High level or creativity, your drawings have images within. The long horizontal pose with the faces sketched into the skin are very creative. The fact that it is the single image is very good composition. The detail on all of the drawings is incredible, more so on the pose on the chair. Very accurate and the detail includes textures from figure. The variety of work is a good appeal. Textures and details change with each drawing. The morph with different perspectives. with out loosing original shape. Things that I would consider are drawing landscapes and more story telling. The evolution of key story board is fun. Als, some sharp lines into your drawings. Work with bold lines.
Your work blows me away. You do an amazing job with shading and using light and dark values to literally make the drawings pop out of the page. Your work is very realistic and the amount of time and energy (from what it looks like) is above and beyond. Each piece has its own personality and character, and is different from every other piece. I look up to your artistic abilities and think you are very talented. I think your composition and presentation of each work is very strong and professional, with straight edges and nicely matted. Also, I like how you draw realistic things, as well as abstract drawings. Your abstract drawings are done in a way that the audience can use their imagination to come up with what they think is being depicted, rather than just looking at shapes and lines. You did a nice job of incorporating another color into multiple works to add a unique element to your portfolio and set it aside from everyone else’s. I think one thing you can work on is maybe darkening lines in various works to make the works show better from a distance. Honestly, I have no other critique than that because I think you did a fabulous job! -Ashley
Your drawings are very impressive. Each drawing is professionally mounted, which makes each one really look like a final composition. I really like the drawing on the top right, of the skull with the wave thing in the bottom of the frame. I think the wave makes it look like the skull is coming out of the page, while the wave fades into the distance. One critique I have for it is that the leaves with roots in them, which surround the skull, could be a little bigger, to make the skull and leaves more emphasized over the wave. I also really like the picture on the top left, with all the eyes. It is really interesting how some of the eyes are more apparent than others. I also really like the symmetry of the drawing. Though I really like the shading, I think it would look much more dramatic with a gradual color change, but keep the middle extremely dark. My favorite picture is the one of the woman with all the faces over her body, lying down. It is so cool how you can see the faces on her skin, while also being able to distinguish her physical features. Nicky
I absolutely love your style. I spent the entire term looking at your work wondering if I’ll ever be able to do the stuff you can do. Trying to pick a favorite piece from your portfolio is near impossible. They’re all pretty great. If I had to pick one... I’d say the drawing with the very dark center and the abstract eyes is the winner. I just love the contrast, the shading, the composition. Everything about this piece works great. (I wish I could hang it on my wall.) I also enjoyed your key drawings. They’re all so precise and detailed.
I’ve been trying to think of criticisms, or areas of improvement but I am drawing a blank. I think I just like your work too much. Your portfolio was my favorite. I think the only criticism I have would be on the top right-hand side picture (the one with black and sepia? charcoal) The black part of the drawing is very detailed, the outline of the white space makes it look very clean. I think if you had done something like that to the sepia part of the drawing it would have made it pop a bit more. Just tracing the white space would have also made it more consistent in relationship to the black portion of the piece.
Good lord lady you can draw... I truly enjoy your style. It is very unique. I like how you mixed the mediums to get the final look that you want. The work shines and is something to be proud of. The one criticism I would give deals with the mounting of the drawings. Your work is so beautiful it deserves to be properly shown. The brown paper behind seems lesser compared to the quality of your drawings. I know that getting enough mat board is costly and putting the work onto the board is a real pain in the ass, but your work really deserves it. Very nice work.
So, as stated many times prior to my statement you clearly have the ability to draw whatever you set your mind to, and you are able to do this with nearly any medium one puts before you. You were able to master ink, pen, pencil, charcoal, the whole shebang really, which is awesome.
I personally am more attracted to your real life images or those which stray from your ambient drawings. Those those are extremely desirable by many, I truly love your ability to utilize your medium to capture reality. Your best abilities are those that pertain to reiterating your surroundings. For example, you are amble to draw the persons as they are, literally, while your ambient forms seem to ooze emotion.
