Jesy Munoz

ARTT100 Signature Assignment

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ARTT 100 fulfills a General Education Arts Distribution requirement. MC’s General Education Program is designed to ensure that students have the skills, knowledge and attitudes to carry them successfully through their work and personal lives. This course provides multiple opportunities to develop the following competencies: Integrative Learning; Arts and Aesthetic Awareness; Critical Analysis and Reasoning; Technological competency, and Information Literacy. The questions in this signature assignment will ask you about your learning in these areas. For more information about the General Education program, please see www.montgomerycollege.edu/gened

Now that we have nearly completed the course, please answer the following questions as best as you can. You will be required to photograph one of your drawings and research artists’ works of art online.

· Insert the relevant image of your drawings and selected artist’s drawing in the boxes provided for each section.

Do not change the size of the box provided for the image.

· Answer all the questions as best you can, utilizing basic terminology of the arts that you learned throughout the semester.

Do not change the size of the box provided for the responses.

Please follow these instructions on saving your document and submitting this document:

1. Save your document as follows:

SA ARTT100 .docx (or as PDF file)

Example: SA ARTT100 Johnson FA2016 John Doe

2. Email document as an attachment to Instructor’s email address.

How to lower the File Size of your images

Mac:

· Open image in Preview

· Go to File and select Export

· Look for “Quality” and slide arrow to preferred size (such as “Least”). The File Size is noted below “Quality.”

· Select Save

PC:

· Click or Open the image

· Under Picture Tools, on the Format tab, in the Adjust group, click Compress Pictures

· Under Target output, click the resolution that you want.

ARTT 100 Signature Assignment

Name:

Student Number

Course CRN

Course Days/Times

Jesy Munoz

M20758717

40129

MTWR 9:00-1:00

Section 1: Insert an image of your drawing in the left box below that demonstrates both the following qualities:

Accurate proportions and foreshortened form. A convincing sense of light, shadow, volume and pictorial space.

Describe your understanding of the goals of the project/assignment that you addressed in this drawing. How do the goals of this assignment fit in with the other things you have learned in this course? (refer to the list of Drawing Assignments/Problem Solving-Concepts and Goals)

My understanding was that I needed to provide a drawing that had to require certain qualities and I had to look past all my previous drawings I had done throughout class to find one that fit it.

Select a drawing by one of the following artists that demonstrates the qualities listed above and your understanding of the goals of the assignment, and insert the image in the box to the right of your drawing. Describe which aspects of this drawing reflect the goals of the assignment as you described them above.

Both drawings fit the qualities of having accurate proportions and a foreshortened form where they also display a sense of light and shadows along with having volume and pictorial space.

Charles Sheeler

Catherine Murphy

William Bailey

Janet Fish

Wayne Thiebaud

(Insert your drawing here)

(Insert Artist’s drawing here)

Jesy Munoz

Artist: William Bailey

A) The creative problem solving process in ARTT 100 utilizes a set of skills that come from mastering the Course Outcomes, understanding and applying a set of Key Drawing Concepts, and demonstrating an ability to effectively use the terminology of the course. Refer to the attached list of Course Outcomes/Key Drawing Concepts/Vocabulary. What connections do you see between the skills needed for this drawing and skills you learned in previous assignments? In your response, identify 3 Course Outcomes and/or Key Drawing Concepts that you addressed in your drawing above. Explain how those concepts connect to previous assignments and built on previous skills, and how they contributed toward a successful solution to the problems posed by this drawing assignment. Use the vocabulary of the arts in the attached list of Course Outcomes/Key Drawing Concepts/Vocabulary in your explanation.

(Response) In my drawing, I had to pay attention to the skills I needed to make the drawing resemble the still-life itself. I needed to pay attention to the top of the cylinder because it was below my eye level but not a complete circle so it had to be a close ellipse and before if I had not worked on previous drawings in class I would’ve definitely messed that up, so being aware of eye level and the ellipses I had to draw because of that made this drawing a success along with the diagonal lines and value poles.

B) Compare your drawing above to the drawing by the artist you selected. Given that the artist’s drawing you chose had similar goals to your drawing, describe where you see some of the key drawing concepts that you used reflected in the artist’s drawing that you chose. What differences do you see between the two drawings? Don’t just describe a difference in subject matter. Evaluate, for example, differences in composition, the quality of light and form, or other goals that the artist appeared to have for their drawing that might differ from the goals for your drawing. Describe how you might apply some of the techniques or ideas that you see in the artist’s drawing in a future drawing of your own. Use the vocabulary of the arts included in the attached list of Course Outcomes/Key Drawing Concepts/Vocabulary in your response.

(Response)Both drawings had cylinders and a horizontal line as similarities but they also had differences too like they both had different eye levels which resulted in the objects where you could see or not see the top of them inside the drawing.

