What If? Critical Feedback

This critical feedback was really very helpful. I was a little stuck before but I think I have a pretty good idea of what my next step is. They posed more difficult question that I wasn't really thinking about. For example, my idea is to make a half and half picture of a city, what happens if people care, what happens if they don't? But the question is what if people started caring now? Things probably wouldn't look very different. But what if people had cared in the past? Would things look different today? Maybe they would. My idea is an urban environment, I was thinking Boston, and if people didn't care then the air would change drastically is how I would think about it. For example, I was thinking something like the New York smog.

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What if everyone cared about the environment?
What if everyone didn't care?

What If?

What if everyone recycled? What if there was no such thing as global warming? What if everyone cared about the environment? Imagine how much we could do for our planet. Imagine how much we could save. Imagine the world as it is today, then imagine what it would be like in the future if we didn't recycle. Imagine what it would be like if we did recycle. How many animals and energy and life could we save? What if everyone used public transportation or walked or rode their bikes everywhere? What if we all turned our lights off when we weren't using them? Or turn the sink off when we brushed our teeth? Took quicker showers? All the little things we do to save the earth add up into one, big, healthy planet. It may seem crazy, or time consuming, but in the end when the world changes into something better and more beautiful, you'll be glad you took time out of your day to recycle a piece of paper. As people ignore the world around us and how it is crumbling underneath our feet, the world may not look so good in the future. Slowly, as people stop caring, they are slowly killing the world we live in.

Proportion & Perspective

The drawings from observation we did over the past couple of days focused on proportion and perspective. The second drawing we did I thought was easier. I thought it was easier because once you realize every line is parallel to another, everything else fell into place. I enjoy drawing from observation which is why I didn't think this task was particularly difficult or that much of a challenge. It did however help.

Marks Made Drawing

We were each given a large piece of nice paper and various other materials to use. Ink, pencil, charcoal, paint, white, and black. We had limitless possibilities of what we could create. We were assigned not to make a drawing of anything in particular, but rather test the materials. All we did is made various marks on a page. Next, once the whole page was filled, we cut up our drawings into the different designs our materials made. Everyone laid their pieces out on the table and we were allowed to grab as many as we wanted, regardless to whether you created them or not. Essentially we were making a collage. I was surprised how many people decided to make landscapes, including me. I chose to create a picture of snowy mountains. Then, after we finished our collage, we had to draw, using only pencil, a picture of our collage. This was different for me because in the past, I've only really drawn from 3D, so this was a challenge for me. The outcome of this drawing was very interesting. I was surprised how well the pencil created paint strokes. I think that turned out really well. This drawing was a lot of fun to create.

Final Art Project

For this project, we could do anything we wanted. There were no limitations on materials or size. Of course, for me, this was a struggle. My inspiration for this project took me days to figure out. With the help of Ms. Winston, I finally decided my idea, and got started. My idea was to do a drawing of reflective surfaces. Ms. Winston helped me brainstorm ideas of what I could draw. But another challenging decision came up. What would I draw that represents reflective surfaces? How many would I draw? Would they all be the same or different? How big? Finally, after days of thoughts, my project assignment had been set. I would draw spoons. How cool are reflections that come off spoons? They're upside down and round... this would definitely be a challenging piece of work to draw, but I was up for the challenge.

Yet, another important decision came up. What medium would I use? My first instincts directly picked charcoal as my material. I picked this mostly because I liked drawing with it, but also because it's smooth and neat. This would be perfect for drawing reflective surfaces. Finally I was ready to start. The whole product only took me about three days to draw completely.

Although this process was difficult, I think the final product of my reflective drawing of spoons was better than I imagined. It might have not exactly been how I pictured it, or how I thought it would look. But I thought the final product came out well.

Light Reflection

For this project, my drawing showed a jellyfish underwater. Our focus was drawing light, and for that I had to really think about all the darks I would need to include for the light to show stronger. This was a very interesting process, because I decided to make the background black, and jellyfish are practically invisible underwater. I could have done this many different ways, and tried one way, but it didn't work out as well as I wanted. The way I ended up coming about this drawing was to use charcoal to shade the entire piece of paper black. Then, I went back and used and eraser to erase the parts of the jellyfish that I wanted to reflect with light. In the end I think it turned out pretty well. I believe that what I chose to draw really reflected the idea of light.