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Unit 4: Comment for Dai Hai's Color Scheme Drawing

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Unit 4: Comment for Dai Hai's Color Scheme Drawing

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Hi Dai Hai,

I think your 6 color scheme drawing demonstrates that you have a strong understanding of different types of color schemes including achromatic, analogous, complementary, triadic, monochromatic, and split-complementary. I noticed how you applied your understanding of shading techniques and incorporated scumbling into the achromatic part of your drawing. I also noticed that you used multiple color schemes we learned in class such as achromatic for the watermelon and monochromatic for the red apple and the green cabbage. My favorite part of your artwork is the yellow pear. I just really like how realistic and natural they look, especially the hint of green in the inner part. Overall, I would say your combination of shading techniques and color scheme enhanced your artwork to make it realistic and demonstrate your understanding of color schemes. Some areas of improvement is to maybe further improve your shading. Although you did a great job with the scumbling, I noticed how the cast shadows are a bit inconsistent especially the yellow pear and the two bottles. Overall, great job!

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Unit 3: Comment for Dai Hai's Ai illusion Drawing

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Unit 3: Comment for Dai Hai's Ai illusion Drawing

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Hi Dai Hai,

I think your Ai illusion drawing demonstrates that you have a strong understanding of optical illusions and using layers. I noticed that you applied your knowledge of shading and value to your drawing, which is displayed by the shadows in the foreground. I also like how you used different techniques of shading like stippling and blending to further demonstrate your understanding of value. Also, your use of different colors such as mainly dark value of color for the foreground and a diverse value of color for the mountain separates your parts of illusion. My favorite part of your artwork is the mountain in the back, as I think it contributes a lot to the illusion since it enhances the illusion by depicting the checkered pattern from what seems like a portrait of a mountain and a town. Some areas of improvement is to maybe try connecting the parts together more smoothly, as the achromatic color and your diverse use of color for the mountain doesn't really fit together. Also, add even more detail on the foreground of your piece, since adding more details to objects that are closer to the viewpoint further enhances the illusion of depth and makes your artwork more vibrant. Overall, very good job on your artwork!

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Unit 3: Comments for Dai Hai's Collaborative Project

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Unit 3: Comments for Dai Hai's Collaborative Project

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I think your value drawing demonstrates that you have a strong understanding in different types of value and shading. I can see your understanding of various shading techniques such as scumbling, hatching and cross hatching. You also incorporated different types of shadows such as highlights and cast shadow to create the illusion of depth. I also noticed how you applied the difference in value to your drawing, for example, you used a more darker value of hatching for some parts, while using a lighter value of hatching by making less lines in some parts. I think this really helped your drawing match with the value of the original image. The thing I like the most about your drawing is the very dark cast shadow on the left side, as I like how you clearly showed the difference in value compared to the shadows surrounding it, and compared to the original image, it looks almost identical. One suggestion I have for you is to work on the value for the leaves on top of the tree. Comparing your drawing to the original image, I noticed that the leaves on the original image are darker in value than the tree itself, but your drawing shows the leaves as a lighter value than the tree. Also, maybe spend more time on adding details, as I think adding a bit more detail on the tree could enhance your drawing to look almost identical to the original image.

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For this project, I chose the pose of a man jumping with his hands out with the 3 techniques of drawing: gesture, contour, and grid drawing. I used a black pen for the contour drawing, blue pen for the grids, and pencil for gesture drawing and the outline. During the process of drawing, I tried to balance the 3 techniques so that all 3 of them are used equally to create a sense of balance. For example, I tried to balance the grid drawing by doing 3 of them along the body instead of focusing them on only one area. Personally, I think the grid drawings went the best out of all the others, as it allowed my drawing to  be proportionate to the pose I was drawing from and have more detail. The grid drawings were also the hardest to draw compared to other techniques as my paper wasn’t proportionate to the screenshot I had.
Overall, I think this project was quite successful for me since I got to learn about the 3 important techniques of drawing and decided how to incorporate these techniques into my artwork. Also, the process of this project forced me to draw the general outline of the pose then draw the muscles with precision and detail, which is a skill that I think I will definitely need in the future. However, I think I might have spent too much time erasing and trying to make the proportions correct when I was transferring my artwork from my sketchbook to the big paper. Also, I think I should have added more value and shade to the grid drawing. Lastly, I think I could have utilized more colors such as red for contour drawing to make my artwork more vibrant.

