Okay so I need to make a critique for my 3 assignments I've done in digital art. Cool beans. The assignment says to make it into three posts, but I don't really think that's necessary. Well I guess I'm just going to get started on this.
Critique #1
Description: I see a lot of things, very cluttered. I see orange circles overlapping, I see striped circles making a trippy effect as they overlap. I see a grey box with a light blue outline, I see a bunch of rectangles of different colors, ellipses with gradients, a spiral that looks like sausage links, and a calligraphy line.
Analysis: I see line being used, the broken lines in the sausage links, thick and thin lines of different colors being used on the shapes. Obviously shape is being used, pretty much the whole drawing is just individual 2D geometric shapes coming together to make chaos. Space wasn't really thought about here. With value, you can see the gradient ellipses getting lighter as it goes inward, somewhat making a 3D effect, but not really. I don't really see any texture other than the lack of it. Color is obviously used here very haphazardly. The stuff in the background is mostly bluey-greens, so I think I may have accidentally put emphasis on the orange overlapping circles. The best way I could describe the color is complementary. Meh. Not much pattern, but the stripes in the overlapping circles could be considered pattern, as well as the sausage links I suppose. Not really any contrast except the back background is white, while the subjects are colored and pigmented and how the shapes in the back are bluey green and the shapes in the front are orange. Like I said before, accidental emphasis was put on the orange circles because of the contrast, size, repetition, and placement. If I had cropped the image at the end of the striped circles, it would be in optimal focal point position. I really don't see any balance here. The proportions kind of portray a depth to the picture with the orange circles being closest and the sausage links being the furthest. There is practically no harmony in this photo that I can see. I think there is at least some movement in the circles (both striped and orange) with their flow.
Interpretation: through the eyes of a viewer and not a creator, I see chaos in this picture, which funnily enough is how I felt at the time. The program gave me extreme frustration and was very difficult to get it to even work. Chaos was happening in my head. I guess it kind of went onto the canvas, somewhat unintentionally.
Evaluation: Yes, this piece did technically fulfill the requirements at the time, but no, it did not fulfill my wants. It was difficult enough to even get the program to work; I did not want to spend effort on making it look pretty. In a way, I was somewhat purposefully making it look shoddy out of spite of the program. I had a vision, but it just couldn't be fulfilled on canvas.
Critique #2
Description: I see what appears to be a text book cover for earth science. Grey border and a sandy background. It has elements of nature, or the earth's spheres, put into circles with white halos around them. The author is Eenk Skapé Sucz and the publisher is Krapprogram Publishers. The publisher is put on a dark blue, uh, rectangle? The words "Earth Science" are just the outlines with a transparent inside and they have a gradient that goes diagonally. The text for the title and author are both an ivory sort of creamy and yellowish whitish color.
Analysis: Line is used for the title and all the circles (all the circles have a thin solid border.) Shape: all pretty geometric. The letters of the title are obviously pretty organic if you want to count those. Space: I guess not really much that means anything. The space between the shapes are occupied by sand. Value: I mean, obviously the royalty free images have shading in them, so yeah. Just natural value. Texture: the sand is very gritty and sandy, the ice in the bubbles are very slick and shiny (broken up by cracks), the water in the bubbles are, you know, watery. Color: lots of harmonious colors that contrast well. Emphasis: bubbles and whatnot Balance: a bit between the bubbles being different sizes Proportion: There's size differences between the bubbles, but also depth, suggesting they're overlapping. Harmony: eh Rythym/movement: eh
Interpretation: Earth's spheres are important and beautiful at the same time.
Evaluation: I met the requirements of the assignment while making a good looking textbook cover that I kind of like. I also got revenge on the program with the author and publisher names.
Critique #3
Description: I see an anime-esque man (Dwyer from fire emblem (・ω・)) traced in a digital art program.
Analysis: line: thin, organic Shape: organic Space: eh Value: shading in the upper face and under the nose, highlights on the hair and eyes Texture: smooth throughout Color: just the colors that were used in the original artwork Pattern: eh Contrast: between the upper face and lower face Emphasis: hair? Balance: eh Proportion: eh Harmony: eh
Interpretation: not really any interpretation to it. It's just a tracing of a character.
Evaluation: I fulfilled assignment requirements and made something decent looking in inkscape, but also made something I find morally wrong (tracing artwork), but I didn't really want to trace any of my art so whatever.
I'm tired bye
-Dan Fenn (Blurry Grawlix)
