Yadelin's Blog

This is the second part of my week 13 blog post. Another emotion I felt this past week was disconnected. I felt as though I was watching time pass and things just repeat themselves especially in my relationship. I chose to portray this with a girl sitting on the edge of a cliff watching a clock. She is away from the rest of the world and hopeless. I chose to integrate circles as the shape into the clock. I think that this piece shows the progress I've made with connecting different ideas into one piece which is a big improvement from my first few pieces.  My mental health was struggling this week, I found it hard to see things positively since there were struggles in my relationship, but with each end of a week comes a new one, full of moments where things can get better. I think I felt the same before and after this practice, which is not something that has happened in the past. I was able to ground my thoughts and emotions before beginning this second blog post this week.

  FRUSTRATION:  This week I decided to change things up and first lightly sketch the outline of my practice with the pencil option on the drawing app I use. I wasn't sure how it would work out as I have previously just drawn with the pen and erased whenever I messed up. I found that this time, though, I had more liberty to make mistakes and just adjust the image and delete at the very end. It was much easier to visualize the different body parts and how they connected to one another. I found this piece especially difficult because of the position of the girl sitting and I also really struggle drawing hands. My word this week was "frustration". I have been dealing with a lot of frustration because of my relationship and this week I felt like I couldn't do anything because of it. I decided to depict this by having a girl (representing myself) sitting on the floor with her head to her knees and messy lines surrounding her. I felt that this really communicated how trapped...

 This week, I chose the emotion "relief" because towards the end of the week, I felt light as a feather and like I could finally stop and smell the roses. I worked on combining different aspects of my week into one picture and decided on having music notes acting as part of the rain in my doodle this week. I chose to again use lines as my shape and they are found in the music notes but also the lines of rain coming from the sky. Looking back at where my doodles first started, I think that my practice this week paints a picture of an emotion in a manner that is more personal to me than my first few practices. I really enjoyed making this doodle as it had me reflect on the ups and downs of this week and how ultimately, I was able to end the week with a more positive attitude than when I started. The doodle I made this week is of two friends stomping in puddles while it's raining. Pertaining to my last piece, I had a picture of a girl drowning in water. I purposefully wanted...