Your style is fun and creative. I can tell your experimenting with different things and ideas. Your use the materials in an interesting variety of ways and I like your color additions. I really like your use of ink in the flower piece, they look like magnolias? I like the different tones and the bold lines. The composition is nicely balanced as well. I also like your use of charcoal for the ballet slippers. The slippers really stand out against the very dark background. I would suggest, however, trying larger paper so that you can get more detail and variety with the charcoal as well as so you can see the image from a distance. I think my favorite piece is the spiders. They're really fun and cute and have so much personality. I like your use of ink and charcoal together. They give a nice range of values that balance the pieces. I like to image the spider in the left image got home to a surprise party for him! The only thing I would suggest with this one is maybe work with the background a little more? You could add some vague light shapes to suggest a setting. I like the cross hatching in the background of the upper left one, it looks more professional than the scribbley lines in the background of the right one. One last thing I would suggest is more work on presentation. I think all of your compositions would stand out and balance better if they were framed or mounted in some way. The pieces that you did mount look professional and finished. I especially like your leaf one with circles and the offset mat. The mat emphasizes the dark, bold lines of the circles and compliments the well-balanced composition. Good work and keep experimenting and playing!
I'm drawn most to your characters. They are quirky and really funny. I particularly like the peacock. The tilt of the head accompanied by the words animates the bird and gives it an attitude. So funny. I also really appreciate the humor of a spider having a cupcake for its birthday. The creativity of the characters is funny and engaging. It would have been nice to see the personality of those drawings in the others as well. There seems to be more success in the drawings when you let your personality come through them. The rest, all be it good, seem to be missing something. They aren't as engaging as the characters. I really enjoy your work as a whole.
I am really drawn to the flower pictures you drew and painted. I really like that you added color to the ones that you drew, which gives it a fun feeling, which most pictures people drew in the class didn’t have color. In the flowers which you painted it looks like you were painting in a care free way, and it turned out really good, which I like a lot. Most of your drawings have a fun feeling to them, which I like. It seems like you enjoyed yourself in this class drawing these. I also really like the peacock drawing. It must have taken a really long time to complete that, and the detail in the tail feathers is really consistent throughout it. I also really like the color you used in it, just like the earlier drawing. If I would add anything to your work, I would matt all of your drawings. The presentation when the pictures are matted make the work look more professional and thought out. I would also add a little bit of something in the top right corner of the picture of the shoes stepping out on the mat. It just seems to blank there for me. Overall, your work is really well done and I really enjoyed looking at them.
I like the cartoon quality to your work. It is fun and playful. It reminds me of childhood and the addition of color adds life-like quality. You could illustrate a kids book with a lot of these. The spiders are my favorite. They are children oriented but they still hold a bit of mystery and fear. It's a great contrast and really interests me. I like your style and i think it is something that you have developed really well, but I would like to see you do something a little more life like and realist. Perhaps focus more on a small part of the human body and do it in great detail. Or maybe mix your cartoon style with an abstract, surrealist style? Your work could be a lot more interesting with some variation and "weirdness." You seem to still be in your comfort zone.
I would love to see your future work. Awesome job!
This critiquing is never going to end and you're totally like three from the bottom for me soooooo I am slightly worn out, but I promise to tell you wonderful things that will make your heart sore....hahah no I mean soar like a bird :)
So, where to begin, well i pretty much love the manner in which you were able to depict the library images, I remember doing those that day me dying and all and you making beautiful arched library windows it was amazing. But what I really liked was that you were able to capture the window without actually copying it detail for detail, which is pretty impressive cause you could have fooled me that they were not the same.
Furthermore, you take into account your composition and how you are going to utilize your space which is very insightful and important.
My favorite image..other favorite is the one of the tree, branch thing. This image utilizes negative and positive space well and you used your gray scale in a very positive manner, allowing the lights to reseed and the darks to pop.
I do however, think that matting would be beneficial to the presentation of you piece, as well as some emphasize on shading to create depth and space.
