Artist Statement
Before
I started on this art project I had to come up with a conflict that I wanted to
make the main point of my design. I have a huge love for tigers and I wanted to
base my conflict on animal poaching because I believe it’s wrong. In the last
50 years the population of tigers has gone down by 90 percent and I find that
completely heart breaking and that’s why I choose this to be my conflict. The
steps in making this art project that were most important to me were making sure
that the audience could see the conflict. The way I tried showing the conflict
was by having tears falling from down the tigers face, representing hurt and
pain. One part of the process that was a little difficult for me was being able
to get more than one texture throughout the piece. I overcame that difficulty
by adding in other types of texture in tigers face, eyes, and the sunset.
The conflict and theme are both animal poaching, this is such an important topic to me because I’m an animal lover and the fact that the animals in danger are still being killed for reasons such as, being made into clothing, or being used as a fancy rug is wrong. It is illegal to kill a tiger but a tigers coat sells for 20,000$ on the black market. Tigers are such a beautiful animal it would be horrible for them to become extinct. The part of my drawing that I wanted to show my main theme would be the tiger’s eyes with the tears coming from one of them. I made this part the main focus because I felt that it showed the tigers pain the most. There is a lot of meaning behind this art work because I really want others to get involved with saving tigers and not only tigers but other animals around the world that need help.
When I was doing my art project I made sure that the tiger didn’t look like a cartoon. I wanted him to look as real as possible. An element I used throughout the whole piece was texture, because when you’re making prints, texture is one of the main elements that allow you to really see the image. I also used line because I needed straight lines to be pointing towards the tigers face as if it were the sunset. These elements helped emphasize my prints because they make you notice what is going on in the print.
I really enjoyed doing this art project because it allowed me to express my feelings towards a topic that I feel strongly about; however, I didn’t like that fact that the martials we used to crave out the prints was extremely hard to carve into. Although I didn’t like the carving out the prints the end product was amazing, I want to improve on my carvings skills, this was only my second time ever doing something like this. I think my prints would have come out if had more time and more experience on carving out things.The best part about my piece is the way the tiger looks because he looks like really hurting.
The conflict and theme are both animal poaching, this is such an important topic to me because I’m an animal lover and the fact that the animals in danger are still being killed for reasons such as, being made into clothing, or being used as a fancy rug is wrong. It is illegal to kill a tiger but a tigers coat sells for 20,000$ on the black market. Tigers are such a beautiful animal it would be horrible for them to become extinct. The part of my drawing that I wanted to show my main theme would be the tiger’s eyes with the tears coming from one of them. I made this part the main focus because I felt that it showed the tigers pain the most. There is a lot of meaning behind this art work because I really want others to get involved with saving tigers and not only tigers but other animals around the world that need help.
When I was doing my art project I made sure that the tiger didn’t look like a cartoon. I wanted him to look as real as possible. An element I used throughout the whole piece was texture, because when you’re making prints, texture is one of the main elements that allow you to really see the image. I also used line because I needed straight lines to be pointing towards the tigers face as if it were the sunset. These elements helped emphasize my prints because they make you notice what is going on in the print.
I really enjoyed doing this art project because it allowed me to express my feelings towards a topic that I feel strongly about; however, I didn’t like that fact that the martials we used to crave out the prints was extremely hard to carve into. Although I didn’t like the carving out the prints the end product was amazing, I want to improve on my carvings skills, this was only my second time ever doing something like this. I think my prints would have come out if had more time and more experience on carving out things.The best part about my piece is the way the tiger looks because he looks like really hurting.
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