Time Capsules

Reflection

These time capsule drawings are meant to capture a moment in time for an artist. For me, they are important because they allow me to be able to see my growth as an artist over the years. This gives me a lot of hope for my future pieces, as I learn how to work with imagination within the bounds of time and other people's understanding. Doing the self-portraits has given me a great perspective into just how much can change about a person over time; both how we present ourselves and how we view ourselves. All of these pieces were done in about 30 minutes give or take 10 minutes. The water bottle defiantly took a sizeable amount of time, as did the hand. Surprisingly, the self-portrait did not take that long. I think this attests to how much I have learned just from last year about doing self-portraits, and how my view of myself has shifted so that these types of drawings don't take as much mental deliberation over what I actually look like. There is one other piece that is important to note regarding the piece Waterbottle. It is spelled wrong purposefully. Grammatically, there should be a space between the two words. I have always seen it as one word, so that is why it is written as such.

I only used graphite pencil for all of these, with the exception of the water bottle where I used some charcoal sticks. This just made shading faster, and because I had a larger area to cover, this was very helpful. I mostly used the 4B pencil, and sometimes used the B and the 6B. I have found that I like the thicker lines that they make, and it is much easier to shade with them, which was important in all of these pieces.

For Half A Face, I was glad that we only had to do a cropped section. It was much easier to not have to make the image symmetrical. I started on the side of the page where the face was touching the border. This was a good starting place because it felt like I had a base. The side of the paper was a good place to come back to, and to start from. The hand was the piece that I worked on the most. It is very difficult to get the shading right so that the hand looks realistic. I started with very rough sketches of my left hand, and then I worked the lines until they started to turn into more accurate shapes. The fingers 4 fingers were must easier than the thumb, and now I can see why. I was trying to both put it at an angle and not. This made for an odd-looking thumb, but the rest of the fingers turned out well.