Required question: When I started this project, I was frustrated because I was using the wrong papers and it was super hard to get value and color and everything basically. I had only done one Prismacolor drawing prior, so I guess I just somehow didn't realize that I was using the wrong paper. Also I had wasted two whole class days working on the wrong paper and had to do a lot of this at home, which was annoying because I did it to myself. When I was finally able to start my REAL final, things went much smoother, partly because I had practiced three times. I think my idea for this project is really original, and I almost like the idea more than the actual drawing. I took the most basic two-point perspective drawing and turned it into something different. I like that you can clearly tell that this is my perspective project. I challenged myself with this project by choosing to something that contained a lot of text and labels, which everyone knows can be difficult. You can clearly tell what everything is, and I think I did a good job with the labels. They all look pretty accurate, but I forgot to put them all into perspective, like the Juicy Juice one. It's hard to remember that literally everything you draw is in perspective, and especially with mine because the actual perspective aspect is really prominent. This piece caught my eye because it's my favorite thing I've done in this class. I just really like the idea that I chose for it, and the process was really fun because I didn't have any reference pictures besides the food labels. I think I also challenged myself in that way because I'm so used to working off a picture. I initially had the idea of doing a food city for this project, but I had no ideas about what to put in it or how I would add variety, like with the lollipops and Lego couple and orange sun. I think it came together really nicely and that I was able to come up with a lot of different elements in this project.
Question #4: This is Katelyn's perspective project. It's my favorite project of hers, and it's a perfect example of what the perspective project was all about. She took on a difficult worm's-eye perspective with a LOT of detail. I know it must've been super challenging to get every single tiny brick into perspective, but she did it. Every line is so precise and angled perfectly. I also like that she used an interesting composition and put the building coming out of the corner of the paper. On top of that, there's a nice variety with the tree branches on one side and the roof the rest of the building at the very bottom. It also must've been hard to get the weirdly-shaped octagonal tiers into a simple two-point perspective (at least that's what I think it is).
Question #3: There's not a specific one that helped more than the others, but all of the contour practices helped me with the final contour drawing of the art room. The blind contour drawings helped me to look at my paper too much while doing the final and to just draw what I see as I see it. Those practices forced a shift in way my brain had to think about what my hand was doing, which is hard thing to do. It was helpful, though, because in a regular contour drawing you're still not picking up your pen and your hand still has to be moving in sync with your eyes. The practices I did of the art room especially helped because I was looking at a bigger picture with a foreground, middleground, and background, opposed to the ones where I was solely drawing an object like my hand or backpack. In the room ones I really had to think about what I was doing because I knew I couldn't really go back in to add forgotten things. It helped me to look at the whole area in which I was working. I had to focus in on little things, but it was also hard to add details. I also didn't pay much attention to perspective in my practices, which I then realized and fixed before doing my final.