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.