Reflecting on the Four Hour Project

This project is very different then all of the others that we have been working on throughout the first term. This project has showed me how much I've learned throughout this term because I created something that shows my knowledge and understanding of the principles of design. This is because, my project was explaining a story and the back round was black, blue, and red. These colors emphasize sadness which was the main theme of my story. The hardest part of my project was creating leading lines to explain the story. I finally figured out that I needed a background to show the theme and then emphasize my main picture which was of a hand with a picture of a little boy. I then made a road going to a house. This symbolizes the fact that they are trying to find the boy who was kidnapped and take him home. The street shows proportion and the emotion that shows he's so far away from the house and wants to come back home. Along the way I have improved my project and my understanding of principles of design.

The Book Project...progress and planning

My original plans for my book project are the same as they are now. My story is trying to show a young women trying to buy a house for her and her husband to start their lives off. I have been following my sketchbook drawings for the most part. The only thing that I have really changed throughout my book so far is the emphasis. On the second page I totally changed it. The picture used to be the realtor and the woman meeting at the door but now there is a big hand in the background and the realtor is huge in comparison with the woman. This emphasis shows that the future of the woman is in the realtors hands. It is hard to make each picture very different while including things like leading lines. Overall the process is going well but it has been taking longer than I thought.

Drawing the Human Figure From the Inside Out

The goals for today's drop everything and draw were to draw humans from the waist and down and up. There was a lot of scribbling used in this activity and everything connected together in a certain way. Another goal for today was to not listen to what your brain was telling you to do. For example, if someone was lying down that didn't necessarily mean that you had to turn your paper around unless that's what you actually saw. I think I achieved my goals pretty well but I have to work on not listening to what my brain was telling me to do. I was drawing Alex who was lying down and I flipped my paper around because I was at side view and that's what I saw. When drawing both Sophia and Taylor I could only see the back of their heads. This was harder for me because I didn't fully know how to create the arm without putting the arm legitimately in the middle of the back.