Find Your Voice

The assignment was to create a piece of art that showed/dealt with how you feel about a social issue. The subject of my creation is a panda holding a sign that says "save the baby humans". In my first version, I used graphite, but then that was done too quickly, so I did one with magazine clippings.

I used value to show the darks and lights in each of the different pieces. I used contrast in the black and white and in the different clips from the magazines. I used space to make the panda stand out in the magazine clip piece. I wanted to just do the graphite version at first, but it turned out pretty nice, so then I decided to do another version. I almost did a third, but I spent too much time on the second version, which I'm happy about because it turned out decent.

I'm Catholic so something I feel strongly about is abortion, and I wanted to make a piece that showed how I felt about it without getting into a debate verbally. I'm proudest of how the magazine piece came out because its unique and its different then something I normally would do. If I could improve something, I would make the darks and lights more "popping" in my graphite version.