Equally you are completely aware of lighting and the way in which it plays off of your subjects, which is clear in the image of the woman sitting. I love your use of varying colors and mediums obtaining both a very controlled image with a little room for spontaneity. My favorite image is that of the skull and the fly. there is something about its simplicity and lack there of immense attention to detail that allows one to get lost in the blankness of the page.
However, there are always areas for improvement, and what I truly long to see is the emotion of your ambient images in the images of your figures. i feel that the figures are just irriterations while the varying images of forms really say something to the viewer. they are full of angst and feeling, darkness sometimes that truly grab the audience and say"pay attention to me".
Furthermore, the way in which you meshed the woman figure with the mans face through out her body is awesome, and I think if you added to your backgrounds of your other figures this would also add something, an awesome element to your work. Though I truly adore the cleanness of your images, I think it be awesome to see you experiment with some chaos and control in the same image.
Overall your work is awesome and powerful, and really what more could you want than work that gushes feeling one way or another?
Roxie, Your pieces have so much depth to them. I can really feel all of the emotion that went into them and I feel like you have the talent of making your work speak to people. Definitely use that! I really like the way you bring in light to the dark places of your pieces, I think that's something that I struggle with. I also really admire the smoothness and consistency of your work. It really adds to the realistic qualities of the pieces, even if they're abstract and imaginative. Some critiques would be to add some craziness to some of the pieces. Your work is very clean, even in the chaos of some of the more abstract pieces there is a certain order, so it would be cool to see some random, dirty, chaos in some of the backgrounds. Also to loosen up the feel of some of them would add to the authenticity of your pieces. You're an incredible artist! -Joanna Dahl
Roxie Your work is incredible! Every piece you have has a unique and different style to it. None of your pieces can be compared to another. I enjoy the realisticness of your work. With the realness also comes abstractness also. I like how you are able to use extreme darks and lights with out losing detail. Like in your eye piece. You also do this in your keys piece. The keys are so amazingly detailed and the way they are presented is incredible. I don’t think I would think of something like that in my wildest dreams. Your figure drawings are amazing also. The amount of shading and how you shade makes it seem as though I am actually looking at a person. I really enjoy your figure with all the different faces in the body. It’s such a cool creative way to draw a person. I feel my favorite piece, and the one I am most drawn to, is the abstract face like thing with the splat kind of like a fly. I’m not to sure what it is but I like the spookiness of it. It to me also gives off a strange emptiness that is captivating to me. I think all in all this is a beautiful collection of creations. Good job!
I love your work. It feels very modern and unique. The graffiti, warped, round style is the most attractive to me. It is so intriguing and I could stare at it forever. I was impressed to see your figure drawings. They are in a much different style compared to your previous pieces. They are very lifelike and I enjoy the added color to the faces. You know when and where to add detail/color, as well as when to leave the excess out. Though I love the simplicity of your work, I would like to see you do a very detailed piece. I think you could benefit from doing a complex landscape- with varied layers and densities. Maybe adding some brighter color. I like when you incorporate the brown hues, but what about a blue? red? etc. It could turn out beautiful. I hope you get to take another art class because with each piece you did in this class, I could see your creativity blooming.
Your work is freaking awesome! I think you should be a professional artist or something because this is some of the coolest pieces of art I’ve seen. I liked all of your pieces but if I had to pick a few, I liked the keys the best because they look so realistic. They honestly look like you can just pick them up. I have no idea how you shaded it that well to make it look so realistic. It some of the pictures from that piece look like they could just be photographs. My second favorite was the one that goes from very dark in the center then fades out but it has all sort of really cool designs in it too. This one is amazing. I want to take it! I don’t know how you did this one or came up with it but it is really cool. It looks sort of like an eye.
