Studio+Project+2

DRAWING AND INTRODUCTION TO VIDEOGRAPHY

Workbook Pages (IWB):
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Studio Work:
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Workbook (IWB) Evaluation:
I decided to use a technical drawing theme for this project's workbook pages, but unfortunately I didn't have time to finish. In the first project, my page theme was much too complicated and I spent too much time on it, and in the end I didn't have time to finish it either. With this project, I simplifies my theme, and spent more time on my actual material, but I still spent too much time on it, and in the end I still ran out of time, even though I got more done this time, I need to manage my time better by setting deadlines for myself and organizing myh workbook early on in the project month. This first week for example, I could go through making the titles on all the pages, so that its all laid out and ready. It was good how I used a universal theme though, and a simple one at that. It was also good how I made a plan of my pages, and what each one would contain.

Studio Work Evaluation:
I think that my drawings were most influenced by technical drawings that I had looked at. I used simple pencil sketching and so on. However, I also think that I tried to incorporate modern with my use of color and so on, but in general it was all fairly traditional. My media process was basically to take photographs of my subject then sketch from them using pencil and then to do something different like panting using gouache or watercolors or shade using a pencil or charcoal. My sketches were based solely on the outlines of my photographs though. My main weakness in this project was not taking my drawings far enough or not putting enough originality into them. I felt that all my drawings were unfinished, as if I had done the sketching and then left them and/or not continued with them. I should have painted more and done more shading. The problem was that after ruining some of my sketches, I was afraid to play with the other ones. If I had had more time, I would have done 30 sketches for example, then calmly experimented on all of them with charcoal, paints, and then I would have chosen the best. The sketching was just the first step of completing my drawings. I also did not do anything original, I should have played around a bit more with the collage, and I should have tried new and different things, like showing the texture of the bricks in a building in a interesting way. I think that my strengths were, my use of different colored papers ,the simplicity of my sketches, the use of the space on each sheet, trying out different sizes, and being detailed and exact in my drawing. I was glad that I experimented with different sizes and papers atleast, but again this would have been the first step only in my experimentation. It was also great how I faded out all my drawings rather than ending them on the edges of each sheet, in some drawings I even left more then half of the sheet empty on purpose, these were experiments in composition. The one thing that I would suggest for myself, in the future is to organize my time better. By doing lots of research before hand and also sketching my drawings early on, then experimenting on them. I shouldn't have been afraid to make mistakes as well. On my next project, I think that I will take the idea of sketching and painting with me. As well as the use of black paper, use of gouache, and taking inspiration from different art movements, such as De Stijl.