1. The art criticism process is comprised of four steps describe, analyze, interpret, and evaluate. Describe is when the you say exactly everything on the piece and say what the details are. You say what the medium and how the piece looks. You explain the design and the colors. Analyze is examining the main principles of the piece and how they are affected by the art form. If a piece has a certain look find out why it has that look from style or from the medium used. Interpret is when you look into the piece, and you try figuring out what is the author trying to convey. Then you must think of why is the author conveying this message, whether it is the time period or their personal life. Also you must know how the time period might add certain elements as if it's dark or appeals in one way. Finally you have to figure out why the style of the piece is that way. Last step, evaluate, you have to see how successful or how important the piece is.
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3. There is a snail with cross hatching. The medium used is pen. There is some detail along the body of the snail with and has an alarm clock instead of a shell. Books are in the top left corner and the snail is on a nightstand. It is combining two ideas of a snail and a clock. The shape of the snail is done sloppily and the shape of the books are also asymmetrical L. The form of the piece looks 2D because no shading was done to make it look 3D. The value throughout the piece of art changes from where parts of the snail are darker than other parts. Also going around the clock there is value. The only colors used are black and white but there is light value. The overall texture looks rough because the cross-hatching is in every way. The image was supposed to convey the method that in the morning you are slow to waking up. Every morning I wake up and it's always so hard to get out of bed so I drew this. It's set in present day where everyone uses an alarm clock to get up. The art was done in this style because when you wake up everything is done sloppily. Overall, the piece was not that successful and has no importance to me. The cross hatching looks very rough and not professional. The books are not rectangles so they do not look professional. Also, no 3D texture was given to any of the items.
16. Do over. I would redo this project because I think was the sloppiest of all of them. The cross hatching was pretty horrid and the piece just doesn't look like there was much effort put into it. I would add shadows to all of the items in the picture, redo the valuing, and change the shape of the books. Also I would probably add more clutter to the nightstand because there is a lot of open white space. This two in one project was creative, but I would change a lot of the shading through out the body and around the clock. Although, I do like the medium of pen.
15. I believe my most successful project was my sculpture. The topic was to do a sculpture project of someone you knew. I originally found a picture of the person I wanted to draw then made a rough draft. In the rough draft I saw what I could change and how to do shading throughout the face and make the features. After the rough draft I went straight to the final draft. The final draft went well and I started off by just drawing the head. Then I drew in the eyes, then the nose, then the mouth, then the hair and ears. Value came in at the very end. I valued using the different valued pencils and I was able to encapsulate a light source. The shading really shows the dark and light parts of the piece.
17. This was my favorite warm up because I felt I handled it better than any of my other warm ups. I spent the most time on this warm up and I genuinely enjoyed spending time to draw this. It was also beneficial for drawing my sculpture piece when it came to ears. I selected above any of my other activities, because the value makes the piece really stick out. It makes the ear look 3D and it has sharp details around the ear. The ear has more detail than any of my other warm ups and it clearly shows the light and dark portions.