Tuesday, September 15, 2009

Nia's project 1

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  1. AnonymousSeptember 15, 2009 at 1:51 PM

    This could be an advertisement for not smoking- the colors give an unpleasant tag to smoking by showing the tar-like yellow and the dirty brown in the back. Even if it had nothing to do with smoking, I would love the color combination.
    The background and text overlay pull the piece together. Its not totally centered, but the darkness in the corners make that okay. The lines of the cartoon and the shape of the actual text lead your eye around and continue to make it interesting.
    would like to be able to read the text- I feel like it would tell me more about the message of your artwork.
    I like the combination of color and cartoony black and white. Also, the red of the lips is almost a complimentary color of the rusty brown in the background, further pulling everything together.
    Nice job! I really have no dislike of this composition.

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  2. garlanaSeptember 15, 2009 at 2:16 PM

    I really find your comp. to be well executed. I like the hand drawn face up against the colored lettering. The texts keep my eye moving, which is good because you could’ve been the total opposite were the face was the only thing that you focus on. The text almost looks like it could be smoke from the cigarette (except for the yellow color)…the strokes give it texture (on his face) this is really creative, it could be a T-shirt.
    The overall look and feel is good and I think what also would have helped it, would’ve been to really clean the white edges around the face and add a little shading, to give just a touch of dimension.

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  3. Chinue HazelwoodSeptember 15, 2009 at 8:59 PM

    First off I like the fact that the main focal point of your composition is hand-drawn. I think that is a very unique aspect. The face is very detailed and expressive. I also like the writing the background. It's as if the words are telling a story explaining this face. The colors blend together which is good. The brown and dark yellow goes together with cigarette. This is a good composition.

    Even though the face is very detailed, I don't know if that's enough. I don't think anymore should be added, the composition is complete, but I wish there was more so I could really know what I was looking at. I kind of wish I knew the true meaning behind it. But I guess not knowing sometimes, leaving the audience curious and questionable is one of the many aspects of art.

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  4. Kristina ElshoffSeptember 17, 2009 at 10:55 AM

    This piece is very different, in that it uses text as more of a visual effect reather then being relient on the meaning of the text or the text needing to be legible. I think that is a very successful way to use text. I also think that the vividness, and contrasting of the colors in the foreground and background help to balance your composition so that my eye isnt getting stuck in any particular spot.

    The image of the face is slightly offcenter to the left, which for somereason keeps bugging me. I tried to think of why, and I think it might be that its not far enough over to the left or that in needs to be more centralized. I would try position the face in different positions and compare the face more to the left, more centralized, and even maybe slightly to the right. Who knows maybe I'm visually just needing it to be more to the right. I'm not quite sure. I think it could also extend off of the page. That could also be perhaps what's keeps getting my eye visually off track.

    Great job though with the drawing! The face is very different, and seems to perhaps be your feelings you hold toward a particular person, or how you view them.

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