Drawing Unit: Final

Of the three drawing projects we did, my absolute favorite was the one with a Two-Point Perspective. At first, I truly hated the concept, because of how easy it was to distort the subjects in an image, but as I went on, I found it oddly zen to draw while being grounded by the vanishing points along the horizon line (or anchor points, as I call them.) I think most likely, it comes from the fact that as an artist, I started digitally, where I can do almost anything, especially like having guides and grids and even perspective graphs that I could snap to, easily, so even though I hated how things could be distorted, I stopped hating that when A couple of things happened, first and foremost, I learned to see the beauty of that distortion, but I also learned to see beyond it, because in the final result, that distortion is almost nonexistent. I'm definitely more prone to drawing Landscape images than I am to more intimate things, probably because I can get away with lack of detail a lot more in those than I can with something like a portrait or a Still-Life. In general, I avoided Color Mixing for almost all of my projects (except for the Grid Drawing,) because It felt more impactful in black and white with pure value. I think that honestly, the art forces the viewer to fill in the color with their imagination, and therefore the art has infinitely more potential to inspire an emotion or feeling in the viewer. Most of the time, I'm all-for color, but in these cases, I thought it would be interesting to stick with value so the viewers could create their own story from the artwork. I made a really odd choice with the background, as I left it white but tinted to be darker, even though the image was (in my mind,) a night scene. I tried to create a lot of depth, because I wanted the image to feel as if it could go on forever, into an endless darkness. It’s pretty depressing, but I’m still really happy with it. Kids: That’s a contradiction. I kept the Mid-Tones pretty much the same, I went for a really, really sad image, and if I did my job well, you should see that without having reath this paragraph.