Art Criticism Process:The first step in the art criticism process is describing the piece. You want to take note of everything that you see or notice about the artwork, looking at things like the materials used, the techniques, the genre of art, when and where the piece was done. The second step in the art criticism process is analyzing the art. You want to observe any repetition that you can find, or the center of attention of a certain piece. It's also important to pay close attention to the details, such as how the shapes and designs form the piece to make it look a particular way. The third step to the art criticism process is trying to interpret what the artist is trying to say. Every piece is different, and people can also interpret different things from just one piece, so it's important to state your own interpretation of the artwork. The last step of the art criticism process is evaluating. You want to decide for yourself if you like the artwork, and if it is, in your opinion, a quality piece. Over time, you will develop your own taste in art, what you're drawn to, what genres you prefer over others, and what you like to see in art. This is my zentangle piece from about a month ago. I was excited to do this project because I enjoy working with designs, and it was very relaxing. I decided to start out with an object so that I could fill it in with the designs. I choose to use the yinyang symbol because it's commonly black and white, and I would be using ink and sharpie for the piece. I carefully drew the patterns in a certain size and closer together. By doing this, the left side appears darker, because I've taken up more space on the paper. I did the opposite for the right side, making it look lighter. In order to make the process a little easier for myself, I drew basic shapes inside my boundary lines, and then proceeded to draw the designs inside of each shape, each one of them having a repeating pattern. This is personally one of my favorite works because I spent time on it making sure that I was satisfied with the outcome. It was also I nice new step for me to be able to feel comfortable working with ink. Is copying always plagiarism or is there a gray area? Explain your thoughts.In my opinion when it comes to art, there is a gray area. The only way you learn to get better at drawing, painting, or sculpting, is by imitating what someone else has done repeatedly, until you can create something on your own from the skills you've learned from that. It is certainly very easy to be inspired by others. I've seen a lot of artist take someone else's work and make into their own by building upon it. However I do think that it could be considered plagiarism if you very literally copy someone else's work and take credit for it like it was your idea. If you give the other artist credit, than I think it is alright, because you are admitting that you were inspired by that person. This a piece I did a few months ago using a stencil and some spray paint. It's a stencil of two cartoon characters that I like from a show called Eddsworld off of youtube. This is where I think a grey area exists. I did not take credit for creating these characters, I drew them in a style that I was working with and not on the computer with animation. I can take credit for making this, but I cannot take credit for the very original idea. What is the point of this class? What did you get out of it?I didn't intend to take this class at first. I originally wanted to get into graphic design/animation. However, my counselor informed me that I need to take art 1 before I could enroll in the other class. I was okay with the decision because I loved art, I just wanted to see what it would be like to apply the skills I already had in the technology world. In the end I was very happy that I took art 1. It introduced me to so many materials I hadn't used before. The class helped me improve my skills and techniques. The warm ups were particularly helpful. Even though we didn't do many of the hand warm ups, they were very useful, especially since I'm not as comfortable drawing hands. This is a picture of my first Illustration Friday. I decided to create comics for these assignments using the people I created from this first one. I think that this helped me plan things out because I would have to come up with a story for each Illustration Friday. Whenever we had a main project, we had some sort of boundary line, whether it was the theme of the piece or the materials used. For my Illustration Fridays, I limited myself to just drawing comics. I think having these assignments helped me brainstorm for other projects because of the way I challenged myself to use limitations. They also helped me inspire my work outside of art class, since most of the stories that occured in the comics were not something that I personally experienced, so I had to use my imagination to come up with one that related to each week's word.
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Paint Warm Up: I think the warm up that was the most useful to me was practicing making different skin tones. Even though I didn't paint any people in this piece, it was helpful for practicing getting the colors that I needed, especially for the bridge. I was born in San Diego, California and lived there until I was five. I have a lot of family there, so I often go back to visit. One of the things we've done in the past either while I was visiting or living there, was go to a place called Balboa Park. I decided to draw the Cabrillo Bridge, that leads into the park. This project was a little difficult for me because I don't enjoy working with paint. It was frustrating to blend different colors together or try to get the right texture that I needed. If I could change anything about it, I would have wanted to work with the lights a little bit more. I would have wanted to show more contrast between the lights and the darks. However even though it was frustrating and I wanted more contrast, I'm satisfied with the different colors I managed to create through blending.
Art Criticism Process:
When I look at other people's art, I look at what medium they used, how smooth the piece looks all together, the texture (if there is any), and the colors used. Most of the time, I try to imagine what the thought process was to create this. I choose to do a portrait of one of my best friends, Mya. She loves anime, and is a very outgoing person. Since a portrait is suppose to represent someone, I thought it would be cool to draw her as an anime character. I choose to use color pencil as my medium so that I could exaggerate bright colors and show texture and layering. This was a fun project to do. It was cool to work with my mentor, Logan. She gave good feedback and had some useful advice. Our thought process for this piece was, "let's cut out random colors and things that we find appealing, and slap them down on this canvas." It ended up coming together a lot better than I thought it would. If you use certain materials together and place them overlapping each other, it looks well put together. I would consider doing this again, it was simple and relaxing, and I really enjoyed it.
My mentor is Logan Allen.
We talked about continuing art after college and what we enjoy about art class. Their blog link is www.logan-Apex-2016.weebly.com What I find most interesting is how much we were able to relate to each other event though neither or us know much about each other. It is nice to see that people appreciate art as much as you do. I found this project to be very relaxing. I really enjoy making different designs for this. It was interesting for me to think about using different values in this piece since that seems hard using one color. However, I was able to achieve this look by making the designs more elaborate and close together to make it seem darker and making them simpler and farther apart to make it seem lighter.
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