2D Design

Semester 1 Reflection

This year I feel that I really improved in my art style from not really knowing what type of style I liked the best to having a style written in stone and doing the same type of art every project. I thought I was really successful in using different proportions to make my characters and drawings look unique and have a good size for the details that I wanted to pop be able to pop. I also found success in making my artwork more full instead of leaving open spaces and it looked like I threw a bunch of things together with there being no purpose. The two things I liked to draw the most were my characters and my crazy doodles that had different qualities but the same type of vibrant color pallet. The characters didn't just look the same the whole time. I worked with different proportions making the head big and the body a little smaller or (my favorite type) the head being a little smaller while the hands and the feet being the big features. My doodles were much better than how I used to do because I learned to make the doodles all connect and have not as much white space.

I think I did a lot of things that were good but that doesn't mean I struggled with anything. I think that I struggled the most with the more realistic drawings that we had to do. The duck stamp project was really hard for me because I had to make the duck and the background really realistic. The colored pencils made it hard to blend all of the colors together. I never really used colored pencils that were good up until this project which made it hard for me to make the drawing really realistic. Since I couldn't blend the colors that well it was hard for me to make the water. The water was really important because that's what my duck lived in. So it kind of looks like I just scribbled even though I was trying to burnish the colored pencils and blend the colors. Another project that was hard was the editorial cartoons. I was going to add color but it didn't fit in that well because I'm not very good at realistic surfaces. I can definitely improve in this aspect.

Some of my goals for the future are to keep doing art and even make it into a career. I want to work in graphic design and marketing when I grow up. I love to make art but I realize that I can't just draw for a career. So I would like to make designs for companies and maybe even logos. Like if a pro athlete or upcoming company needs a logo or design I can design it for them to use on a shirt or shoes. But for short term I would like to take an art class every year in high school to improve even more so I can go to college for design. In college I want to learn how to make art in business.