Blogpost + Critique #10
- Kale T
- Mar 20
- 2 min read
Intention & Its Connection to my SI:
For this project, I choose to focus on the overwhelming stressful feeling that I often experience whenever I feel as if something not good is about to occur. A feeling that overwhelms me and makes it very hard for me to focus and or think. This feeling usually doesn't hone on one subject usually.
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I represent this feeling through choosing birds as the main focus of this piece. Specifically ravens and vultures. Ravens are often known for signifying a bad omen and or the feeling as if something bad is coming. They are large and looming. Showing that you need to be warned of a future event that will be coming shortly.
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While vultures often symbolize and represent the misunderstandings and hasty judgements one experiences. Often being too quick to assume something of a situation and always assuming the worst.
Questions:
What sort of aspects do you believe I should add to this piece? I'm thinking about changing it to have the vulture looming over the raven from a higher angle. Making it even scarier from the angle of the raven.
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Do you believe I should alter the intention at all to make it any more interesting? Should I represent the meaning of the vulture and the raven in a different light?
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I'm stuck on ideas for my next piece if I'm being honest. Do you have any ideas for any topics and or characteristics I should cover on aspects of mental health and self-worth? Do you have any ideas for any kinds of animals I should focus on? Specifically ones that have special symbolic and or spiritual meanings?
Project Ideation & Progress:
*I'm sorry this isn't really much. I was planning on getting a lot of work done yesterday on this but ended up not feeling well... :(
Citations:
I love the sketch of the drawing you did. I think you could probably exaggerate it more to make the bird on the right more dominant (like making it taking more than 1/2 of the drawing). As for the background I think you can add a lot of detailed black lines in a white background to represent the stressful theme. As for the intention I think it is good, but you could possibly think of more details to better represent your experience? As for you next projects, I think you can try on animals that you have not drew. Since I can't really see your completed works on this site, I'll just list a bunch of animals I think yo…
I love the composition! I think to decide which bird to make the "scarier" one, which feeling is scarier? Another thought---it looks like the birds are in a battle with each other. From what you wrote, it seems like the two emotions kind of come hand in hand rather than fighting.
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I think you could change the raven into a different even SMALLER prey to a vulture just to get the meaning across more and make the bird scarier...FREAKIER even,,,
I think changing the angle is a really good idea!
For SI 11 you could do a more positive piece about how your mental health can affect you positivity. What does it feel like when everything is well and you value yourself?
Okay first of all, I really love the symbolism you've added into this piece. Hearing you describe it makes me really see the work from a different light. Also, I love your sketches. It gives me a good idea of the vibe you're going for.
If you're going for this vibe where it feels as if something is bad about to happen, I think there's some cool ways to represent it. You could continue as you are where the raven knows that they're kind of doomed, but I also think there are other options. I thought about the bird having some kind of "spidey sense" (think Into The Spiderverse) where the vulture is looming in the background and the raven…