In this project we learned and sketched the six elements of art and put our final sketches to form a cube.
Line: A narrow stretched point, moving through space. Shape: A flat image only two dimensional and can have no open lines. Space: An art form with positive and negative space. Space can show two images in one pictures giving the picture depth. Texture: It can refer to the way things feel or look. When I see texture art it makes me want to go up and feel it. Color: Color revolves around the three primary colors; red, yellow, blue. Tertiary/Secondary colors are the primary colors mixed in combinations to make new colors. Value: Is dark to light or vis versa to achieve a sense of depth.
Written Process Before we'd begin our first sketch of our element of art Chris Mutter, our teacher, would give us a mini-lesson of what the element is and ideas for our sketches. He would show us art referring to the element and even let us look up art after the lesson to help us come up with ideas of our own. After the mini-lesson he'd give us seven minuets for our first sketch. Afterwards we'd have somebody peer critique our image. And Chris would always remind us to give helpful feedback to our peers.
We'd then begin our second sketch/revision to better our first draft. Chris would give us ten minutes to re-draw our sketch and make revisions or start over entirely. After those ten minuets he'd tell us to have a new person peer critique our revised draft. Once that peer critique is put to an end we'd begin our final sketch and be given thirteen minutes to revise. And if someone was to think their image couldn't be drawn in any better way Chris would advise them draw half of their image with shading or color etc. After having completed our final draft we'd repeat this process of our five other elements of art. After we'd have our six completed elements of art we'd re-copy them on to card stock with the squares arranged to form into a cube.
Learning Process (What Happened) Thinking on I'd draw before we did this project in Chris's class I never knew how chaotic my drawings actually were. I knew there were different ways to draw I just never knew how they were categorized. When we started this project I expected to know all the elements, but for most of my first drafts I had no clue what to draw. What helped me most was the mini-lessons he'd show us before. And after seeing all of these references I'd immediately have an idea and get to work.
Now when it was get peer feedback it was either very helpful or not so much. Because sometimes even if the feedback seemed helpful it wasn't where I wanted to go with the sketch. Or I'd look at my drawing a different way and accept the feedback to go in the right direction. Or even after Chris told everyone to write HELPFUL feedback once or twice I received a looks cool.
And to revise my work is hard because they're were times where I couldn't wrap my head around what I was drawing. This being new to me had me at times where I would sit and think what to draw. And when I got an idea it was a great feeling because I wasn't stuck anymore.