Critical Feedback

Today during class, I was able to get very good feedback from my classmates on my current project. Some helpful comments they made on my project was that they agreed with the my idea on using different shades to contrast the dark oil spill and the color of the ocean. Also, they also liked my plan of showing how oil spills kill many animals in the ocean, which shows how we need to stop this natural disaster. However, my peers also gave me very helpful criticism as well. They suggested me to change my idea to a more creative concept. Instead of doing something very simple, I now am showing how oil spills are affecting our country, but in more of a expressive manner. The ideas that my classmates gave me was extremely useful, and will be very helpful during the process of my project.

Pictures of Oil Spill

What if....?

1. What if there was no air pollution?
2. What if environmental problems did not exist on our planet?
3. What if there were more oil spills and all the animals were killed in the ocean?

Proportion and Perspective

While making the two drawing from observation, yesterday and today, I had a quite a hard time throughout the process. Yesterday the objective was to draw what we saw from our own perspective from a bunch of different objects, such as chairs, bowls, and a large bulletin board. Today, we again had to draw from our own perspective by looking at different sized shapes on a large table. One of the things I felt was pretty easy for me was noticing when I made a mistake while drawing. For example, if I placed a certain object to far of where it was suppose to be, then I would erase and use my eyes to see of where would be the ideal place to put the object on my paper. However, I found a few challenges through the process. One was drawing all the objects unproportional to what I was actually looking at. One time I drew a chair very large and did not think of how looked proportioned to the other objects on the paper. Also, I had a hard time multi-tasking. When doing perspective drawing, a good drawer can always multi-task and look at what their drawing and their paper. However, I tended to just look at my paper and have the image in my brain, rather than having a better sense of what I was really drawing.

Marks Made Drawing

When I first started this project I knew exactly what I wanted to do, a tornado. While looking through the unique cut-outs that my classmates cutout, my eyes zoomed in on one specific picture. It was a painting of a gray, spinning object that reminded me of a tornado. I then cut out a large piece of paper of black charcoal that resembled a dark sky. After cutting out bits and pieces of the black charcoal paper, my paper had overlapping shapes on the top. Under the sky, I attached the distinct portrait of what looked like a tornado, with "twirly" strokes of ink coming out from it. I decided it would be a good idea to put a base at the bottom of the paper, so I cut out little pieces of grass of what looked like it was crooked from the wind of the tornado. When I was finished with my project, I knew I could have done better. Some areas of my portrait was disorganized and hard to tell of what I was actually trying to portray. However, it was my first assignment and it is never to late to improve!