1. I have grown artistically in classes by trying my best to do what teachers say. In my opinion, all art teachers have helped me grow in many ways and in a new perspective. Mr. Edward made me build a puppet, and it required art and engineering skills to create a puppet that blinks, moves its mouth and sign. With Mr. Hackett, I learned how important observing with what I see can make a big difference in my drawings. Ground and figure relationship, along with balanced proportion, helped me improve my drawing skills dramatically. Ms. Marsh helped me a lot with drawing values. I learned that some areas are darker than others, that I can layer cake to make a drawing look like in 3D. Lines makes drawing look flat, so I have to turn lines into edges in order to add the 3D effect. I'm still struggling and improving, but Ms. Marsh made my 3D drawings look much better than when I had not much experience in adding values. Mr. Leyen taught us how to use Illustrator to create interesting art, like words forming a person or an object. I also worked with a partner to create a storybook. Miss Aldarondo showed me how artists express themselves through art by visiting art museums. With all of the support from my awesome teachers, my perspective on art did change.
2. Being in a creative community made me notice how students have very different art skills, yet we all have one thing in common: we love to do what we want to do and we work hard on our art skills. It's so nice to see other visual artists like me, though on different stages of skills and interests, we always learn something new from each other and we are always improving. I enjoy getting feedbacks from other visual artists, which helps me grow on my art skills and ideas. I also taught students something too, like I wrote tips on the white board on how to use 123D design to create Ife heads in the STEAM lab. Even though we are students, we teach each other. That's what I learned being in the BAA community.
