Starting the assignment

On Thursday, we began thinking about ideas for the assignment. the main purpose of this unit's assignment is to create a drawing which includes your shoes (with legs) and your culture. This drawing had to have atleast two different perspectives - one-point perspective, two-point perspective, atmospheric perspective and overlap.
 In the beginning of the lesson, I became quite worried, because when drawing my culture and tradition in other artwork, I have always had a way of creating something that is connected to God, the reason being that most traditions and cultural things are connected to God in India. I can't create a drawing of my shoes on top of something "religious" as that would seem very disrespectful.

Even so, towards the end of the lesson, I managed to come up with ideas that, not only originated from my Indian culture, but also the Norwegian culture, seeing as I have lived in Norway my whole life.I don't have a picture of my ideas, but for my final design, I included mountains, henna, people on the mountains, and some more I can't remember. I also used atmospheric and linear perspective, as well as overlap.

Hope it goes well. Generally, I am pleased with the design.

- Anisha

Shaded my drawing

Today I managed to shade my drawing, by carefully observing the various different shades on my shoes. The Grey-scale (or shading scale) was helpful in doing this, as I could differentiate the different shades on my piece of paper as well. I used two methods to do the two shoes, where I felt that the first one was more successful. This included me just taking my time, and follow the details of my shoe from the top-right to the bottom left, and eventually filling in some shades here and there. I spent most of my time on my first one, which may be the reason for why it was a bit better.

The second method, our teacher suggested, which was to first find the light shade of my shoe, and applying this on the hole shoe. Then, we were to shade them in. As we had little time left, I rushed into it, and it not become that successful. Even so, I put my signature on, and generally it looked like an okay piece. Just glad that this wasn't our assignment.

- Anisha

Last lesson

The previous lesson, our teacher was absent most of the lesson, so he gave us an assignment we had to do, which was to draw our shoes. We started off my creating a gray-scale, by applying light grey on the bottom part and dark grey at the top. This took about 10-20 minutes. 

This greyscale was created to help us shade our shoes that we were supposed to draw afterwards. I didn't manage to finish it, but in the end I feel that it looked good enough. 

I wonder how I will continue with my drawing though, since the shoes will not stand the same as last year.

Even so, I am  excited about tomorrow. :)

- Anisha

New Year, New Term, New Unit

Happy New Year everyone!!

As we have now started a fresh, new year, it is time to start a new unit as well. This new unit is called "A Walk in My Shoes" and is all about drawing. We will learn about drawing specific objects, shading, contours, perspectives and depth, which will then be applied in our assignment - to draw a shoe and symbols that help to recognize a specific culture.

Observation will have to be a key factor to encounter, as drawing in general is quite difficult. Thinking about my last drawing projects, such as drawing Sharukh Khan (Icon I think) and the self-portrait unit from last term , I know that if I really set my mind to it, I can actually create something extraordinary.

For example, when I drew Sharukh Khan, I really focused on the hair. This was the result:

There is a major difference between this drawing, and the self-portrait, because I didn't really focus too much  on the actually drawing part, which may be the reason for why it was not as successful as I wanted it to be.

Well, we will see.. I hope to try my best!

- Anisha

Evaluation - Time

Here is an evalutation on my clock, where I will discuss the parts that are good and what improvements I can make next time.

This clock I have worked really hard on, and I am generally happy about the result - even after repairing the broken pieces... The cracks has changed from my initial idea of the artwork, from being slow - thinking about life, that there is still a lot of time left for us to live. That life is about loving, trusting and dreaming - to a bit faster pace where these cracks may signify thunder. Maybe that life as its upsides and downsides, and even though it is this way, we are still supposed to love, trust and dream to achieve our goals in life. This is actually the first time I have really been satisfied with my work!

What was good?
Firstly, I think that the idea is one of the best ideas I have made since I first started at MYP, It really shows who I am, and who I want to be, as I have always been into building my motivation for a better life. I think it was good that I only chose to paint three words, because if I had written one or two more, they would have been quite small. These words have an appropriate size.
Also, I like the way I have created space in front of the clock where I may want to put candles on when I bring it home. (Yes, I would like to bring it home.)
Finally, even though it is a shame that the it broke, I like the new, changed meaning of the clock and to exaggerate it a bit more, I have included darker purple on the left side and a bit lighter on the right side. It was actually not on purpose, but I still feel that it gave something a bit more to the clock.

What improvements can I make for next time?
NOT TO BREAK IT.
No.. just kidding.
I can now see on the picture that the words are slanted a little, so this is probably the first thing I would improve on. It also would be great if I could emphasize the cracks a little more, so that they really stand out. This was one of my goals last week, however because I had the whole artwork to paint, I didn't have time. In addition to this, I noticed that when we were to put the clock in on the back side, it just barely fitted and the needles almost got stuck on the surface of the front so they didn't move. We managed to fix this, but to avoid this problem in the future, I will make sure to leave enough space for the clock to fit perfectly fine.

Generally, I am pleased with my work and I feel proud to accomplish this, even after my inital idea was somewhat spoiled.
Loved this unit!!

- Anisha

Maybe everything is okay after all?

I came to the lesson today, both excited and curious to work on my product. I know that it is not how I want to be, but I am trying to take it with a positive attitude and it may work out just fine when I have finished painting. With help, I started off by puzzling the pieces together and I eventually started gluing. This actually took the whole double lesson, because they didn't want to stick together and dry (maybe because I used too much glue sometimes). Even so, I managed to glue everything together and hopefully they will stay glued until next week, which is the due date. It was actually supposed to be by the end of the lesson today, however I would simply not have the time to complete it with the give timeframe. Therefore, I am happy that we received a week's extension :). I also managed to paint the base of the clock black, but it was not very much. 

Even though there are cracks on my clock, I am not going to change my initial idea on the design and layout of my final outcome. Therefore, I will still include the motivational words, which represents slow time due to the long life we have ahead of us. Some may say that it represents fast time, because of how short life really is, although I choose to represent it as slow time. 

- Anisha

OHNOOO!!!!!

This lesson my whole artwork fell and was destroyed!!! I started of by sanding the artwork and doing the finishing touches, and then when showing it to Mr. Roman, it suddenly fell forwards and was destroyed into several different pieces! I am quite sad now, but Mr. Roman suggested that we could put it in the fireplace and then try to put it together next week.



The next couple of minutes, I just tried out colours, and I thought to make the cracks black, and a purple/violett face and light yellow letters. I think it will be successfull after all, even though I am sad about it.

- Anisha