Ultimately I love your face and can't wait to see you soon!!! MUAH
I like the variation of subjects on your pieces. The portfolio is creative. I do not see to much darkness on your pieces. I like that the shading is not over done nor does it feel too light. I think matting your work would help presentation. Is not really important but it would add a nice touch over all. The peacock has to be my favorite. Just looks incredible. the pattern of the feathers and different shades go well together. The ink work on the "Play on" drawing is good. I like the detail on it. Its very monotone on the shading and looks realistic. Good Job
I am going to have a hard time giving you suggestions due to how amazing all of these are. Every one of theses works sticks out as a piece of excellence. The one that sticks out the most is the once of the fierce peacock. I really like how you added the blue on top of its head and the bright pink fierce in block letters. That one and the dresser on the checker board floor that has play on popping out of it. This has a very funny feeling of a costume party with a dresser full of endless possibilities. You have a very pop-art style in your own free work, while also being able to make real beauty like the ones of the flowers. Your use of black and white in the ones without color feel as if they have color with their attitude. I really want to see a figure drawing twisted up with your color somewhere to help accentuate your style. I feel the ink flowers though perfect should have a small bit of color trickled in there to help accentuate their brilliance like the other fully colored ones. I also noticed not all of your pieces were matted though not in class but now looking at thumbnails up close, it helps the flow of you presentation. Having said that all of it is quite mind blowing.
Cathy I really like how fun your style is. I also like that your subject matter is never the same, flowers, feet, spiders, branches, figures, boxes and even a peacock, that is impressive and shows you can draw a large range of things. I really like the peacock piece. I like that you use the whole page and u mix the black and white with bright blue and pink. I really like your presentation in the play on piece. I wish that you had presented all your work in cool ways like this. I also like how neat and clean your lines are in it. The curly cues in the back are really cool. Also the darkness of banner and tiles is great. Your detail is great and the way you use positive and negative space is very impressive. You really did a great job!
I love the creative quality to your work. It's really fun and innocent and brings me back to my childhood. You have a talent for taking your subjects and making them appear realistic, but in a cartoon-y way. I really like that! I also really like the use of color in your pieces. I like the peacock and how you incorporated words into the piece. With your pencil drawings maybe pay more attention to the shading and tones in the pieces. Also, maybe step outside of the box with your style a little. maybe try something less smooth and straightforward and is more messy and crazy. It would be cool to see your style come through with something like that!
I think my favorite drawings of yours are your ink drawings. I think that they have a flow to them that cannot be replicated in your drawings with other medias. I like the almost Hawaiian looking flowers that you did with the ink. I think that the larger flower in the middle is the best one. Maybe the drawing could look more 3 dimensional if you made some of the background flowers more light or smaller, so it looked like they were more set back from the main flower. I think that if the background flowers were as well done as the main one, the piece would look incredible. My favorite drawing of yours is probably the one above that, of the drawer on top of the checkerboard ground. First, I like the randomness of the drawer in the middle of a floor. Plus, I like the various shapes of the tiles to make them look disproportional, and like they might be moving. The play on slogan going out the door, look like a very good comic or cartoon. The one critique I have is to make the swirls on the wall look lighter, so that the wall corners were more apparent. Nicky
I really like your style, you have a very definite playful style that I’m drawn to. I specially love the branch right below the ballet shoes. I think it is so delicate! Reminds me of a Japanese garden or something like that. I also loved your flowers and the picture of the spider. I think the play on picture is great, in terms of composition and contrast between the black and white. It is all very uniform and clear, and the way it was matted and presented really adds to it and makes it stand out. I think there’s some room of improvement in presentation. I feel that some of your work is clustered together and would benefit from being a bit more apart, as well as having some sort of frame. Most of your works don’t have any kind of frame and I think framing them would only make them pop-out more. I also think you could maybe try something a bit more free, it seems most of your drawings are carefully constructed. Maybe it would even be fun to just let your hand draw random things. Great job overall though! -Valeria
Your work is very fun, relaxed and charismatic. I like the vivaciousness illustrated in the spider character. Looking at the entirety of your portfolio, the piece that I’m drawn to the most would have to be the charcoal drawing of the ballet slippers resting on top of something in a dark room. This piece uses the environment to draw the viewer to the subject of focus. In my opinion, with some of your other pieces the white space behind your subjects can take away focus, and the drawing can feel incomplete. However, the “play on” piece does work with the white spaces to pose a more complete, balanced composition. I suggest finding ways to flatter your subjects with an environment (which could just be values, or shapes) so that the piece becomes unified and not offset by white space. Also, I would recommend deepening the value scale of your pieces. Some of the drawings appear too light. One more note, I do like how you played with color on the peacock drawing to emphasize your intentions. The two colored parts being the words “fierce” and the blue hair effectively guides the viewer to discern what the message of the piece is.
