The play for our group was deciding on a relatively easy pose to do and figure out where to start as I think that is the hardest because of all the ideas and different parts.

I think that the outcome of this task won't be anything crazy good or extraordinary, I think that our group will get it together and produce a relatively good and detailed sculpture.

I was surprised at the end result of this lesson as my group nearly finished and made enormous progress from last class' 5 strands of tape. The end result also looked very good and sturdy with details. I was also surprised of how fast we progressed within 1 class basically work efficiency.

My definition of struggle & play changed in a positive way as we progressed we developed our problem solving and figuring out difficult detials for the scultpure.

I think the hardest thing about transforming everything into line and shapes was seeing the structural lines and shapes of the drawing, it was really a struggle for me in the beginning to figure out the correct structures or "souls" behind the drawing. But it got easier the more I did it.

My sketch of slide 6 on that lesson's slideshow best represents my use of line and shapes as I felt smooth as I drew and the results came out good fortunately.

This practice could help a lot throughout my drawings in the future as this would easily give me a better foundation for every one of my future drawings so I could proceed better from here on out.

In my risk zone, I wrote shape and color because I'm not a good artist myself so in my drawings my use of shapes and how I express them is weak. For colors I am confident in describing colors and explaining the category they are in but I'm weak at memorizing mixing colors.

In my danger zone I wrote form and space because with my bad representing skills, I'm not good at recreating forms or breaking down forms that makes up a drawing. Space to me is a bit confusing as I don't understand it too well nor could I use it effectively in my drawings.

• Experimenting with different tools can change the variety and expressiveness of my marks by giving each line created by a separate tool a special sense to it, such as what it could express, the mood it gives off which comes together with the rest of the piece to produce a certain vibe to it.

Intentional choice:

• The more different medias we used the more diversity the artwork had. For example, different tools would produce a different line, shape, texture or distribution since each tool has a different way of utilizing. Which is perfect for expressing different feelings and mood, adding life to the artwork with varieties of lines, value and space. Depending on your mood, you could use a certain tool to express it based on how connected you feel towards the tool and your feelings, to me this could express that but to you that could express this.

Process and reflection:

• The decisions we made on which ones to control or scatter varied, such as our use of color where we decided to control it in order to take advantage off the vary of space which adding colors could produce. Another example is how we scattered lines rather than controlling it. The media that we select could expand these choices as it gives us more unique ways to do both these things with certain elements.

The practice of contour drawing is more about embracing the structure of an object rather than creating a polished artwork because you're trying to feel and sense where each lines would go and how you would recreate what you're looking at onto paper without correcting every detail after a few lines.

• The drawing shown above feels most successful to me because of the space I used and took advantage of to create a different in proportions making the art seem to pop out more.

• I don't quite understand the question but I'm assuming it has something to do with those 4 aspects. I had a lot more confident in my lines because I knew what was aiming for which directly impacts my focus because there was a goal to achieve which helped me work more efficiently and confidently. I felt like I had much more control over the lines and shapes I was producing and that I think was what improved the quality of my drawing

While adding details with a reference photo I balanced accuracy with creativity by still recreating details but in my own style and frequency as in keeping the consistency within how much details I add throughout the entire portrait therefore making my final outcome better.

Changes I made includes the aftermath of the my drawing of chosen skills, choosing what to do with it next and detailing so that it fits into my theme.

I had to revise giving my artwork a smooth texture for a certain section and switch between different values espicially for my sea section where I had to be consistent with the texture and give it differing values by making certain parts darker and some lighter. I had to adjust the upper section of my artwork as leaving my sky a blank white color would make it lack completetion so I had to improvise by creating a dark sky and then later giving it a unique texture. I had to problem solve when I messed up with the placement of my blind contour drawing, placing it a tad bit too high above my sea-line making me unable to go with my original idea of turning it into a gesture drawing of a ship. I improvised and tried my best to solve it by turning it into something else that matches the theme.

I plan to finish off my artwork with 3 last steps which is making my sky darker so that it could contrast as much as possible compared to the sea so that it doesn't seem "boring". The second step is smearing more oil pastel onto my blind contour, creating a splash effect with the color from my negative space. The last step is to use a little dark blue to give my sea more color also using oil pastel, distributing it evenly.

