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3.) Artist communicate through their artwork.-The drawing below is obviously not something we drew in class, but it was kept in my separate sketch book at home. I'm pretty sure I drew this a year ago. I usually tend to draw things that have some emotion spread through the face of the drawing. Like in this picture, it's actually a Muslim girl who has a broken heart. I had originally kept the caption of this drawing: "Silence for a woman is the sign of a broken heart". I portrayed this by first making the girl look away from the viewer to show she's looking out for something (figuratively). The frown on her face shows disappointment, and her hair being a tad bit messy shows her uneasiness. The shawl around her head is part of the dressing sense in the Muslim culture; as well as the little piece of jewelry hanging on the left side of her head. The way I personally communicated through this drawing was mainly through her expression.

-This was the original picture which I got somewhat of a reference off of. Since I was trying to express my own message, I purposely changed the orientation of her face.

Artistic Behaviors 2/14

2.) Artists develop art making skills- What I especially enjoyed doing in this class is learning the different ways of adding value to an art project. I wasn't exactly familiar with it, but I have learned that value can really make a difference in how a design can look. It is actually the interesting contrast that value brings that makes the design stand out to a viewer. I'm not someone who really works with color so much so I'm not as comfortable, but would love to be. I also really enjoyed drawing our warm-ups that included the hands, eyes, and lips. That helped me see proportion and value in what I drew.

-Here I used just regular colored pencils to color a practice zentangle.

-One of my favorite warm-ups was drawing the eye because facial features really have some different ways of making them look realistic. (For example the highlight in the pupil of the eye.)

 -This was entirely a practice on value. This helped see the "sphere" shape of the ball, and the cast shadow beneath it.

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1.) Artists create original art. - I have had practice for about 4 years of doing henna tattoos. This really helped me in doing a zentangle, since it contained designs similar to what I do for these tattoos. What I mainly focused on was the dividing lines I created when I had started this project. These basically helped me to fill in the objects as I go. In the pictures, you can see I tried to make the border lines thicker than the thinner designs within the dividers. My source of inspiration really was just my own ideas I've created throughout this project. I have definitely noticed that I've added a lot more unique designs to what my regular art used to be. This gave me a chance to keep going until the whole paper got filled.