Hand Project

For this project I incorporated two hands into a city. The two hands are coming out of the buildings and are grabbing the cars on the street. The hands have zentangles on them that are supposed to look like tattoos. I made the work with graphite pencil. First I drew lightly and then darkened the lines when I liked how they looked. The drawing was supposed to be pure contour, so I did mostly bold lines. I chose to create this because I thought it would be cool to look down on the city from a birds eye view. I definitely used the elements of lines because the whole drawing was composed of pure contour lines. I also incorporated contrast by making lines in the foreground darker than lines in the background.

I used leading lines in this, as the lines of the road lead the viewer through the artwork. I also incorporated sharp focus because most of the lines were pure contour--bold, clean lines. The main idea of my project mostly stayed the same--two hands reaching out of buildings and picking up the cars--but many of the details of it evolved. One thing I decided on was the zentangles of the drawing. At first I wasn't sure about where to put them but then I realized that they would look good on the forearms because they would look like tattoos. I also decided to make a traffic jam in the road instead of the cars just driving by.

I was inspired to make this artwork because I'm watching a TV show that is set in New York City, and wanted to incorporate the hands into the cityscape. This relates to my life because I have family that lives in big cities like New York City, and that also inspired me to do a city scape. If I were to improve this I would probably either incorporate shading around the buildings or I would add some color. The most challenging part was getting the proportions of the buildings and hands right, and also doing all of the small cars. I'm proud of how unique and intriguing this artwork looks. This shows my strengths and weaknesses as a learner because I was able to incorporate hands into a city and use pure contour at the same time.