So this is the second part of two blog posts about what we have done and learned about in this maker class. Carr was about learning about the Apple Pencil and Sketches Pro. We also learned about different ways to draw the different tools that sketches pro has. Some of the different strategies that we learned about were using pressure, doodling (yes this can be a skill), shading, perspective and using colour (yes also a skill).

Now because i want this blog post to be like my other blog post for this project i will talk about the artist that this is named after, and that is Emily Carr (wow you guessed it good for you). So Emily Carr was born in Victoria British Colombia in 1871 she was a Canadian artist and writer inspired by the indigenous people of the Canadian north west. Emily Carr did not get recognition for most of her life. She died in 1945. Now one of her paintings could sell for more than 2 million dollars. She is known for her use of colour and how some of her art looked surreal.

So some of the art that i did in this subclass were: creating block letters, creating a doodle library, and drawing our own emojis, drawing a robot and creating a design brief to name a few. I think that the best skill that we learned was sketch noting. So you use visual art to take notes on what you are doing. You use arrows and other thing to point where to look and to tell the story of what you are taking notes on. I do not find this useful but. Know some artistic people like it.

When we’re doing these thing we learned how we could use the different skills. Some of the tools in sketches pro that i used the most were the pen marker ruler and the water Colour. I think that my favourite tool is the pen because the colour does not get darker when it overlapped. I will include most of the drawings at the bottom of the blog post. One cool thing that we got to do in this project was talking to a graphic designer. I won’t say her name because idk if i can but it was interesting to hear her point of view and how you can use art in a practical way to make a living. In conclusion i think this project was about learning how we can use the Apple Pencil to make art and how we can use the different tools that we have at our access in the plp program.