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Unit 3: Comments for Dai Hai's Value Drawing

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Unit 3: Comments for Dai Hai's Value Drawing

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I think your value drawing demonstrate that you have a strong understanding in different types of value and shading. Your value drawing makes your drawing look more realistic as if light is shining from one side. I also noticed you incorporated the 5 techniques of shading into your drawing to create a sense of value that makes your drawings look alive and differ from each other, and for each of the pears, the use of shadows such as form shadow, core shadow, and cast shadow is visible. I especially like your stippling part of the pear on the back. It looks very realistic to me as if I was seeing an actual pear with light shining on it to create a shadow. Some suggestions I have for you is to consider adjusting the alignment of the pears. In your drawing, the pear laying down on the right side appears like it's not align with the other pears. Also, maybe work on connecting the cast shadows to the object a bit smoother, as the cast shadow for the pear on the right looks a bit disconnected.w

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Comments for Dai Hai's Invisible City Drawing

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Comments for Dai Hai's Invisible City Drawing

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I think your invisible city drawing successfully demonstrates the techniques of showing depth that we have learned so far. You divided the picture with a foreground, middle ground, and a background and used the illusion of depth by drawing the object that are closer such as the lizard with more detail and objects that are far away with less detail such as the brown mountain in the background. I also think that your use of first point perspective successfully shows the illusion of depth and makes the river look like its getting farther and farther. Personally, I like your choice of coloring as it represents a sandy desert where everything is yellow with a lake and greenery flowing in the middle and brown, rocky mountains in the back. With that, a suggestion I have for you is to further enhance your coloring by making it more consistent. Right now, I think some of your colors like the brown part in the foreground and the dark brown mountain sticking out in the middle ground could be improved by deciding on a color for the foreground, middle ground, and the background. This could also show the illusion of depth more clearly.

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My project is a tessellation of birds of contrasting color. It was created with the tessellation of rectangles. One noticeable feature is the repetition of the placement of the birds. There are two birds that face each other, and their colors are a contrast of each other, black and white. I decided to color the birds with this simple color to represent the differences between the birds. However, the birds meet each other on the center shaded with light blue which represents the sky. The birds with contrasting colors also touch each other’s beaks, to signify a sense of unity.

Overall, I think what went well was the repetition in the tessellation which I always wanted to include. Also, I think the meaning of my project, that things with even the most opposite characteristics still unite with each other, was well shown.
However, I think I still need a lot of improvement on including more details and colors than using only a few colors. Compared to other tessellation artworks I have seen, I think mine is a bit too simple and a bit unfinished. To resolve this issue, if I was to redo this project, I would spend more time including more details and coloring.

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This project was focused on exploring different perspectives. We mainly learned about the 3 perspectives, which are 1 point perspective, 2 point perspective, and 3 point perspective. This project helped me understand that there are different types of linear perspective, and we can use each of them in different cases to show the illusion of depth, which makes an object or a component appear farther or closer to another component in a drawing. With this in mind, we went out to take pictures of examples of perspective and the illusion of depth in Ho Chi Minh City to carry out this project.

One thing that worked well for me was the sketch, as I think I converted the real life image to a drawing pretty well. I also think the sketch went well because I incorporated the perspective concepts such as vanishing points and horizon lines in my drawing where they seemed fit. For example, I had a vanishing point on the center of my sketch for the 1 point perspective, which allowed me to demonstrate my understanding of linear perspective. I can apply the things we learned about linear perspective and use it later in future cases when I want to show depth in the drawing or when I want to make the drawing more realistic.

However, I think I can also improve greatly on the painting part of this project. Since it was my first time experimenting with water coloring, I wasn’t so sure on what to do, which caused my water coloring to appear as it was smeared all over the place like in the 2 point perspective drawing. Also, I feel like I could have improved on paying more attention to detail, as I ignored some of the little things in the images I took, which could cause my drawing to look unrealistic.

Overall, this mini project on linear perspective was successful in that I learned a lot of useful information about how to create the illusion of depth. I feel like the techniques we learned in class during this project could actually help me later on in the future when I have to draw realistic photos.

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I think your three artworks demonstrate that you have a strong understanding in 1, 2, and 3 pt perspective. Your perspective drawing successfully show the illusion of depth and make some objects appear closer or farther then others. Personally, I like your choice of the scenery of your artwork. Especially, I think the 2 pt perspective drawing exhibits the aspects of Ho Chi Minh City with the river and the apartment in the background. I also noticed that you showed the illusion of depth using details and sizes. For your 2 point perspective, you drew the leaves that in the foreground larger and with more detail than the objects in the background. Some area for improvement could be to make the shading more consistent. For example, in your 1 pt perspective drawing, the shading of the sky is not consistent, and the shading of the is not consistent compared to the shading of the bush on the left side.

