Ellipse Hand Sketches

These sketches are from last week's drawing homework. We have been working with ellipses and perspective. What else is relevent to these... they were drawn with NeoColor which is a lovely tool that has a lot of versitility with mark quality. Its downfall is the fact that it is wax based and therefor cannot be erased.




Enjoy!

I will try to keep updating often like I have been the past week or two, and hopefully I will have time to write a little about my experiences so far. So keep your eyes peeled for that toward the end of the week.

La Jetée

In 1962, a Frenchman named Chris Marker released his film La Jetée. The film is a series of still images, except for a single filmed shot, that tells a story about time travel in a post-nuclear war world. An unnamed man is sent back in time in search for a cure to the world's contemporary problems. On these journeys back in time, the man falls in love with a girl who he vaguely remembers from the time before the war. I will stop there, but if you would like to find out more here are a pair of links to help you out with that:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Jetee

and

http://imdb.com/title/tt0056119/

We were given an assignment to make our own film in the La Jetée style which would be based on a series of subtitles from the movie. Coinciding with this, we were reading an article on copyrights and plagiarism, so we had to include images that were not our own, incorporating them into the film as if we had taken them ourselves. It is a very large Quicktime movie file, so I would advise following the download link instead of playing it directly in your browser (please have some patience with the download time). Also, it is a proprietary Quicktime file, so you will need Quicktime (available here for free) installed on your computer in order to view the movie. Without further adieu, here is the link my film: http://www.zshare.net/video/4588262359ac88/

New Drawing Showcase

Wow y'all, sorry for the lack of posts! It has been a month, but I have gotten a lot of work done in that month. Hopefully I will get a lot of that work up here in the blog. Mid-terms came and went, which were the main cause for my lack of time to put into the blog. Most of the work in this post were part of my drawing mid-term. Also, I will be finishing my 4D midterm this at the beginning of the week so be on the look out for that. So here are nine drawings. As always, click on the thumbnail for a full screen view.










There you have it! Hope you enjoy them and, of course, any comments or criticism would be great!

Final Flip Book

This is the final animation version of my flip book. I'll be adding sound tomorrow in class. That is all for now, sorry. I have to run to do some studying for art history.

http://www.zshare.net/video/38525369383e71/

Just like the last one, you should be able to watch it in your browser.

Flipbook

Here is a rough work up of a flipbook I made for 4D class. It was a real challenge to rotate it right because I wasn't allowed to use a computer in the beginning. All of the outline (and as you will see the rotation) was done by hand then we scanned the induvidual frames of our flipbook into the computer where we are now tweaking them. I added some rough color and cleaned it up a bit, but I still have several more hours of work left to do on it. I thought I would show y'all a work in progress. You can download it here: http://www.zshare.net/video/3636062b211da1/

Hopefully, everyone has Quicktime so you can view it. If not, Quicktime is free download from Apple and you can get it here: http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download/

I will post the final version of the animation when I have it completed.

Museum of Natural Histoy

These are a couple of sketches I did yesterday at the Museum of Natural History. I wish I could have spent more time exploring the museum, but I ended up staying until they closed just doing sketches. These are a handful of many, and I appologize for the poor quality of the picture. I don't have access to a scanner regularly, so I just have to take pictures with a camera and the lighting in your rooms is horrible. Oh, and please click on the image for a larger view, it helps to see them just a little better.

First and Second Week's Work

Here is some of my work from my first two drawing classes: a handful of quick two minute gestures. Click on the thumbnail for a larger picture.






Hope you enjoy!