End of term review

How has this term gone for you?

What have you learned?

How have you grown as an artist?

What has surprised you?

What do you think your biggest successes have been so far?

What have been your biggest challenges?

If you could, what advice would you give to yourself about the class at the start of the term?

Looking ahead, what do you need to consider and/or work on to continue to grow as an artist?

 This term in Intermediate Drawing and Paint has been very enjoyable and create for me.  I enjoyed most of the projects because I thought they were at a good level for me and had a lot of diversity all of which I love.  I have learned a lot about how to draw with color and how to shade it to look like what I want.  I have acquired a talent for different materials outside my comfort zone such as paint and colored pencil like in the three products assignment and the hero project.  In the hero assignment I learned how to shade with color pencil.  Before I did that project, I always thought of color pencils as something that could never make a realistic picture but after I finished I learned that they could go either way depending on how you used them.  I think that in a way that helped me grow as an artist and broaden my horizon on materials.  At the beginning of this term and before the term I always favored charcoal and now at the end of the term I realize that I can paint well and incorporate my love for the smokey look of charcoal into other works of art.  In the hero assignment I was going for a certain look for the background and although my main material was colored pencil, I added charcoal in to make the smoke become 3D and more real.  It surprised me a lot to see how I did with paint, I always was afraid of paint and would stay away from it because I knew you could not erase, but I learned that its not hard to go over any mistakes.  I think that my biggest success has been my progress in that class.  I cannot say that one of my pieces was the most successful, I think that my creativity level and my ability to use other materials is the most successful part.  My biggest challenge has been to make the human body, I like making more modern art and creative and abstract so to create an exact copy of a person is very challenging.  If I could talk to myself in the start of the term I would tell me to steer away from charcoal and try new materials and different types of artwork.  Looking ahead I want to make more diverse work yet still keeping my mood and personality in the pieces.