Daniela´s Art Gallery

9th Grade Projects

Symbolic Map

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About the project:
The purpose of this project was to create a map to show who I am. First, the shape of the map is like a musical note because I love music. Then I painted a near smaller island which is named candy island, because all types of candies I love and eat every day. All the map is full with most of the stuff that I love. In one side of the map, I created a key which describes every detail from the map . I did a section which is all about my younger sister which is named Stephy´s Town. This "town" includes most of the things that my sster loves. For example animals, Justin Bieber, my dog Tommy and most of all anything that has to do with horses. I also created the  Soccer Corner because of my brother René. I included the Christmas Hall which is supposed to be a hall full of elfs, candies, presents, trees, Santa, reindeers, etc.. I chosed to include this on my map, bacause christmas is my favorite hollyday of all. I also drew a Mickey Mouse shape. I love anyhing that has to do with Disney, starting at the cartoons I watch on t.v to Disneyland.

Reflection:
This project was very fun to do. I never did anything like this before and it was really cool to do something completely different from what I usually do. I enjoyed being able to express myself doing it anyway I wanted and then painting it. I dont know much about paint and im not so good at it either. Anyway, I learned a little more with this map; I learned from the mistakes I did and other people´s mistakes as well. I just wish I would have known all of this new stuff about painting before so that now I would have better results of the map, since those were my biggest difficulties. Mostly, my difficulties were at the sea. I tried to make it smooth with the same amount of color everywhere, but each time I accidentally added a little more color to a part and tried to make it all match with it and then I realized I was ruining it a little late. Anyway, the results were not so bad. In the other hand, the easiest part of the map, was the part of drawing; I first started drawing everything with pencil and then painted it. 


Improvised Shapes

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About the project:
The purpose of this project was to draw many shapes on top of others just improvising the picture. After drawing I had to color all of it with different kinds of shading like dots shading and cross shading.I had to make sure that I was very original and make many different designs. This project was to take the art that every person has out. Many people seems to be terrible at art, but with this improvised work, there were none bad works, all of them were beautiful. In the instructions said we had to include certain things, as a number of triangles, a number of circles, different types of shading, how many colors, etc... This is why everyone using the same materials, ended up doing completely different works, each of them.

Reflection:
I loved making this project. At first, I thought it was going to be boring and hard. I also thought I was going to do a terrible work, but I was wrong. It was very easy to do and honestly I think I did a good job at it. Also, it did not take me much time to get over with it. I did not have much difficulties at this project. Maybe, at the beginning I had a little trouble with the shading, but then I was able to do it. I am glad that there were some mistakes that I did, but I did not tried to fix it but just kept going on coloring it, and then the mistakes dissapeated all by themselves. They are still there but since it is all improvised and done the way that I wanted to do, I do not think people will notice it. The easiest part was when I just had to highlight the shapes with a black marker, because It was not about creating anything. My favorite part of the project is a leaf that I kindly accidentally drew. I really like how I colored it and the way I putted the details on.

Old Traditional Home

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About the project:
This was one of my sketches that I had to do for my art class. I opied it from one of my mom´s embroidery frames. I used a blending stick and normal pencil. I used the blending stick for some shading that I decided to do. I had to focus very much on the detailes in order to get a good conclusion, so I tried to do it as exact as possible eventhough I had to draw it smaller than the original one, because there was much less space. There were some parts that I had to do a bit different, because since I did it with other material, there were some stuff that I could not do the same; for example the background trees. They look a lot different than what they really are.

Reflection:
I have never considered myself talented in art. When I started drawing this house, I did not really though I was going to get any good conclusons, I was just trying to get over with the sketches that I needed to do for homework. Once I started doing the house, I realized it was not going to be so hard to get a good drawing, I just needed to put enough effort on it. First I drew the srtucture of the house, then the windows and the door, then the chimneys and then the plants. After that, I putted details and started the shading. The hardest part for me were the plants, since I had to change them as I mentioned before. I kind of had to improvise in them, that is why I had some difficulties with them. Then unlike the plants, the easiest part to draw was the structure of the house. I did not do it perfect, but I think I they are really good. The next time, I will focus on making it straight, because in the drawing it seems kind of it the house was fall. I rally shocked myself after I finished, now I now I am able to do bigger stuff even though I am not such a grat artist.

Chick Love

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About the project:
As the previous draewing, this was only a sketch. This was drawn after the house. I copied the drawing from one of the comic books that I have in my house. For this drawing, I used a regular pencil and after I used regular color pencils. I drew the girl, then the birds, the musical notes, the heart and finally her fingers. In one of her hands she holds a banana skin and in the other hand she has a butterfly stantanding there. After I colored it, I took a black color and traced the lines in the hole girl and it helped to hide some of the mistakes that I did during the process. Most of the details were shown with the tracing of the black color. I also putted a very soft and tenouous pink in the backgound, so that it was not completely white. I also changed the colors a little from what the original cartoon looks like.

Refleciton:
I decided to name this cartoon "Chick Love", because it is obivous that this girls is supposed to be in love. The butterflies, the singing birds, the heart, the weird combination of colors  in her clothes (she does not even notice how she dreesses for thinking in someone else), they are all signs of her being in love. she is also carrying a banana skin which I will leave to the imagination of others to figure out what it means. The hardest part for me to do in this cartoon, were the fingers. As I mentioned before, I left them to the end because fingers are extremely hard for me to draw. I actually drew and erased them plenty of times before I could get them to look good. Besides, in one hand I had to make her carry a banana skin  and in the other a butterfly, so I had draw the fingers in certain ways. The easiest part fot me to draw was the body. It does not have much details and I did not have trouble at all in the process of drawing it. This is probably my favorite work I have ever done within the house.

Daniela N. 9B