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Figure drawing.

When I first heard that we will draw a proportional figure, I thought I would fail this, also, because I couldn't participate in some of the practice lessons because I didn't felt well. But even in the short time I'd drawn figures, I recognized that I got better and better with every figure and finally I got a very good figure. My skills had improved from a small, unproportional figure to a well-sized proportional one and this happened because I practiced a lot during other periods or at home. I was proud of my last figure, so I wanted to use it in my final picture. Looking over Pinterest, I was very fascinated by the pictures with a figure and a background made of dictionary papers/newspaper pages and I wanted to do this too, so I cut my figure out and made the background. I used an old student dictionary. Most of the pieces for the background are picked random - I just opened a page and cut something out. I used matchpatch to glue them on my piece of paper. But sometimes, when I just opened a page and I saw something that's important for me, I cut those out - like blaze, creeper, violin and Cheshire Cat - and searched for spechial places, so I wouldn't glue my figure on it. And this was the problem: When the background was finished and I wanted to glue my figure on it, I noticed that the water colors I used for the clothes and the pen I used for the outlines did not liked the matchpatch and they started to lose color! I coul d not fix it, so I watched out for the rest of the time. I am very pleased with my final figure. It's proportional and I like the water colors I used, also I like the way I made the background. For the first time using water colors and the first time drawing figures I think I made a very good job.



Famous Figure

I had chosen my figure because the black woman had fascinated me, with her long black hair, the powerful eyes and light skin. The pose was also mysterious - I did not now what I should think about it. And also, the grey background had not seemed to be v ery complicated. I found the picture at Google Pictures, but now it seems that it's owner has deleted it because I cannot find it anymore. During the process, I found the background a little bit, not to say very, boring. So I decided to use tissue paper for the background and to write important words and sentences for me on every piece of paper. But when I used the matchpatch with my three colored papers (white, light blue, darker blue - the colors for hope in my culture), the darkest color started to color the white glue! First I was really disappointed, but then I had the idea, that I can use this for my project too - so I started to use the "blue glue" on the white tissue paper, so you could see a context between the words and sentences. In my opinion, it is a successful work of art. Not just because it's the first time someone gave me the feeling during art class that I'm talented, but also because it turns out to be a very personal piece of art. And now you can see many opposites in this piece: the depressing black lady and the blue tissue papers. Positive sentences, negative sentences. I wanted to use my piece as a possibility to show what's in the woman's head, what's in my head every day - and I think I had success.