I enjoy all the humor in your pieces! They're all very fun and creative. I really like what you did with the masterpiece assignment; you picked the part that stood out the most, the creepy smile, and emphasized it, magnified it and made it the focus, putting a very strange and interesting spin on it. One thing I notice is that most of your pieces are centrally focused and many are just in the middle of the paper. You could maybe play with positioning, perspective and placement. It might help you do that to try out variations in paper shape and size. Most of your pieces are relatively the same size, as well. I would try working bigger and see how that forces you to change your approach or if it gives you different ideas. I really love your city pictures. The perspective of the street one is well done and interesting. I like the off-center focal point and the incredible detail. I would suggest maybe varying line weight and darkness to add more depth. I like your use of materials. The charcoal works well in the figure drawings and the moon image. I like the use of erasing to create flowing lines. One thing I would suggest would be matting. Presentation can really add to your pieces. For example, a frame around the balloons picture would emphasize the crisp ink lines and make it really pop. Overall, very creative and energetic!
Your work is dramatic. You like to play with the subjects you are observing and the results are good. The piece that most appeals to me is the moon. Is dark and shaded. Lines running through it are livid. I would enjoy this on your work. While the figure you made are goo the feel secluded. The tree with the leaf resting on it is good but it feels plane. Lines are solid, but need some depth. The kid and the face in the body display joy in them, just like a ream like state. there is something interesting about your lines they dont run straight from point A to point B. they have form that moves through the image. is a great quality that guides the eye. My on suggestion would be to do more shading play with perspectives.I think some would go a long ways with your work. Good Job!!
I like the playfulness of some of the work. Your rendition of the master piece is so funny and so creepy at the same time. The kid floating away with the balloons is great. I really like the strange crescent headed person wandering through the lines. It makes me think the creature is tiny and wandering through a field of grass in the night. Really cool. I think it's interesting that you are the only person to draw on something that is three dimensional. The one criticism I would give is that some of the drawings feel unfinished. I would have liked to see the figures placed in a location instead of floating in space. The same goes for a few others. It is a little unsettling to have an image just dangling in the middle of nowhere on the page.
I really enjoy how out there your work is. You made things that I wouldn’t even dream of. I am particularly drawn to the image of the guy with the smile on his stomach. It’s such a crazy concept and you made it work really well! I also love the piece right net to it. It reminds me of The Matrix, as if all the buildings and lines were made out of code. The perspective works great on that piece and the composition is also great. I also very much like the balloons and the melting clock. I think the work with the clock could have been improved a bit with some cropping and some matting. Overall I think most of your pieces could use some matting to bring them out more. I think there’s a bit room for improvement on the figure drawing and some of the proportions. The measuring techniques could help improve these works. I also think some of your works could be shaded a bit more. Kind of like the man with the smile on the belly. I think that one is really well shaded and if some of your other works could have been shaded in a similar manner they would have drawn more attention. =) Great job! I kind of wish I could have that matrix-looking picture. -Valeria
Your work is so fun and unique. I love the movement of your pieces. It is loose and free. By far, my favorite work of yours is of the buildings in the city. So lovely! It reminds me of Van Gough. I would love to see it enlarged, in ink, or in color. You balloons were also another favorite of mine. You have a way of taking a very simple subject and making it incredibly interesting. You see simple everyday objects much different than most people. I would like to see you step away from this style in a piece. You have it well developed and it may be interesting for you to try something more realistic- more detailed- more exact. Not to say that you should stick with it, but it may help you gain confidence in other areas of drawing, painting. Your work makes me feel slightly uncomfortable and I love that about it.
Your have a looseness in your work that I am really attracted to. By looseness I mean that you neither get too caught of portraying your subject matters in an exact way nor do you allow yourself to completely stray from the reality of them either.
One of the best examples of this, and one of my favorite images is that of the city scape. This images uses a freeness of line along with an awesome perspective right below the horizon line that allows the viewer to feel maybe a story below looking up out at the city.
On the other hand, the one image that strays from this usual looseness is in the other image of the city. I like this image as well, but for opposite reasons. This piece is very restricted and controlled unlike the others, which I enjoy, but which that the perspective lines and point were lighter or faded away so it was not so obvious that this was the manner in which the image was made, and then the buildings could speak.
