TRADITIONal

[Shiny]

I loved Dreamtongirl's stuff, sort of moved me to upload some of my traditional art. I should stop spamming up the boards.

 

Anyway, here goes.

 

1.

Done last year, we had to take inspiration from some certain new zealand artists. Mine used really drippy paint, grungey colours. We had to apply the style to pop art.

 

2.

Finished this recently, been laying about. C/C, please.

 

3.

For level one art. Got me a 'Merit' or a B to B+ in american grading, maybe.

 

4.

Again. I think this is the better piece.

 

5.

Mixed media piece, same assessment as the one above. Don't like it, too much.

 

6.

Paint piece, same assessment, like it much better.

 

7.

Beginnings of my reductive print wood cut. It is gonna be hard.

 

Constructive criticism if you will.

[Shin]

You definitely need to practice your values with graphite before moving on to a different medium of acrylic. Try using different pencils, HB is a good beginner pencil because it doesn't require as much precision to get your darkest darks and lightest lights. How you can do this, is draw out 10 boxes connecting to each other, and one side is DARK, and one side is LIGHT. Make three of these sets. One for crosshatching, hatching, and smooth shading(what you attempted.) Don't you hold your pencil as you would write, hold it as an artist would hold it and use your wrist to create strokes. I'm sure you know what i'm getting here. That's some homework for yourself.

 

Your pieces:

1) Dude lol, use canvas trust me, you're going to have an easier time. Good start, did you draw this from your mind/photo/life? Even if this is a surrealistic piece, you need to render the logo much more accurately. Also, the whole box and the bottles are very inconsistent. Did you draw it out before you painted?

 

2) You need to make sure values create lines, not lines you create yourself.

 

3) Perspective is incorrect, use guide lines of a three point perspective. Same thing, use the values to create the lines. Also you don't have enough values. This is because you don't have an obvious light source, and your shading is weak. Draw more from real life, you're going to see that highlights aren't that large.

 

4) Perspective is off, lines are round and elementary. Not enough values, your highlights are too over bearing.

 

5) There are styles where you can emulate a collage or a chaotic design and make them aesthetically pleasing and have direction in the flow of the placement of the objects in the piece. I draw a line that flows across the piece directing it from the start, to 5-6 lesser focal points and ending in the focal point. I then place the objects where they'll be visible. Right now the composition is weak and overbearing to look at.

 

6) This is your best piece. You need to rework the hues and values so it doesn't look so halfassed. Render the Lego logo better, now it just looks like a clump. You have no idea how much it can improve the visual worth of your artwork. Good mark making.

 

7) Use everything I told you to make this awesome. :D

[Shiny]

Thank you for the comments, shin. Much appreciated.

 

1 - The teacher put the coke logo on, she wanted to display it, so painted the coke logo on herself. 2 - I thought the perspective was okay, I used perspective lines (2 point I think, but I get muddled with perspective). What tones would I change for #6? And it is too late to change the last :P