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I designed my stop and think sign for people who make bad decisions. If I was to put this sign in bad neighborhoods, at lights, corners, etc, it may change the decisions people make. Maybe before somebody is about to rob someone and they see this sign, they may stop and think about what they’re about to do. It took me nearly a week to complete this project since it was hard to use the Pixlr tools. By the time I got it all figured out it was close to due. Throughout this project I realized I have little patience since I got frustrated every time something didn’t look the way I wanted. I wanted to quit and not do the project but I overcame it and finished. For anyone attempting this project don’t use the Pixlr tool, it’s way too complicated. Try and find a simpler one that offers tutorial.

I have created the ballerina because I wanted to draw something that would represent me and what I love to do. I was hoping to achieve showing my personality through my work and showing how creative I am doing it. I think my work communicates to the viewer that the definition of my ballerina is very exquisite and the way that I used the background to bring my drawing out was nice. I have achieved outlining the figure to have straight lines and I also achieved in printing the figure out very nice. My current work relates to my previous work because of the definition that I used for my previous one I used on my current work. An example of contemporary art that is similar to mines is the artist Stephen Mackey. His drawings of Arcadia Contemporary is like mines because his use of dark in the background to bring out the main point of the picture is what I did for my painting. Also his use of colors I would definitely say contrasted together like mines.

The process I used to create my work is I first drawn my figure. Then I transferred my image to my linoleum and traced it. After that I used some tools to carve the figure the way that I wanted it. After this whole process, I started printing my linoleum onto a paper and I chose to do a pink background because I felt like it would have made the ballerina pop out more. Then I was finished after that all I had to was scan my paper. My inspiration for this was me and my personality and what I love to do which is dancing. My work reflects the world I live in and my experiences because this is really all I know to do besides volleyball. My work can influence people to know that you don’t have to draw what everyone else see and know, you can draw something that you know, learned, and love to do. A certain technique is important because like say you're drawing a picture and the way you hold your pencil is important if you want the lines to be hard or soft or curvy or straight it’s all in the wrist. A new technique that I learned is how to carve at a certain angle and basically how to carve linoleum in the way that you want to carve it.

For our quarter 3 art project, we had a list of options we could chose from to create something. Personally, after the one I did last quarter I didn’t particularly like any of the other choices. But, the most interesting to create to me was the Value, Line and Texture Drawing. Speaking in a perspective of someone who doesn’t have much art experience or a lot of skill, I think this was the most simplest to create. You can come up with anything while doing a project like this because putting value, line and texture into one drawing is something easy to do. It's a collaborative process which creates something unexpected and beautiful in the end. My overall vision for this project was to be as simple as possible but to also bring a pop to it as well. I think brings a good vibe because of everything incorporated into it.

The process I used for this project isn’t complicated nor did I try to make it something that I knew it wasn’t going to be. I involved basic things; colored pencil and marker. But, to make sure there was texture within the drawing and to make it have value, I had to shade differently to make it pop. By shading differently, using my colors effectively and making my lines bold, they all work together to make a more eye catching piece. This artwork is quite different than my past projects because I usually try to go above for my grade. Now, I am trying to make my pieces subtle and that makes them not so harsh. I feel like using simplicity as a key factor in creating something makes your art more presentable. Trying new techniques always makes my work look different, but I feel like that really shows in this piece.

Not much came together to make this artwork. I never usually think too much about my projects. But, I do think that it shows that not much is needed to create something beautiful. I also feel as though using your imagination is a key point in art as well. Techniques are a big point in making your project the way you want it to look. And as an art student, I take past mistakes and other techniques into consideration while creating something new. Nothing major comes out of anything I create. The only way my art work impacts me is making me feel confident in myself when I get compliments or if I think it looks good. Art doesn’t have a direct definition in how it is suppose to look so I feel like whatever you do is going to make its own statement; that is what I took out of this quarters project.