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My piece is a still life drawing of a skull, a quill and ink, and two books drawn with five different shading techniques, Blending, Hatching, Stippling, Cross-hatching, and scumbling. I used a 6B pencil for most of the darker parts and HB for lighter parts and a mechanical pencil mainly for the contour of the skull.

Overall, I'm very proud with how my piece turned out, especially the shading of the quill. I applied scumbling to the background, Blending to the quill and the ink, stippling to the side part of the book, cross hatching to both the books, and contour hatching to the skull. I do think that the skull could have looked better as I might have rushed in drawing the lines (I think they didn’t really show the difference in value of the skull as in the original picture). Also, I think that it doesn’t really represent the types of shadows except for the highlight and the cast shadow. I really enjoyed shading in the background as it was easy and strangely calming to do. Also, I think that the blending for the quill turned out the best as it looks pretty realistic. Although I liked the outcome, I didn't really enjoy drawing the books. I feel like it didn’t turn out how I expected it to be, especially the stippling. If I were to do this project another time, I would probably try to increase the existence of stippling. Stippling is extremely  tedious which is why I decided to use it on a part that covers a slightly smaller area compared to others. Overall, I'm happy with how my piece turned out.

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This is the completed image of this project. The main technique I used to draw was to first cross hatch with a 6B pencil on the box of the grid which I was drawing, then cross hatch with a dark ink pen from left to right, up and down, and diagonally. I used this method since this formed the little white dots which was a main part of the original drawing. On grids that was really dark, such as the box on the top right corner, I crossed hatched a lot of times until it had a very dark value. For the grids that was kind of light and had many little white dots such as bottom left part, I crossed hatched with a 4B pencil then crossed hatched again with a pen until the value was similar to the value of the original image. My image looks a bit shiny due to the lighting, but the image is divided into parts where the value is dark and parts where the value is dark with more white dots resembling the clouds.

Overall, I am pretty satisfied with the result, as it allowed me to use a variety of shading and value techniques such as cross hatching, hatching, and scumbling. However, if I were to do this project again, I would definitely work on having more cross hatching, since my final image looks like it has too much lighter parts compared to the original image. Also, I could have shown my skills in creating value by choosing an image with a lighter value and more objects in the drawing, since the image I selected shows the dark sky, which doesn’t really allow me to demonstrate the techniques of shading to show value.

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This is the finished artwork of my Ai generated illusion project. I used colored pencil to color the sphere and the chess board below the sphere as it only involved black and white colors, so painting wasn’t necessary. I also used white paint for the chess board in the foreground, because I wanted to emphasize the color and details as it was the foreground. My artwork is divided into 3 layers. The foreground is the closest chess board in the front of the image. The middleground is the checkered sphere on top of the thin, clear plastic. Lastly, the background is the chess board below the sphere. My project also consists of 3 layers. The first layer is the checkered sphere on the top of the thin plastic, as it is at the very elevation of the artwork. The second layer is the chess board at the very front of the image. The third layer is the chess board below the sphere, as it is at the lowest elevation of the artwork. Utilizing multiple layers allowed me to enhance the illusion of depth in my project, because the sphere is the main component of illusion in my project and being the first layer puts emphasis on it. One part I’m proud of is the sphere part, because it was the main component that creates an optical illusion and I think I achieved it pretty well. However, there are definitely some improvements I can make to my project. First, I submitted my work very late, because I was stuck on how I should create the layers and the illusion. In terms of art, I think the chess board could have definitely been improved, because I was unfamiliar with using paint which makes the chess board on the very front not look like a perfect square.

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This is the finished artwork of my Ai generated illusion project. I used colored pencil to color the sphere and the chess board below the sphere as it only involved black and white colors, so painting wasn’t necessary. I also used white paint for the chess board in the foreground, because I wanted to emphasize the color and details as it was the foreground. My artwork is divided into 3 layers. The foreground is the closest chess board in the front of the image. The middleground is the checkered sphere on top of the thin, clear plastic. Lastly, the background is the chess board below the sphere. My project also consists of 3 layers. The first layer is the checkered sphere on the top of the thin plastic, as it is at the very elevation of the artwork. The second layer is the chess board at the very front of the image. The third layer is the chess board below the sphere, as it is at the lowest elevation of the artwork. Utilizing multiple layers allowed me to enhance the illusion of depth in my project, because the sphere is the main component of illusion in my project and being the first layer puts emphasis on it. One part I’m proud of is the sphere part, because it was the main component that creates an optical illusion and I think I achieved it pretty well. However, there are definitely some improvements I can make to my project. First, I submitted my work very late, because I was stuck on how I should create the layers and the illusion. In terms of art, I think the chess board could have definitely been improved, because I was unfamiliar with using paint which makes the chess board on the very front not look like a perfect square.