Letter of Critique Term Paper

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particularly what you have done and what materials and medium you like best.

Write out your feelings about your experience.

Drawing gives one the ability to use not only imagination but also perception to create artistic depictions of what we see.

[Letter of Critique]

What really entices me about drawing class is that it provides us with the opportunity to invent our own way to draw. Instead of mimicking another's style, we have the creative license to really create people and things as we perceive them, even with an untrained eye.

What better way than drawing to shape what we see in our mind's eye. This is particularly true of drawing other people in the class. We actually compose an image in our mind of the person we see. I may note the shape and color of their eyes, when another student looking at the same person I am, focuses on the shape of their mouth. As an art student we interact with the blank drawing paper and create from our vision.


A particularly like charcoal and pencil. First, charcoal allows us to capture depth and mood, through the various techniques of shading and coloring. It depends on the subject and the characteristics that you are trying to capture and portray. Charcoal can be a wonderful medium for this. However, it does not allow you to animate your subject the way pencil and sometimes paint does. But charcoal can provide unlimited possibilities for interpretation drawings. You can clarify and develop a sketch of a face that captures the essence of what you see in a person. I find charcoal allows me to express and visualize what I capture by looking at a subject.

Pencil is also one of my favorite mediums. It's very suited to capturing the character in someone's face and accentuating facial features and expressions. My goal in my drawings is try and combine my visualization of a subject with how they actually appear. I engage the visual content with my mind's imaginative form and try to create that image.….....

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