My element is Manganese, number 25 on the periodic table. Manganese is fused with other medals to increase their durability and to help them keep a polish. This is because manganese is an extremely hard metal and does not scratch easily. It is also used to help fuse other metals together.
My design is a shield with two arrows crossing it. The arrows represent manganese's ability to fuse other elements, and the shield represents its durability. To take My project to the final print I redesigned the arrows to be double headed. so they point in all directions.
I personally like my final product, I feel the design transferred well and is interesting to look at.
If I did this project again I would have made my design smaller so that you could tell what is is more easily.

The element I was assigned was Rhodium. Some of the things that my element is used for are jewelry,  it is used to make electrical contact and used as an alloyed. I came up with the idea for my print because my element is used for jewelry so I decided to make a person wearing jewelry. I took the idea of  putting the atomic number on the shoulders on my drawn person. My thoughts about this project is that it is very fun but you have to be very careful while doing this project. If I did this project again I would make sure that I carve deeper when I make my plate.  

A) I think negative space helps artists identify the back ground from the foreground, and think of them as separate things instead of one picture.
B) 1. In the cutouts, the negative spaces color changed. 2. In the stool drawing i made the foreground positive and the background negative.
C) It helps because you can think of the drawing as two layers.
D) Yes, since it gives the artist a better understanding of foreground and background.

​The main point of this project was to to learn how make virtical lines, and dealing with the orthagonal lines. And also finding the vanishing points.
As we start this project, we started off by drawling the vanishing point. We had to draw lines to find and match our vanishing point. We also had to lable each side, Top left, top right, bottom left, and bottom right. Than we had to draw a worm and bird to see there point of view. its like you want to draw a side where you can see which part your looking at and the other part where the other person can see it. 
For example what i meant exactly was when i was drawing and you wanted to see the parts you wanted to see so thats why i drew the worm in the ground , and second we drew the bird in the air. now the reason why i did that was because i wanted to see where the bird would see from above and the reason why i drew the worm on the ground was because i wanted to see where the worm can see from where it was at which was in the ground. So the point of that was as we drew the boxes we wanted to where the worm and bird see the boxes, from where they was. 


The part that was really hard for me to learn was understanding how to draw the lines. Where and how the line was suppose to meet up on the drawling. Also to understand the key value which was dealing with the orthagonal.
The easy things to learn was connecting the line as you found the vanishing point. 


The art that i thought was well completed was Tsion Habtamu's. Because as i looked at her drawling her horizons lines was connecting to every point that was right. And not only that the detail and design that was on her drawling was really nice because it matched the wall that she drew. 

This Project was about learning how to draw from writer's perspective. We started with drawing boxes in bird's eye view and worm's eye view. After we drew that, we went on to a group hallway drawing. It gave us a great idea on how we were to draw certaain imagess. Finally, we drew our final project using all our knowledge. It was easy to draw the windows and other details, but hard to draw the orthagonals and other lines.

Phoenix Ward did a really good job to me. I liked how he detailed every little thing in his picture, whole obtaining the perspective way.