Cathy, i really enjoyed your portfolio! I think how you incorporated color into your works gave it an element that not a lot of other portfolios had, and made it very unique. I love your flowers, because they are done in a way that I'm assuming is personal to your specific style. They look more like cartoon flowers, or imaginary flowers, which i like because it combines realism with an abstract element which is cool. Also, i think the drawing of the spider wearing a birthday hat with a birthday cake is hilarious and shows humor, which is also cool. I like that you have one realistic drawing of a human, and then one cartoon drawing of a character, I think they are similar and contrasting in a good way. Something to work on could be drawing more abstract works and widen the variety of your portfolio. Also, maybe shading darker or using darker lines on some of your works to make them stand out and give them more detail. But other than that, GREAT work this term!! -Ashley
Cathy, I really like your ability to draw nature well. The flowers are simple yet beautiful and they really stand out among your work. Also, the tree with a ton of branches is very interesting because it looks like there are shadowy trees in the background. I also like your choice to use the entire page for this piece. You used the white space well.
Your ballet slippers are very cute in a way and I like how you only drew the lower part of the legs. I can tell that you were having fun with drawing this and I think you did a great job with the lightness and darkness of it.
I really like your peacock because of how you used the entire page and I think you did a really great job with the charcoal. I also noticed that you used pencil and I think you might have used black India ink as well. It was a good idea for you to integrate the three of them together. It made for an interesting drawing.
Your painting of the room with the words “Play On” is kind of retro looking and it is very different from the rest of your work. The twirly things in the background are mysterious and beautiful and I think this was a great piece.
I love the imagination and playfulness that comes through in your work. In-particular, i can't get enough of that big fuzzy spider. I swear Ive seen it before somewhere in a book that i read as a child... Well regardless its a fun character in it stirs fond memories so it's one of my favorites. Your portfolio is very balanced and shows a little bit of everything it seems. Like the drawings of shoes, from a birds eye and the ballet dancers warming up. Also the subtle hints of color really make the peacock and flower (possibly a lily?) really pop off the page and make a statement in some cases. Also your observational sketches are done rather well though they seem to lack the same amount of life that the ones from your imagination do. More contrast, darker lines, and dramatic shading could take some of the lighter drawn pieces to the nest level i believe. Great stuff you got here!
I really like how unique your style is and how playful your pieces are! I really like the experimentation going on here; it makes for every exciting work! I think you worked great with the ink, as expressed in your tree. I can see movement in this piece and it just looks really nice. I really like how you incorporated color into your pieces it is very exciting to see! I love how whimsical your pieces are such as the peacock and the girl with the lightning bolt on her shirt they are very fun! As a critique I think you would benefit from creating more depth in your work. Many of your pieces seem one-dimensional which still looks good, but I think if there was more variation in this aspect your portfolio would be stronger. Also, while I love the playfulness of your work I would like to see you approach more realistic drawings incorporated with the playfulness of your other drawings. Also I feel like more shading could have been used, and more contrast between darks and lights in your interior and still life drawings would make for a stronger image. Overall you have a very fun portfolio. I really enjoy looking at your work! Claire
Your style is fun and creative. I can tell your experimenting with different things and ideas. Your use the materials in an interesting variety of ways and I like your color additions. I really like your use of ink in the flower piece, they look like magnolias? I like the different tones and the bold lines. The composition is nicely balanced as well. I also like your use of charcoal for the ballet slippers. The slippers really stand out against the very dark background. I would suggest, however, trying larger paper so that you can get more detail and variety with the charcoal as well as so you can see the image from a distance.