Furthermore, I really enjoy the satire that you allow to come out in your work, it adds to your images and creates another level to you work. You also worked well with shading with pencil and creating moods with charcoal.
I do however, wish that your moon-man piece had a stronger tonal range, darker darks mainly, just because I think it would be beneficial in the leaves. Furthermore, matting always creates a different kind of presentation environment.
Otherwise great job, I really enjoyed seeing your work throughout the term.
I really enjoyed your constant experimentation of different styles and moods with each piece. Your perspective of the alley is very captivating with it's long lines in the alley that just end at a certain point, as if it never ends. It seems as if to be never ending, and very daunting to look down. Your figure drawing of the female on the stool is so perfect in showing off her feminine curves, and yet how rigid and restricted she is to this stool. I obviously love the humorous sarcasm of the Rembrandt piece and how ridiculous it is at the same time. Along side that humor being the ink piece of the kid being carried away by the balloons is a very fun and cartoony depiction of the ridiculous possibility of a ton of balloons simply carrying one off in to space. maybe try to work with your ink a little more on making different shades to help further depict the mood of a situations at hand. Try to do some figure drawing from a different angle than that of behind the subject and push yourself to feel different perspectives of how to depict the body. I also feel like the Dali impersonation needs some ants crawling out of a random spot on the paper to fully give it an essential Dali perspective. All over though your work was extremely fascinating and fun to look at.
I think the way that you experiment with everything and take the realistic and make it abstract is so cool. As I pointed out in class I really like your remake picture, and how you took that portrait and made it what no one would ever expect. I also really like your ink drawings. The lines are so think dark and even it makes for a crisp refreshing feeling. I think that the creative things that you come up with are captivating and cool like the guy with the moon head the way you use the darks and the lights swirling around him show a type of rage or something like it. Your perspective is also very cool and well done the proportions are very well done. The origami is also a very cool touch. I think that my one critique is I would like to see a couple more realistic pieces. This would show more of the range of your work. Overall great job!
I have two favorite pieces from your work and they are the big guy with the mouth in his stomach and the painting of the kid flying up in the sky on the balloons. The picture of the kid flying up in the sky on balloons is awesome because of how free spirited it looks. It looks like you were just painting and were having fun with it and it turned out to be a great piece. The picture of the guy with the mouth in his stomach is really creative and abstract. I just can’t stop looking at it, so that was a great piece. In your landscape pictures, I would recommend using darker lines to emphasize specific parts of your drawings because of how lightly drawn they are. I would also recommend matting your pieces because the presentation doesn’t look professional from the start. That would help a lot. Overall your work this term was good and I enjoyed looking at them
I like how different your work is. There is a certain free-ness to your pieces that doesn't take away from their overall effect. What I mean is that it doesn't make them look sloppy or immature, it makes them look really abstract and fun. I especially like the guy with the mouth for his belly. I really like the imagination in your pieces. It really draws me to them and makes me wish there were more to look at! Some critiques would be to pay more attention to the constraints of your paper and use that to your advantage instead of disadvantage. Pay attention to the white space in your pieces and the composition. It would really add to the overall lightness of your work. Also pay attention to how light and dark interplay in your subjects.
Overall your work is really unique and fun to look it. They are "take me back to my childhood" sort of pieces.
