Text as a Visual Medium

The concept of my text piece is to show my distance from nature by incorporated words and pictures and creating distance. The feedback and suggestions that I got from my group was that I should draw nature from a window view to display my distance from nature and that my old idea made my picture seem as if I wanted the world to end and I hated life which is understandable considering the fact that the word despise and the world on fire somewhat sends that message. They also said that instead of the word despise I should use the word distance which was a great suggestion.

The first thing that went through my head when I heard the directions was the thought of disbelief it took me about a minute until I was able to accept the idea of drawing without being able to see what I'm doing. The blindfold helped a lot while I was trying to picture a place because being the kind of artist I am where I need to focus on details, the fact that I was blindfolded helped me cope with the lack of detail. When I started my drawing I started off by drawing the big items in my picture and then when I completed that I went back to add details like people and other small objects. Drawing while blindfolded started to get easy as time went on and I got the hang of things. The drawing that I made blindfolded actually came out fairly well considering the fact that I couldn't see what I was drawing and my picture is very similar to the drawings I used to make as a preschooler.

Observation vs. Imagination

In the first drawing which was drawing from observation I tried as much as possible to really concentrate on the object that I was observing and I tried to be as accurate as possible when I was drawing from observation and include a lot of detail. In the second drawing which was from our imagination I tried to be as creative as possible when I was choosing the scene I was going to place my items in and then once I chose my scene I then began to add detail. From my point of view the second drawing was much harder than the first because drawing from observation is pretty easy for me but when it came to finding a scene to place my items it became pretty difficult because for the second drawing I really had to put a lot of thought into my decision.