As I said about a week ago, this entry has a lot more reading as opposed to artwork. It's all talk about projects for class and pet projects I've been working on as of late, so there may not be as many pictures to show this time around. Just so you're warned.
Class Projects
Since the beginning of junior year in my Illustration III class and up until about a week ago we were working on a project simply entitled "Clock". For this assignment we had to design our own clock face that showed or represented time and that it had to be pleasant to look at. We just finished this assignment about two weeks ago and here's the end result.
I'm personally pretty proud of it, especially since it's an acrylic painting and I haven't done that in a very long time. As for how it met up to the assignment's expectations, it worked and met the requirements but Professor Wojech Wolinksi suggested that I should work more in tones from here on on out as opposed to just using a variety of different colors. Which is something I just recently started doing in my Word and Image class for the current assignment that we're working on.
We're currently doing a new project, a semester long body of work called "Horse" and we're working on the first part of it. Which consists of doing a study of a part of the horse. For a while, I wasn't sure what to do for this assignment since I originally wanted to do a study of the horse's legs but I ended up doing a study of the head since it was going to be a challenge and it would end up being a lot more fun for me to do. I don't have anything to show for it as of yet, but I will have something to show in the next update.
Since I mentioned Word and Image in the previous paragraph, let's discuss that next. For the first assignment we created our own font based off our own handwriting made from experimenting with different handwriting tools and techniques, made an alphabet and named the font based on adjectives we could associate with the font, which ended in creating my font "Brash Bronson" and was then used in a second part of the assignment that involved finding a word that could be used to describe our font and associate a scene or imagery to go with it on the inside of the text. The second part of this project is currently in Suzanne Barnes' possession and I didn't take a photograph of the work before turning it into her. But I can show the font I made, which is right below:
Ain't it DANDY?
In the new project that we're working on, we had a choice of the names "Jim, Jimmy, James" or "Liz, Betty, Elizabeth" and find fonts that associated with these names and create three characters that could be associated with the fonts as well as their names. I ended up picking Liz, Betty and Elizabeth for this project and decided to base the idea of the characters around girls who think that they're people they aren't.
In Liz's case, she thinks she's a Victorian Helena Bonham Carter-type character with homicidal tendencies, Betty thinks she's a robot and Elizabeth thinks she's the Virgin Mary. The sketches and color studies that you see here are preliminary designs for the final piece but the colors seen here will be used in the final versions of the artwork, but the images will be reworked so that the text takes up fifty-percent of the compostion. I've actually been having a blast with this project and I think I might use the Betty character in a little series of mini-comics about her character.
As for my final class, Degree Project with Professor Linda Bourke, I finally decided that my project is going to be about homelessness and I've mostly been doing research and sketching for the project. I don't really have much to say about it currently... Hopefully by next week I should have more to say.
Personal Projects
As for my personal projects, I decided to make another cardboard cutout much like the orchid in the flower pot. This time around I made Gerber Daises, which I gave to a friend of mine as a gift. I decided to use color in this cut out once more to get a better handle on working with acrylic paint on cardboard and as a experiment as well.
I've also been working on a painting based off of a photograph that I took of my girlfriend and my roommate who is taking a break this semester. I just got started on this a few days ago, so it's at a very early stage currently and I don't plan on painting the picture as if it's the photograph itself, so it'll probably turn out pretty good.
I've also been working on a comic book project for Mass Art In Print and a poster for the club itself to help promote it. The comic is about friends becoming more than just friends and two people on both sides of the idea, one who wants to be more than friends and the other wants to their friends to simply be just friends.
I have sketches from my sketchbooks as well, give them a good look.
That's it for now and next time I'll have an update that's ACTUALLY on time.
I really like the color on the gerbera daisies.
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