Art Portfolio Critique Sheet

Describe What do you see?

Artists Name:
Brad
Cardenaz Date: 5/19/14
Work Title: l Magizine Cover Medium Used:
Photoshop
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 here are mostly the contrast between the dark and white colors. Also the lines that
outline the boxes and on the barcode.
The colors were done on a mostly grayscale and it depicts a simple yet elegant and dapper
person and interesting articles about them.
The picture is balanced because it has a person faceing the camera to take the picture and he
is very collected .
The mood this picture sets is that chill people are cool. And the guy on the
cover does really cool stuff.
I definitely look awesome not quite as awesome as the vector model me
but still pretty cool. And I want some graham crackers.