18 posts tagged “art”
i cant believe how long its been since ive posted pictures of my drawing stuff.
we started pastels with a still of a bag and some apples, i didnt post that because it was boring compared to these. i started with the butterfly (we picked a bug photo and went to work), then moved to the self portrait, if you go to my flickr account you can compare the pastel to the original photo. then i moved to the degas master copy of the dancers, put that on hold and worked on the pastries and finished both of them up for my portfolio presentation.
i really like my dinosaur cookie.
if you get a chance, come see them in person, theyre really colorful and neat. im pretty proud of them all. the degas took forever, layering all of the colors, trying to find blending matches... ugh. but its nice looking. thats pretty much the last half of the semester.
also, i got deans list again. woo.
i finished all of my stuff for this semester. we're supposed to have finals and junk, but since im in all art classes, its all "turn in your portfolio and pick it up later." i like this. heres what ive been working on for the past while (im missing pictures of all my pastel drawings, ill get to that later; along with the uploads of my photography junk.)
::ugh. i just spent 15 minutes trying to get vox to accept another project from cg, a isometric product box. but, i dont know why it wont show up. everything i upload is saved as a jpeg, and they all come from the same computer, same program, same export settings. i even threw it into photoshop here at my own computer to make sure its a normal picture. argh!
typography: a timeline of events, or calendar. basically i created a folding flyer for my swim team, and its completely usable, so we might print up a few dozen of them. theres two per page, printed full color front and back.
so all i have left is critiques tomorrow for the box of headphones that you cant view and the tale of two cities interpretation to the right. the only thing ive got wednesday is a pizza party!
oh, also, my type class went on a field trip last week to the comtemparary art center of virginia beach. it was alright, there was a temporary exhibit for the magna carta, which was pretty neat. but on permanant display is this GIGANTIC blown glass chandellier by dale chihuly. its pretty much the most amazing thing ive seen in a really really really long time. its like this one, but more colorful.
corey "reyyy" lewis wrote up an interesting blog about comics today. calling the new era "post manga" which is true in all regards. i wish i had kept up with modern comic art.
on a sadder note, johnny hart, the cartoonist who created and drew b.c. died. sad.
also in the world of comics, but far less important, buy me things at discount! im super interested in what alan moore's lost girls could possibly be. while im being obnoxiously greedy, other things to buy me: From Hell, Blankets, Owly Plush, other owly things from andy runton, will you still love me if i wet the bed, and jefferey browns every girl will be the end of me.
i really didnt think id be able to create a post all about comics.
free comics day is coming up! may 15th -ish!
on a more broad art world note:
check out these two blogs who denounce companies using bad copyright practice. this is everything i was talking about in my last (real) post!
urban counterfeiters
ive been spending a lot of time online during studio time, and rather than working on my projects, ive discovered some really great things (mostly through blogs). i thought id collect them all here and share them with you, so you also have a less productive day.
MUSIC: lately, ive been bringing headphones into the studio to listen to creative music rather than The Worlds Most Inane and Annoying Conversations. and while ive loaded some stuff into itunes, its a lab computer and im not super interested in filling up the hard drive resulting in latent work speeds; so i also use www.blogmusik.net (which is down) so then i found this live concert page in npr. its pretty amazing, you can even download some concerts whole.
MOVIES: so since its a mac lab, when you start up safari it automatically homepages to apple.com. so ive been pretty up to date with movie trailers. notable ones to see are ratatouille, close to home, the somewhat compelling balls of fury, the only interesting because of what i know about child psych wild tigers i have known, uh the nanny diaries, the estranged love almost like "in good company" in the land of women, julia roberts' daughter in nancy drew, and coming to more theaters? the painted veil.
