Art Portfolio Critique Sheet

Describe What do you see?

Artists Name: Seth
Thompson Date: 2-19-14


Work Title: menu
Medium:
Photoshop CS6

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?




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.





Balance
What contributes to balance in the composition? Is the balance symmetrical,
asymmetrical or radial?





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.






Judge What do you think of the work?
Write about the success of this work, explain.
The lines are menu based
The colors are very gamer friendly
The balances are menu balanced
I feel accomplished
Its a gamer themed restaurant so it must be successful.