1.) What new skills did you learn or what did you improve on during this unit?
Within this unit I learned how to incorporate the ideas and works of other artists into my own work. I also learned how to expand my mind when it comes to find inspiration and different ideas for each piece I make. The unit taught me how to look at another person’s work how to make my own personal twist to make the work my own. Starting the unit with “Something New” allowed me to expand my concept of finding inspiration in words. Words can mean a number of things and even more if they are associated with other words. The Character Remix project allowed my classmates and I to add our own personal touches to a character or genre we liked. The Two in One project had us take an object, place, or thing and combine it with something else. Some took the names of certain objects literally like the name Rattlesnake. My classmate drew a snake with a baby rattle attached to its tale. It was cool and funny to see.
2.) How have your thoughts about original art and what it is, changed?
There is always an original piece of art that something originates from. Whether or not they were inspirations, copies, or remixes, they always have a personal twist that its creator made. In a way, no art is ever really “new,” because it’s an artist’s representation of something that they love or are inspired by.
3.) What challenges or successes did you have during this unit? Would you change anything you did if you could go back and redo it?
During this unit, I found it very hard to find inspiration. Whenever I did, the idea would be mentally shot down because there were certain things I knew I could do and other things I knew I could not. For my final piece, I tried to make the illusion of smoke surrounding a Call of Duty Ghosts logo. I outlined the logo as lightly as I could and then shaded around it with pencil. After shading, I took a blending stump and blended the shaded area to a point where the non-shaded areas started to look smoky. The eyes and highlight in the forehead were colored orange to honor the original logo. There is definitely a lot I would change. If I knew how to use shading values then I would have been able to use that as a means to gradually fade the logo on one side of the paper and out on the other. On the other hand, I am happy that the piece actually turned out well.
Within this unit I learned how to incorporate the ideas and works of other artists into my own work. I also learned how to expand my mind when it comes to find inspiration and different ideas for each piece I make. The unit taught me how to look at another person’s work how to make my own personal twist to make the work my own. Starting the unit with “Something New” allowed me to expand my concept of finding inspiration in words. Words can mean a number of things and even more if they are associated with other words. The Character Remix project allowed my classmates and I to add our own personal touches to a character or genre we liked. The Two in One project had us take an object, place, or thing and combine it with something else. Some took the names of certain objects literally like the name Rattlesnake. My classmate drew a snake with a baby rattle attached to its tale. It was cool and funny to see.
2.) How have your thoughts about original art and what it is, changed?
There is always an original piece of art that something originates from. Whether or not they were inspirations, copies, or remixes, they always have a personal twist that its creator made. In a way, no art is ever really “new,” because it’s an artist’s representation of something that they love or are inspired by.
3.) What challenges or successes did you have during this unit? Would you change anything you did if you could go back and redo it?
During this unit, I found it very hard to find inspiration. Whenever I did, the idea would be mentally shot down because there were certain things I knew I could do and other things I knew I could not. For my final piece, I tried to make the illusion of smoke surrounding a Call of Duty Ghosts logo. I outlined the logo as lightly as I could and then shaded around it with pencil. After shading, I took a blending stump and blended the shaded area to a point where the non-shaded areas started to look smoky. The eyes and highlight in the forehead were colored orange to honor the original logo. There is definitely a lot I would change. If I knew how to use shading values then I would have been able to use that as a means to gradually fade the logo on one side of the paper and out on the other. On the other hand, I am happy that the piece actually turned out well.