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What are your ideas and why are they important to you? I want to draw this dog I see at work because the staff and I got the sad news that he has cancer and he’s got 6-9 months left.

What materials do you need? Black canvas and white color pencil.

What questions do you have about process, technique, or concept? This refers to questions you ask yourself as an artist, but could also be questions you have for me. Fur techniques on black background.

Research -- find or sketch images that will be references (if photos, create your own or be ready to significantly change an online photo).  What artists can you look at for inspiration?  Any demo videos that might help? I saw a student artist who did the same thing but drew a person.

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What prompted this artwork? I wanted to do the red string of fate and I also wanted to work on my figures. Particular categories on the grid? No. New materials or concept you wanted to try?  I wanted to use red string, but I didn’t want to sew it. Developing a portfolio for college or other purpose? Other purpose.  A particular technique you wanted to get better at? Figures.  Other?  The more specific you can be, the better. Wanted it to be realistic.

Write about your process – how did your original ideas and plans change and develop as you worked?  Changes could be compositional, technical, and/or conceptual.  Why did those changes occur? I needed a male figure so I have asked my friend if he could do it and fortunately he said it was ok. The mini figures I had to change do to the face being too small.

How does this artwork show development from pervious artwork?  Point to specific ways or areas of the artwork.  For example, the color palette might show more richness and blending than you’ve previously done, or you might point to places where proportions of the subject are stronger than previous work with the same subject…or… I wanted the red string to pop out so I didn’t use any color.

What were challenges you experienced in the process and how did you address them? Getting proportions just right and the mini figures.

What tips/suggestions might you give a younger artist or even yourself embarking on a similar subject, use of materials, or composition? Don’t stress over it make it bigger and lower so that the figures are proportioned

Did this artwork stretch you in any way?  If so, how?  What ideas do you have for your next independent project – how will you challenge yourself? For my next independent project I want to draw a dog I see at work on a black canvas and I will be using white color pencil.

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What were you trying to show about duplicity through your artwork?  Personality changes or evolves over time. Did you change your ideas during the process?  If so, how did ideas change?  No. What part of your message came across clearly? That there are two animals (a Kitsune wolf and a kitsune nine tailed fox) they are fighting for this soul to have their personality. What was harder to convey? The conflict between the two animals.

How did your artistic choices help show duplicity?   Color choice, subject matter, arrangement/ composition?  The colors, high and low

What were the most helpful comments you received when we did the written critique/feedback?  What was surprising feedback? I was getting a lot of texture comments but I still didn’t know how to texturize the rocks.

What are you most pleased with in your artwork?  The animals

What might you do the same and what might you do differently next time you use the media you used for this artwork? Have the same animals but I would do a different background.

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What are your most significant areas of artistic growth? Taking my challenges and turning them into work, for example, turning real people into a cartoon. I really worked on figures and how to make the better.
What artistic struggles did you learn from? I kept doubting myself, thinking that I can't draw people if they are realistic. I worked hard with figures and eventually got better.
As you pursue art for pleasure or maybe even as a future career, what subjects or new approaches would you like to try? Defintally, want to work more on figures and full body of animals, oil paint and pastel.

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Why did you decide to use text/words the way you did?  Because I was inspired by an artist who did japanese calligraphy, they do use ink and ink brushes and I wanted to use an traditional use.  How did your ideas develop and change as you worked?  My poem was about wolves and I wanted to put a wolf coming out of the smoke like a warrior. If you could change something about your final artwork, what would that be and why? I would change how the wolf came out of the smoke and the writing of the poem. the writing was too close together.

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Why did you decide to use text/words the way you did?  Because I was inspired by an artist who did japanese calligraphy, they do use ink and ink brushes and I wanted to use an traditional use.  How did your ideas develop and change as you worked?  My poem was about wolves and I wanted to put a wolf coming out of the smoke like a warrior. If you could change something about your final artwork, what would that be and why? I would change how the wolf came out of the smoke and the writing of the poem. the writing was too close together.

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