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Descriptive and Interpretive ParagraphFor this piece I started drawing random drips on the side of the page and then it slowly turned into more and more things being attached together and once I did most of the left side of the page I thought it kinda looked like someone staring off into the distance so I made the other half look like a landscape and it looks pretty cool. Then once I started adding colour it looked even different and now it looks like some giant floating landscape in the sky.
Analysis ParagraphI think this piece has a lot of movement because it has a lot going on and there's details in it. It also has a lot of variety in colour and I think the pink and purple background give it contrast because they're so lightly coloured while the rest is more solid and vibrant.
Medium ParagraphFor this project I started in pencil and I drew the entire thing with an hb pencil and thought I was done. But it looked too plain so I started messing around with coloured pencils and I've rarely ever actually tried doing something in coloured pencil and I like using a varitey and having a lot to look at so I made each design its own colour scheme and let the piece go with itself.
Self Reflection Paragraph
I think this piece is really colourful and I liked the way it turned out. I wish it was bigger and that I put a boarder on it. I also wish I used pen highlights and used all of the colours a lot lighter. I also wish I made a rough draft before doing it to plan it better. But for how it is I like it. 

Project 2

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Descriptive and Interpretive Paragraph

I did this piece to go along with the quote in the negative space. I thought that the bottles would represent that poison doesn't have to look like poison to be poison. Like how things don't have to look like they're going to be something they'll turn into. I did the skull blue to represent that toxins and that when they have a point they're noticeable but not destructive. But poison that's just poison will only be destructive. I also added the arrow to separate the piece for symmetry and just because I like arrows. 

Analysis Paragraph

I think that this piece has symmetry because the skulls are divided and because the arrow comes down the middle to kind of show the line of symmetry. I also think that the words add to the balance and add to the symmetry. I also think it has a lot of contrast when looking at the pitch black sharpie over the valued coloured pencil. And with the white words on the black background. 
Medium Paragraph

For this piece I used mixed media. I started off with the coloured pencil for the skulls and the bottles. I did the cloth next also in coloured pencil to give it a base. I started doing the black background in sharpie and then I added the arrow in coloured pencil to give the piece something else to center it. Then after I filled in the black background I added my own quote in sharpie paint. 
Self Reflection Paragraph

I really like this piece because I created it to go along with something else I made. and it really just feels like all mine and it's kinda cool. I wish I did a better job on the blue skull because I feel like its not proportionate with the pink skull and they're too different styles but the different styles also plays into the meaning behind them but for the sake of looking at it I feel like it would have looked better if it was all the same style. I also wish I would have wrote what I did a lot better because its off and crooked and I have bad handwriting. But I do like it. 

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Descriptive:

For this piece I took a skull and I made its brains melt out of it's head. The skull shows that, it, is all we are and the melting of the brain is to express that a lot of people lose their minds when trying to do something well. But even if it didn't go well you made something out of it. Then you get to think, hey at least it looks cool right? and you feel better about yourself because everyone else's brain is a little melted too. And the middle part is the head of an arrow, because I like arrows. Not much to interpret from that one. 

Analysis:

For my first project I stayed geometric because I like shapes. I tried to go back and forth between value and flat when working with each different shape to give it contrast. I intended it to be symmetrical, but you can tell that it's not in some places. I left the composition in the middle and it brings attention to the skull. 

Medium:

For the medium I used various types of graphite pencils. I tried to give it more value by using more than one in different places but it overall has a flat gray tone to the whole piece. Afterwards I went back into the drippy parts of the brain and added some ink to make the drips look more heavy and stand out more individually. 

Self reflect:

I wish I would have made it more symmetrical because I'm that type of person who likes things even. I also wish I would have put some colour into it to make different parts stand out more so it doesn't seem so flat and like you can just glance at it and see everything about the piece. I also feel like there is a lot of empty space where I could have done more to it to make it look better. 

Idea:

I don't really know where I got the idea from. I think I just drew too many triangles next to a sketch of a skull and was like hey I bet that'd look cool. Then I did it, turns out it doesn't look too bad. But the picture I had in my head was a lot better. I'll work on it.