critique

For AP Students:
ü what did you find most challenging?
ü what are you most proud of?
ü talk about process: where did you start? how did your ideas change and evolve?
ü what did you learn? about yourself, about the process?
ü perspective: do you think it’s successful? what issues did you have with it? do you think you created a believable sense of space?
ü Please comment on how this piece relates to your theme.

Reviewers:
ü first reactions: what stands out the most?
ü what do you think is the strongest part of the image? why?
ü what are the artist’s symbols communicating to you?
ü how does their choice of medium add or detract from their final image?
ü could anything have been pushed further?
ü did the artist put emphasis on any part of their composition?
ü perspective: what’s working? what’s not? be critical; look hard. does it make sense in space?
ü what is the point of view?
ü is the composition unified? why? why not?

vocabulary to think about:
ü space
ü color (if applicable)
ü form
ü rhythm
ü emphasis
ü unity

#6

This is drawn with charcoal.

#5

I used oil pastel on pink and black paper.

This is a night scenery or Yang Jae, Korea.

# 4

I drew a scenary of Boston.

Lines are pencil and colors are water color.

# 3

I used pastel on yellow pastel paper.

I tried to express feeling of old studio.

# 2

This is drawn with acrylic color and ink.

I drew the lines with ink, using chopsticks.

AP Art Concentration

A.P. and ADVANCED STUDIO ART

Idea Development Packet

This packet must be completed in its entirety.
This packet is meant to help you generate meaningful ideas and hopefully learn to explore your ideas beyond your initial thoughts. The creative process is crucial to your development as an artist. I want you to learn how to make your work say something literally or symbolically.

I would like you to explain in detail your idea:

I will draw architectural drawings in different ways. Each drawing will be made with different and various materials. I would use charcoal, line tape, conte, water color, oil color, oil pastel, color pencil, pencil, soft pastel, and colaju.

GETTING STARTED: (__________/35 POINTS)

Types of themes: Circle the one that best describes your idea.

Still Life Portrait Self-Portrait
Figure Landscape Abstract Architecture

Seascape Object Narrative
Mythical Historical Illustrative

DESCRIPTION: Briefly describe the theme or nature of your work. In other words, what will your drawing be about?

I will draw about architectural shape or figures, such as buildings or scultures. Since architectural drawing is very related with concept of space, perspective would be the one that is most important.

MOOD: Describe the mood you would like your work to convey and how you plan to achieve this.

I want my works to convey a moving spaces or the overlapped spaces that are not in the same time.

COLOR SCHEMES: Think of colors that can be used to enhance the visual interest of the work.

I will use complement colors a lot such as black and white, or blue and red. One can be the line that forms the shape, and one can be the

ANGLE OF VIEW: Describe the angle that you will use to create visual interest.
(Ants Eye, Birds Eye, Foreshortened, ¾ View, Forced Perspective,
Distortion)
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MEDIA/TECHNIQUE: What media or mediums and techniques do you plan to use?
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VISUAL REFERENCES: What will your visual references be and how/where will you get them?
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PAPER(S) and SIZE(S): What support, size and orientation will be used to complete the work?
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Creating Thumbnail Sketches
The Artistic Process
THE SKETCH:
Inside your sketchbook, please adhere this worksheet to the page. Next, begin drawing out your ideas in the form of a quick thumbnail sketch using all the information you’ve gathered from above. You must complete a Vertical and a Horizontal composition. Then choose the sketch that works the best and rework it into a more finished sketch inside your sketchbook.

#1

This is one of my artworks that I like the most.

It took about 20 hrs and I used acrylic color, oil pastel, ink, and paint pen.