My favorite CAS experience is the watercolor painting/drawing one because I felt relaxed when I do it and can see my improvement over time which encourages me. My first photo evidence posted on Managebac showed my first portrait, of which I am impressed with the eyes. However, I found difficulty in using watercolors to shape the torso. I also tried drawing the human frame, which I improved over time. 

After this, I gained a better understanding of drawing the human frame from an old book my mother gave me and a better understanding of how to draw the human face from a YouTube video tutorial my mother showed me. I have decided to combine the two skills together. As for painting, although I find it difficult to draw a human face, I succeeded in the torso and libs.

In my latest reflection, I drew a full-body picture of a woman with a prosthetic dancing and playing a violin. Here, I used knowledge of how to draw a human face in an attempt to not make the image too freaky, and it did look less freaky than the first two human portraits. For the body, looking at my own arms, and therefore was able to better illustrate something resembling muscles. I came up with my own style of shading: shade all the edges of the object because it looks cooler. I felt very proud of myself, especially since that drawing took only 30 minutes. I felt that it was almost a culmination of the knowledge I have gained thus far, and I am satisfied. 

Yet… looking at all my past reflections in ManageBac showed how overconfident I was back then. My initial description of this course states that I will be drawing humans, animals, flowers, and plants and that I will go on to draw and paint masterpieces monthly in 2024. My first two reflections say that I will be done with human art by 2023. I was only done with illustrating humans now, 3 months into 2024. I now know to not overestimate myself, and this semester I will master drawing and painting dog and cat breeds, and at the end of the semester create 1 watercolor pencil landscape drawing of me with a dog and cat in a park.