I thought the group critique was very beneficial because it pointed me towards my strengths. When I showed the group my illustrations, the one they all agreed was the best was one I thought was not very good. They all agreed that this one was very good, which was very enlightening for me because I had no idea that this illustration was very good at all. The group critique pointed my focus in the right direction and opened my eyes to aspects of my work that I didn’t think were very important, but actually are.

Successful aspects of the installation were the use of material and limited time. We were able, without any planning, to set up a live illustration and successfully communicate illustrative skills we had learned earlier in class on a live model in a very short amount of time. I enjoyed leaving the paper for a little bit and taking the skills I had just learned and use them in a different medium. I try to apply this concept in other instances as well. I think it is important to gather skills like these ones and apply them to other mediums that don’t necessarily coincide with that skill. I think combining practices like this can really enhance one’s work for the better, and I think the installation we did today perfectly exemplifies that. 

I can make a couple connections between Maurizio Cattelan’s work and my own. For example, I’ve noticed in his work, a sort of exaggerated representation of different faces. On a physical level, I think our drawings look a lot like his artwork because a continuous line drawing can only look so “real.” You can tell it is a person we’re drawing but there is a sort of odd exaggeration that prevails, that I think also prevails in Cattelan’s work. The physical similarities between his satirical sculptures and our intuitive drawings are very clear.