Mixed Media: have your cremation ashes turned into pencils! thats cool. expect to receive one soon after my death.
a short documentary on the dying art of lithographic typography. rea(e)l art in advertising over at vitamin. fun, vulgar typography of pulp fiction. and strange ad campaign for bright eyes new album cassadaga.
also, ive come to notice that lots of tshirt ideas are being copied and stolen, most to be imported to threadless as original designs which i think is highly inappropriate and just bad form. one more reason to dislike threadless. theres a difference between derivative work and creating a vector copy.
i spent pretty much all day at school working in the mac lab on some stuff, and brought my usb hard drive to save all my stuff to it since itd be easier than burning a cd. problem is, the stupid hard drive doesnt like macs. i plugged it in, and it turns out im only capable of reading files which is crap. but good enough i suppose because i also wanted to listen to music while i slaved away. its just very irritating to not be capable of backing up my files in an easier fashion. ive got 4-5gb worth of photos that i was going to try and transfer as well, but i guess ill have to do that from my computer here (which is troublesome because ive only got 2 usb ports, meaning ill have to unplug my mouse and use the touchpad; also, i dont have bridge which is a fantastic way to view and organize pictures). anyways, im looking into getting a new computer soon. a real one, hopefully. ive been trying to decide between a mac or a pc, id really like to have a mac so i could work with the same interfaces and stuff as school (and most of the real world), but then that would rule out me using the portable hard drive. i dont understand why macs dont have writing permissions on this drive. did i set it up wrong last time i formatted?
while i was sitting around at school, i resaved a bunch of work into jpgs so i could post them. here you go:
i tried to post this and the writing the other day, but i was house sitting at my friends taking care of his cat and stuff and his computer was being stupid. in any case, thats all thats new or interesting.
so, i had spring break last week; and boy, im pretty tired. it was a break from the ol' routine, but i was unable to escape from responsibility. the first weekend, i took saturday off and spent some time up north in dc. met up with my old roomate tommy and my old friend joe at the hirshhorn. they had a super cool exhibition on light which provided some interesting thought on something that we take for granted. outside they had a sculpture by kenneth snelson which i was made aware of by reprographics. also, we stopped by the smithsonian air and space museum, which was regrettably boring. the most exciting exhibit in there was actually a pop culture (through history) thing on loan from the american history museum. great time in nova! i played wii pretty much all the time i wasnt sight seeing and partying.
i was back for work on monday, met up with the tech kids back on break, and did some work on my ink wash master copy. repeat through wednesday.
- thursday through sunday (yesterday) i was working the senior champs meet in charlottesville. picked up the van, picked up the kids, then jay and i drove out to uva for the last meet for most of our senior swimmers. it was fun, i even got to swim in a few relays. it didnt occur to me before, but after the remarks they made about my swims, i discovered that the kids had been previously doubting my skills. did they just assume i got the job because i was a part of the team before? anyways, it was a good time; despite the repetition of a handful of songs they liked to play at any point we were in the van. i learned a great deal about crappy rap and radio. heres the short list:
- gangsta gangsta
- where da hood at
- ass jigga jigglin
- ballin
- snap yo fingas
- raise hell (by hedPE who surprise me by being popular during any point of their career)
- crazy bitch (hedPE)
- some rammstein songs (who also surprise me by being popular)
theres a bunch more but i neglected to learn the names of the songs. im fairly bitter that people actually enjoy this junk. spiteful that people will buy into the ghetto fabulous lifestyle. regardless, it was a good trip. got back really late, went straight to sleep and got up for school this morning after a few extra snooze hits. after arriving at school, i found out my photography portfolio was due, so i threw a bunch of things together and turned it in. then i found out the master copy was due in drawing so i turned that in too. im glad i worked on it earlier.
i finished my second photography1 assignment, shooting things at weird angles and desatuarizing them. i uploaded a bunch of them to my new flickr site. which is now linked to my vox. so i imported them, and they should be in my photos here. i wish it were the other way around so you could get the big printable version here with vox and see the portfolio organized in flickr. but perhaps ill get a pro subscription and it wont matter :)
computer graphics one is pretty much a breeze. i finished this project in two days. we had like, two weeks. i tried to make a jpg file, but for some reason its not showing up right now, so the pdf will have to do. also, imagine it cropped and plastered to a presentation board.
im working on another scratchboard, ill post pictures when im done (due monday).
i also finished my first photography portfolio. its pretty lame, so i wont bother posting it. instead, take enjoyment from the revamped pictures i put up on tcac flickr
