1. Describe how you created an interesting point of view? Was it successful? Why or why not?
I tried to create an interesting point of view by having the tentacles coming towards the viewer. I think my perspective was interesting, but could’ve been more dramatic. 2. Why is it important to understand perspective and how to draw it? It’s important to understand perspective to keep your work looking interesting and dynamic instead of flat. Art with interesting perspectives is more engaging than art without them. 3. How were the colored pencil exercises important in the success of your piece? I did not use colored pencils. 4. Describe the craftsmanship of your colored pencil. What techniques were used? (How well the project is technically crafted). Instead of colored pencils, I used drawing pencils and pushed my darks to show depth and texture in the piece. 5. Were you able to achieve depth by showing a foreground, middle ground and back- ground? Explain. I believe that I was able to achieve this in my piece, especially with the tentacles and dock. 6. Explain your experience with colored pencil and the project in general. What were the obstacles and advantages? I find colored pencils really challenging, which is why I did not use them in this piece. Making the tentacles look like they were coming forward was a big obstacle. 7. Looking back on the progression of this project what skills, techniques or other information would you like to have been taught? Do you feel you were prepared for this project? I do feel like I was prepared for this project.
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These are my Look at That View compositional sketches and reference photos I was debating between drawing a chicken or a boat with tentacles, and decided to draw the boat with tentacles. The last picture is of my final sketch, where I began to plan my values.
These are my practice shapes with Prisma colored pencils. They are on grey, black, and brown paper. I am finding colored pencils to be harder to work with and blend than drawing pencils. It is a much more complicated medium than what I am used to working with.
I think it is clear of what the objects in my drawing are and where they are in the space. My highlights are well blended and do not feel out of place.
I do believe that my shadows are realistic. I set my reference picture to a black and white filter to try and get as close as possible. I used a 4HB pencil for my darkest values and a white charcoal pencil for my brightest highlights.
I think my highlights and shadows stay consistent to a source of lighting coming from the upper left of the picture.
The compositional sketches where extremely important. They made it much easier to decide what exactly I would be drawing, instead of jumping in and realizing there was a better composition I could’ve done. I got to experiment with multiple angles and get an idea of what they’d look like before committing to one.
I think my use of highlights turned out very successful. I’m especially happy with how the metal studs on the bag and shoes turned out. I also think my range of values works well with the drawing.
I think for the most part my proportions and perspective are correct. I think it starts to feel a little bit wonky toward the top left of the piece with the second shoe, but overall is accurate to the subject.
I think this composition was the most pleasing out of all of my compositions that I originally considered for this piece.
I did end up having to cut my drawing because I knew I would not have enough time to add the pinwheel. I think I could work on giving myself enough time on parts of a drawing that I know will be more difficult rather than leaving those parts to do last.
I’ve learned a lot about shading and highlight while doing this project. I got to experiment with using things like white charcoal and 4HB pencils. This project also made me focus on working in very small areas and pay attention to small details instead of trying to get through the piece as quickly as possible. Here are my six compositional sketches. I made this by looking at the still life set up in class through the view finder and choosing six interesting angles to sketch. I ended up choosing the starred sketch in the top right.
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