I am a big fan of using the stippling technique in my artwork. This is when you use tiny dots to make up an entire image. Also, I thought that stippling would have been a perfect way to reflect the skills that I have learned throughout the first unit in a different way. This unit was mainly about observing and developing skills to create art. With this piece, I chose to observe nature. Although less unique then observing something like real life people, I think nature in artwork to be beautiful because you can put your own twist on it. In the first unit, I also learned how to sketch, look for shadows and highlights, and create value. I used sketching in this piece because before dotting, I looked at the leaves and sketched their outline lightly with a pencil. Additionally, stippling in a great way to show value and it is a bit different than blending with graphite. Instead, you make a higher concentration of dots where it is darker. In this piece, there were shadows on the underside of the branches and on the edges of leaves so that is where I added more dots. Also, when looking at the leaves I was sketching, I noticed there was a gradient in the background. So, I concentrated lots of dots towards the bottom and dispersed them as I got higher up. I think I could work on making the gradient more gradual when stippling but my favorite part of the piece was the value I achieved in the branches. It took me a long time to get it to look like this because I had to go over with more dots often. Lastly, I really enjoyed the dots I placed in the background because it gives the art a mystical look to it, something that I always imagine when looking at nature.
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