Squiggle Drawing Artist Statement

The process for making this piece was fairly straight-forward, everyone in the class was given a 9x12 piece of paper and a black sharpie. We were instructed to make a squiggle with the sharpie marker on our paper. After that the papers were scattered around, so everyone got a new paper and different squiggle. The squiggle I received was drawn by Kaitlyn. Once I got the new squiggle I had to turn the paper around several times to see anything. I at first thought I might just draw ghosts, but I turned it one more time to the final layout and saw a duck. I also saw a dragon and I didn't know how to draw a beak so I settled on the dragon. I then took red yellow and orange to draw the fire, horns and eyes. Finally I took shades of green to draw the scales.

The scales of the dragon incorporate rhythm and pattern to the piece. The white background is bountiful in space. The way I drew the horns I was trying to have texture to make them look worn. Because I had to work with the squiggle there is not much balance with the eye or mouth compared to the size of the head. There is no shortage of lines with the main squiggle and all the scales and teeth. The color of the fire compared to the rest of the green dragon puts an emphasis on the fire and lack of pattern on the eye also puts an emphasis on the eye.

I think that this drawing represents going with the flow. There is nothing forceful about the dragon. I didn't have to add any additional black lines except for the horns. There is not to much going on in the image so it's easy to focus on. I don't think that this project really relates to my own life at all, I was just drawing for an assignment. I am most proud of the overall scale effect on the dragon. I didn't really have any struggles after I realized that I was going to draw a dragon.