1. This piece is my favorite piece of artwork that I did this whole semester. I really just thought of this idea by looking around in my house for something containing opacity. The moment I saw the bag of red cups on my counter, I knew that i was definitely gonna draw them. I loved how there was so much color and all of the wrinkles in the plastic bag, along with objects all around it. I tried hard to incorporate the shadow values along with the opacity. It wasn't easy to combine the shadows with the plastic bag, but i think that is what makes this piece so unique. I thought outside the box when using multiple colors to draw into one. I used blue mixed with red to show the shadows of the red cups. Because I did that, I used blue all throughout the artwork so that i could keep that cool tone. This drawing was very time consuming, but it had to be in order for it to turn out the way I wanted. I learned so much just from this piece about many different things like: color, opacity, value, and also proportions and where I place the different shadows.
2. I believe that I have come a long way since the beginning of the semester. If you look at my portfolio in the beginning and the end, you can see many drastic changes in my drawing skills. I got much better with value and drawing shadows. I was most shocked with how good I have gotten with prisma colors. I learned a bunch about combining different colors and drawing what I don't see. I have also learned how to really think outside the box when coming up with my drawings, and with coloring them. My digital portfolio is an accurate representation of my development in this class. This portfolio shows my strengths and my weaknesses in drawing.
3. Prisma colors was my favorite medium to work with. They were my favorite to work with because prisma is the easiest wasy to capture everything in the picture you are drawing. I also like working with prisma because I got really good with it throughout the semester. I love how you can blend the colors together to make specific colors that you want. Taking drawing really increased my skills with colored pencils and helped me learn more and more how they work. I got better with prisma pencils because we used them so much. I had a ton of practice with them and that really benefited me in the end. I am no expert with prisma colors, but I hope I get even better with them as I keep drawing.
4. My scratch board project is the project that I feel I was least successful. I was very new to scratch board and had never done it before. I didn't really know how to create all of the different types of textures that I wanted and needed to make my piece look how I wanted it to. It was hard to do the grass background of the baseball field in the picture I was drawing. It was also hard to show what part of the picture was what because I didn't have the choice of color. If i could change this piece I would change the background. I would change this because in my drawing it is hard to distinguish what the background is. I would also have tried to learn better techniques to make my artwork look more realistic.
5. A lesson that I learned during this class was to always make your values darker. This tip really helped me with my pencil drawings and the shadows in them. When using pencil, having value is key and this tip really made my pencil drawings so much better than I had thought. My drawings stand out way more now that I make all my values darker. Another lesson that I learned was to always picture what your drawing as a bunch of individual shapes. This tip helps you focus on that one part that you are working on in your piece. It also helps your mind simplify the entire drawing so that you don't get overwhelmed. These lessons made me a much better drawer/artist just in this semester.