Drawing 1, Part 2 Tutor Feedback
Drawing 1 – Part 2 – Review of Feedback
Overall Comments
I need to think harder about how I use media and find different ways to do this, so I will look at artists and how they do this in their work, to get some ideas about how I could bring this into my work to improve it. I know that I don’t take enough risks but I’m not quite sure how I can do this, so I will try and find ways to explore more in my sketchbook. I need to find ways to be more imaginative so I will look at how my mark making could do this for me and how I choose my compositions. Try to see more, and show the viewer something different try to be more original. I tend to work in a way that is very true to life and technically correct, but I could work on subjects in new ways. Looking at things in different ways and using media differently, mixing media also.
I do work slowly so if I worked more quickly this might stop me from putting in so much detail. Stopping before it becomes too detailed is something that I want to aim for. I could try ideas out in my sketchbook that could help me with ideas for the future.
Assignment
In the assignment I was trying to show the contrast between the frivolousness of the fairy lights and the dark, serious, bleak atmosphere of the hall in the mirror. I don’t think that the coloured pencils were a good choice and I should have experimented more with this before I started. They did make my work tighter and that’s definitely not what I wanted.
I think that my work lacks the rawness and energy that would make it better. I need to try and understand how I can achieve this in my work. I do try to be safe with my work so I will look at how I can start taking some risks and as you say ‘get out of my comfort zone’ very true.
I am still finding it hard to link artists to my work or really think about what influences me, I need to work on why I do things the way I do. This could be a starting point for change, to think first about how I approach my work and why I want to do something a certain way. Then look and think about different approaches and ways that I could change things to get better results.
Assessment Criteria
I think that I have some of the technical and visual skills but I need to be more experimental and more aware of what the viewer is going to see. I need to experiment with the composition in my sketchbook to see how I could improve the design element.
I need to think about the knowledge that I have and how I can use this. I can present my work well but I need to keep working on this and bring in new ideas. I need to be better at describing the background to my work and understanding myself where things come from.
Need to
- Look at concepts in art.
- Find raw expressive artwork and artists to study
- Practice expressive lines to show rawness and energy
- Context Reflection
- Critical thinking
OCA Drawing 1 