1. Which project was your favorite or most
successful this semester? Please explain.
My favorite project
was probably the cartoon skeleton project. I liked it because it was simple and didn’t
require any thought, just imitation. I didn’t have to work very hard for it to
turn out pretty well, and it was amusing. I had a little bit of fun with it. A close second here would be the print-making project, because I had done a project like that in middle school, and it was a fairly simple.
2. Regardless of whether you liked or
disliked a project, which one did you learn, grow, or developed the most from?
Please explain.
I learned the most
from the painting project. What did I learn? I hate painting. It requires a lot
of patience and a steady hand. I don’t have either of these. There were a lot
of times when I was just staring at the canvas, about to toss it out. I’m a tad
bit of a perfectionist, but I can’t be patient to save my life. That conflict
of interest made this piece. Really not my best work. Ugh. A close second would be the clay tiles. I really hate sculpting and 3D art, that stuff's difficult. Requires looking good on all sides.
3. Choose 1 piece of Art that you used skills
and techniques learned from previous projects. Discuss your growth as an artist
and how you incorporated these skills and techniques to create the piece.
The iPad value study
made me use the skills I’d acquired from doing digital art outside of school. For
me, working on a tablet is easier than on a piece of paper. Lines erase
completely. References can be right under where you’re drawing to help
accurately imitate the finished product in your mind. Have you ever had a
beautiful drawing idea and once you get a piece of paper, you just can’t draw
what you’ve got in mind? That disconnect between the mind and the hand are a
big issue for me. Not to mention, it’s so much easier to edit out things that
aren’t right. You only need one stylus instead of a million pens and pencils
and paints and colored pencils. I’m way more comfortable with sitting in front
of a computer or a tablet than I am sitting in front of a canvas or a
sketchbook. A screen isn’t nearly as intimidating as one of those, and it’s
easier to keep track of your art that way.
4. Which project do you feel was the least
important in learning the concepts taught in this course? Please explain.
For me, I think that
the least important one was the stencil project. Sure, it introduced me to
using photoshop, and my stencil did get into the art show that was down at
Meredith College, but I wasn’t all that proud of it (I’ll admit it was nice,
but it wasn’t that great) and really I didn’t learn anything from it, except to
cut your stencil edges out further than I did (you’ll notice the faint yellow
spray that’s not where it’s supposed to be. I cut that part off of the stencil
so someone else could use the poster board. Bad idea.) I’m still glad that we
did that project, because it was easy and fun and didn’t require a lot of
thought or effort, but I don’t think it taught much.
5. Choose a piece or artwork where the
subject matter reflects you as an artist. One that you have a personal
connection to. Please explain your choice.
I don’t really hold a
personal connection with any of these pieces. I’ve never really felt a
connection with any of my art. I don’t even think that these represent my
potential well, but if I had to choose something, I suppose that the photoshop
projects reflect the direction that I want to go with my art. I like working
with Photoshop, and it was significantly easier to use than I thought. It was
user-friendly, had a logical layout, and the format was well thought out. I
really wish I could go straight into computer art, because I’m probably going
to pull my hair out in Art 2.
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