ReplyDeleteI think my favorite piece is the spiders. They're really fun and cute and have so much personality. I like your use of ink and charcoal together. They give a nice range of values that balance the pieces. I like to image the spider in the left image got home to a surprise party for him! The only thing I would suggest with this one is maybe work with the background a little more? You could add some vague light shapes to suggest a setting. I like the cross hatching in the background of the upper left one, it looks more professional than the scribbley lines in the background of the right one.
One last thing I would suggest is more work on presentation. I think all of your compositions would stand out and balance better if they were framed or mounted in some way. The pieces that you did mount look professional and finished. I especially like your leaf one with circles and the offset mat. The mat emphasizes the dark, bold lines of the circles and compliments the well-balanced composition.
Good work and keep experimenting and playing!
I'm drawn most to your characters. They are quirky and really funny. I particularly like the peacock. The tilt of the head accompanied by the words animates the bird and gives it an attitude. So funny. I also really appreciate the humor of a spider having a cupcake for its birthday. The creativity of the characters is funny and engaging. It would have been nice to see the personality of those drawings in the others as well. There seems to be more success in the drawings when you let your personality come through them. The rest, all be it good, seem to be missing something. They aren't as engaging as the characters. I really enjoy your work as a whole.
ReplyDeleteI am really drawn to the flower pictures you drew and painted. I really like that you added color to the ones that you drew, which gives it a fun feeling, which most pictures people drew in the class didn’t have color. In the flowers which you painted it looks like you were painting in a care free way, and it turned out really good, which I like a lot.
ReplyDeleteMost of your drawings have a fun feeling to them, which I like. It seems like you enjoyed yourself in this class drawing these. I also really like the peacock drawing. It must have taken a really long time to complete that, and the detail in the tail feathers is really consistent throughout it. I also really like the color you used in it, just like the earlier drawing.
If I would add anything to your work, I would matt all of your drawings. The presentation when the pictures are matted make the work look more professional and thought out. I would also add a little bit of something in the top right corner of the picture of the shoes stepping out on the mat. It just seems to blank there for me.
Overall, your work is really well done and I really enjoyed looking at them.
Cathy,
ReplyDeleteI like the cartoon quality to your work. It is fun and playful. It reminds me of childhood and the addition of color adds life-like quality. You could illustrate a kids book with a lot of these. The spiders are my favorite. They are children oriented but they still hold a bit of mystery and fear. It's a great contrast and really interests me. I like your style and i think it is something that you have developed really well, but I would like to see you do something a little more life like and realist. Perhaps focus more on a small part of the human body and do it in great detail. Or maybe mix your cartoon style with an abstract, surrealist style? Your work could be a lot more interesting with some variation and "weirdness." You seem to still be in your comfort zone.
I would love to see your future work. Awesome job!
-Becca
CAT!!!
ReplyDeleteThis critiquing is never going to end and you're totally like three from the bottom for me soooooo I am slightly worn out, but I promise to tell you wonderful things that will make your heart sore....hahah no I mean soar like a bird :)
So, where to begin, well i pretty much love the manner in which you were able to depict the library images, I remember doing those that day me dying and all and you making beautiful arched library windows it was amazing. But what I really liked was that you were able to capture the window without actually copying it detail for detail, which is pretty impressive cause you could have fooled me that they were not the same.
Furthermore, you take into account your composition and how you are going to utilize your space which is very insightful and important.
My favorite image..other favorite is the one of the tree, branch thing. This image utilizes negative and positive space well and you used your gray scale in a very positive manner, allowing the lights to reseed and the darks to pop.
I do however, think that matting would be beneficial to the presentation of you piece, as well as some emphasize on shading to create depth and space.
