Have you ever done a project and what you create is not what is suppose to be?
By SweetArt2009
@SweetArt2009 (42)
United States
March 17, 2010 7:15am CST
I had a project recently for my Design I class. We had to do a tessellation. where you have one pattern and you repeated it on the page. Where I took one patter but was not repeated like it supposed to be I made it look like a snow flake and the design was a Jack in box head.. I draw it out but the hard part was keeping it the same size on all of it when you cut it..exactly like the first one you create. ugh i did this project like 4 time and then the 5th time it took the whole class time and I finally get it right and no one could of explain it better to me.. just terrible.. what make it worse we couldnt use scissors we had to use a bristol board and cut with Exacto Knife. It was hard to do without cutting yourself, and painful to hold it down hard or carefully.. it more stress to make it perfect too.
when i first started it i try to do it 1x1 inch square., lol it hard take forever.. but my last one i did it 1x1 1/2 inch.. which make it a little bigger.. and better.
Does anyone like using exacto knife??
Oh and I was asked to save my project with the one with the jack in the box head design anyway.. it so strange how what you supposed to do may be wrong and it can be soo simple but hard at the beginning.
2 responses
@artsyfartsygypsy (755)
• Canada
17 Mar 10
I've done that and soemtimes it osnt come out half bad but most of the time it comes out terrible because that's not what I wanted and I just think it's distastful.
Although, some of the gratest peices of art came out from mistakes and a vision misinterpreted.
I feel like a bit of a filure when this happens to me. I feel as ifI was unable to take my vision and make it a reality and it sucks.
@SweetArt2009 (42)
• United States
20 Mar 10
Sometime what artist do will think it distatseful or not so perfect and when you about to toss it in the trash another will admire it. So save what you make that you may not agree with okay. No one said we had to be perfect and yet some people vision are such an animation or dream place before they can put it on paper. Some cant put it on paper but can imagine it. I would not consider yourself a failure. You have talent in you and it just in different way and you are yet to discover more about you as the days go by. My father said to me it is better to try then to never try at all. so yes we are all capable of mistake but once you make them at least some teacher or someone with knowledge may have an explanation for are mistake and help us to understand. Like I said my teacher show me how to do it several time and well it took many mistake before I can do it right.
Thanks for sharing your thoughts with me. I hope you have a wonderful evening.
@artsyfartsygypsy (755)
• Canada
21 Mar 10
I try to save what I do but then everything just gets hoarded and thats not good. I dont have a lot of space as it is and when I start saving everything I do I lose the last of my walking area and breathing room.
I could always ask other peoples opinions but I dont like to hear what otehrs have to say usually (not because I dont like to be critisized) because art, to me, is about free expression and personal experiences.
I dont really consider myself a failure but I wish I could get what I want in my head to show up in ym art sometimes. Its an art of its own as I see it and just requires some practice. I just have to be willing to put teh work in.
There are teachers and mentors who could probally help me and tell me where I went wrong but again, I wouldnt want to ask their opinion (in fact, I would dread and avoid it at any cost). Party because whenever I mess up its a learning experince and when I see where I went wrong and wfinally understand how to do it I learn so much more, so much better and so much faster.
@cripfemme (7698)
• United States
24 May 10
Yes, I have. I was working on a mixture of poems and drawing. I'm a poet, but have had no appropriate visual art training. The hardest thing for me was not being able to edit the visual component, as I was used to doing with the printed words. Is what the hardest thing for me. How do visual artists do it all the time?
