10/28/19- Today in class, I was looking at my work and realized that it seemed just a bit unfinished and so after consulting with some of my peers, we decided that it would be good for me to add black lines around the hair and face to contribute more to the effect that I was going for and it made a HUGE difference! I feel much better about how the piece turned out and while there are some places where the lines are a bit thicker than I would prefer, I am ultimately content with my final product. I like my content where I am trying to point out the hypocrisy with top universities that say that it is ok to be human and that they aren't looking for perfection when in reality, the only way to get in is if you are the perfect student and contributor to society. It puts a lot of stress on students, which as a senior applying to college, is something that I feel on almost a daily basis. I wanted the figures to look 2D because what college admissions counselors see is a sheet of paper with our grades, extra-curriculars, essays, and teacher recommendations that is supposed to try and encompass an entire human being. I intentionally chose the proportions of races that I did because if you look at statistics for Ivy League schools, you see that the Caucasian race makes up the largest percentage of students, then Asians, and then African Americas, Hispanics, and Native Americans make up the very small remainder of the students. The font in the background is also the same font the Common App uses and is what most colleges use to collect the information of applicants.
10/26/19- I spent a LOT of time today painting logos and doing small details here and there. I decided to add a black border around the sweatshirts in order to make them pop a bit more and I think it also helped/contributed to the 2D effect that I was going for. I had some difficulty with the arm contour lines because originally, I had tried to make the sweatshirts look a little bit more realistic and had tried to add value with black- warning: it doesn't work. After I had painted like four of the shirts that way I realized that using simply a darker shade would probably have been the way to go. I ended up just painting over them again because I felt that it ultimately didn't add to my content or general vibe I was going for. 10/25/19- I've finished everyone's base color for their sweatshirts and this actually took a lot longer than expected. I had trouble finding sweatshirts with the logo of the college on it for a few of them and afterwards, it took a bit to match the color as best as I could. 10/23/19- I am making slow, but steady progress. I have done everyone's hair, although I would like to go in a few and add more highlights and I am not happy at ALL with the blond boy's hair but that will be adjusted. Unfortunately, I am still behind and while I'm planning both lunch and part of after school painting, I think I might have to work on it at home for it to be completed by Monday. But overall, I am pleased with hoe it has turned out, even though I really don't know what I'm shooting for as far as a visual aesthetic. 10/21/19- I finally have gotten to actually painting the people, getting through almost all of the figure's hair. I need to go through and add more values to some that I have already done and lighten some of the browns because right now, it is all reading very dark. I am rather behind so I will need to spend more time either during lunch or after school in order to finish. 10/18/19- We were able to use the laser cutter in order to make custom stencils! It was really cool actually because instead of spending almost an entire class cutting out letters, I was able to just pop my sheet of plastic in and 14 mins later, it was all done! I am overall pretty pleased with how they turned out, there are a few words that turned out a bit messy and less-than-perfect but in a way, it works with the content. 10/14/19- I wasn't happy with how dark the color of my background turned out and so I decided to repaint the layers with a lighter purple and I'm much happier. However, this did create a chunkier texture on my canvas where you can see some individual paint strokes which is slightly irritating, but if you are far enough away you can't really tell. Coach and I talked again about the stencils and what I'm going to have to do is using either an exacto (?) knife or the laser cutter, cut into a piece of (I forgot but it's a thin sheet of clear plastic) and trace out my letters. I'm fine with this process; however, it means it's going to take a bit longer than expected which could put me behind overall. 9/25/19- I am beginning to plan my first piece of the year! It is going to be commentary on the college application process and the hypocrisy of selective universities. I am still a lil unsure of the composition at this point but I have my basic idea down. 10/9/19- So I have finally put some paint on the canvas! Unfortunately, it's a lil darker than I was going for so I may end up repainting the whole thing. I also talked with Coach and the fancy pen writer we thought we might use isn't large enough for the canvas so I'm probably going to make a stencil and go from there. Meanwhile, I've completely changed the design of my college students. I'm going to make them in color but leave them faceless and more two dimensional to show how colleges don't get to see the entire person, only select bits and pieces here and that that condense a person into a very 2D sheet of paper. 10/7/19- They have hair now !! So I am a lil further behind than I would like. Ideally, I would be painting now but it is what it is. I am second guessing how I want to paint the figures. Before, I was going to go from a mainly black portrait with vague facial characteristics but now, I am wondering if I should emphasize race a bit more because it is an important factor in my content and it would add another aspect to my work. I was planning on doing this by painting the figures in a more two dimensional manner and with brighter colors. I still have to do the background before I get to that though so I will probably plan a bit more with some sketches and work on the background in the meantime. 10/1/19- So I mainly spent class today cutting mats for a figure drawing and an artist statement and then cutting and collecting my materials for my home project. I didn't get a whole lot done on paper today but I talked with Coach about how I should do my letters and turns out, we have a new machine that can trace what is on an online doc onto a new surface, so we might try using that instead of cutting a stencil. I'm going to resize some of my figures because some of the heads are too big/small and not giving the perspective that I am going for. 9/29/19- I have started my basic outlines of the people and am like 90% sure I know what I'm going to do. I think I'm going to have the background like a light purple/purple blue and have the words repeating in the background. I'm not sure if I am going to do counter-change of the text on the people themselves because I think it might get a little too busy and clutter the images. I'm not sure exactly how I am going to get the words in the background. I know I'm going to have to use a stencil to get the uniformity I am looking for, but I'm not sure exactly how to do this.
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