Art Portfolio Critique Sheet

Describe What do you see?

Artists Name: Work Title: Seth Thompson Bembo Zoo Date: 12/13/13 Medium Used: Adobe Illustrator

Analyze How is the work organized?

What elements or principles of design are used? Use art vocabulary to analyze the work.

Lines
What kind of lines are in the work? Straight, curved, dotted, broken, wavy, jagged, textured, horizontal, vertical diagonal, contour or outlines. Were the lines created by abrupt color, value or texture changes?
The lines are made of letters, soletters

Color and Value

Colors- are they warm, cool, bright, dull, light, opaque or transparent? Values resulting from combinations of lights and darks, or shades and tints of a color. Shapes (two-dimensional) and forms (three-dimensional), representational, abstract, organic, geometrical, open, closed. Texture Rough, smooth, coarse, soft, bumpy, hairy, shady, etc. Simulated you can see but not feel it or real. (Dont confuse texture with pattern the repetition of some motif in a recognizable order, such as polka dots or a checkerboard.
I manipulated the colors of the letters to moderately match the color and shape of the fox.

Balance
What contributes to balance in the composition? Is the balance symmetrical, asymmetrical or radial?
Id like to think that an animal made out of letters is balanced.

Interpret What message does this artwork communicate to you?

Write about the feeling, mood or message of this work. Defend your interpretation with evidence from the description and analysis information above and/or use art history or past experiences.

WHAT DOES THE FOX SAY?!?!?!?!

Judge What do you think of the work?

Write about the success of this work, explain.

I think this work is decent work of mine, so I very much enjoyed this.
Seth Thompson Thursday, February 13, 2014 at 11:12:23 AM Pacic Standard Time