Letter Project Reflection

In my letter art project, I chose the letter "S" because my last name, Sularno, starts with the letter S and I felt like my surname is really meaningful to me because my dad side of the family including my extended family have similar surnames for example, my cousin's family has the surname of Suharno and my other cousin's name is Sunarno. And so I decided to incorporate family and memories and so I thought I hard while I was brainstorming.

Finally, I decided to choose my childhood memories to base off my art project. After brainstorming thumbnail sketches, I choose two of my favorite designs. One of my favorites was where I decided to draw a playground theme. And the other design I chose was a design based on the theme of school and hardworking. However, during the process of drawing our rough drafts I chose the playground theme because I felt it was much easier and more fun to draw with all the colors.

Within that playground theme I choose the most important essentials for a playground, for example, slides, monkey bars, and swings. Before I drew the playground essentials, I drew grass around the "S" on both sides and I decided to color it with different shades of green and drew a line of the "S" with dark brown color pencil. (All of the materials I used is color pencils and pencil for my first draft) After I drew all the grasses I drew all the playground essentials with a variety of colors to make it pop and be really child-like.  

I felt that this process was really helpful especially when I had to brainstorm different themes and ideas that deal with "S". I also like how at first it was really hard to decide which design to choose. So Ms. Lee solved that by choosing two ideas and drawing them bigger. And that was how I chose which design to finalize.


Which looks like this: (This draft was first drawn by pencil then colored by color pencils)

One of the struggles I had during this process was having to draw the different playground essentials as well as deciding the colors to choose for it. This is because there was a lot of parts to it, for example, the  slide had the rooftop, the bars, the stairs, and the actual slide itself. Also when looking at all the examples of slides from google it was hard to agree to which colors or designs to use therefore, I just went to my childhood and imagine the playground there.

I am actually very satisfied with my project however, one thing I would change is making the "S" larger and the park essentials also larger to make it pop more. Also when making my park essentials bigger I would make the children I placed in the playground bigger with a lot more details.



This is my final draft: