I am Not a Nobody |
Deabreubreadth#1
September 11th 2014
Medium: Colored Pencil, Acrylic Paint, Pen
This was my first introduction into AP art. At the time of doing this piece, I thought it was a decent concept with some meaning behind it. I wanted to be a play off of the cult hit movie "Mean Girls" and how it can translate into real life, not just Hollywood. Gossip will always be a problem in teenage culture, specifically American teenagers, and I wanted to touch on the subject. When going into critique, I looked around, and felt as if I were mediocre, and I was. Looking back on it, I used way too many mediums in one piece to make it work together at all. I had to live up to my expectations and to the level of an AP artist. There are so many things wrong with this piece, that I can go forever; whether it is the face being disproportional or the words looking like a 5 year old drew them. I was very disappointed in myself for not setting the bar so high to keep growing and growing. Then again, one day I can look back on this and see the amount of growth I put in from that point to the time period where I will have grown. I really hope to grow and prove myself not only to my peers and educators but to myself. At heart I am a perfectionist, and I will work myself harder and harder if that means I can almost reach perfection.
This was my first introduction into AP art. At the time of doing this piece, I thought it was a decent concept with some meaning behind it. I wanted to be a play off of the cult hit movie "Mean Girls" and how it can translate into real life, not just Hollywood. Gossip will always be a problem in teenage culture, specifically American teenagers, and I wanted to touch on the subject. When going into critique, I looked around, and felt as if I were mediocre, and I was. Looking back on it, I used way too many mediums in one piece to make it work together at all. I had to live up to my expectations and to the level of an AP artist. There are so many things wrong with this piece, that I can go forever; whether it is the face being disproportional or the words looking like a 5 year old drew them. I was very disappointed in myself for not setting the bar so high to keep growing and growing. Then again, one day I can look back on this and see the amount of growth I put in from that point to the time period where I will have grown. I really hope to grow and prove myself not only to my peers and educators but to myself. At heart I am a perfectionist, and I will work myself harder and harder if that means I can almost reach perfection.