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Media: Mixed media, Subject: Human world with emotions, Technique: shading skills, bringing darkness to lightness, bright colors, Composition: layout as a phone, so giving that screensaver vibe. I was able to finally sketch a realistic person and I am proud of the outcome for someone who hasn't drawn realistically at all. I would say that was my first realistic portrait of myself and my girlfriend. Im glad I was able to make the hoodie look all bent and crooked just like the photography. I struggled with the faces, making the eyes too close or too wide, or too small and the body too big. I wish I could've had time to change it or change it completely, but I just had to resolve it by erasing some things but keeping other things and shading them differently.

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Media: Ink and pen, Subject: Human world, Technique: Being able to draw bold in ink, from thick to thin lines, Composition: The angle from the flower being the bigger object until you get to the smaller figure, giving a side far angle. I was able to use ink to it's advantage, having skills in drawing programs, it felt like I was able to control the thick and thin lines to create that cartoonish but realistic look. I was able to achieve an architecture look but issues were not making mistakes or messed up lines when going straight. But, when I did that, I was able to create something else out of it since there's never a mistake in art! I learned about how much I love ink and hope to get an ink set myself since I love the way I can make things and how dark the color is compared to just pen, having that black grayish look and being able to create thick lines unlike those thin markers where you have to draw in the thickness.

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Media: Paint + Marker, Subject: Narrative, Technique: Cartoonish style but a modern use of acrylic paint to represent a program, Composition: Alternative point of view (the computer screen itself and it's view). I was able to sketch out the different kinds of boxes and sidebars and plan out using a variety of grays. Some changes I needed to make was a different kind of shade, making one darker than the other and not trying to blend them together, and being able to keep it in. I feel like what's strongest is the story itself in the middle, being the colorful one out of the rest of the painting. I learned about using acrylic paint and the uses of brushes and textures and textures you can do with paint and the blending process.

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What are the four areas of the revised project grid that you used for this project?  How did you use them -- explain any changes that occurred as you worked.  What aspects of your artwork are strongest in your opinion?  What did you learn about media, composition, or approach by working on your independent project?

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Wow, well this was a wild ride. I was so scared that I wouldn't have any artistic ability after not drawing for three years. I always mention three years because I am so impressed on the overall art pieces I've made. I was able to experiment with many materials that is outside my comfort zone and being able to make a good enough piece with it. I tried to draw realistically instead of cartoonish since that was my struggle freshman year and continuing on. I finally was able to draw what I see instead of what I know and improve my eye on details and how much darks to add and lights. I struggled with trying to be precise and just being so detailed in the amount of time I had that usually I rushed over. I struggled with being jealous of others because of the time we all had, they were able to produce better art, but I see all art as different and so many different skills and I later learned to admire them and appreciate them and admire my own work also. I would love to use my new artistic ability to input that into backgrounds of future animations. I will start sketch outdoors and still-objects and things I see to improve my eye on the real world and what surrounds us, especially people and their positions and emotions. I loved learning to use paint and watercolor and love the differences between them from light colors with being able to do dark colors with acrylic paint. I loved being able to use pencil and the variety of shades to make realistic people and using mixed media to pop out the drawing instead of just making it all pencil. I loved being able to tell my story and being able to tell random stories and not making it all edgy and deep like most artistic students. I wanted to bring up stories that aren't mentioned much and I love that in me and my art and being able to be confident to make stories in the future for my career of hopefully an animator, or something in the animating studios. New approaches would be buying my own pencil case and tiny sketch book for mixed media so I can draw whenever I want and continue improving my artistic ability and carrying a tiny sketchbook to admire the world around me and it's aspects.

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What are your most significant areas of artistic growth? What artistic struggles did you learn from?  As you pursue art for pleasure or maybe even as a future career, what subjects or new approaches would you like to try?