Art 1 Final Portfolio

Choose1 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.

This was a piece of artwork that I used previous skills. For example, you can see a difference in values if green in the grass amd the black, purple and white in the cloud. You can see secondary colors like purple, green, and orange. I used those colors to make brown for the mountians. I have learned things like shading, blending color, and mixing old colors to make new ones. I have definetly progressed over this semester because I know how to shade and paint now. Before I took this class, I sketched people and places. Now I add value to the pictures to make it more "real" and 3-D. In my mountians, I blended brown, green, and white, it makes the mountians more realistic than making it one solid color.

Which project was your favorite or most successful this semester? Please explain.

 This is my favorite project so far. I think it was the most creative and had the best outcome. I love the idea of a cartoon skeleton because the cartoon doesn't fit into the skeleton, the skeleton fits into it. I didn't do any blending for this. I did keep all the bones in proportion and I am not missing a single one. This sketch is a cartoon skeleton of Eric Cartman from South Park, a short stubby fat boy that claims he is "not fat, just thick boned." So I made him "thick boned."

Regardless of whether you liked or disliked a project, which one did you learn, grow, or developed the most from? Please explain.

This project was the one I think I learned the most from. I learned that I need to take my time and not rush. Before this project, I would just rush to get things done. I cut this out way to fast and wasn't careful to line everything up. Now the project looks terrible, but it was fun to do. Me and Andrew have experience doing this and enjoy it very much. Art takes time if you want it to look good and not turn out like this. I think I've grown as an artist through out this whole semester, but this project changed me the most.

Which project do you feel was the least important in learning the concepts taught in this course? Please explain.

I wasn't the biggest fan of this project. It didn't turn out good, and it taught no artistic concepts like the past projects. In the past, we learned skills and concepts like, value, blending, mixing colors, contour drawings, and stencils. This project was only about making a print and placing it on paper. The steps to to make the print didn't always work. My print turned out bad, and I didnt learn anything from it.

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 chose this drawing for a personal connection. I chose it because I wear vans every day. These specific Vans I did a contour sketch of have a lot of history with me. I had them for three years, and within those three years, was several highlights of my life. I always do art inspired by my past. If i have a choice, ill draw it or write a song about it. The one problem with this class is that you cant have a project where you draw what you want about what you want. If you want to see me as an artist, give me a sheet of paper and a penci;, not a prompt.