To answer the question, what is the most difficult thing you have done this year? Why was it difficult, and how did you persevere? I would tell you that making friends has been difficult and causes a lot of stress for me. But instead of me using words to tell you how I feel I chose to make this art to show you how I felt in hopes that it might touch you deeper than my words can. This piece speaks to what I was feeling on a deeper level. I used colors and the positions of the people to express emotions. The point of this piece is to show how I was feeling switching to a new school, with new people. Not having friends at school made even more resistant to school, and when I was there I was mostly unhappy because I missed the social scene. The colors of the people around me represent happiness, it is supposed to look like an infrared scan, which to me represents looking on the inside of something. The person in the middle represents me, the color that a lot of people represent with loneliness is gray so I made myself gray. To show my perseverance through this my hand is reaching towards another person and you can see my mad started turning colors. This is supposed to show that I am going outside of my comfort zone and putting myself out there to try to make friends so that I could become happier. Another way that I learned how to enjoy my time at school and how to find happiness in other ways was by spending time outside. The reason for the clouds is to show that being outside was another way that I found ways to be happy when I realized that having fewer friends was impacting me negatively.
The piece itself is not as good as what I had envisioned. It was kind of last-minute because I was trying to push myself to do something new and so I spent a lot of research and experimented with a lot of different art styles, but in the end, none of them turned out very good, or anything like I wanted, so I decided to do this pretty basic piece that would clearly show my experiences. I love the whole idea that I had behind the project, but in the end it is not as refined or as meaningful as I was trying to make it. Just know that I put a lot of effort into brainstorming ideas, and sketching, and learning new things in photoshop. I learned how to work with gradients with more than two colors, I also practiced turning things into different colors to make it look like an infrared camera, and I also learned how to make clouds. A lot of the stuff I researched and learned I didn't use because it was really confusing and didn't look the best.
Doing this project taught me a lot about myself. The first thing it did was allow me to reflect on my year, which was really helpful for me, I was able to see what issues I dealt with and now I know how to make my future better. This project also taught me about accountability because of all the meetings, we had to go through three critiques which held me accountable to get work done and also to be prepared, It made me be a lot more on top of my schoolwork. I have struggled to be on top of a lot of my work because of this whole quarantine thing. This project also showed me what my biggest values are which include friends, and outdoors. When actually working on the art I was discouraged a lot and I really felt like giving up, and even though I persevered I still didn't come to the conclusion that I wanted to, but in some ways that had influenced me more than an easy and well-done project. I feel like I got a taste of real adult life, tight schedules, meetings, doing a lot of research, not always being right, and not always being proud of the end result.
The piece itself is not as good as what I had envisioned. It was kind of last-minute because I was trying to push myself to do something new and so I spent a lot of research and experimented with a lot of different art styles, but in the end, none of them turned out very good, or anything like I wanted, so I decided to do this pretty basic piece that would clearly show my experiences. I love the whole idea that I had behind the project, but in the end it is not as refined or as meaningful as I was trying to make it. Just know that I put a lot of effort into brainstorming ideas, and sketching, and learning new things in photoshop. I learned how to work with gradients with more than two colors, I also practiced turning things into different colors to make it look like an infrared camera, and I also learned how to make clouds. A lot of the stuff I researched and learned I didn't use because it was really confusing and didn't look the best.
Doing this project taught me a lot about myself. The first thing it did was allow me to reflect on my year, which was really helpful for me, I was able to see what issues I dealt with and now I know how to make my future better. This project also taught me about accountability because of all the meetings, we had to go through three critiques which held me accountable to get work done and also to be prepared, It made me be a lot more on top of my schoolwork. I have struggled to be on top of a lot of my work because of this whole quarantine thing. This project also showed me what my biggest values are which include friends, and outdoors. When actually working on the art I was discouraged a lot and I really felt like giving up, and even though I persevered I still didn't come to the conclusion that I wanted to, but in some ways that had influenced me more than an easy and well-done project. I feel like I got a taste of real adult life, tight schedules, meetings, doing a lot of research, not always being right, and not always being proud of the end result.