IB Visual Arts HL Internal Assessment Example

The student demonstrates a substantial range of media and techniques, including drawing, printmaking, digital work, painting, and sculpture.

The student's experimentation is purposeful, with material choices generally supporting the emotional and symbolic aims of the portfolio.

The student shows technical development through repeated trials, adjustments, and more controlled handling of materials as the work progresses.

The student's technical control is uneven in several areas, especially in anatomy, carving accuracy, and surface handling.

Some experiments remain a little simplified or derivative, so they do not always feel fully transformed into an individual visual language.

At times the student names materials and techniques without explaining clearly enough what visual effect they produced.

The student investigates a relevant range of artists and practices and connects them to their own developing work.

The student does more than identify influences: in several places they explain how an artist’s approach affects their own technique or subject matter.

The student's research becomes more meaningful when they relate formal qualities such as contrast, distortion, anatomy, and symbolic imagery to their own outcomes.

The student's discussion is often descriptive rather than deeply analytical, so it does not always move far enough into close visual comparison.

Some references stay broad or generalized, and a few sections lean toward imitation rather than critical transformation.

The student would strengthen this area by focusing on fewer artworks in greater depth and naming specific formal features more precisely.