(SW1)+Sleeping+Moe

= **__Studio Work # 1: Sleeping Moe__**  =

**__Analysis:__** **This was the final piece in the first week of school; this was the first studio work to do in the whole course so i was a bit confused of doing everything in IB- ART. I didn't know a theme at all** until **my sister and my friends came out and told me that facial expressions is a very successful theme in art. So i liked the theme and the first person i thought of drawing in the first project was my baby brother or me. I chose to draw him because i thought he was easy to draw and its wasn't hard when drawing. i took a picture of Mohamed sleeping and i drew him. Sleeping is a facial expression so i knew what i was doing was right.** **First, i made a made a trail of this drawing and i colored in Faber Castel Pencil/ Water Colors. I really didn't know what how to smudge the pencil strokes very well. I didn't like how it came out because the face was all one color and i could show any shadows on the face because it was kind of hard when using these colors. It was the first time to use them so that why i want able to control the shadows not the contrasting of colors.** **Some things i changed form the final trial to the final piece was te color of blanket that was under my brother. First it was green, so i replaced the green with blue because i don't like doing anything that is pale and the beige and the green were kind of mtaching together. Blue was darker and i thought that it would let the baby show more and pop out from te picture which also worked. I liked the drawing itself but i didn't like the medium i used because i found out that water colors were hard to control. I replaced the medium of water colors to acrylic.** **After using acrylic, i was more satisfied because acrylic was easier to control.I was able to show shadows on the face and on the blanket. The color blue and beige were so much better that green and beige because it let the baby pop out more. I really like the face because the eyes were drawn and painted right. Anyone who sees it would be able to recognize that hes a sleeping boy which is considered a facial expression.** **Some weaknesses in that painting is that the blue blanket doesn't really show like a blanket. I tried to apply all the shadows and lines that were in the real picture but it still looked like a blue background in the painting. S****omething else i didn't like about that painting is that the baby doesn't really show like a three year old baby. He looks like a young child. Maybe its because i stayed three hours and a half drawing and painting this painting.** **I called it "Sleeping Moe" because Moe is a nick name for Mohamed and Moe has been the name be call him since he was born. He was sleeping so i called it Sleeping Moe.****I tried my best to make this painting look like Mohamed. I didn't really look like him but i'm satisfied with what i have painted.** Back to the Studio Work Page