I don’t really have anything to say that would help you. By looking at our work side by side, me critiquing you would be like me trying to give tips to a major league baseball player and I am still in little league. What I say would probably just go in one ear and out the other. Your work is amazing and I think if you just keep doing what you’re doing then others will feel the same as I do. Colby
Roxie, your pieces are truly amazing, detailed, realistic, abstract, creative, and intriguing. You're very talented! You have a very distinct style, yet all your pieces are so different from each other as well. I love your use of every medium in a variety of ways as well as your variety of shapes and sizes of your work. You display a great depth of skill as well as breath. I love that you can create such soft images as well as sharp, hard lines. I love your ink piece; it reminds me of a cow skull and flies. It really comes to life, as all your pieces do. I'm not sure, however, about your use of ink in the vertical piece with the deer at the bottom. The ink element doesn't seem congruent with the rest of the piece to me. Maybe if you had extended it further, cropped it closer or used darker values with the ink it would seem to fit better. I love how you capture humans. It's so life-like while being a little bit abstracted at the same time. Your range of values is wonderful in capturing all the little pockets where light collects or misses. It's very intense. You put a lot of emotion into it. I have one thing to say, however, about your figure in a setting. I think you made her much more sharp and austere than she actually was. I didn't see her expression from that angle, but her facial features seem much rounder and softer to me. If that was what you were going for, though, VERY good job! One last criticism I have is that I'm not completely sure what's going on in your key story. It's very creative in the way you display it, the angles, the different ways you render the keys, and the positioning and matting. But I don't know what the point is. Is it just that the keys are being shaken, jingled? Or is there something else going on? It's very dramatic, but I can't tell why. Overall, very VERY impressive work. You have stunned me all term! Your work is beautiful, technically impressive AND full of life. Truly amazing.
All of your work whether it be abstract, realistic, or anything in between is quite amazing. The main works that stood out most to me were: the figure drawing of the woman with brown ink, the one right next to it of the girl all dressed up and looks like she is in a cave opening, the very first picture of the charcoal design, and the figure drawing where you gave the subject "tattoos". everything is so technically perfect in every sense, and the ink abstract piece is even just ridiculous in the your overall ability to grasp the idea of something and fully express it on paper. Every medium you worked with and every style you went for just is so captivating. It is quite obvious that art is your bread and butter in life. Some day when you're a world famous artist I will be that dude saying, "Yeah we were totally friends in college." Kidding but yes fantastic job! Wow well I am not going to lie that the whole 3 critiques is beyond hard, but here it goes at a feeble attempt. On the unfinished flower it is a little difficult to tell if you just left it that way and planned on finishing it later or if that is the whole point of that shading part being shaded due to sun light. This may be my own getter mind but the abstract of the ink looks like two dragonflies next to male genitalia as if to imply the dragonflies heightened sense of sexuality due to mating or if I see the genitals out of my constant ability of "sexualizing" everything. Lastly I would add that you shading is not completely 100% perfect in the most minute details.
It has been a pleasure of mine to look at your work this year. Your work is incredible and I wish my work could resemble some of yours. Your attention to detail in your pictures amazes me, and so does your range of styles. You have a realistic side to your work where everything really resembles what the subject originally was, while there are also pictures that are abstract or have a unique style about them, which is intriguing. Your presentation is very professional, and I really like your use of different mediums within certain pictures and just throughout the portfolio as a whole. I really enjoyed your key storyboard, and the different ways you showed the keys as the storyboard continued. I also really like how you chose to present them, in a curving motion. That was very unique. As a whole, I can’t think of many critiques because your work is so much better than mine, and I just hope you keep going with drawing. Great work this term, your work is awesome!
The first thing that my eye was drawn to was, well pretty much everything. The style of your work is so unpredictable. I never know what I will see next and that is your style right there. I mean, on of the very first things you had done this term was the eyeball kind of thing. That is absolutely incredible and I would seriously buy that from you. Your use of shading and your ability to keep the rest of the paper crisp and clean is remarkable.
The same goes for the figure drawing. I actually was behind you that day in class and I sat there for about ten minutes watching you draw. I could not believe what your hand could do with your work.
Below that drawing to the right is so awesome. I couldn’t tell that it was person at the rock-climbing wall but I love how there is mystery to it. I’m glad that you kept it that way and left the white space in the background.
