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Notes:

Blind portrait self reflection: 

The idea of not knowing who I'm drawing inspired me to create this drawing because it helped me shape up different ideas and put them together into one. I first used chalk to give the stars a glow, then I outlined it with a marker which I wish I hadn't. For the main part of the drawing I used prisma colors to fill in the owl and the person and give a shade to each one of them. I want the audience not to only look at the main part of the drawing but to also to focus on the background and how it shifts from side to side creating the idea of freedom. My first difficult encounter was that the drawing looked plain and basic. It felt like I didn't but any much of an idea. I worked through that by adding different backgrounds. I wish I used different art materials. I did some research on different types of owls, and some references on the human shape but that's about all. The most successful part of my work would be the shading but everything else could use more improvement. 

Midterm Self Reflection

Titles:

1- The Unfolding Self

2- Simple Blessing

3- From Ashes We Rise

SI:

- I will focus on presenting a detailed look at the importance of my country's history, It's current economic state, as well as it's future outlook.
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Question:
- How has Sudan's complex history shaped it's current economic state, and what will the potential future look  like.
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How do my pieces show experimentation?
- My art style focuses on drawing faces, typically anime or manga style, and that's what I did with my first two pieces. But for my third piece I tried to incorporate structure as my main idea. 
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How does my SI express my unique experiences?
- My SI stems up from the experiences and memories I have collected throughout my lifetime.
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Does my work demonstrate skillful synthesis of materials, processes and ideas?
- My work does not demonstrate as much skillful material use as I intended it to. The lack of different mediums may have lowered it's overall quality.
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Guiding Questions:
- one question I thought of that could help with my future pieces is, "how will I incorporate the future development of my country into my pieces". It does not stem far away from my SI, and as I research more about the history I can come up with something for one of my pieces.

Biggest challenges I faced in AP Art:

- Coming up with the SI idea was an easy part of my art class but executing that idea was challenging. Although my main idea was clear, trying to put into a unique type of art was hard and it delayed my work by a lot.

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Time management skills:

- Time management was difficult on my end and it definitely affected my pieces. To improve this skill I will plan ahead for my pieces and make sketches for each one.

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Next three pieces:

1- Future development of my country's technology.

2- Social life

3- detailed history. 

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Sketch:

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Blind Portrait: 

Process Photos:

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Artist Statement:

In my art, I combined color pencil and chalk to bring out the nature of the owl by splitting the drawing into two pieces and showing contrast. My goal for this art work was trying to emphasis the owl and human shape and make it stand out the most. Some big ideas to look out for is how the human blends and turns into an owl, that was my main focus of the drawing. Overall I'm not satisfied with my drawing but I don't hate it either. After looking at the final piece I could definitely tell what I can improve. I also have a small idea of how an artist thinks thanks to my classmates. Their criteria for my work really opened up my mind more.

1.st  Portfolio

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2nd Piece

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Artist Statement:

At first I wanted to put my country history into one drawing and then show how it affected me, but then I realized that was a terrible and vague idea. I wanna keep more ideas for my other portfolio. So for my first drawing I focused on the kind of negative side of my country but also showed some positive sides to it. I wanted to show my personal development which in this drawing was the evolution of my anxiety just not in a bad way. How my anxiety came in a different form, like a more observant side of me. I used drawing pencils and a little bit prismacolors for my media. I am not satisfied with my drawing as my idea of using comics as my style of art didn't work. Also, some parts of my drawing look poorly made or unfinished. But I can definitely think of many ideas to improve this drawing.​

Sketch

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Process Picture 

 

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For this piece I focused on the aspect of

 

gratefulness. To do this I used the landscape of

 

my country to represent the cracking and dry

 

land to assist this theme, and the water

 

represents one of the many things  I am grateful

 

for. It is only but an example that helps to give

 

better meaning to theme. At first this piece was

 

more about my personal character development

 

and that was the idea of my SI, up until my 3rd in

 

which I found my self stuck on what to do next.

 

And so I had changed my SI to explaining the

 

historical, current economy, and the future state

 

of my country. I used black ink and drawing

 

pencil, and my goal was to show contrast

 

between the background and what opposes it.

 

But wish I would have added color or some other

 

time of media to show better contrast. Although

 

it didn't turn out as my ideal type of drawing it is

 

definitely turned better out better than my first

 

piece, or at least that's what I think.

3rd Piece

Sketch

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Process Picture 

 

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My 3rd piece focused more on the development of my country in getting the recognition it needs. For this, I used the pyramids in Sudan, "The Nubian Pyramids", more known as the forgotten pyramids. The idea was to make a two point perspective where what is being presented starts off at the bottom then reaching the top. This was my idea to show growth and recognition that towers over land an is as important as any other place in the world. I only used drawing pencils and lots of shading to blend the whole drawing together. I was planing on using different medias but I ran out of time so I decided to stick with safe option. Overall I am not too fond of my art piece because as it turns out, the pyramid looks more like a building than an actual pyramid, and the whole drawing on it's whole looks unfinished and needs more color mediums.

4th Piece

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Artist Statement :

For this piece I tried to do something new. I

 

thought to myself how I should represent my

 

country for it to stand out more. The big idea of

 

this art piece is talking about the economic state of

 

my country. Sudan has had an ongoing civil war for

 

the past few years but it has escalated recently.

 

This caused a lot of people to leave Sudan and try

 

to live in other countries with no money. This was

 

the inspiration for my art piece. I drew my piece

 

using fabric markers on a piece of clothing called

 

"Jalabiya", and that was kind of my way of making

 

it stand out using culture as part of my piece. The

 

cracks going outward are meant to be the people

 

leaving the country to live in another place with no

 

money. But during all that chaos the people of my

 

country still have faith and that's what the hands

 

represent, faith and hope in the darkest times. The

 

overall piece turned out pretty nice although there

 

are many things I'd like to add,  there are some

 

stuff to improve on.

Sketch​
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