1. What new skills did you learn or what did you improve on during this unit? Because this unit was all about learning to "steal" and build off other artists' work, my ability to sketch something from another picture has improved a lot. Before, I wasn't very good at drawing something if I wasn't tracing it. Now, I'm a lot better at following the proportions and sketching pictures accurately. 2. How has your thinking about what original art is changed? During this unit, my idea of original art has been changed a lot. I've learned how to build off of others works without fully copying. It helped me become more creative, but also accept the fact that nothing I do will be completely original. Now I can feel justified using snippets of other artists' ideas! 3. What challenges or successes did you have during this unit? Would you change anything you did if you could go back and redo it? While in this unit, I struggled with finding an idea that wasn't already taken. Luckily, I learned that I don't have to be completely original, I just need to make my own artistic "remixes". I wouldn't change anything if I could go back because I learned a lot and actually had fun drawing/coloring all my pieces.
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1. How has your understanding of artistic space changed during this unit? During this unit I gained new understanding and experience about how to accurately draw objects in proportion to their surrounding space. I also learned how to use perspective to make my sketches look more realistic. For example, I sketched a set up of blocks and a pencil, but I had to draw all the shadows or angles in the exact space I saw to make it look consistent for my audience. We also learned how to use our pencil erasers, or our thumb nails to measure objects from afar, so we could draw them more accurately.
3. How do you feel about your work for the final project? Was it successful? My group did a project based on forced perspective, using chalk drawings on concrete to make interactive art. I feel like we did a great job because we used our space well and worked hard to make the positions of our models and chalk drawings as matched as possible. Although it took many tries for each photo, our final pictures were colorful, creative, and consistent. |
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January 2016
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