Ultimately I love your face and can't wait to see you soon!!! MUAH
jazz
I like the variation of subjects on your pieces. The portfolio is creative. I do not see to much darkness on your pieces. I like that the shading is not over done nor does it feel too light. I think matting your work would help presentation. Is not really important but it would add a nice touch over all.
ReplyDeleteThe peacock has to be my favorite. Just looks incredible. the pattern of the feathers and different shades go well together.
The ink work on the "Play on" drawing is good. I like the detail on it.
Its very monotone on the shading and looks realistic.
Good Job
I am going to have a hard time giving you suggestions due to how amazing all of these are. Every one of theses works sticks out as a piece of excellence. The one that sticks out the most is the once of the fierce peacock. I really like how you added the blue on top of its head and the bright pink fierce in block letters. That one and the dresser on the checker board floor that has play on popping out of it. This has a very funny feeling of a costume party with a dresser full of endless possibilities. You have a very pop-art style in your own free work, while also being able to make real beauty like the ones of the flowers. Your use of black and white in the ones without color feel as if they have color with their attitude.
ReplyDeleteI really want to see a figure drawing twisted up with your color somewhere to help accentuate your style. I feel the ink flowers though perfect should have a small bit of color trickled in there to help accentuate their brilliance like the other fully colored ones. I also noticed not all of your pieces were matted though not in class but now looking at thumbnails up close, it helps the flow of you presentation. Having said that all of it is quite mind blowing.
Cathy
ReplyDeleteI really like how fun your style is. I also like that your subject matter is never the same, flowers, feet, spiders, branches, figures, boxes and even a peacock, that is impressive and shows you can draw a large range of things. I really like the peacock piece. I like that you use the whole page and u mix the black and white with bright blue and pink. I really like your presentation in the play on piece. I wish that you had presented all your work in cool ways like this. I also like how neat and clean your lines are in it. The curly cues in the back are really cool. Also the darkness of banner and tiles is great. Your detail is great and the way you use positive and negative space is very impressive. You really did a great job!
Cathy,
ReplyDeleteI love the creative quality to your work. It's really fun and innocent and brings me back to my childhood. You have a talent for taking your subjects and making them appear realistic, but in a cartoon-y way. I really like that! I also really like the use of color in your pieces. I like the peacock and how you incorporated words into the piece. With your pencil drawings maybe pay more attention to the shading and tones in the pieces. Also, maybe step outside of the box with your style a little. maybe try something less smooth and straightforward and is more messy and crazy. It would be cool to see your style come through with something like that!
Great stuff!
-Joanna Dahl
I think my favorite drawings of yours are your ink drawings. I think that they have a flow to them that cannot be replicated in your drawings with other medias. I like the almost Hawaiian looking flowers that you did with the ink. I think that the larger flower in the middle is the best one. Maybe the drawing could look more 3 dimensional if you made some of the background flowers more light or smaller, so it looked like they were more set back from the main flower. I think that if the background flowers were as well done as the main one, the piece would look incredible. My favorite drawing of yours is probably the one above that, of the drawer on top of the checkerboard ground. First, I like the randomness of the drawer in the middle of a floor. Plus, I like the various shapes of the tiles to make them look disproportional, and like they might be moving. The play on slogan going out the door, look like a very good comic or cartoon. The one critique I have is to make the swirls on the wall look lighter, so that the wall corners were more apparent.
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I really like your style, you have a very definite playful style that I’m drawn to. I specially love the branch right below the ballet shoes. I think it is so delicate! Reminds me of a Japanese garden or something like that. I also loved your flowers and the picture of the spider. I think the play on picture is great, in terms of composition and contrast between the black and white. It is all very uniform and clear, and the way it was matted and presented really adds to it and makes it stand out. I think there’s some room of improvement in presentation. I feel that some of your work is clustered together and would benefit from being a bit more apart, as well as having some sort of frame. Most of your works don’t have any kind of frame and I think framing them would only make them pop-out more. I also think you could maybe try something a bit more free, it seems most of your drawings are carefully constructed. Maybe it would even be fun to just let your hand draw random things. Great job overall though!
