Mylar Charcoal Paper Project: Winnie The Pooh

Analysis: I was inspired to make this because I wanted to create a character with personality, detail, and a 3-Dimensional look. I liked the rough processes of going straight to charcoal and using the already laid out dark areas to create the still-life, because it made it easier to draw his shape and add the detail. Some challenges that I faced was how to create light areas to give Winnie the Pooh a 3-dimensional view, because his figure had a lot of dark areas, thus making light areas very difficult in areas other than the face, like the body. I also faced the challenges of creating a black color value around Winnie the Pooh, because what made him stand out the most was the difficult white colors values. I created this project because I wanted to place personality in my work with a lively character from my childhood, no matter how challenging drawing him was. This piece relates to my learning experience because I learned how to copy a still-life object, I learned how trust in myself to create something that I thought was impossible, and I learned how to make a detailed drawing by deconstructing and reconstructing it. I have grown artistically over the semester with this project by learning how to work with charcoal, learning how to use mylar paper, and learning how to erase art to create an even greater and more textured piece of art.