• Proportions

• Movement

• Variety

• Repetition

• Balance

I have the elements above listed in my comfort zone because I feel confident in my ability to incorporate them within my art and as well as define in my own understanding to a well-developed depth. For example if I am asked to define what movement is as a principle of design or art I could explain from my prior knowledge and personal understanding.

Risky:

• Unity

• Harmony

• Emphasis

• Contrast

• Rhythm

• Pattern

I have put the elements above in my risky zone as I don't know how to correctly incorporate them or apply artist inspirations to my use of these elements in my art in order to create an appealing look for it. I could potentially become more comfortable with these elements by implementing them over and over again as practice to learn how to incorporate them into my art and therefore help me use these elements confidently for my art. A possible step that I could take to limit my hesitation to using the 6 elements risky elements I have is to remember that there is no right or wrong in art and I am still exploring so I could play around with them without risking anything in order to get more comfortable with them and reduce hesitation at the same time.

Techniques from unit 1 that I found useful during the process of creating negative space drawing is mark making because for my process I can't just fill in all the space I need to create the object at once but rather slowly fill in space and stop to inspect if the shapes and areas are coming along well. Mark making from unit 1 really developed this skill of mine to be more precise. Simplifying things into black and white helped me with the composition and principles of design by assisting in identifying the potential strokes and areas that could be formed when creating normally.

I used positive and negative space to create balance by calculating correct placement in the distances between the positive cut out and the negative space left behind, having shapes and lines directly contrast each other with a balanced space in between them.

With positive and negative space I created visual interest to viewers by emptying out the positive space as much as I can to my liking and also use creative non-geometric shapes to create a sense of diversity when looking at it. I also added layers and lines within the shapes to apply more contrast to the piece, complimenting the visuals of the piece.

The ideas and concepts behind Notan(contrast, balance, push/pull of shapes) could influence my future artworks by highlighting the aesthetic that different aspects brings by working together with the limited space, so that different areas, shapes and lines that uses different aspects to create visual interest are able to compliment each other. Therefore inspiring me to detail my future artworks much further than currently, use a variety of techniques, lines, shapes to create visual interest and perfect my placement as well as decision-making on which aspects to emphasize in order for the aesthetic of the piece to be seen clearly.

My use of space in this sketch could've been improved a lot by establishing a dense number of buildings through filling in blank space and that would also contribute to creating a front and back view designs. My use of overlapping creates the illustion of depth from one house to another as they're covered in many lines stretching accross every corner of the houses and borders to establish the strings being in different areas of the town. To exercise my notan through these sketches I incorporated multiple shapes as well as where each start and end to create a sense of density and balance as different buildings sit on top of each other nicely.

I incorporated principles such as variety, repetition and proportions through stacking shapes on top of each other and apply different curvatures as roofs of different buildings to have diversity. Repeating the strings as described in the story throughout my whole

The design I will show my groupmate is the front view design, though it is a recreation of what I had came up with it revolves around the same theme of an abandoned mideieval town the moment I read to passage. There is also diversity and details to the front view sketch and I think the theme of medieval times works pretty well for this Ersillia

After sharing ideas with my groupmate, her theme focused on more of a modern civilization design where there are tall buildings and multiple modern day houses designs but still holds the same density similar to mine. We agreed on Sophia's modernized theme rather than my medieval theme because we agreed that it would be easier to make a sculpture of a city full of buildings with less detailings unlike medieval where we have to appear aged, and her design includes more geometric shapes which would be easier to make. Lastly, a part I missed from the passage was how a part of the city was just support beams for old houses covered in strings and her concept of it was to have those support beams hold up a platform for the city itself which I really liked.

So far there has been no unexpected surprise whilst working on this project, we have shared a lot of ideas and visions we have for the sculpture and we were partly pleasantly surprised at how well we were cooperating with shared visions and ideas so that we could immediately visualize how to form an element when discussed. For example we had a discussion about how the main buildings would look and in her illustration there was an unfinished building in progress and we talked about how to assemble it, as well as the materials needed and how we would make each elements such as supports beams and layers and we clicked on that fast.

Some possible extra materials we came up with are string/yarn to create strings all throughout the city covering buildings, popsicle sticks as layers for unfinished building and a spray paint that has a cream/cement color for all the details.

