Cody+Nichols

For my **__Quarter 1 Benchmark__** Project, Ms. Hull asked us to develop any piece of artwork that inspires us. I chose to do perspective drawings, to replicate how i feel about different viewpoints of individual parts of the city. When using perspective you have to consider all aspects of what you are creating a piece from a different point of view.

My project, which is not finished at the moment, are drafts of different viewpoints of the Science Leadership Academy, and its various surroundings, i.e buildings, landmarks, and various objects. I used a perspective book to enhance the way I used the perspective way of drawing. I did a corner view of the building, a view form across the street on a diagonal, and then a view from down the street still observing the building.

I could improve the way I complete my sketches by displaying it on a canvas and filling it in with either colored pencil or charcoal, to establish the flare of each building. This process will take a while to still develop a final project, but the outcome will be a beautiful piece of art.


 * __Quarter 2 Benchmark:__**

For my Quarter 2 Benchmark I continued my Quarter 1 Benchmark, in a way so that I may perfect the perspective view of my project. The ultimate portrait of this project will be on a canvas full of color, and wide enough to display all views of the area I imagine. The rough draft of my project took close to 6 hours for detail, because of the lines and reading that needed to be done in order to perfect this outline of a perspective drawing. And the final rough draft took about another 8+hours, first off because of the re-proportioned size paper that I used, so that all of the images will seem to scale as I completed it, and the measurements of each building that was in the design of the outline.
 * __Rough Draft:__**





For the rough draft of this process, I completed a sketch on brown paper and proportioned it to one of my older sketches/drafts that I completed in the past quarter. From this sketch I created the draft you see above. But since that was not the proportioned size that I desired, then I had to do that draft over, in the new re-proportioned size draft, that should be about the same size as the canvas that I will purchase for my 3rd Quarter Benchmark. __**Final Rough Drafts:**__



This process of rough drafts is essential to the creation of the final product in this class. This is trial and error, in my attempt to make the perfect lines that will define my project like no other. The crux of my artistry will come next quarter when these attempts will be made successful in my final product.

__**Quarter 3 Benchmark:**__ For my Quarter 3 Benchmark project, I decided to create a series of sketches instead of preparing a long drawn out project. My sketches include ones that depict my imagination, creativity and life experiences. My Quarter 4 benchmark will include a finished sketch that completed in Quarter 2, and one that I started in Q3 and will complete for Q4. A lot of time and effort was put into these artistic forms of expression. I understand the concept of starting something and finishing it, so all of the projects that I started will be finished. __**Sketches**__:











These drawings and depictions of items in my daily life in my opinion really express my creativity. I could improve on most of the drawings by adding or shading in color, to really bring out the flare in each of the depictions. Even though we created our own guidelines to follow and abide by to turn in our artwork on a specific date, the artistic expression that comes with the assignment. "An artist always critiques his own work, in order for the true meaning to be revealed." - C.Nichols

As my 11th grade school year ends, so does my 2 class a week art class. This year I have learned a lot about myself as an artist. I experimented a lot with finding exactly what I loved about various types of artwork, and seeing what type of artwork I am best at creating. The main focus of the year was for me to find my "inner artist" in which i will use as a skill to better my artist expression. In this final quarter of my 11th grade year, I completed projects that were in the making. I believe that taking a break from a project that was strenuous is healthy as an artist, because you can start other projects, to see the various aspects of other artwork and inflict that upon new or existing projects. I finally finished my high standard Quarter 2 and Quarter 3 Benchmarks as my Quarter 4 Benchmark. The depiction of my school The Science Leadership Academy in color, and the depiction of a man getting his hair cut by a barber in color is represented in 4 pictures. Shown below. I would not do anything differently because the depictions I created express real emotion and "flavor" added to 2 distinct art pieces. The same picture from the point of view of a flat plain, street level view. "My journey as a student of art may be over, but my journey as an art student/artist is just beginning."- C.Nichols
 * __Quarter 4 Benchmark:__**