I like how most of your drawing have meaning or humor behind them. I really like the simplicity of the drawing with the clock hanging form the tree branch. It cool how u transformed two objects as simple as a tree with one branch, and a clock to make it look completely different. Another drawing I like where you make something simple look very interesting is the one of the alleyway, or just a road with tall buildings on both sides. The entire picture; from the road to the walls seem to be fading into the distance. I think that if the walls were symmetric on both sides, or the view was from the middle of the alley, the warping effect toward the end of the path would be even more effective. Also I like is the drawing of the man with the long hair, (I can’t believe I forgot his name). In this though, I think that your copied version looks a little too simple and a little disproportional. But I think that your recreation of it looks much better. The face on his stomach reminds me of a humorous but dark theme. I also think that it looks like the bunny from Donnie Darko. Nicky
eric, I LOVE your last piece where you turned the portrait of a man into a monster with this head on it! I think thats so funny and well done. Also, I really like the drawing of what looks like an ally way in between buildings because you did a good job of making the picture look like its going into the page. Also, I like that you add humor and personality to your work, for example, the picture of the little boy holding the balloons. Another part of your portfolio that impressed me was the origami flower. No one else did anything like that and it makes your work stand out so much because its so different. I think your ideas are very creative and well executed! Something to work on would be maybe adding more to your pictures or adding a background instead of only drawing the main object. Also, paying attention to proportions would help you create more realistic drawings, for example, the legs in your figure drawing look a little but cut off because of their angle and proportion. Other than that GREAT job!! -Ashley
I love the playfulness of your art. The Raphael inspiration piece is great. The exaggeration really captures the character of your imagination. I'm also really drawn to your perspectives pieces. It's so detail oriented and the line work is really precise. Overall you have great ideas, but I think the illustration of your ideas needs to be enhanced by the utilization of composition. Rather than just placing your subjects within the limits of the paper, let the dimensions work for your art. Consider how the eye moves around your image; guide the eye to your focal points and use the space to flatter your subjects. The white negative space around your subjects can be too imposing and undermine your creative ideas. Maybe incorporate your awesome work with perspective with your other pieces. One more thing I feel I should mention, the piece of origami you made is really awesome. You should definitely continue incorporating that into your art work. I just wish it was presented in a better way. Nevertheless, I really think your portfolio exhibits some great ingenuity!
I really like your style of drawing because it is comical and sometimes eccentric. I do not know if that it the right word for it but it is definitely comical. You know I am of course talking about the creepy man with the smiling belly. It is amazing!
Another one that I think is kind of funny is the one with the balloons and the kid who is holding onto them. I have always wondered what it would be like to do that, you know like the movie UP.
I like your little 3D flower looking thing, too. I wish I could do that. But I wish you had made a little larger so I could really see what it was.
I also like your figure drawings. They’re not exact but I like them because they are not. I do not know how to explain it but I can see how you were not very afraid to make any mistakes. The one to the right is really good because the placement of the figure is great.
Overall, you have a great imagination and seeing your work throughout the term was always exciting because I knew I was going to laugh. Great job, Eric!
I like your creepy picture of the fat guy. He looks like he’s just having a jolly good time. Then when you added a weird body with a huge smiling belly to him it got even better. He looks like he is going to eat me alive by his belly or something. I really like the picture of the kid being pulled up into the air by balloons because it looks like that would be fun. Who wouldn’t want to be pulled up into the air by a ton of balloons? The model drawings with the charcoal are really good too because they look very accurate with the shape of the body. Very realistic.
I like our style so there isn’t much I can say that could make it look better. But I guess you could use more shades and colors in the background of your pictures because they are mostly just plain white. All of them but one, in the background is just plain white. More color or just adding some dark areas could enhance the pictures. Nice Job! --Colby
I really appreciate the playfulness of your pieces. They put a smile on my face. I really like your masterpiece assignment. It is very creepy and funny, I really like your creativity in this piece. I really like the movement captured in the balloon image, it is very childlike and fun. I also really like the piece with the tree and the clock hanging from it. It is very surreal and Dali-like, I like the shape and the abstraction used here. As a critique I think you would have benefitted from matting your pieces. Also if you were to use the whole piece of paper in developing your work it would look more exciting and finished. Most of your pieces are in the middle of the paper, and I think if you were pay more attention to the entire composition your drawing may stand out more and would be more aesthetically pleasing. I like your shagging but I think if you were to blend more in some of your work and again use the whole composition and adding some shading in the background you pieces would look more polished. I really like how you shaded the figure drawings. It is a unique approach and very pleasing to my eye. Good work making your work fun and abstract! Claire
I enjoy all the humor in your pieces! They're all very fun and creative. I really like what you did with the masterpiece assignment; you picked the part that stood out the most, the creepy smile, and emphasized it, magnified it and made it the focus, putting a very strange and interesting spin on it.
