color we were working with ran out and there were no more of that kind.

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

I think it’s cool to create something others can interact with. Though I wouldn’t do it with chalk. The feeling of its griminess on my hands was not my favorite.

Value portrait

                                               

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

The process i went through was a little bit confusing, but after a while i started to catch on. At first we got our pictures taken. After our pictures were taken we each chose randomly from the pictures that were taped on the board. Mrs. Rossi showed us that we were to look at the highlights and draw the shapes that each individual shade/highlight was making. After we drew all the shapes made by the shade we transferred it onto paper. Finally we started to shade and, wa-la! Our portraits were finished.

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

Finding the different values in the portrait was easy at first, but after a while it gets to the part where you have to seek for all the little values. It took a lot of focus and time.

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

No, I’m still working on getting the shades in. It looked like it was going to be easy but so far it’s been tricky and hard, plus an eye teaser.

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

I personally think my self portrait so far isn’t that good. Im still working on improving it, so no, I don’t think it’s been crafted neatly, so far its just a sketch.

 5. List any obstacles you had to overcome and how you dealt with them.

I have overcome wanting to avoid drawing faces. Now I want to learn how to draw them to make them look better.

Three dimensional drawing

I felt that this piece was challenging. Getting the shading and the shape to look three dimensional was tricky, but after a while it got a little bit easier. I feel like I’m a little bit of a better artist because of this project. It’s taught me a lot about shading and that lighting is a huge part of it. I was able to get the outline of the shape drawn, but getting it to look three dimensional was trickier then it looked. I’m also pretty sure I butchered the shading of the cube. If I did this project over again, I’m not sure what I would change. I kind of liked having the challenge of trying to make something turn out 3-D. The most difficult part about this piece was the last part. Yes, the shading of the shape was hard, but the hardest thing to do, I thought, was the shade the object would make if it was actually there, instead of being drawn on paper. This piece taught me that shading something will add dimension to it. If you just have the outline, the shape doesn’t look like its coming out of the picture.