The Power of Art in Society

    The three masks that I chose to focus my inspiration on for this assignment were the Acient Chinese Culture masks. I decided to go with these mask because as a child my favorite childhood movie was Mulan. In that movie , even though it was a cartoon there was a lot of chinese culture masks present. I like the way these maks look because they have many different textures, shapes, colors and dimention to them. With the first mask the desription would be having sphere like horns coming out of the head. The eyes are bulging out of their sockets. It has a teeth like a vampire, very sharp K9 teeth. The tounge has muiltple colors it, blue red and green, and it kind of resembles a rattle snake tounge. The face of the mask is painted blue. There is a middle eye that is centered right above both eyes. The eyebrows have flame like motion in them spiraling outwards. Around the mouth you can see the same thing the flame like motion. On the forehead around the eyebrows you a can see...

I think using my hands as subject matter was interesting. Doing this assignment made me focus more on the detail of lines throughout my hands. The more I starred at my hands, I studied the form in witch my hands were structured. That made it easier for me to sketch them out on paper. The type of media I used to sketch my hands was a pencil. I chose this media because personally I feel like charcoal is hard to erase, its darker then a pencil and it gets everywhere on your hands. With a pencil you can make light marks and it barely shows up on the paper. It is also easier using a pencil because you can make light and dark shadings with it. When trying to sketch my non-dominant hand it was definitely a challenge for me because I have never tried to draw with that hand before. My dominant hand is my left hand as far as writing goes but I do everything with my right hand. Drawing my left hand with my right hand was hard because I never thought to use my right hand when it comes to drawi...