4D Preliminary Work

Here are a couple studies I did for my next 4D project. We will be working with split screen and mirroring; I am really excited about it. I took a photo of a Richard Serra installation piece that was at the MoMA and fooled around with it in Photoshop to find interesting interactions with the negative and positive space shapes. Pretty simple stuff really, but the interactions create some powerful images. The final product is going to be a video, but that is all I'm going to tell you for now. You will just have to wait and see it for yourself in a couple of weeks.


This one is the original image. The next two are the abstractions.



I need to get some batteries so I can take pictures of my newest drawings. So, be on the lookout for those toward the weekend. I am also on the tail end of a huge (well, huge for me) 3D installation piece that I have been slaving over. I will be finishing it up the first part of next week, so keep your eyes peeled for that as well.

Drawing Bananza!

WOWZA ladies and gentlemen, do I have a treat for you! Here for you are about 10 drawings from this semester along with a self portrait painting I did for LCD. A lot of the drawings (most of the figures) are done with cross contour lines, which is what we have been focusing on the past week or two. We are venturing into the land of tone as well, so expect to see some full fledged finalized drawings in the weeks to come!



Enjoy!

edit: removed all of the "illicit content" works

Whoa New Post!

Sorry its been a while boys and girls. Here is a new post. They are all work from the first semester.

I will try to photograph some of my work from this semester. First though, I need to find a functioning camera - easier said than done.







Ok kids there you have it. Be on the look out for a new post over the weekend!

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.