1. My most successful project would definitely have to be my self portrait/expression project. Our assignment was to create a self-portrait that either showed expression, as a zombie, or mechanical. After some brainstorming I decided to go with the expression version of this project. When I was little my mom use to joke that I needed to clap when I changed subjects because I would go from one thing to another very quickly and without explanation leaving my listener dumbfounded, so I came up with the idea to have my thoughts spilling out from my head to show the way I think and how my thoughts are connected and disjointed at the same time. I used prismas, which I was still pretty unfamiliar with using, to make the piece colorful and lively. My greatest adversary in this project was my face. I had a terrible time making the shading look cohesive and not like I had wound up in a fight. Through my teacher's urging, I carried the purples and browns I had been using for the shading further into the face and I think it made it look much better. This piece is eye catching because the face is tilted slightly down with the eyes closed which makes me curious as to what that person is thinking, and then you see the colorful explosion that is the girl's thoughts answering your question. If I had more time or if I could change some things, I would work on making the face look even more like my own and I would add in a dreary or dark background to make the subject pop to viewers.
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1. Other than my self portrait which I used to answer my previous question my most successful piece was my Dumdum drawing in prismas. We were given a lollipop and asked to draw it with as much detail as possible. I decided to draw my mystery Dumdum in purples and blues to allude to the flavor being blueberry. I first drew and outline of the basic folds and shapes in white on my black paper and I tried to fill up the space with the Dumdum head rather than making it small and including the entire stick. I then proceeded to layer different shades of purple to make the lolly look round and give the folds the darkness they need to have the proper texture. The weakest part of this piece is the green shadow. I attempted to it at a different location than I had originally drawn the piece in which gave it a different shadow from where the original highlights were. Also, I accidentally drew it incorrectly and made it too wide so now it bothers me every time I see it.
2. Several weeks ago I drew a mint in pastels. The white was layered very poorly in my attempt to create highlights in the plastic. It was not very successful at all because plastic I tried to draw in over the candy using highlights was unrecognizable for what it was intended to be. The piece had little shading and value to it so it was very uninteresting.
My opacity project, I feel like, was much more successful. I drew plastic canisters full of jelly bans. Each bean has a highlight, and behind each set of beans is a darker version of the beans to suggest that there are more behind the beans at the front. I also created perspective with this piece by have each subsequent canister behind the former and the beans in each canister getting smaller and smaller. It's altogether a more dynamic and interesting piece than the hard candy because I was able to better apply what I had learned.
