Artist Statement

Shi En Chu

01/5/2021

My Totally Not Poisoned Sandwich

My sandwich doesn’t have a lot of creative toppings. I could probably only name 4. The pencil, the cat bun, the little flag , which is supposed to have my face on it but cartoon, and the fries sticking out. This sandwich is made for me because the tiny flag has my face on it. Although it doesn’t really look like me..it’s supposed to be me. This was made in America by me because of the pencil and the flag in the background. I can’t really cook which is why the pencil is there. (lead pencil)

I feel happy about the way that my sandwich turned out because I saw that the tomatoes were too small during the sketch phase so I erased them and made them bigger. I’m glad that I didn’t make the mistake after retracing the sketch with a darker pencil. It would’ve been hard to erase. One thing that I would do differently next time would be to see if the burger is centered because when I finished drawing, I saw that the burger was more to the left.