Joy Series

My Aerial Silks

• My goals and intentions in this artwork are to express my love for aerial and also show the beauty of the silk fabric that I use.
• I accomplished my goals by cropping part of me out of the photos to put the main focus on the fabric and how it moves.
• What surprised me most about my experience doing this drawing is how hard it is to draw moving fabric and all of the wrinkles.
• The most difficult challenge I had to face was drawing the back of my head in the middle picture.
• I met that challenge by focusing more on the shapes of my head and less on the overall picture.
• I experienced the shift to right brain artistic thinking when I focused on the colors and shapes and less on over-analyzing the over all picture.
• A dull pencil makes a dull drawing.
• When in doubt, sketch it out.
• Draw a star and you will go far.
• Draw the shapes.
• My drawing really works in the middle picture because of the wrinkles and shading in the fabric.
• Some things I have learned that I can take into my next drawing are: focus on the shapes, shade last, and how to make the intended focal point pop.
• I learned from Ashley how to solidly used colored pencils without letting the white paper be seen through.
• If I had a do-over, I would fix the shape of the back of my head and add more detail to it.
• I feel the best thing about my work is the shading and angling of the silks and body parts.