ReplyDeleteOne thing I notice is that most of your pieces are centrally focused and many are just in the middle of the paper. You could maybe play with positioning, perspective and placement. It might help you do that to try out variations in paper shape and size. Most of your pieces are relatively the same size, as well. I would try working bigger and see how that forces you to change your approach or if it gives you different ideas.
I really love your city pictures. The perspective of the street one is well done and interesting. I like the off-center focal point and the incredible detail. I would suggest maybe varying line weight and darkness to add more depth.
I like your use of materials. The charcoal works well in the figure drawings and the moon image. I like the use of erasing to create flowing lines.
One thing I would suggest would be matting. Presentation can really add to your pieces. For example, a frame around the balloons picture would emphasize the crisp ink lines and make it really pop.
Overall, very creative and energetic!
Your work is dramatic. You like to play with the subjects you are observing and the results are good. The piece that most appeals to me is the moon. Is dark and shaded. Lines running through it are livid. I would enjoy this on your work. While the figure you made are goo the feel secluded. The tree with the leaf resting on it is good but it feels plane. Lines are solid, but need some depth.
ReplyDeleteThe kid and the face in the body display joy in them, just like a ream like state. there is something interesting about your lines they dont run straight from point A to point B. they have form that moves through the image. is a great quality that guides the eye.
My on suggestion would be to do more shading play with perspectives.I think some would go a long ways with your work. Good Job!!
I like the playfulness of some of the work. Your rendition of the master piece is so funny and so creepy at the same time. The kid floating away with the balloons is great. I really like the strange crescent headed person wandering through the lines. It makes me think the creature is tiny and wandering through a field of grass in the night. Really cool. I think it's interesting that you are the only person to draw on something that is three dimensional. The one criticism I would give is that some of the drawings feel unfinished. I would have liked to see the figures placed in a location instead of floating in space. The same goes for a few others. It is a little unsettling to have an image just dangling in the middle of nowhere on the page.
ReplyDeleteI really enjoy how out there your work is. You made things that I wouldn’t even dream of. I am particularly drawn to the image of the guy with the smile on his stomach. It’s such a crazy concept and you made it work really well! I also love the piece right net to it. It reminds me of The Matrix, as if all the buildings and lines were made out of code. The perspective works great on that piece and the composition is also great. I also very much like the balloons and the melting clock. I think the work with the clock could have been improved a bit with some cropping and some matting. Overall I think most of your pieces could use some matting to bring them out more. I think there’s a bit room for improvement on the figure drawing and some of the proportions. The measuring techniques could help improve these works. I also think some of your works could be shaded a bit more. Kind of like the man with the smile on the belly. I think that one is really well shaded and if some of your other works could have been shaded in a similar manner they would have drawn more attention. =)
ReplyDeleteGreat job! I kind of wish I could have that matrix-looking picture.
-Valeria
Eric,
ReplyDeleteYour work is so fun and unique. I love the movement of your pieces. It is loose and free. By far, my favorite work of yours is of the buildings in the city. So lovely! It reminds me of Van Gough. I would love to see it enlarged, in ink, or in color. You balloons were also another favorite of mine. You have a way of taking a very simple subject and making it incredibly interesting. You see simple everyday objects much different than most people. I would like to see you step away from this style in a piece. You have it well developed and it may be interesting for you to try something more realistic- more detailed- more exact. Not to say that you should stick with it, but it may help you gain confidence in other areas of drawing, painting. Your work makes me feel slightly uncomfortable and I love that about it.
Really nice job.
-Becca
Eric,
ReplyDeleteYour have a looseness in your work that I am really attracted to. By looseness I mean that you neither get too caught of portraying your subject matters in an exact way nor do you allow yourself to completely stray from the reality of them either.
One of the best examples of this, and one of my favorite images is that of the city scape. This images uses a freeness of line along with an awesome perspective right below the horizon line that allows the viewer to feel maybe a story below looking up out at the city.
On the other hand, the one image that strays from this usual looseness is in the other image of the city. I like this image as well, but for opposite reasons. This piece is very restricted and controlled unlike the others, which I enjoy, but which that the perspective lines and point were lighter or faded away so it was not so obvious that this was the manner in which the image was made, and then the buildings could speak.
