1. This project, the clay relief tile, was my favorite out of all the projects we did in class. I think that it was also the most successful project that I made. From the start, I have had experience working with clay, so that made the project a little easier. The idea of butterflies on flowers was good too. I am a natural when it comes to butterflies, many of my other artworks are based on butterflies. Mainly because they're pretty and easy to use. When sculpting the tile, I make sure to add plenty of leaves hanging off of the edge of the tile, and propped up the wings of the butterflies with paper towels . After firing the work I got to paint the tile. Painting is fun, I like painting, just not on a canvas. So I really enjoyed this part. The colors I used were bright and I feel the choice of colors was pretty good. The finished product looks very realistic, as if it were really flowers with live butterflies on them.
2. I think the stencil is the project that I learned the most from. I never expected that this project would teach me so many new things, but everything I did was new to me. I had never used an X-acto knife before, so I learned to use one when cutting out the stencil. It was tricky business, the knife sometimes cut out of the lines, and I accidentally cut myself twice by forgetting to point it away from my fingers. I also learned how to use Photoshop in the computer lab. Photoshop looked really complicated at first but at least now I know how to change the threshold of a picture. I also got to make a collage. It was quite fun. Spray painting was also a new thing for me. I had never used spray paint in an art project prior to making this stencil. I used to think that spray painting would be hard but really it's not and fun to use.
3. Unlike the stencils, the anamorphosis drawing was nothing new to me. I had done drawings like these before without having to go the the trouble of changing the scale and perspective in Photoshop. Our class did anyway. After we printed them out we made a grid, and inch apart each line, on both the picture and in our sketchbooks. Then we drew out the picture using the individual squares of the grids. I remeber doing this in elementary school when learning about grids. Then we used colored pencils to color them in, and added values and shadows to make the image look realistic. I think that everyone knows how to do this. The top of the object had to be widened when looking straight down from the top, because if you looked at the image at an angle from the botton, the object in the picture would seem as if it were standing up. Otherwise the top would look small and pinched. I don't know if other people thought this way, but it was pretty obvious.
4. I feel that the game drawing was the least important. This project was done for us to learn about perspective. But we had already done many perspective drawings in class already. We also alreay put our knowledge to use with the drawings of our city and the house. Other than sketching out the drawing, the other steps we used to color it in was not really important. And using the watercolor just made me frustrated. Maybe it's just me but somehow, I've always known how to draw things in perspective. Probably because I sketch a lot at home.
5. Other than working with clay, sketching with pencils is the thing that reflects me the most as an artist. Since I was little I've always loved to sketch. I sketch in sketchbooks, on scrap paper at home, even in the margins of my school notes. I have always worked well with values and shadows. When used right, a portrait can look genuine, like a real photo. Although I mostly draw anime, drawing real people is fine too. I also have an eye for proportions, some drawings of people tend to look disfigured and our of shape, but I never had a problem with that. Having the picture helped a lot with seeing all the different shadows that lights create on the face and in the hair. I wish that we could've spent more time on these sketches, or made a sketch of someone else in the class. I really enjoyed this project and I hope that I will be able to do it again someday.
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