End of Term Reflection

I think that this term has gone really well, I believe that during this term I have learned many art skills and made immense progress in my art which was my overall goal. During this term, the big thing that I learned was how to paint and control a paint brush and as an artist that helped me grow. In my growth, I also learned how to speed up the drawing portion of my art by paying less attention to detail and focusing on the big picture. What surprised me during this term was how easy it was to paint if you focus and don't get frustrated over little mistakes, because they can be fixed. My biggest successes so far has been constructing a painting and one of the biggest challenges have been completing projects, I always start pretty well but then I run out of momentum. The advice I would give myself about the class for the start of the next term would be to manage my time more effectively and complete work. The things I need to work on as I grow as an artist are to focus less on detail and always consider the big picture and to also push through every project by pacing myself.

Heores

The kind of stories that i found when I looked up hero on the reputable online newspapers were stories about people committing heroic acts and deeds in their community and in the world. I think that the people in these articles are heroes. Being hero is someone who commits a heroic act on several occasions or goes out of his or her way to do something that has a big impact on the lives of others.

This image was made by an artist who works for Marvel Comics, and the artist is for America and this picture was made in 2005.

Mid- term Reflection

I think that at the half way point in my intermediate drawing and painting term my work has developed in some areas. In terms of what I have made I don't think that anything has changed drastically, because of the fact that I take a long amount of time on my work I feel that when completed the quality of my end product will not change. In terms of process I think that I have grown greatly; throughout last year I rarely used my sketchbook to brainstorm or sketch out ideas but this year have really utilized my sketchbook during project planning. I have also begun to utilize people's feedback when doing my project and incorporated their ideas in my art. My blogging hasn't been up to date because of technical problems but I feel that I use my blog as much as I did last year. In terms of engagement I believe that I am engaged most of the times except for during work time when I tend to get distracted.

What if we used up all of our natural resources to thepoint where there are none left and we had to abandon our planet?

Distance

What if.....? Idea and Feedback

The concept behind my What if ......? project was to try and replicate a scene from the movie I am Legend so that I could convey the message of what if we used up our resources to the point that there was none left and we had to abandon our planet? The feedback that I got from my group was that it was a good idea and that if I had any trouble drawing all of the cars that I should incorporate some kind of a collage but I didn't do that because it was a pencil drawing.

Text as a Visual Medium

The concept behind my text project was to try and convey the idea of distance from nature through my art and I planned on using some of the text techniques that we were shown in class such as proportion and shading. The feedback that I got from my group was that I should continue with that idea because the idea that I planned on using prior to my new idea didn't send the message I was trying to send.