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The Natural World

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Portraits

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History and Memory

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Writing

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Urban Experience

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For my Mastery Project I’ve chosen to draw another issue about phones, the issue I am trying to discuss is the unfortunately real fear that someone could be watching you. While it used to only be in the minds of the readers of 1984, it has become a very real threat as many different people can hack into your devices and spy on you through your camera without you knowing. Drawing this was difficult, not the actual thing but because of the ideas I had to choose from, the one I eventually decided on used Emphasis on the eye in the phone as well as Value to highlight the eye watching you. After showing it to my family they got the feeling that they should probably cover their cameras when they are not in use.

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In my drawing the two Principles of Design I used was Contrast and Repetition, I used contrast for the lighting to show that the person is staring at a phone and repetition for the tears. The metaphor I am trying to show is how society is affected negatively by social media, the tears the person is crying are ‘downvotes’ from a social media app called “Reddit” and are to show that someone does not like something. I used a Royal Graphite Pencil for the outline and then used a Royal Charcoal pencil for the shading.

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My experience painting this was interesting, because it was both frustrating and fun to do. First I had to find tempera paints which was a little difficult to do, then I had to decide on what to paint. Eventually I decided to paint a snowy hill with tress like you sgugested but I used a different base iamge for it. Painting the sky was not easy because the tempera paints were not only difficult to blend but they dried quickly which meant I mostly Dry Brushed to make it blend. Then I had to add the cliff and tree, the cliff was actually the easiest part as well as the trunk and branches, then I used dabbing to add the leaves and after repainting some of the branches so you could still see them I used dabbing again to put snow on the tree. Lastly I decided to add a small bush to the side as well as add another layer of darker paint next to the cliff before finishing. In conclusion this Mastery Assignment was frustrating to do but I still enjoyed painting it and I am happy with how it came out.

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This is my Martin Luther King jr. drawing, as you can see the media I used was the actual poster for the assignment which I hope is ok. My experience drawing this was interesting, first I admittedly procrastinated until yesterday where I did 3 attempts to try and free-draw it until I decided to try tracing it. After that I had to add the shading which was the hardest part of this because I knew that was where all the details were going to come from. So I first roughly sketched out the details and then began using Cross Hatching to show where the shade was and how dark it would be. Afterwards I began to use an overhand grip to add in the shading, for the lighter parts I used a standard pencil but for the darker parts I used a 6B grade pencil. Overall my experience drawing this picture was actually really fun and I like how it came out.

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This mastery assignment was one of the more difficult ones as I needed to review both the elements and principles of art as well as shading. These became helpful when I began to draw and the definitions helped me with my tones and shading as I was able to draw the ¼, ½ & ¾ tones with both the vine charcoal and the compressed charcoal. Another thing that I had to review was how to properly make core shadows and contrast those shadows with the highlights as they would help me define the different parts of the face. Lastly I used the rendering to lighten up different sections of the face to add texture and to discern parts of the face from each other.

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The part of this assignment I enjoyed was it taught me the differences between vine charcoal and Compressed charcoal and how those differences can be use to easily draw the tones and shadows of the drawing, it also taught me why a gum eraser is helpful to use with charcoal as it erases it better than a normal eraser and doesn't leave shavings.

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This assignment helped me understand how to properly use the 1/2, 1/4 and 3/4 tones as well as how to blend the lead with a napkin. It is also nice to know that I can use youtube to improve my skills and to understand the elements and principles of art, Such as value, shape and form to change a 2d drawing into a 3d drawing which is more interesting to look at.

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This assignment  has helped me improve my objectional drawing skills by teaching me how to draw what I see and how to use different types of tones for my sketching, as well as how a different type of pencil can affect the quality of the drawing.

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I chose this image because it's a pumpkin with symmetrical carvings.
(Also Halloween)

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I chose this image because you can tell that it's a fish swimming, which would mean movement.

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I chose this image because it shows Natural or Unpredictable pattern.

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I chose this image because it shows emphasis on the front of the violin case while the background blurs to focus on the front.

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I chose this picture because I think the green trees, the blue sky, and the brown water shows how these colors and unify to make a good photo.

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I chose this picture because it shows a good contrast between the light and shadows.

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I took a photo of my water colors because it shows a variety of colors.