Art Portfolio Critique Sheet

Describe What do you see?

Artists Name:
Brad
Cardenaz Date: 12/16/13
Work Title: l Bembos Zoo Medium Used:
Adobe Illustrator
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 at work include straight lines curved lines textured lines out lines inlines curved lines
straight curves and unstriaght lines. The lines are created with the use of the stroke tool.
The colors are cool, that come from the rain forest jungle in the background. The back ground
is mostly green and has very calming colors. The background is 3D with a 2D adobe illustrarion
of a sloth made out of letters. The letters have a rough texture that represents a fur substitute.
The picture is asymmetrical and has a sloth hanging upside down. And so the viewer can
recognize the animal.
The mood of ths work of art! Has a very subtle calming effect with combined
efforts of the rainforest background, the green calming colors and the lazy
sloth is the focus point. So all in all the picture communicates relaxation.
The animal portrayed is a sloth and it has a baby sloth on its tummy.
This work is a success because the color scale and behavior of the
animal in the picture are complimentary.