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Your work is very fun, relaxed and charismatic. I like the vivaciousness illustrated in the spider character. Looking at the entirety of your portfolio, the piece that I’m drawn to the most would have to be the charcoal drawing of the ballet slippers resting on top of something in a dark room. This piece uses the environment to draw the viewer to the subject of focus. In my opinion, with some of your other pieces the white space behind your subjects can take away focus, and the drawing can feel incomplete. However, the “play on” piece does work with the white spaces to pose a more complete, balanced composition. I suggest finding ways to flatter your subjects with an environment (which could just be values, or shapes) so that the piece becomes unified and not offset by white space. Also, I would recommend deepening the value scale of your pieces. Some of the drawings appear too light. One more note, I do like how you played with color on the peacock drawing to emphasize your intentions. The two colored parts being the words “fierce” and the blue hair effectively guides the viewer to discern what the message of the piece is.
ReplyDeleteCathy, i really enjoyed your portfolio! I think how you incorporated color into your works gave it an element that not a lot of other portfolios had, and made it very unique. I love your flowers, because they are done in a way that I'm assuming is personal to your specific style. They look more like cartoon flowers, or imaginary flowers, which i like because it combines realism with an abstract element which is cool. Also, i think the drawing of the spider wearing a birthday hat with a birthday cake is hilarious and shows humor, which is also cool. I like that you have one realistic drawing of a human, and then one cartoon drawing of a character, I think they are similar and contrasting in a good way.
ReplyDeleteSomething to work on could be drawing more abstract works and widen the variety of your portfolio. Also, maybe shading darker or using darker lines on some of your works to make them stand out and give them more detail. But other than that, GREAT work this term!!
-Ashley
Cathy,
ReplyDeleteI really like your ability to draw nature well. The flowers are simple yet beautiful and they really stand out among your work. Also, the tree with a ton of branches is very interesting because it looks like there are shadowy trees in the background. I also like your choice to use the entire page for this piece. You used the white space well.
Your ballet slippers are very cute in a way and I like how you only drew the lower part of the legs. I can tell that you were having fun with drawing this and I think you did a great job with the lightness and darkness of it.
I really like your peacock because of how you used the entire page and I think you did a really great job with the charcoal. I also noticed that you used pencil and I think you might have used black India ink as well. It was a good idea for you to integrate the three of them together. It made for an interesting drawing.
Your painting of the room with the words “Play On” is kind of retro looking and it is very different from the rest of your work. The twirly things in the background are mysterious and beautiful and I think this was a great piece.
Great job!
I love the imagination and playfulness that comes through in your work. In-particular, i can't get enough of that big fuzzy spider. I swear Ive seen it before somewhere in a book that i read as a child... Well regardless its a fun character in it stirs fond memories so it's one of my favorites. Your portfolio is very balanced and shows a little bit of everything it seems. Like the drawings of shoes, from a birds eye and the ballet dancers warming up. Also the subtle hints of color really make the peacock and flower (possibly a lily?) really pop off the page and make a statement in some cases. Also your observational sketches are done rather well though they seem to lack the same amount of life that the ones from your imagination do. More contrast, darker lines, and dramatic shading could take some of the lighter drawn pieces to the nest level i believe. Great stuff you got here!
ReplyDeleteI really like how unique your style is and how playful your pieces are! I really like the experimentation going on here; it makes for every exciting work! I think you worked great with the ink, as expressed in your tree. I can see movement in this piece and it just looks really nice. I really like how you incorporated color into your pieces it is very exciting to see! I love how whimsical your pieces are such as the peacock and the girl with the lightning bolt on her shirt they are very fun! As a critique I think you would benefit from creating more depth in your work. Many of your pieces seem one-dimensional which still looks good, but I think if there was more variation in this aspect your portfolio would be stronger. Also, while I love the playfulness of your work I would like to see you approach more realistic drawings incorporated with the playfulness of your other drawings. Also I feel like more shading could have been used, and more contrast between darks and lights in your interior and still life drawings would make for a stronger image. Overall you have a very fun portfolio. I really enjoy looking at your work!
ReplyDeleteClaire