my favorite tool was the black charcoal because i had fun coloring with it. the best material that we used had to be the paper because the way the black charcoal went on it and was able to erase off of it was to cool. the best part about art is even if you don't know how to be really good at it you still can try and have fun and it stills comes out to look like art work. an art piece that turned out well is an art piece that has had someone put in hard work and time into it so no matter how it looks it still looks well because you have tryed. i don't think that there is a pattern in my work other than i put in hard work for each piece. the way we used the colors. if i learned something different i would want to learn how to look at the picture that i am drawing and draw it in that from. 

When I work with ms. Hull I am reminded that it does not have to be perfect but you do have to put forth effort and try. she always keeps you moving forward. I begin a piece by doing examples be for going straight in to the big piece. I know a piece is done when i feel really good about it and the teaches lets me know its not perfect put it good. When my work is going well, I am filled with a sense of happiness.When people see my work, I'd like them to know that i really did try and put in work time and effort.

during my time in art so far i have worked on a piece of art work where i had to draw a glass cup of my choice and that assignment was not hard at all. it was cool to see how you can really draw glass on paper with black colors. i though that it was going to be very hard but working with Ms. Hull and Emma i felt more confident about what i was about too draw and kew that if i put forth effort then it would come out cool. we were told that we would be using black charcoal to be drawing this and i though that was cool expecclly with the white paper. the way i got though this project was to just color and erase that way you can try to get the full picture. in doing this work i feel as though i am expanding my mind more because i am not the type of person to really  just sit down and just draw a picture so art class gives me that part of me and i get to express my self and what i am feeling that day though my art work. ​

Artist statement:

 

We were assigned this project to learn how to draw glass objects, from the perspective of a human eye. This gave us an understanding of how what makes glass, glass. The shaping of the lines, the reflection, where the light catches the different areas on the glass, and where to draw the shadows to make the glass come to life. The most difficult part of this assignment was to figure out how to make glass, look like glass, on paper. Different areas of the glass had different shadings, and it was hard to determine where to put that on the drawing. Besides that, when my work was going well, I feel as though I accomplished way more than I would’ve thought, and I feel proud of the time and effort I put into it. My favorite part about my work is the shading. I did good on combining light and dark shadings and merging them onto the picture. 

At first when I began the drawing, I drew crosses to make the circles. I did this because Emma told us that it would make our circles much neater than they usually are. Then after I drew the circles I started to draw the general shape of the glass. Doing these steps in this order made it easier to get an understanding of how the glass should be shaped in all areas. Then I began to shade. When I began to shade I started to do it really light and then I used the eraser to make the clearness of the glass, but as I was doing that I realized that not all of the glass is light. There are some dark, light, and white places, hitting the glass in all different areas. After realizing that, I erased the light shadings, and I turned my light shading into a dark shading, and when I found a place in the picture where there was some lightness included I took the eraser, and started canceling out the dark areas. Doing this project I figured that when having a light shading, then having to draw a dark one, seems more difficult to me. I prefer drawing a dark shading first, then start adding the lightness. 

Doing this project I believe I have grown into a better artist, because I’ve learned a lot of new techniques that would help me improve my drawings in the future. Before this project, it would take me 5 minutes to draw a perfect circle. Now it takes me no more than 5 seconds. Doing this project I also got a lot better at shading and analyzing objects, which would be a technique that would be most useful to me, in this art class.           

Artist Statement on my Clear Object Drawing

When I first saw the video that Emma showed during class, I was completely sure I wouldn't be able to draw such a thing as still object drawing. I've never drawn anything like this. I've always thought only the best of the best artists know how to draw still object with all these different shadings. 

While I was drawing the pot, I was constantly stepping back because it'd give me a different perspective of the drawing.   After drawing this, I may have used almost have of my erasers. So from the start, I began with a charcoal and started shading the main part of the paper, which was the center. Then I made outlines of the glass. By darkening the edges and whitening the outside, it made the object pop out from the dull charcoal filled paper. After that, I shaded in the shadows from one lighting. 

  I've never drawn a clear object before. I knew I wasn't going to be able to make a perfect drawing when i saw Emma's video because I've taken a class at Fleisher, which was oil painting where we also had to work with shading. It was a gruel-some experience because every time we had a shadow, we'd have to darken or choose a different color with same relation. However, in this drawing, we were only using charcoal and eraser, which was easier and it looked a whole lot better than my oil painting piece. 

Artist Statement on my Figure Drawing

I can finally say I've drawn a whole body figure! I've never drawn a person's whole body, either it's a part of their body such as their face or their eyes but I never drew a whole body figure in detail. I mean obviously I've drawn stick figures but never looking at a person and noticing every bit- parts of their clothing textures, their body shape and their hairstyles. 

This is Jasmine. The way I drew her was the same angle/ way she was facing. I've not finished my final drawing because of time issues. I started off outlining her whole body, then I started adding in little detail by detail. At the end, I felt as though I did pretty good but then I'm not a perfect artist, so I do not have a master piece. It was my first time so I think I did good job for a first time. 

Figure Drawing was very difficult because it took more than I could ever imagine. When other artists in my class finished in one class, I felt stupid because I definitely needed more time. I started off drawing Sammy and I was actually really proud of where I was at but then the next thing I knew almost everyone in our class lost their drawings. So I had to redo it all over again. This time, I drew Jasmine, one of my art classmate. 

Although this was an assignment meant to look identical to the model, mine came out a little more of a caricature. I started to draw the upper body then the lower body, that's why it came out so awkward looking because they are not proportional. I really like how she looks like a cartoon, although that wasn't the goal, my picture makes me feel like I drew what Sam Boyd feels like, not so much looks like. My little yellow piece of charcoal was my favorite because they had a really nice flow to them when I started drawing with them.