Section 2:Given the assignment goal(s) you described in Section 1 above, describe the most successful part of the creative problem solving process that you undertook in developing your drawing above, and explain why you feel it was successful. Describe, as well, what you think you could have done better. What problem solving skills did you learn in this class that helped you develop a creative drawing solution for this assignment that you couldn’t have done before taking this class? Explain which ones were most helpful? Which ones need improvement? Why? Refer to the attached list of Course Outcomes/Key Drawing Concepts/Vocabulary, and the list Drawing Assignments/Problem Solving-Concepts and Goals.

(Response)I believe the most successful part of the drawing itself was the value and contrast that helped create a more realistic portrait of the still-life in my drawing. Although along the edges of the cube and the cylinder where the background and the value of the object met, the edges could have been sharper to create a better sense of contrast and to help it appear realistic, using diagonal lines, ellipses, and the value of the objects were most helpful because they are the skills that help create the entire image.

Section 3: Refer to the attached list of Course Outcomes/Key Drawing Concepts/Vocabulary from the syllabus, and the list of Drawing Assignments/Problem Solving-Concepts and Goals. Explain how the problem solving skills you developed in this course could be applied to problem solving outside of this class (such as your work in other courses, your job, life situations etc.).

(Response)In this course walking away from the drawing to relax and get a fresh eye was a useful skill to learn because after a small break, looking back at the drawing allowed me to see new things I could improve upon and I could use that skill when doing homework from different classes I’m struggling with. Just walk away from the problem and take some time to relax and have a break so when I come back to it I can see the problem and approach it with a different aspect then before.

Section 5:As part of ARTT 100 you developed an ePortfolio. Consider the following ways in which one might incorporate information into an ePortfolio. Which of the these approaches would reflect an ethical use of information? Explain why you think so.

i. Using a photograph that you took

ii. Using an image that you found on Google images.

iii. Copying ideas from a friend in your written Final Reflection.

iv. Discussing ideas with a friend which you use to develop your written Final Reflection.

v. Using an image that you find online along with an appropriate Creative Commons license

(Response)Option 5 because when you use an image, you need to properly cite who you got the image from and see if you even have permission to use the image and also you cannot copy ideas from other people because that becomes plagiarism.

ARTT 100Course Outcomes/Key Drawing Concepts/Problem Solving/Vocabulary

Course OutcomesUpon completion, a student will be able to:

1. Demonstrate the skills and awareness to engage in creative problem solving that synthesizes discipline knowledge and methodologies with information from different fields of study and/or global sources.

2. Recognize and utilize elements of the visual language in developing creative solutions.

3. Employ the appropriate skills necessary to complete projects with intention, a high degree of craftsmanship, and aesthetic principles.

4. Communicate an understanding of visual literacy utilizing appropriate terminology and concepts.

5. Develop and apply observational skills to produce visual representations of natural and fabricated forms.

Specific Course ContentStudents will be introduced to the following Key Drawing Concepts:

· Utilize fundamental geometric volumes as building blocks for mastering complex forms

· Apply principles of linear perspective to represent objects in real world environments

· Utilize sight measuring to accurately proportion objects in space

· Understand the relationship between positive and negative shapes and the picture plane

· Compose a drawing as a whole event rather than a sum of parts

· Utilize line as a tool of expression in drawing

· Employ value to convey light, structure, volume, weight, space, and/or texture

· Understand and utilize basic terminologies of the arts in reading, writing and oral critiques

· Analyze and discuss the technical and aesthetic components of a drawing

· Utilize a variety of drawing media

General Problem Solving Concepts:

· Accepting the problem – understanding the goals/what you want to accomplish

· Understanding the limitations of the problem – time? materials? scope?

· Breaking down complex problems into smaller steps

· Working from simple to complex

· Using previously acquired skills to develop new skills

· Getting some distance from a problem –walk away – come back with a “fresh eye”

· Collaborate – ask for help/get a classmate’s opinion/suggestions on your work

Key Vocabulary

Value

Value

Value poles

Local Value

Perceived Value

Highlight

Mid-Tone

Core Shadow

Cast Shadow

Reflected Light

Tonal Gradient

Contrast

High contrast

Low contrast

Full value development

Wholeness/Unity/Contrast

Perception

Additive and subtractive process

Wholeness

Gestalt perceptual principles

Closure

Scaffold

Intellectual unity

Visual unity

Negative spaces

Proximity

Repetition

Continuation or extension

Focal point

Contrast

Basic Structures

Simple to complex

Known to unknown

Walking away – “fresh eye”

Foreshortening

Sighting angles

Ellipse

Major axis

Symmetrical

Cylinder

Centerline

¾ view

Characteristic view

Near vertical

Linear Perspective

Eye Level

Horizon line

Vanishing point

Orthogonals

One point perspective

Two point perspective

Three point perspective

Multiple point perspective

Bird’s eye view

Pictorial Space

Conventions

Planer recession

Overlapping forms

Vertical location

Aerial perspective

Diagonal recession

Parallels

Paraline drawing

Visual Equivalents

Picture Plane

Visual Equivalents

Pictorial Space

Proportion

Line Quality

Contour Line

Dark to Light Line Gradient

Pictorial weight

Cross-Hatching

Cross-Contour Lines

Diagonal Lines

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