Oh and another piece that I would pay for is the piece with the keys. It’s uhhhhmazing.
I will end here because if I keep going I will just keep rambling about how amazing of an artist you are.
There will always be people who's work i will look at, then look down at mine, and look back up at with a longing eye thinking how the hell did she do that. And you are one of those people. I will never cease to be awed by the crazy abstract realism you create. What i mean by this is that you are able to take extremely interesting abstract shapes and render them so well that they become realistic and believable. This is a style that i really enjoy. However your still life and observation drawings are just as detailed and realistic (the keys!). Along with that, the proportions/details on your figure drawings are excellent. Especially the detail in your gesture drawings, how you do that in thirty seconds is beyond me, ill have to ask for pointers the next time i see you... In conclusion to this rant i love your style and could see your pieces easily in a gallery (skull with what i see as almost flies, especially). One thing i would like to see is for you to try something on a bigger scale like a landscape, or try to create a city-scape with buildings from your imagination. I think it could be awesome! Keep doing what you do!
I am very impressed with your work. It is extremely creative and you have a very strong personal style. Your abstract pieces draw you in and completely envelop the viewer in the moment. You create an experience. You key storyboard is my favorite. The framing and connection of frame to frame is very nice. The way you crop from one image to the next and change the viewpoint is extremely effective. I also really enjoy the way you move from traditional rectangular compositions to various other geometric shapes add to the velocity and movement of this piece. I like the shading and line on the rock climber but without additional back ground details, it’s awkward for me. The placement of the body and the position make sense when you understand the context but with out a rope or the rock climbing wall it makes me uneasy to look at. I like the simplicity of the face and bug ink composition but there is a bit too much white space on the right hand side. I’d like to see the bug pop out more. It is beautiful but gets overshadowed by the dark abyss of the face. I LOVE your feather piece. The details are so delicate and the way it moves from the bottom right to the top is gorgeous. The line up the middle of the feather is beautiful. I love you details and personal style. Great work Roxie! It’s all beautiful.
Roxie- The most impressive aspect of your portfolio is the variety of style. Your ability to switch back and forth from reality to abstraction is really impressive. This is evident with your storyboard assignment, where you started super realistic and faded into the form and movement of the keys. The composition of your storyboard is really well put together, the one thing I would add would be a solid matting to finish it off. Maybe, if the panels behind were a gray or black tone it could help distinguish the drawings from the background, especially when it’s viewed from a distance. Overall your portfolio is really nice, I especially like your abstract charcoal and ink drawings. The one with the black hole in the center and the more linear one with a similar style show great control of the charcoal. The balance of white to dark and the detailed use of your eraser make those two very eye-catching. One thing I would like to see from you is experimentation larger scale, your compositions are great, but I think amped up size would give your work greater visual appeal. Also, I really liked the one where you used both ink and pen, the ink is very free while the pen work is much more crisp and detailed. Overall your portfolio shows a lot of creativity.
Let me just say that from our very first critique I was very intrigued by your work. I love your style because you have the accuracy and the abstract down and how you combine the two in your work is amazing. I am so impressed by your key drawing because I struggle with drawing accurately and I was just blown away how precise and crisp these pieces look. I also love how many of your pieces have a psychedelic-esque feel, like your fiqure drawing where you colored her body in with a pattern. I also love your skull piece! Your use of the composition if awesome and I love your use of ink, I think this may be the only ink drawing of your on here but I love it. You have done amazing work with all the different mediums we worked with in class, and I love how you incorporated the colored pencil into some of your pieces. I love the piece of the man’s head I, it is different and abstract yet so accurate. You have amazing style and all of your pieces stand out to me. The only critique I have is that I would have liked to see you frame your images differently with different colors and sizes to better fit the context of your images. Great job Roxie, your work is truly amazing!
High level or creativity, your drawings have images within. The long horizontal pose with the faces sketched into the skin are very creative. The fact that it is the single image is very good composition.
ReplyDeleteThe detail on all of the drawings is incredible, more so on the pose on the chair. Very accurate and the detail includes textures from figure.