I am planning to apply different textures to my sculpture by exploring with different tools and medias on one same surface to see what effect it has on it and pick out one type of texture that will fit a certain area of my sculpture and therefore add that use of media into the process. For small details like windows and visibly appearing things or maybe elements that repeat I plan to apply those after I have cut out and gathered all the needed material for assembling. Finally for finishing touches which I plan for there to be little of would be done by observing the sculpture and comparing it with the image I had in mind at first or ask for opinions from my peers to see what small details I could improve on the outside.

A step in the process that was very familiar to me was smearing charcoal to make the space around the subject and the entire space used in the drawing through gradient.

A success that I had during this activity was my recreation of the objects shape, texture and space within as I felt that my pencil glided smoothly as I glanced at the photo not quite many times, all it took was a bit of patient and polishing for the drawing to come out realistic with visible elements.

The story of my still life picture is captures a theme of warfare where the objects in the picture represents soldiers and within the picture one has died to another.

I'll approach the sketch by outlining the objects and boxing in the shadows, then move on to tinting every darker part then lastly move on to polishing.

This image best represented my invisible city of Ersillia, matching the theme of a gloomy black and white with strings stretched across structures(Not many visible since this is cropped of original). The aging of structures is also visible through the texture and assembling of cardboard, best representing the ran-down ghost like city. The overall mood of this photo is damp and gloomy presented through a dark setting with yet simplicity within details and structures. When given without context, the connotation for this image is a clear casual, gloomy night of some given neighborhoods around the world. This image provides a sense of calm to me where it reminds me of the realization that each person is living their very own life and has things to deal with as shown through the different human figures throughout different levels within this image, it seems like this is more of a capture of a moment where everything is simplistic rather than an illustration of elements.

In contrast with the wood texture, all the other blocks have much denser amount of lines in an area, this could suggest a darker valued area with more detail and patterns on a surface. Based off the bottom 2 cubes, you could come to the conclusion that they have a lot more texture, is a lot more bumpy and detailed within the texture by looking at the slightly repetitive patterns with differnt sizes and lengths which is what gives the cube a realistic look with varients of shades on the surface and repeptiive texture

One thing that surprised me the most was how well white charcoal and ink could be combined for a blend and I learned how to vary the amount of each material I use in different areas to achieve the wanted look and value.

These explorations and findings will impact my final drawing directly since I'll be implying everything I learned to achieve a look that is best made with as much materials. The most significant trouble that I came across during exploration was the risk that I could easily mess something up while working with ink and it'll be irreversible, but this is a risk I'm willing to take since I could produce a good final drawing and expand on creativity by improvising if a mistake is made.

For my final paper, I plan on starting with blocking in basic structural forms of my whole city as it is layered and I want to utilize proportions and shading to express the "distance" of a subject from the eye. I mapped out the values I needed throughout all layers of my drawing with my usage of ink layering and spreading it to create natural shapes and texture.

An area that I experienced growth in was stroke-consistency throughout the whole drawing where minor details didn't matter while sketching so I allowed my pen to glide accordingly to my estimates of the different values, lines and shapes of different subjects. I say this because I see no area that appears visible significant detail missing or no area that stands out significantly from others based on density of lines in that area. I could improve this skill by doing further work with my drawing whilst freely expressing elements in different areas through my strokes and values. While still keeping room for improvement but cautious of "mistakes" that could happen but rather than being afraid, I'm more open to getting a result I don't desire to cross out techniques that aren't effective to me and what I could incorporate in order to achieve what I want.

Main principles that was significant to my drawing includes unity, movement, proportion and a little bit of emphasis. Where unity has to do with incorporating all my strokes together using lines and shapes to create a sense of unity in overall structure and space within my drawing. Practically how well all my strokes and shapes comes together to create and fill in different areas of my piece. Movement was also a principle I took into a lot of consideration and was something that I focused on incorporating the most in my piece. Through my work I wanted it to capture a moment in a city where nothing is out of the ordinary with buildings, lights and figures in sight, seemingly creating a regular calming sensation to the eye which incorporates movement of an entire city being captured in one frame. Proportion and emphasis also comes in pretty significantly as a good expression of proportions is needed to incorporate unity and movement as it appears more as capturing multiple stories at the same time using the layered structure of my city. Emphasis was relevant since there is a lot of contrast and visible shining bright lights within my city and joining different techniques and media such as white charcoal and water could be utilized to express light, where what I did was thickly layered white where light sources were and gradually fade into the negative space of the city. Taking these elements and principles into deep consideration helped me significantly in progressing and helped bring my ideas onto paper by determining how well each element could be incorporated using certain techniques.

