This is just another try at using shading to create depth. The reason I chose to use a woman’s face in conjunction with rigid metallic structures was mainly to challenge myself, as they both require different processes when shading.
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I just wanted to put out there that I’m also in a class called digital story telling. There’s only one project, so the posts about it will be sparse. Right now I’m in the process of writing my script for the project, and then I’ll move on to story boarding it, which I will post here. The idea is for us to make a three minute movie that actually ends up being an advertisement for a specific product. The first company to do this was BMW, with their series of ten web released short films known as “The Hire,” staring Clive Owen. They totally ignored the conventional advertising methods and created a new and highly effective form of advertising. Our goal is to duplicate the same emotional draw they created towards the BMW Z3 and apply it to whatever product we choose. Good luck to me!
These are just charcoal sketches I did during class. I’m trying to develop my ability to identify shape using different values of light and dark. Neither of these images are meant to make a statement of any kind. They’re simply shapes that I thought would be interesting to draw at the time. In the image above I was attempting to make the shape highly reflective, while the image below diffuses the light much more, giving it a much softer texture.
First off, let me just say that these images are just reproductions and not originals. The point of our last Design and Art Theory class was to learn proportion and gesturing. Gesturing is the act of making a quick sixty second sketch of your subject, no matter what it is. Essentially we are being trained to break down each image into it’s essential shapes and lines rather than first focusing on little details. Within the art of gesturing it’s very important to nail proportion, which is what we really look for to identify people and things. The first piece was actually the last one I completed during class that day, but I like how it turned out, so I’m listing it first… ha ha. It was drawn from an image chosen for me from a magazine. The second image of the weird looking bearded guy who slightly resembles the grinch, was made from someone’s verbal description of a photograph they were holding. I’m really not happy with the second image but (as I’ve stated before), I’m interested in keeping an accurate record of my design work here, and whether I like it or not, this is part of it.
With this one we were tasked with designing an abstract digital art piece, which is basically using the canvas to convey some kind of emotion rather than a specific image. I was in a particularly good mood when I did this, and apparently when I’m feeling this way I produce colorful fuzzy images. Ha ha. This one started to look kind of like a caterpillar to me by the end, but in the interest of sounding “artsy,” I think I’ll call it, “The Explosion of a Lonely Star” just to make people think. Either way, I received positive accolades from everyone who saw it. Hooray!
Here’s a flyer I just finished for the Full Sail Student Gallery. I’ve had this image of the colors of light floating around in my mind for a while now. My foundation for this comes in no small part from my good friend Ben Phenicie who does a lot of work with bright colors… of the neon persuasion. Ha ha… any way, as a new student I’m pretty excited that this will be used school wide.
I actually don’t like this piece. But in the interest of keeping an accurate log of my design work at Full Sail, I decided to include it any way. We were given an assignment to do a digital painting which mimicked either prehistoric or medieval art. Obviously I chose to do a prehistoric cave painting. This image actually popped into my mind as I listened to “Robot Rock” by Daft Punk. I think it was the phrase “robot rock” being repeated over and over again that influenced my decision to place the two Daft Punk guys (who coincidentally look like robots) on the face of a rock. I was actually working on a medieval piece when it hit me, and having just impressed myself by my own whit, I decided to scratch what I was doing and work on this.
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