I developed my art making skills.
The above piece is a charcoal work of the downtown Raleigh skyline. I have used charcoal as a material multiple times before, but never with such a large scale piece, as well as with as much time. Working on this piece I got a better knowledge of the effort it takes and the patience to get it to the shade/darkness you want. To get the light shades, I used an eraser to erase the charcoal layer I put down first and then erase lines to get the windows of the buildings. I got better with the eraser as I worked on the project and if you look closely, the windows are better on the buildings on the right. This project allowed me to improve my skills with charcoal and receive a greater knowledge of the medium.
I reflect.
I began reflecting on my work at the very beginning. The original idea was that of every other skyline piece: a rectangular frame with the skyline straight across. I thought that would be too unoriginal, so I went with an oval frame. After I had finished the outlines, initial shading, and some detail, I noticed the darks weren't dark and the lights weren't light enough. I went back over it and fixed what needed to be fixed. Once everything was finished, the way to present it was next to be reflected. The original oval just seemed too plain, so I thought about how to better depict it. I wanted to show that I started with a rectangle and made it a oval, hence the corners cut and pasted onto a larger piece of paper. The final project