r/ArtGCSE

For art gcse i am doing the theme of horror, what is some good things i could do with it? I will list some things i have thought of if u have any more can u please tell me!

Real life horror

Movie horror

Supernatural

Anime (maybe)

Animal

first of all, let me briefly explain my piece idea. this guy (marc almond) in the centre, two statues on either side of him with their eyes closed. columns (ionic) on either side, in front and behind the people to create depth. big stained glass window in the background. a simple one. i don't have the time or skill to paint a super detailed one, so i designed my own in my plan that my teacher failed to look at even once. before this, i practiced a complicated window and didn't like how it came out.

my final exam was last week. beforehand, miss told me she thought i sounded confident and that she was going to leave me alone. she also said she wasn't allowed to talk to us during the exam, which..she wasn't. the exam comes round, the first 5 hours goes great. finished all the portraits. fine. second half comes along, everything is going well, and i've spent an hour and a half at most painting the window. my teacher walks over to me and says, "why are you doing it like that? your practice was so much better. do it like this please." and she puts the aforementioned window i practiced beforehand in front of me. i decide not to because i've already spent over an hour on the other one and it's almost done. she comes back and says "just trust me please." i get sick of her and just put both of the windows aside and start working on the smaller pillars for the background. at this point i've decided there won't be a window at all. she comes back and asks me about the window, i tell her i gave up on it and she huffs and storms off like a toddler to go complain to the assistant teacher about me. (i'm crying by this point). she comes back, rearranges everything i've done to make it fit portrait and tells me, "i didn't know you were doing it landscape. you are a grade 9 student and your practice was better than this" (i'm not grade 9 btw i've been stuck on a 7 for months) "your work is nothing without the window." NOTHING WITHOUT THE WINDOW??? ARE YOU KIDDING ME? i showed her my plan with the sketch of my idea, which featured the window i'd been painting. she says, "you're basing it on that little sketch?" and tuts at me. for context, this "little sketch" was the plan she was shouting at us to complete a couple weeks before because we, in her words, needed it so SHE knew what we were all doing. again, she never even looked at them. she tells me "there's no point in crying." i tell her i can't help it and she completely ignores me and gives me both of the windows to cut out. i cut out the first one but atp i can't stop crying and i'm just trying to sort myself out so i can do what she's asking. she asks me to cut out the other one. "cut it." "i will!" "we don't have much time left and i can't do it for you" i don't. by the way, before the exam even started she told us she was allowed to cut things out for us, so no idea what that was about. "CUT IT." this just makes me cry more and she tells me to leave because i'm disturbing the exam. i go to the bathroom and have a full on i-can't-breathe panic attack on the floor for at least 20 minutes. i go back in and the exam is over. the teacher has rearranged my work in a really weird way, and it's all portrait now. i made everything just so it could fit perfectly on landscape because that's what i had in mind, and that's what was clearly shown (and said!) in my plan. the (lovely) examiner comes over to me and tells me i have an extra 36 minutes next week to finish everything because of the time i took out. her exact words were, "it's okay! they sorted it out for you. you'll have an extra 36 minutes next week. don't worry, there is always a way" she was so sweet😭 unfortunately she won't be there for my 36 minutes, and i don't think it'll be any different. i'm fully expecting my teacher to do the exact same thing but worse because it's during a regular lesson where she can do whatever she likes.

she did this during my mock exam too where she made me restart halfway through because what i was doing was "copyright" (disney. it was all my idea and i wasn't even copying anything straight up. someone else in the class just full on traced someone else's art and got away with it. i'd spent months putting it all together and planning it out, and AGAIN, she NEVER LOOKED AT MY PLAN.) i then spent 8 hours on a different idea, only for her to tell me it "wasn't enough for a final piece" and made me do it all over again with less than a week at home to do it. she also didn't like that, and told me it would bring my grade down. she also told me at parents evening that the mock exam didn't even count towards my grade?? she's so confusing, and i'm screwed. my dad is thinking of complaining to the school. thanks for reading, if you did..

I really want to do a gyotaku print ontop of lino for my final peice but I was thinking about the practically of doing it as my teacher says it wouldn't be possible.

Gyotaku is a traditional form of art from Japan, that uses sumi ink to paint atop of a dead fish and print onto washi paper, showing a 1-1 scale print of the fish, showing each individual detail of that fish.

I like this as it captures shows the fish for what it is giving it an image after it's death, and for it to be 'immortalised' almost.

I understand that it would be smelly but I have been granted a separate room for my access arrangements and the school has fridges/freezers for students to use.

I want to do this as I feel I can honor the fish and it will bring individuality to my work.

Can I do this and should I?

i have my statement of intent for my exam due in tomorrow and forgot to do an artist to base it off. my final exam piece is a sculpture of a tree and i cant find a SINGLE artist who makes nature sculptures that arent of animals.

if anyone could help me with this u would genuinely save me from failing ! 🥹

My exam is next week and ive finished all coursework. my teacher told us we were allowed some prep time for our final pieces, but how much can you do? would i be allowed to sketch everything so i can just paint during my exam?

