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 One Point Perspective Room Critique



1.The theme of my room is actually quite complex, I believe. The first time you look at it, you may think of it as strange and weird. Maybe an eccentric person was living there. (When I actually drew this, I was thinking of the character of Willy Wonka, from the Charlie and the Chocolate factory by Roald Dahl, since he really was an eccentric man) The eye at the back of the room, the camouflaged desk promotes that feeling. However, if you look at it closely again, you could, if the painting worked the way I wanted it to, think of it as a homely place, perhaps inhabited by a child, due to the picture of a smiley, the childish drawing on the desk, and the bed saying 'Mickey Mouse'. Everything seems innocent and happy. However, as you look further away, for the third time, you could see objects and details that doesn't doesn't make sense. There are cracks on the smiley, and pictures of wanted person and long digits of pi. The door on the top of the ceiling is not exactly in the middle. The feeling therefore is increased to a suspicious, macabre sense. Maybe a madman lives there, or maybe it had been abandoned years ago. There is a mystery that is not palpable.

2.The unexpected environment of my room was 'halfway under the ground'. The hole show a large portion of the underground, coloured in brown, and the grass and sky, which is the surface of the Earth. Though I have not portrayed this extremely well in my picture, I believe this suits my room very well. Due to the fact that it is extraordinary and extremely unexpected, it promotes the 'weird feeling' of the room. Also it gives hints of the actual inhabitant of this room itself. Maybe something that lives underground, maybe someone who doesn't want to be found? The questions, hopefully, makes the looker more suspicious., and hopefully more interested in the actual picture.

3. My biggest challenge was actually the drawing itself. There were actually, so many ideas that I wanted to put in, with better furniture, better decorations, but my dexterity as an artist failed and it simply did not look 'right'. Also, I found drawing in perspective the hardest in the drawing. When one gets to the actual part where one has to put pencil on paper, one would realize that this was not as easy as one thought it would be. Making every single object in the room be in perspective was a challenge which I found hardest.

4. I am most proud of the colour scheme of my room. I tried to put in lively colours that promote the feeling of youth. Surely you must think that green, yellow, blue and orange must be lively colours. I also tried very hard to camouflage the desk with the wooden floor, and I believe it worked. I quote from Mrs. Digges, 'I cannot see your desk, at all.' I hope that my ideas have been carried through well. I also liked the fact that I used relatively few colours and contrasted the colours with their intensity with the monochromatic colour scale.

5. If I could change anything, I would change the fact that three furniture, at least, had to be included, necessarily. I resent this because sometimes the mood of the room may be hollow and empty, and just putting needless furniture would just dent the artist's thinking and effect. However, I do realize that this excersise is an exercise for drawing in perspective. I think that the minimum should have been changed to one.

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