The variety of work is a good appeal. Textures and details change with each drawing. The morph with different perspectives. with out loosing original shape.
Things that I would consider are drawing landscapes and more story telling. The evolution of key story board is fun. Als, some sharp lines into your drawings. Work with bold lines.
Your work blows me away. You do an amazing job with shading and using light and dark values to literally make the drawings pop out of the page. Your work is very realistic and the amount of time and energy (from what it looks like) is above and beyond. Each piece has its own personality and character, and is different from every other piece. I look up to your artistic abilities and think you are very talented.
ReplyDeleteI think your composition and presentation of each work is very strong and professional, with straight edges and nicely matted. Also, I like how you draw realistic things, as well as abstract drawings. Your abstract drawings are done in a way that the audience can use their imagination to come up with what they think is being depicted, rather than just looking at shapes and lines. You did a nice job of incorporating another color into multiple works to add a unique element to your portfolio and set it aside from everyone else’s. I think one thing you can work on is maybe darkening lines in various works to make the works show better from a distance. Honestly, I have no other critique than that because I think you did a fabulous job!
-Ashley
Your drawings are very impressive. Each drawing is professionally mounted, which makes each one really look like a final composition. I really like the drawing on the top right, of the skull with the wave thing in the bottom of the frame. I think the wave makes it look like the skull is coming out of the page, while the wave fades into the distance. One critique I have for it is that the leaves with roots in them, which surround the skull, could be a little bigger, to make the skull and leaves more emphasized over the wave. I also really like the picture on the top left, with all the eyes. It is really interesting how some of the eyes are more apparent than others. I also really like the symmetry of the drawing. Though I really like the shading, I think it would look much more dramatic with a gradual color change, but keep the middle extremely dark. My favorite picture is the one of the woman with all the faces over her body, lying down. It is so cool how you can see the faces on her skin, while also being able to distinguish her physical features.
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I absolutely love your style. I spent the entire term looking at your work wondering if I’ll ever be able to do the stuff you can do. Trying to pick a favorite piece from your portfolio is near impossible. They’re all pretty great. If I had to pick one... I’d say the drawing with the very dark center and the abstract eyes is the winner. I just love the contrast, the shading, the composition. Everything about this piece works great. (I wish I could hang it on my wall.) I also enjoyed your key drawings. They’re all so precise and detailed.
ReplyDeleteI’ve been trying to think of criticisms, or areas of improvement but I am drawing a blank. I think I just like your work too much. Your portfolio was my favorite. I think the only criticism I have would be on the top right-hand side picture (the one with black and sepia? charcoal) The black part of the drawing is very detailed, the outline of the white space makes it look very clean. I think if you had done something like that to the sepia part of the drawing it would have made it pop a bit more. Just tracing the white space would have also made it more consistent in relationship to the black portion of the piece.
Great work this term!
-Valeria
Good lord lady you can draw... I truly enjoy your style. It is very unique. I like how you mixed the mediums to get the final look that you want. The work shines and is something to be proud of. The one criticism I would give deals with the mounting of the drawings. Your work is so beautiful it deserves to be properly shown. The brown paper behind seems lesser compared to the quality of your drawings. I know that getting enough mat board is costly and putting the work onto the board is a real pain in the ass, but your work really deserves it. Very nice work.
ReplyDeleteRoxie,
ReplyDeleteSo, as stated many times prior to my statement you clearly have the ability to draw whatever you set your mind to, and you are able to do this with nearly any medium one puts before you. You were able to master ink, pen, pencil, charcoal, the whole shebang really, which is awesome.
I personally am more attracted to your real life images or those which stray from your ambient drawings. Those those are extremely desirable by many, I truly love your ability to utilize your medium to capture reality. Your best abilities are those that pertain to reiterating your surroundings. For example, you are amble to draw the persons as they are, literally, while your ambient forms seem to ooze emotion.
