Description: The image I drew is a photograph of me. In the drawing my face is centered and I am smiling while my eyes are looking to the left. I have shorter hair in this picture (a pixie cut), and you can only see from my collarbone up. My body is facing slightly to the right. I am surrounded by balloons to the side, above, and behind me. The balloons are all very colorful, there are some green ones, some red ones, some purple ones etc. These balloons take up most of the rest of the frame and all the balloons are extending out of the frame. The background is made up of blurred, natural colors like green and brown. I am wearing a lace dress with flowers on it and a lace collar. I also have pink earrings on.
Analysis: In this piece the elements of color, space, and texture are used. There are lots of values in this piece because of all the balloons. However, the dress I am wearing is black, and adds contrast to all the brightly colored balloons, making the colors seem to pop more and drawing attention to my face, which is surrounded by balloons. Space is used in this piece as well. The balloons take up most of the frame, and since the picture was taken close up, almost the entire paper is filled, very little of the background can be seen. This makes the space feel more intimate when viewing my piece. The balloons surround and frame my face creating a small space that emphasizes my face, which is the thing the view will be most drawn to. Finally my piece uses texture. The balloons make up a large portion of the piece, and are all smooth with little texture. To balance this the collar of my dress is made of lace, which adds detail and texture to the piece, especially since my face is mostly smooth with only a few creases. In my piece the principles of proportion, balance, and depth are used. In my piece the features of my face, my body, and the balloons are all in proportion. I spent a lot of time gridding my work while referencing the original photo to ensure that all the features would be as proportional as possible to each other. Balance is used in my piece through the color and texture in the piece. The smooth, colorful balloons are balanced out by the black, detailed lace of my dress. Additionally in my face the paler, highlighted regions are balanced out by the shadows and reflected light on my neck. My piece uses depth through the foreground and background. My body and the balloons are in focus, but the background is blurred giving the sense the balloons and I are closer to the camera, and that the nature in the back is further away, creating depth. Additionally my left shoulder is farther back and is blurred compared to my right shoulder. Interpretation: In this piece I tried to go for a realistic style, but ended up simplifying parts of the reference photo to make sure the focus of my piece was on my face. I made my face, hair and neck very detailed, I really focused on the shading, colors, and proportions. However, for the background, balloons, and dress, I simplified these things so that they didn’t take away from my face. With the balloons I tried to get the colors and shading right but left some of the balloons clearly looking like they were drawn with colored pencil. I simplified the detailed design of my lace dress and tried to draw the dress material in one shade to imply a see through, netted material rather than draw each individual piece of lace. I kept the background as a bunch of blurred colors that kind of implied some nature behind me, because I didn’t want any detailed pieces of nature to detract from my face since the background could only really be seen on the surrounding balloons or right next to my face. I showed meaning through this piece through my facial expression and colors. I chose my reference photo because of all the vibrant colors, and because of my facial expression: I am smiling while looking off into the distance. I wanted to convey the happiness I felt when the photo was taken, and how promising and exciting life felt through my expression and all the colors. I tried really hard to emphasize the colors of the balloons and get my smile and eyes right in the piece. I wanted my piece to remind people that even though life is different now during the pandemic that life can still be beautiful and filled with happiness. We just have to keep looking forward to the future. Judgement: In this piece I found the face, hair, and neck the most successful pieces. These were the spots I focused on details with the most. I think my shading and colors were successful with these parts, and with the hair I think I did a good job of defining different sections without really outlining anything. If I were to do this again, I think I would try a different approach for the dress. The dress I had on in the reference photo was made of detailed lace, and I was afraid that having too much detail in the dress would take attention away from my face, so I simplified the dress. I tried to create a lace look by making the dress one color that looked like a see through gray material was resting on top of my skin tone. However, I think this approach could have been executed better since in my opinion I think my dress ended up looking like a dirty gray instead of a see-through material. If I were to do this again I would try and draw in some small patches of lace overtop my skin tone and see if those detract too much from the face.
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