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Joshua Smith Q1 Project

Posted by Joshua Smith in Art 1 · Hertz · d1 on
Joshua S
Joshua S
​ For my quarter 1 art project, I did a self portrait of my mother. The portrait isn’t supposed to be her exactly. I replaced her facial features with symbols that mean how I feel, or what I see when I look at her. The portrait of my mother has a green rising arrow where her eyes would be. The arrow represents growth. I wanted to use growth as something I see when I look at my mother, because she came a long way in life. Not to get into details, my mother was into negative things and now she’s a pastor, who has a master’s degree in social work, and two other degrees in different fields. There is a half red, and half white heart in the portrait where my mother’s nose would be. The heart of course represents love. I chose to draw the heart big, to show how much my mother cares about everyone. She always puts people before herself out of love. The half white of the heart is to represent purity. My mom isn’t exactly pure, but seeing where she started and how she is now, she is pure in my eyes. There is a black drawing of a toned abdomen, to a neck, along with arms where her mouth would be to represent strength. My mother has 8 children. Most people can’t take care of that number. She not only took/takes care of my siblings and I, she takes care of a lot of other people. The skin color of the portrait is brown; with black hair. There is one ear, but the head looks as if it is turned to the side. The background of the portrait is blue. 
For my personal experiences, this just shows the lady I grew up under. It was hard at times, because she didn’t have as much time for me as I wanted her to. I used colored pencils and carbon paper. I began drawing the head of my mother. I ran into a hiccup after this point. I didn’t know how to portray my idea. After getting help, I decided to use symbols instead of facial features to show meaning. Next I researched symbols that mean what I was feeling. I drew the symbols on the paper for the end of the first draft. Next I used the carbon paper to transfer the draft onto the paper for the final copy. The last thing I had to really do was add the color to it. I used colors that also backed up the meaning of the symbols. For the final step that I couldn’t really do, was adding more detail to the hair. I tried, but it didn’t work out. I don’t really know any artists and their work, so my work was only inspired by my mother. 
A new technique that I learned through the process of making this work is using the carbon paper. I am most proud of my effort. I am not artistic at all, but I did have a good idea. It didn’t turn out the best visually, but I did try my best to make my idea transparent. If I could, there would be a lot of changes made to this project, but to start off, I would want to add more detail to the hair. I would also like to use paint.
Throughout the completion of this project, I have learned to take my time with the work. Perfection cannot be rushed; neither can good work. I feel like the meaning of my project was on point, but the drawing was not good. With explanation, my project is understandable but without, it will be very hard to know what’s going on. There are many artists whose work is impossible to understand, so I don’t think it’s a problem with that, but I can work on the detail more, like in the hair.

Quarter 1 Benchmark

Posted by Cindy Perez-Nieto in Art 1 · Hertz · d1 on
​In this benchmark, I had to draw a portrait. My portrait is revolved around my brother and how his disability has affected not only him but me too. My art communicates how stressful it was for my brother growing up especially with his disability. Growing up I was aware of how my family would be constantly worried about my brother and I always thought they wouldn’t give him space to breathe. 
The materials I used were paper, and charcoal to complete my art. It took me awhile to get used it to it since charcoal is really black and when I wanted to colour in a light it was a struggle. Overall, I was able to use it and get the hang of it. 
My current work relates to my previous work because it is a part of me that I am revealing to the people. I decided to use charcoal because dark colours are my thing and I wanted to represent something personal that wasn’t happy. 
The process I went through to complete my art was a struggle. I would get stuck on what to draw to represent what I felt, what my brother felt and how what he felt affected me. When I would get stuck I would ask Ms.Hertz a way I can express myself and she would suggest me ideas. 
An artist that inspired me was Frida Khalo. She went through a lot and even though my story isn’t as tragic as hers I could still relate in some way. 
A certain technique that is important to my art is how the charcoal surrounds my brother and it puts him in the spotlight. Without it, there wouldn’t be any point in my art since it would just be blank. I am trying to make a statement. 
I am most proud of taking my time and giving a lot of thought into this project. I wouldn’t have expressed my thoughts in any other way because sometimes it’s hard to express your thoughts talking. I will forever be proud of my artwork. I would change how big his head was. I would have liked to add more details and tried to express my thoughts a little clearer. 
In conclusion, this project was a great way for me to represent my thoughts and feelings. I learned how to use new material and I am glad I did. This project was a great way to show how everyone feels and maybe even let out some stressed because of all the classes we have and assignments.

Tamir

Posted by Tamir Speights in Art 1 · Hertz · d1 on

What I wanted was this character that is set in this world that has many things going on

In it, he takes on problems that can be true in real life many


For my art, I had a vision of this character living in this game world fighting as a TMS operative.

In this TMS Is a coalition group that Is fighting a revealing faction named the local people’s unite.

The LPU is government resource unit focused on control of the economic flow to the local

Residents of the nation,

In the year 2040 laws are passed that all 85% food and water will be reduced

For 15 years Residents of the nation are suffering from lack of basic needs, the united nations are

Put into action. For the next few years, the UN deploy a chain of spokesmen, community leaders,

And private protection units out to help.

The year 2078 UN staff are being murdered and prosecution from the native government

Leads to The UN on an attack with their small coalition.


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Tamir s

Two Worlds Within One

Posted by Diamond Hannah in Art 1 · Hertz · d1 on
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Diamond H

For my portrait assignment, I decided to focus on something that I feel has had one of the biggest impacts on my life which is the environment that my brother and I grew up in. The point of the picture is to show how close me and my brother were and show that even though we were raised in the same environment, we were in two completely different worlds. So ultimately, the portrait is supposed to depict two pictures in one, in a sense. The drawings of street signs and guns on my brother’s half of the picture is supposed to represent the negativity that he was brought up around while I have sunshine and A plus symbols on my to represent how much positivity my childhood consisted of. Both sides of the split line have love and money symbols which were placed with intentions to get across that we received the same amount of money and love so there was no reason for him to get involved with half of the things that he did. Two of the most important things in the portrait are the figures above our head which represent our mother and his father. My mother is split down the middle because she had to be a parent for both of us while, there if a male figure placed on my brother’s side but not mine because he had a father figure growing up, I did not.

For this assignment, I only chose to use pencil for my materials because I didn’t want to get caught up in figuring out how to make certain things stand out with color. I used different types of pencils for shading and making some lines darker than others and other lines lighter. I had some experience with these techniques in another art class I took a few years prior to this one. I wasn’t able to find the name of the artist but, I found a drawing of a treehouse which to me, represents childhood. The artist seemed to include a bunch of different lines and shading techniques just as I did in my portrait. The artist also incorporated some symbolism into his/her portrait with the flag that has some type of symbol on the right side of the picture. After looking at my portrait and the one I found online, I am able to see how important your pencil technique is when it comes to how you draw your lines and how dark or light you make them. The definition of the line can help things stand out in a picture or, it can help balance your picture. I definitely got to play around with this technique a bit during this assignment and when I received some feedback on how to make my picture more balance, I saw how making a line darker can make such a big difference.

I don’t exactly consider myself an artistic person. I usually dislike anything I create because I can never put what’s in my head on the paper. So, I’m just really proud that I stuck with my first mind and went through with my first draft rather than choosing something different to draw each checkpoint but, if i could do anything different, i’d try to work on the pencil technique a bit more because I witnessed how small changes made such an impact on my drawing. I would have to say that has to be the most important thing I learned during this project. At first, I chose pencil for my only material because I figured it to be an easy way out but, as I started exploring I realized how much of an impact something so simple as a pencil could have.