Equally you are completely aware of lighting and the way in which it plays off of your subjects, which is clear in the image of the woman sitting. I love your use of varying colors and mediums obtaining both a very controlled image with a little room for spontaneity. My favorite image is that of the skull and the fly. there is something about its simplicity and lack there of immense attention to detail that allows one to get lost in the blankness of the page.
However, there are always areas for improvement, and what I truly long to see is the emotion of your ambient images in the images of your figures. i feel that the figures are just irriterations while the varying images of forms really say something to the viewer. they are full of angst and feeling, darkness sometimes that truly grab the audience and say"pay attention to me".
Furthermore, the way in which you meshed the woman figure with the mans face through out her body is awesome, and I think if you added to your backgrounds of your other figures this would also add something, an awesome element to your work. Though I truly adore the cleanness of your images, I think it be awesome to see you experiment with some chaos and control in the same image.
Overall your work is awesome and powerful, and really what more could you want than work that gushes feeling one way or another?
Jasmine
Roxie,
ReplyDeleteYour pieces have so much depth to them. I can really feel all of the emotion that went into them and I feel like you have the talent of making your work speak to people. Definitely use that! I really like the way you bring in light to the dark places of your pieces, I think that's something that I struggle with. I also really admire the smoothness and consistency of your work. It really adds to the realistic qualities of the pieces, even if they're abstract and imaginative.
Some critiques would be to add some craziness to some of the pieces. Your work is very clean, even in the chaos of some of the more abstract pieces there is a certain order, so it would be cool to see some random, dirty, chaos in some of the backgrounds. Also to loosen up the feel of some of them would add to the authenticity of your pieces.
You're an incredible artist!
-Joanna Dahl
Roxie
ReplyDeleteYour work is incredible! Every piece you have has a unique and different style to it. None of your pieces can be compared to another. I enjoy the realisticness of your work. With the realness also comes abstractness also. I like how you are able to use extreme darks and lights with out losing detail. Like in your eye piece. You also do this in your keys piece. The keys are so amazingly detailed and the way they are presented is incredible. I don’t think I would think of something like that in my wildest dreams. Your figure drawings are amazing also. The amount of shading and how you shade makes it seem as though I am actually looking at a person. I really enjoy your figure with all the different faces in the body. It’s such a cool creative way to draw a person. I feel my favorite piece, and the one I am most drawn to, is the abstract face like thing with the splat kind of like a fly. I’m not to sure what it is but I like the spookiness of it. It to me also gives off a strange emptiness that is captivating to me. I think all in all this is a beautiful collection of creations. Good job!
Roxie,
ReplyDeleteI love your work. It feels very modern and unique. The graffiti, warped, round style is the most attractive to me. It is so intriguing and I could stare at it forever. I was impressed to see your figure drawings. They are in a much different style compared to your previous pieces. They are very lifelike and I enjoy the added color to the faces. You know when and where to add detail/color, as well as when to leave the excess out. Though I love the simplicity of your work, I would like to see you do a very detailed piece. I think you could benefit from doing a complex landscape- with varied layers and densities. Maybe adding some brighter color. I like when you incorporate the brown hues, but what about a blue? red? etc. It could turn out beautiful. I hope you get to take another art class because with each piece you did in this class, I could see your creativity blooming.
Beautiful work!
-Becca
Your work is freaking awesome! I think you should be a professional artist or something because this is some of the coolest pieces of art I’ve seen. I liked all of your pieces but if I had to pick a few, I liked the keys the best because they look so realistic. They honestly look like you can just pick them up. I have no idea how you shaded it that well to make it look so realistic. It some of the pictures from that piece look like they could just be photographs. My second favorite was the one that goes from very dark in the center then fades out but it has all sort of really cool designs in it too. This one is amazing. I want to take it! I don’t know how you did this one or came up with it but it is really cool. It looks sort of like an eye.
ReplyDeleteI don’t really have anything to say that would help you. By looking at our work side by side, me critiquing you would be like me trying to give tips to a major league baseball player and I am still in little league. What I say would probably just go in one ear and out the other. Your work is amazing and I think if you just keep doing what you’re doing then others will feel the same as I do.