So I've chosen the theme point of view, and I have my basic idea- a child's pov of a war and how they've manipulated it to cope, but I literally cannot for the life of me think of anything beyond that (I swear art gcse has destroyed all of my creativity).

Like i can't think of anything without things being too childish? I've looked at 2 realism artists (sophie pearson and margaret bowland) and 2 more childish ones (lauren child and quentin blake), also for my still life things I looked at toy soldiers/nerf guns.

I initially thought of having like a smoke cloud amongst the background, but within the cloud is the child's manipulated view? Like their own kiddish vision but what that exactly is I have no idea. And don't get me started on the background 😢

But I have 2 days... I just need anyone and everyones ideas rn

I haven’t done an oil painting since the end of last year and I am not sure If i got faster since then (I am pretty sure I have). Anyways, I think it would be great if I could do a water based underpainting before the exam so it would ensure I would be quicker but I don’t know if it is allowed. Does anyone know if it is??

So I've just done my exam in art and I've handed both my books in and she told the class we would have no more opportunities to work on our books. Last night she called my dad and told him I'd got just under a four and if I changed a few things I could get a four, I'm not the only student either she's told at least two others. Personally I'm a little irritated and suspicious that she is not in fact allowed to do that. Is that the case and would it be reasonable for me to report her

my exam is on may 5th and 6th and im going to be doing an a3 oil painting - the plan is a person stuck between two different religious pathways. everything has been planned out but i struggle with timing since im a slow painter (for context i did an a2 piece for my year 10 mock and only got 1/4 of it done within two days. what can i do to make sure i get as much as possible done on the day so that im not submitting a basically unfinished piece?

ive js done my art gsce, wondering what happens in art lessons now? do we go back to our old books, do we revise other things? like what

The title is pretty much it. I'm currently working at a grade 5 which makes me wanna rip my hair out because I'm a straight 9s student and I NEVER EVEN WANTED TO DO ART. Anyways dk if u can tell but I am deeply frustrated. Tbf my book has hardly any annotations like only rlly basic ones, but I wanna LOCK the FLYING FREAK in and bump that up to AT LEAST a 7 so I won't hate myself. The work I've done is pretty basic (pencil, biro, watercolour, oil pastel, crayon & charcoal like ONCE) but other than those materials I don't have much else. And I don't think I'll find the time do make more art. So rn I have to focus on annotations. But what kind of stuff do they wanna see? For artist research do they want me to write and english language analysis paragraph cuz that's one thing I CAN do. For my own work what kind of stuff should I write abt? How much? And how do I show development? I'm somebody who likes step by step breakdowns like "based on this exact marking point, do this", which is smth I haven't been able to find anywhere.

Theme: Cultures, mexico day of the dead (I might include mexican paper cutting somewhere, or not) , or go into chinese cultures

Flower type: Marigold, lotus

I dont have access to any paper mache, clay sculpting, wire work, fabricy stuff (Because I have experimented with all those before and didn't turn out well.) I know that really limits my options but idkdkkdkd

If the flower is 2D I might use cardboard and paint the flower on but that might be a bit flimsy??

I really need help, I'm confused and stressed em just help please :))

You see, there’s this sixth form I wanna go too, and to get in you need a 5 in 5 GCSEs, and that would be easy if my school wasn’t for autistic people, trust me, it’s hell there, half the students are obnoxious and the staff are the most patronising people on the planet, all I want is a normal life and this sixth form is the closet thing I will ever get to the teenage life I wanted, anyway done with venting, my art teacher said her average was a 2, and idk what to do, like is there anything I can do at home (since that dumb school doesn’t do homework) and is there anything I should know or anything, btw my theme is anime and manga (but now it’s literally anything Japan/Comic related)

i finished my art exam today, it went better than i had planned!! i finished everything and it was pretty chill but exhausting. i cant believe im done with art now, im expected a grade 8 so hopefully i can get that!! is it weird that after doing 10 hours of art i feel inspired to create a new piece?!

I've been told that if I go into school tomorrow I have to sit in the art room for 5 hours making something else which won't go towards my grade. This isn't the worst scenario, but I'd quite like to stay home and do something productive like revising instead. Plus I have another 10 hour photography exam also this week..

Has anyone ever skipped the last day? Did it affect your grade?

I'm currently doing my exam unit, where I've chosen to do a digital comic relating to mental health. The issue is, I can't find... like... anything.
The exam theme is point of view, i took it in 2 ways -
The actual point of view of pages, like expressive poses, forshortening and perspective.
And POV (my coursework was about someone HELPING the person struggling, now I'm doing my exam unit on the perspective of the person instead.)

If anyone knows somewhere I can look for comics (physical or digital) that deal with mental health or an artist that uses forshortening and perspective in their work a lot, please tell!