Over the past two years I have learned a lot about my artistic ability. Before coming into this class I had only taken the required art class where we would make holiday artwork and spin art. I never challenged myself with my work in the artistic area. Once I joined art in high school, I was able to start exploring my artistic abilities. I do understand the artistic behaviors and I feel like I used almost all of them every month when was creating pieces. The hardest one to use is raise global awareness for a specific piece of work. For every month I definitely collaborated and reflected with friends to get some extra feedback or to bounce ideas off them for my pieces. I also take many risks in my artwork but from that I end up having to solve a lot problems. I think that I take risks everyday with my artwork because my artistic abilities were not that advanced, I feel that with a lot of my different pieces I was trying something new and trying stuff that I didn’t actually know how to do very well. But with that comes mistakes and problems and I was able to solve these problems from risk taking. I was fortunate enough to sit with two of my friends who had both taken art since sophomore year and one of them was in AP this year. I think that sitting with these two girls has helped me so much because I was able to observe some of their artwork and how they make certain things and I was able to implement them into my work.
My favorite piece that I did this year was my drawing of the girl in pencil. It reminds me a vogue sketch and I love how it came out with the contour in pencil and all of the shading looks so goods and gives it so much dimension. I love this piece because I worked so hard on this piece and I really wanted to make it good. I grew up around my grandmother’s wedding dress sketches and I loved how cool all the sketches looked because they had a vogue feel to them. The faces have very fine jawlines and their faces are perfectly shaped and it gives the look a very subtle but classy feel. I never thought I could make a sketch like this because I thought it would be challenging but once I finished it I was so happy with how it came out. Later on in the year we did a portrait unit and I was able to make this piece again but with a cool background and with black paint rather than pencil. My most successful unit was portrait drawing. This unit I was able to watch videos on how to draw different facial features and create drawings of an eye, a mouth and a nose. These came out really good and much better than I would have every expected. I worked really hard on them one night and focused really hard on all of the little details and the shading. This year I definitely grew the most in this unit. I think that this course was a very fun course for my junior and senior year and acted as a stress reliever for me and gave me a break from all of my other school work. I enjoyed critic days because I was able to get really good ideas from my classmates and get positive feedback on my work even if I thought it was bad. Something that I would have changed about this class would be having 4 photos in every months blog post. I think that progress photos are a good idea but it’s very hard to remember when you are very focused on completing a piece. Maybe next year one day a week you could take 5 minutes at the end of a class to take a progress photo and do a quick table critique so that everyone gets their photos and has a quick critique so that they can implement those ideas into next week's continued work. I loved this class and I’m very sad that I continue this in college with my teacher their to guide me!
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Ms. H
5/15/2019 06:01:49 am
Thank you for this reflection/feedback. I think many of your classmates agree about more structure to the critiques and I will definitely incorporate that next year. It's been a pleasure having you in class and I wish you all the best next year!
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