Colby
Roxie, your pieces are truly amazing, detailed, realistic, abstract, creative, and intriguing. You're very talented! You have a very distinct style, yet all your pieces are so different from each other as well.
ReplyDeleteI love your use of every medium in a variety of ways as well as your variety of shapes and sizes of your work. You display a great depth of skill as well as breath. I love that you can create such soft images as well as sharp, hard lines. I love your ink piece; it reminds me of a cow skull and flies. It really comes to life, as all your pieces do. I'm not sure, however, about your use of ink in the vertical piece with the deer at the bottom. The ink element doesn't seem congruent with the rest of the piece to me. Maybe if you had extended it further, cropped it closer or used darker values with the ink it would seem to fit better.
I love how you capture humans. It's so life-like while being a little bit abstracted at the same time. Your range of values is wonderful in capturing all the little pockets where light collects or misses. It's very intense. You put a lot of emotion into it. I have one thing to say, however, about your figure in a setting. I think you made her much more sharp and austere than she actually was. I didn't see her expression from that angle, but her facial features seem much rounder and softer to me. If that was what you were going for, though, VERY good job!
One last criticism I have is that I'm not completely sure what's going on in your key story. It's very creative in the way you display it, the angles, the different ways you render the keys, and the positioning and matting. But I don't know what the point is. Is it just that the keys are being shaken, jingled? Or is there something else going on? It's very dramatic, but I can't tell why.
Overall, very VERY impressive work. You have stunned me all term! Your work is beautiful, technically impressive AND full of life. Truly amazing.
All of your work whether it be abstract, realistic, or anything in between is quite amazing. The main works that stood out most to me were: the figure drawing of the woman with brown ink, the one right next to it of the girl all dressed up and looks like she is in a cave opening, the very first picture of the charcoal design, and the figure drawing where you gave the subject "tattoos". everything is so technically perfect in every sense, and the ink abstract piece is even just ridiculous in the your overall ability to grasp the idea of something and fully express it on paper. Every medium you worked with and every style you went for just is so captivating. It is quite obvious that art is your bread and butter in life. Some day when you're a world famous artist I will be that dude saying, "Yeah we were totally friends in college." Kidding but yes fantastic job!
ReplyDeleteWow well I am not going to lie that the whole 3 critiques is beyond hard, but here it goes at a feeble attempt. On the unfinished flower it is a little difficult to tell if you just left it that way and planned on finishing it later or if that is the whole point of that shading part being shaded due to sun light. This may be my own getter mind but the abstract of the ink looks like two dragonflies next to male genitalia as if to imply the dragonflies heightened sense of sexuality due to mating or if I see the genitals out of my constant ability of "sexualizing" everything. Lastly I would add that you shading is not completely 100% perfect in the most minute details.
It has been a pleasure of mine to look at your work this year. Your work is incredible and I wish my work could resemble some of yours. Your attention to detail in your pictures amazes me, and so does your range of styles. You have a realistic side to your work where everything really resembles what the subject originally was, while there are also pictures that are abstract or have a unique style about them, which is intriguing. Your presentation is very professional, and I really like your use of different mediums within certain pictures and just throughout the portfolio as a whole.
ReplyDeleteI really enjoyed your key storyboard, and the different ways you showed the keys as the storyboard continued. I also really like how you chose to present them, in a curving motion. That was very unique. As a whole, I can’t think of many critiques because your work is so much better than mine, and I just hope you keep going with drawing. Great work this term, your work is awesome!
I am really jealous of your work.
ReplyDeleteThe first thing that my eye was drawn to was, well pretty much everything. The style of your work is so unpredictable. I never know what I will see next and that is your style right there. I mean, on of the very first things you had done this term was the eyeball kind of thing. That is absolutely incredible and I would seriously buy that from you. Your use of shading and your ability to keep the rest of the paper crisp and clean is remarkable.
The same goes for the figure drawing. I actually was behind you that day in class and I sat there for about ten minutes watching you draw. I could not believe what your hand could do with your work.