Furthermore, I really enjoy the satire that you allow to come out in your work, it adds to your images and creates another level to you work. You also worked well with shading with pencil and creating moods with charcoal.
I do however, wish that your moon-man piece had a stronger tonal range, darker darks mainly, just because I think it would be beneficial in the leaves. Furthermore, matting always creates a different kind of presentation environment.
Otherwise great job, I really enjoyed seeing your work throughout the term.
Jasmine
I really enjoyed your constant experimentation of different styles and moods with each piece. Your perspective of the alley is very captivating with it's long lines in the alley that just end at a certain point, as if it never ends. It seems as if to be never ending, and very daunting to look down. Your figure drawing of the female on the stool is so perfect in showing off her feminine curves, and yet how rigid and restricted she is to this stool. I obviously love the humorous sarcasm of the Rembrandt piece and how ridiculous it is at the same time. Along side that humor being the ink piece of the kid being carried away by the balloons is a very fun and cartoony depiction of the ridiculous possibility of a ton of balloons simply carrying one off in to space.
ReplyDeletemaybe try to work with your ink a little more on making different shades to help further depict the mood of a situations at hand. Try to do some figure drawing from a different angle than that of behind the subject and push yourself to feel different perspectives of how to depict the body. I also feel like the Dali impersonation needs some ants crawling out of a random spot on the paper to fully give it an essential Dali perspective. All over though your work was extremely fascinating and fun to look at.
I think the way that you experiment with everything and take the realistic and make it abstract is so cool. As I pointed out in class I really like your remake picture, and how you took that portrait and made it what no one would ever expect. I also really like your ink drawings. The lines are so think dark and even it makes for a crisp refreshing feeling. I think that the creative things that you come up with are captivating and cool like the guy with the moon head the way you use the darks and the lights swirling around him show a type of rage or something like it. Your perspective is also very cool and well done the proportions are very well done. The origami is also a very cool touch. I think that my one critique is I would like to see a couple more realistic pieces. This would show more of the range of your work. Overall great job!
ReplyDeleteI have two favorite pieces from your work and they are the big guy with the mouth in his stomach and the painting of the kid flying up in the sky on the balloons. The picture of the kid flying up in the sky on balloons is awesome because of how free spirited it looks. It looks like you were just painting and were having fun with it and it turned out to be a great piece. The picture of the guy with the mouth in his stomach is really creative and abstract. I just can’t stop looking at it, so that was a great piece.
ReplyDeleteIn your landscape pictures, I would recommend using darker lines to emphasize specific parts of your drawings because of how lightly drawn they are. I would also recommend matting your pieces because the presentation doesn’t look professional from the start. That would help a lot. Overall your work this term was good and I enjoyed looking at them
Eric,
ReplyDeleteI like how different your work is. There is a certain free-ness to your pieces that doesn't take away from their overall effect. What I mean is that it doesn't make them look sloppy or immature, it makes them look really abstract and fun. I especially like the guy with the mouth for his belly. I really like the imagination in your pieces. It really draws me to them and makes me wish there were more to look at! Some critiques would be to pay more attention to the constraints of your paper and use that to your advantage instead of disadvantage. Pay attention to the white space in your pieces and the composition. It would really add to the overall lightness of your work. Also pay attention to how light and dark interplay in your subjects.
Overall your work is really unique and fun to look it. They are "take me back to my childhood" sort of pieces.
-Joanna Dahl
I like how most of your drawing have meaning or humor behind them. I really like the simplicity of the drawing with the clock hanging form the tree branch. It cool how u transformed two objects as simple as a tree with one branch, and a clock to make it look completely different. Another drawing I like where you make something simple look very interesting is the one of the alleyway, or just a road with tall buildings on both sides. The entire picture; from the road to the walls seem to be fading into the distance. I think that if the walls were symmetric on both sides, or the view was from the middle of the alley, the warping effect toward the end of the path would be even more effective. Also I like is the drawing of the man with the long hair, (I can’t believe I forgot his name). In this though, I think that your copied version looks a little too simple and a little disproportional. But I think that your recreation of it looks much better. The face on his stomach reminds me of a humorous but dark theme. I also think that it looks like the bunny from Donnie Darko.
