Quarter 2 Artist's Statement

The assignment that I was the most unfamiliar with was the blind contour drawing. I had never heard of that style of art before and I was nervous to try it. The hardest part about it was making sure that I didn't look at the paper while I was drawing. Once I kind of got t enough of it and was finished my drawing I was afraid that they didn't' look like they were supposed to look like. But when I looked up how professional artist did blind contour drawings I knew that they were not supposed to be perfect. My favorite Blind contour drawings that I id were the portraits of people. 

My next favorite assignment was recreating a piece of art. For this I decide to pick my Aunt as my artist. She has been crocheting since she was a young child and she has perfected her craft.  About 8 years ago she taught me how to crochet and it has been something that we have been able to bond over ever since. One of her specialties are neck cowls so I decided to make one of those. 

My next favorite assignment of the quarter was making an illustration from a piece of writing. As soon as I saw this assignment I knew what piece of writing I was going to do. I picked my favorite short story called The Most Dangerous Game by Richard Connell. It was written almost 100 years ago but I still love to read it. It is about a man who gets stuck on an island with a crazy hunter and his servant who play the "most dangerous game" and hunt people. So the story follows him surviving through their endeavors to kill him. Since there are three character sin the book I decide to draw those three men. I have never actually drawn males before so I had to look up how to draw their bodies and muscles.

All in all I really enjoyed the assignments of this quarter and I look forward to the assignments and adventures of next quarter.