6Tyler

I believe that the social issue that the artist is trying to get across is that smoking will be the death of you. I think that he may have had a personal experience with smoking and before he quit he portrayed how smoking made him feel. And now that he has quit, he is showing all of the other smokers that were like him the effects of smoking. The way the artist had the smoking man fading into bone and then form into the roots of a decaying tree gave the feeling of eminent death. I also think that the use of light pinks and yellows made the piece seem nice until the addition of the cigarette smoke. Also by including the second person withering away shows that there are more than just one who are struggling with this problem. Over all I think that this is a very successful work of art. The artist gave those who smoke a sickening feeling as they look at this because of the darks shades and the person turning into something dead. I think that they did an excellent job at making the massage clear to the viewer and making them want to change. Much went into the making of this project, especially the sculpture. I started by watching a video in art class. It didn’t look much like a person after the video so I tried to spruce it up as much as I could. Then, once I thought it looked well enough, I though of what my figure would be doing that resemble my social issue of technology making people antisocial. So, I thought that he could be on his phone and computer ignoring everything else in his life that matters to him. If I was going to do that then I needed to have everything that matter to him around him; which is why the pictures of his family, friends, work and relationships are around him. I wanted to do this project on how technology is making people antisocial because I fit on both sides of the coin. I enjoy spending my free time playing video games instead of going and doing something productive with my time. My friend on the other hand are connected with what is going on with social networks so much that it impairs their ability to get work done. With this in mind I chose to do this subject so that I can learn better ways to spend my time and to inform others that there is more than just the internet. I believe that this is more of an informational poster rather that a work of art. If it were artsy then I think that a person would be compelled to act out on what the subject of the project was without the subject being spelled out for them. Even so, I think that the figure is a work of art even if the background isn’t. I decided to do my figure by incorporating puzzles. This was actually not my first Idea though. At first I wanted to have her look as though she were being blown away like sand, but didn’t know how to do that and I didn’t think that my art skills would have represented it well. So, I though that I could have her body falling off into pieces. Again the same thought process shot down my second idea. After that I decided that I wanted to keep the idea of pieces. So then I thought of pieces to a puzzle. Thankfully I didn’t think it was too hard because I like how it ended up looking. The hardest part of the project was drawing the figure. Previous to this I had only drawn stick figures and disproportional people. It took me a while; but thanks to the grid, I was able to see where I was getting the proportions wrong. Some problems that I thought I was going to encounter before I started the project was drawing the puzzle pieces. Initially I thought about using a real puzzle piece to use as a stencil, thought about how all of the pieces would fit together that way. So I realized the best way to do it was to do it by hand. This turned out to be more work than I expected because I accidentally drew the grid that would soon be the pieces too small. It started out pretty slow but as I progressed I became better at it. In the end I enjoy how it looks and think that, for my level of art, it is well done, even though I was a little pressed for time. I like how I used wooden flooring that locks together as the background to my figure.
 * // I can create and modify artwork through the critique process. //**
 * // I can reflect on the process that led me to my final, successful piece. //**

I chose this picture because It is very detailed how the colors blend to form other colors. and is one of the characters of one of my favorite series of games. Some problems that I think that i will encounter is the water around his feet. I have always drawn water as a line that ends at the horizon so i think it will challenge me a little. Also I worry about blending the colors into each other, especially the yellow and the black. I plan to do my art project in water color paints because the picture looks as though water color was its original medium.This will be a challenging experience for me because I have never used water colors to paint with so I'm a little worried about how it will turn out. The most challenging part about creating it was getting the colors blended so that they looked as though they flowed with each other. Also I had trouble with getting the right colors using only water paint. After trying over and over of mixing different colors to get them to match, I finally realized that it was going to be impossible for me so I used the closest color that I could create to replace it.