This project has been my favorite so far. I used my favorite medium, watercolors, and incorporated it with something I found called Zentangles. It took me about three days to fully finish my project. It turned out pretty well, even though half the time I messed up the Zentangle somehow.
For this project, I took risks. The project itself was something I wasn't sure about. To start with, I used watercolors to make a circle type shape in the middle of the paper with about three different colors. I had to start off with the watercolors before the drawing because it would make the ink bleed. So, instead of coloring the elephant I decided to just put some random watercolors in the middle of the page. Some people didn't really understand that, but I think it looks cool. Then once that dried I started to draw the elephant. For it being my first time drawing an elephant, it is actually nice. Some of the legs look a little weird to me, but I'm human. Honestly, I went into this project having no idea what I was going to do. I think I decided to do the Zentangles when I just finished drawing the elephant. I was very unsure about that. On my first pattern, I messed a couple of swirls. Throughout the whole thing I messed up a lot. You can't really tell unless you look really close, so overall it looks put together. The only material that I chose that was considered new was the watercolors. I have watercolors at home so it wasn't too difficult, but I'm still getting used to mixing colors and the water to color ratio. It was the first time I used watercolors on a main project though so that was a little scary. As I was painting, some of the colors looked really gray and flat out unattractive. That made me a little worried.
I developed my art making skills. I learned about Zentangles which you would think wouldn't be too hard, but once you start it's easy to mess up unless you are very concentrated. Also, I did the whole elephant in different patterns so finding the right ones and getting them just right was difficult. I'm a bit of a perfectionist. Not to mention, I water colored in the middle of a page then to draw an animal I had never drawn before in ink. So overall, I did learn more about the technique of Zentangles and I'm becoming more familiar with watercolors and pen drawings. I did gain more skill with the other materials I used. From taking this class, I have learned that I really enjoy watercolors as stated in earlier posts. Water coloring randomly in the middle of the page really was out of my comfort zone, but it really add some pizzazz to the piece. So far in this class, I have used pen to go over my drawings. For the first project, I went over a pencil outline of the animals, but for this project I went head on with the ink. I'm learning how to fix easy mistakes.
This project was very exciting and nerve racking, but I would do it all over again.
For this project, I took risks. The project itself was something I wasn't sure about. To start with, I used watercolors to make a circle type shape in the middle of the paper with about three different colors. I had to start off with the watercolors before the drawing because it would make the ink bleed. So, instead of coloring the elephant I decided to just put some random watercolors in the middle of the page. Some people didn't really understand that, but I think it looks cool. Then once that dried I started to draw the elephant. For it being my first time drawing an elephant, it is actually nice. Some of the legs look a little weird to me, but I'm human. Honestly, I went into this project having no idea what I was going to do. I think I decided to do the Zentangles when I just finished drawing the elephant. I was very unsure about that. On my first pattern, I messed a couple of swirls. Throughout the whole thing I messed up a lot. You can't really tell unless you look really close, so overall it looks put together. The only material that I chose that was considered new was the watercolors. I have watercolors at home so it wasn't too difficult, but I'm still getting used to mixing colors and the water to color ratio. It was the first time I used watercolors on a main project though so that was a little scary. As I was painting, some of the colors looked really gray and flat out unattractive. That made me a little worried.
I developed my art making skills. I learned about Zentangles which you would think wouldn't be too hard, but once you start it's easy to mess up unless you are very concentrated. Also, I did the whole elephant in different patterns so finding the right ones and getting them just right was difficult. I'm a bit of a perfectionist. Not to mention, I water colored in the middle of a page then to draw an animal I had never drawn before in ink. So overall, I did learn more about the technique of Zentangles and I'm becoming more familiar with watercolors and pen drawings. I did gain more skill with the other materials I used. From taking this class, I have learned that I really enjoy watercolors as stated in earlier posts. Water coloring randomly in the middle of the page really was out of my comfort zone, but it really add some pizzazz to the piece. So far in this class, I have used pen to go over my drawings. For the first project, I went over a pencil outline of the animals, but for this project I went head on with the ink. I'm learning how to fix easy mistakes.
This project was very exciting and nerve racking, but I would do it all over again.