Now i'm still not comfortable with this class, because figure drawing for me is still hard. i can honestly say, though, it has gotten a bit easier since week one.
The feedback i got (from what i can remember) was something like this:
"Your personality is corky, comical, and very whimsical. And you have a way with making that show in your pieces, whether you consciously do it or not. What you need to do is be more aware of yourself and your personality. I mean look at this set you have two of the same pose in a way so you repeat your self and then just such a random thing right there on the same page. It's funny and not something you would normally expect but you did it anyway. When i say you're graphic it is not in a bad way your composition is great I mean you can really see how you think graphically. Especially when you were doing your prints you take your time and you think about where everything goes and that definitely translates over in your drawings with the dark backgrounds bordering the figure and the hard lines of the figure itself."
This was all from my instructor telling me that i am funny, and have a certain whimsy about myself that i put into my artwork.
Honestly, I did not know this at all. i just thought i went to the class and put some things on paper trying my best to make what i'm drawing look like what i'm seeing in front of me. Guess not. Knowing this now, i thought about it and he's right, I do everything he said. even when trying to explain the pieces i chose for my critique i couldn't be serious i was more "corky". That's just me, in the end i seem to still produce pieces that him and other people in my class enjoy.
So my pieces for my mid- term critique. Tell me what you think maybe? Comments welcome!
I'm also thinking of doing some wood carvings of our model for the next couple of weeks and making multiple prints of it. Seems like fun.
XO
-Lesley
