When I started on this midterm piece, I had no clue what to do. I played around with this idea of the rules of thirds when trying to figure out how to incorporate a grid into the piece. When I did my six small drawings, I really loved working with the Charcoal and playing around with the subtracting method. I really wanted to play around with different tones of black and white, and I thought the ink would be a nice contrast with the charcoal. At first, I felt really good about where I was going with this piece. I did all dry materials first. I really like how the paper took the charcoal, and how it almost sat on top of the paper, which when rubbed out, made a really nice texture as well. However, when I started to add the ink to the piece, I kind of did not like how dark the ink made everything. By the time I finished the piece, I felt like I messed up the whole thing. There was not a lot of contrast in terms of light and dark. Overall there was so much dark in the piece by my standards. Though when we did the the crit, a lot of people seemed to like how dark the piece was. Also that I somehow had a white outline around most of the objects, that created a glowing effect to the whole piece. Even though I still have some negative feelings towards my midterm, I felt a lot better after the crit when people said the like the “Moodiness” of the piece and how it was different from what other people did.