ART-Q4 Project

For my quarter 4 benchmark we had to create a drawing is[iyedes by or similar to our artist study artwork. I decided to create a drawing that was inspired by  Käthe Kollwitz drawing known as ‘’ Woman with Dead Child’’ I decided to create a sprawling based of this crawling because I wanted to challenge myself and see If I could draw a person. The person I drew was a girl crying on her knees in a dark room. I did this because in the ‘’ woman with dead child’’ drawing there is a woman holding a child in her arms crying.

I want to work to communicate to my audience that the things that I draw play a role in my growth as an artist.   The tools I used to create my art piece was charcoal sticks, smudge sticks, and pencils. I used the pencil to draw the weeping girl in the corner. I used the charcoal to darken the room. I used the smudge stick to lighten some parts of the room. This artwork is similar to previous artwork I have made before because I have drawn someone crying before. The only difference is that in the previous drawing I drew a person's face with tears coming down it. In my current drawing, you don’t see the persons tears you just seem them curled up in the corner in a dark room.

The overall process of the drawing was fairly simple. I didn’t take too much time to draw the person it took about 20 minutes to draw. The thing I spent the most time with was drawing the one point perspective of the room and cooling it with charcoal. It took a while with the charcoal because I Keep leaving fingerprints on the drawing and had to keep calling the paper again. An artist work who I was inspired by and has similar work is Käthe Kollwitz who I did an art study project on. This is the images I was inspired by that I wanted to create an image similar to https://www.artsy.net/artwork/kathe-kollwitz-woman-with-dead-child. A certain technique is import to this work is different shading techniques you can do. Learning about different drawing textures can really bring a drawing to life if it is done right. I learned different shading techniques I can do with charcoal sticks.

The thing I am most proud of in my work in the person I drew. I thought it can out really nice and also like how the person in the corner is the only source of light you can see in the dark room with no windows or light.  If I could change one thing about this drawing it would be to have made the girl I little bit bigger in the drawing because she looks really small. I have learned that learning about an artist and drawing in a style like theirs can show you a new type of art style you have never done before and may enjoy.