ReplyDeleteNicky
eric,
ReplyDeleteI LOVE your last piece where you turned the portrait of a man into a monster with this head on it! I think thats so funny and well done. Also, I really like the drawing of what looks like an ally way in between buildings because you did a good job of making the picture look like its going into the page. Also, I like that you add humor and personality to your work, for example, the picture of the little boy holding the balloons. Another part of your portfolio that impressed me was the origami flower. No one else did anything like that and it makes your work stand out so much because its so different. I think your ideas are very creative and well executed!
Something to work on would be maybe adding more to your pictures or adding a background instead of only drawing the main object. Also, paying attention to proportions would help you create more realistic drawings, for example, the legs in your figure drawing look a little but cut off because of their angle and proportion. Other than that GREAT job!!
-Ashley
I love the playfulness of your art. The Raphael inspiration piece is great. The exaggeration really captures the character of your imagination. I'm also really drawn to your perspectives pieces. It's so detail oriented and the line work is really precise. Overall you have great ideas, but I think the illustration of your ideas needs to be enhanced by the utilization of composition. Rather than just placing your subjects within the limits of the paper, let the dimensions work for your art. Consider how the eye moves around your image; guide the eye to your focal points and use the space to flatter your subjects. The white negative space around your subjects can be too imposing and undermine your creative ideas. Maybe incorporate your awesome work with perspective with your other pieces. One more thing I feel I should mention, the piece of origami you made is really awesome. You should definitely continue incorporating that into your art work. I just wish it was presented in a better way. Nevertheless, I really think your portfolio exhibits some great ingenuity!
ReplyDeleteI really like your style of drawing because it is comical and sometimes eccentric. I do not know if that it the right word for it but it is definitely comical. You know I am of course talking about the creepy man with the smiling belly. It is amazing!
ReplyDeleteAnother one that I think is kind of funny is the one with the balloons and the kid who is holding onto them. I have always wondered what it would be like to do that, you know like the movie UP.
I like your little 3D flower looking thing, too. I wish I could do that. But I wish you had made a little larger so I could really see what it was.
I also like your figure drawings. They’re not exact but I like them because they are not. I do not know how to explain it but I can see how you were not very afraid to make any mistakes. The one to the right is really good because the placement of the figure is great.
Overall, you have a great imagination and seeing your work throughout the term was always exciting because I knew I was going to laugh. Great job, Eric!
I like your creepy picture of the fat guy. He looks like he’s just having a jolly good time. Then when you added a weird body with a huge smiling belly to him it got even better. He looks like he is going to eat me alive by his belly or something. I really like the picture of the kid being pulled up into the air by balloons because it looks like that would be fun. Who wouldn’t want to be pulled up into the air by a ton of balloons? The model drawings with the charcoal are really good too because they look very accurate with the shape of the body. Very realistic.
ReplyDeleteI like our style so there isn’t much I can say that could make it look better. But I guess you could use more shades and colors in the background of your pictures because they are mostly just plain white. All of them but one, in the background is just plain white. More color or just adding some dark areas could enhance the pictures. Nice Job!
--Colby
I really appreciate the playfulness of your pieces. They put a smile on my face. I really like your masterpiece assignment. It is very creepy and funny, I really like your creativity in this piece. I really like the movement captured in the balloon image, it is very childlike and fun. I also really like the piece with the tree and the clock hanging from it. It is very surreal and Dali-like, I like the shape and the abstraction used here. As a critique I think you would have benefitted from matting your pieces. Also if you were to use the whole piece of paper in developing your work it would look more exciting and finished. Most of your pieces are in the middle of the paper, and I think if you were pay more attention to the entire composition your drawing may stand out more and would be more aesthetically pleasing. I like your shagging but I think if you were to blend more in some of your work and again use the whole composition and adding some shading in the background you pieces would look more polished. I really like how you shaded the figure drawings. It is a unique approach and very pleasing to my eye. Good work making your work fun and abstract!
ReplyDeleteClaire