Time Capsule

Each separate sketch as a different “story” but most of all the overall theme of all of them was simply me trying to figure out where I am as an artist. that was the whole point of this project, and throughout it I had both triumphs and struggles. I saw that some areas of the work came more easily for me, in past years I was super into art. i would draw constantly but I lost my love for it and began to practice less and less, so when starting this project I found that one specific area cam easier that the others. This area was the portrait, I would draw people a lot, and focusing on human anatomy is just simply the thing that I practiced the most. However, although I prevailed in that one area I felt as if I was lacking in the rest. Especially with the 20 minute time limit, the other drawings that I made just felt rushed. This relates to my life because of all of this, it’s telling me where I am as an artist and also telling me the areas that I need to most focus on: drawings objects and things that simply aren’t human anatomy.

For all of the pieces I stuck to just simply using pencil. Since this was a project to see where I am as an artist, I just wanted to use a material that I was most familiar with. Pencil is truly the main thing every artist uses to draw, and I didn’t want to add color or use pen simply because I wanted to use something that was comfortable and familiar. The time limit also played a factor, I was much too afraid of not finishing my sketch in time to add things such as pen lines and color, and so I didn’t want to risk it and instead attempted to take my time with the drawings just using pencil.

For each of these different drawings I felt as if they moved at a different pace, I felt as if I took more time with one drawing compared to the others, and that they felt more rushed as I got along to the end of the project. For more explanation, I began with the portrait drawing, it was the one I felt turned out best and the one I felt I drew more carefully. As the others went on the time felt like it was going by faster even if it wasn’t, and overall just found myself getting stuck a large amount of the time. I suppose in the end I just learned where I was art wise, as well as that honestly I'm a more slow-drawer, and it takes me a while to truly figure out what I want to do as well as put it on the page. It also evolved in the sense that my ideas changed when working on the last drawing, the one of the corner, because at first I planned to draw a real life corner but ended up scrapping that idea after the first few lines really didn’t go as planned. My next steps could be just to take more time and continuing comparing more recent artworks to these ones to watch my growth.