Link to Presentation: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1kbFWwFoBMdFlWywgjUUOmxQ_OBeR0cnqbtdh6mhMjfg/edit?slide=id.g3d0c1900078_0_36#slide=id.g3d0c1900078_0_36

The purpose of this letter is to address the 4 minute figure drawing exercise based on planned activities we had prepared for our students. Starting off, for this exercise you used a standard 0.5mm Artline drawing pen to produce all your quick sketches for practice of using figure drawing, you blocked in the shape with precise strokes and then redefined the lines and shapes you made by roughly adding more strokes and lines that varied in length and curve to produce a proper natural figure drawing sketch that captures the basic shapes rather than focus on details. A specific artistic choice you chose that I found unique and effective was not focusing on the broad patterns of the reference photo to create different values in certain areas but rather you purposely leave spaces open and others with dense lines, this ultimately helped greatly in creating depth to your drawing that brings it to life, looking like the space within the figure of the reference photo, with this technique, you didn't just apply strokes to recreate what you saw, you perceived it in your own way and produced an efficient technique to represent it with your techniques. These techniques also brought texture and form to your drawing, making it look far more realistic with those techniques creating depth and space. These techniques you used could connect to your realistic perception of art that also focuses on capturing something rather than recreating with precision, using varying strokes and lines to form shapes and depth to your drawing also reflects your prior experiences with expressing value as you produced a drawing with a clearly expressed idea of what was trying to be achieved with only a short time and rough, quick strokes.

As you are also a presenter at the figure drawing station, both posters from both groups were brought together to the station placed upright next to each other with a clear view for all visitors(refer to previous dragon made padlet), after the activities all products(roughly 8-9 sketches) were placed standing upright barely overlapping each other at the foot of the 2 posters to aesthetically display products/sketches created, which also doubled as exemplars for our station. Personally, I was deeply satisfied with how your sketches perfectly represented each stages of our planned activities accordingly to the time limit you had for each one, your sketches looked very sharp and precise and I was proud to display those pieces as exemplars of our station. Your style of art that included perceiving the art creatively to create unique depth and space referencing photos inspired me to perceive art in a more unique way that allows more flow of strokes and freedom in lines and shapes to best represent something. Keep it up with your good work! You used figure drawing perfectly so you may graduate from our station, always come back to it when you don't know where to start on a drawing!

After redefining lines I wanted details to match with the original image more so I coated surfaces of structures with a darker shade using a mixture of ink and white charcoal. After that, I worked on the very small. details and patterns on the surfaces of structures, I did so by carving ink using the pointy end of a stick for thin lines and precise curves. This was the most challenging part for me as I was very nervous that I would mess up while trying to recreate details with ink and it'd be irreversible. Though, I overcame this challenge and used ink to add minor details regardless and the risks I'm prone to since I realized that my interpretation of the reference photo doesn't have to look exactly like it line by line since then it would be even harder to create small details and patterns because using ink to recreate them wouldn't give me precise recreation. Since charcoal fades really easily even if it's resting your wrist on it to draw, I also spent some time reshading parts faded making the drawing pop out more along with express space more clearly with the ideal texture interpretated, restating a sense of space and direction further.

In general, I am quite satisfied with my final product as I was really dedicated to a specific art style and spent a lot of time working and refining it. I also really like the idea I'm trying to express of capturing a moment, almost like a still-life drawing but doing so in black and white gives me opportunities to imply prior techniques learnt such, mostly shading techniques. I also enjoyed using contrast to express form and shape as I think it gives a really nice emphasis on certain parts of my drawing, for example using Notan to apply contrast along with prior techniques, making my final product more unique. Though I think I still could've further improved my drawing my improving techniques and further planning + experimentation to map out exactly my proccess in order to avoid mistakes and unwanted outcomes using unideal media or techniques.