Below that drawing to the right is so awesome. I couldn’t tell that it was person at the rock-climbing wall but I love how there is mystery to it. I’m glad that you kept it that way and left the white space in the background.
Oh and another piece that I would pay for is the piece with the keys. It’s uhhhhmazing.
I will end here because if I keep going I will just keep rambling about how amazing of an artist you are.
There will always be people who's work i will look at, then look down at mine, and look back up at with a longing eye thinking how the hell did she do that. And you are one of those people. I will never cease to be awed by the crazy abstract realism you create. What i mean by this is that you are able to take extremely interesting abstract shapes and render them so well that they become realistic and believable. This is a style that i really enjoy. However your still life and observation drawings are just as detailed and realistic (the keys!). Along with that, the proportions/details on your figure drawings are excellent. Especially the detail in your gesture drawings, how you do that in thirty seconds is beyond me, ill have to ask for pointers the next time i see you... In conclusion to this rant i love your style and could see your pieces easily in a gallery (skull with what i see as almost flies, especially). One thing i would like to see is for you to try something on a bigger scale like a landscape, or try to create a city-scape with buildings from your imagination. I think it could be awesome! Keep doing what you do!
ReplyDeleteI am very impressed with your work. It is extremely creative and you have a very strong personal style. Your abstract pieces draw you in and completely envelop the viewer in the moment. You create an experience. You key storyboard is my favorite. The framing and connection of frame to frame is very nice. The way you crop from one image to the next and change the viewpoint is extremely effective. I also really enjoy the way you move from traditional rectangular compositions to various other geometric shapes add to the velocity and movement of this piece. I like the shading and line on the rock climber but without additional back ground details, it’s awkward for me. The placement of the body and the position make sense when you understand the context but with out a rope or the rock climbing wall it makes me uneasy to look at. I like the simplicity of the face and bug ink composition but there is a bit too much white space on the right hand side. I’d like to see the bug pop out more. It is beautiful but gets overshadowed by the dark abyss of the face. I LOVE your feather piece. The details are so delicate and the way it moves from the bottom right to the top is gorgeous. The line up the middle of the feather is beautiful. I love you details and personal style. Great work Roxie! It’s all beautiful.
ReplyDeleteRoxie- The most impressive aspect of your portfolio is the variety of style. Your ability to switch back and forth from reality to abstraction is really impressive. This is evident with your storyboard assignment, where you started super realistic and faded into the form and movement of the keys. The composition of your storyboard is really well put together, the one thing I would add would be a solid matting to finish it off. Maybe, if the panels behind were a gray or black tone it could help distinguish the drawings from the background, especially when it’s viewed from a distance. Overall your portfolio is really nice, I especially like your abstract charcoal and ink drawings. The one with the black hole in the center and the more linear one with a similar style show great control of the charcoal. The balance of white to dark and the detailed use of your eraser make those two very eye-catching. One thing I would like to see from you is experimentation larger scale, your compositions are great, but I think amped up size would give your work greater visual appeal. Also, I really liked the one where you used both ink and pen, the ink is very free while the pen work is much more crisp and detailed. Overall your portfolio shows a lot of creativity.
ReplyDeleteLet me just say that from our very first critique I was very intrigued by your work. I love your style because you have the accuracy and the abstract down and how you combine the two in your work is amazing. I am so impressed by your key drawing because I struggle with drawing accurately and I was just blown away how precise and crisp these pieces look. I also love how many of your pieces have a psychedelic-esque feel, like your fiqure drawing where you colored her body in with a pattern. I also love your skull piece! Your use of the composition if awesome and I love your use of ink, I think this may be the only ink drawing of your on here but I love it. You have done amazing work with all the different mediums we worked with in class, and I love how you incorporated the colored pencil into some of your pieces. I love the piece of the man’s head I, it is different and abstract yet so accurate. You have amazing style and all of your pieces stand out to me. The only critique I have is that I would have liked to see you frame your images differently with different colors and sizes to better fit the context of your images. Great job Roxie, your work is truly amazing!
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