Important Info for Tuesday! And some of my work, for a change!

Here's a copy of the email I sent to all of you, in case you missed it:

Hey everyone! I was just sent an email by the Illustration dept saying that I need to collect samples of all your work next week (digital samples mind you, not originals, don't worry!)

I need 3 examples of your best work, whatever you think those pieces are.
Here is a breakdown of what I need:

• a CD with the student's name and the name of the class on it
• three JPEGs for each student with the file name in this format: FirstName_LastName_something to identify the photo.jpg (eg. Erin_Gleeson_tree.jpg)
• the images should be placed in a folder with the folder name in this format: CourseNameSpring10_InstructorsLastName (eg. DigitalAsIllustrationSpring10_Ciesemier)
• 300 dpi

SO, bring in this CD to give to me with your 3 best pieces, AND bring in all the print outs of your work to put up on the wall, like we discussed before.

Sorry to add another thing to your to-do list, but hopefully this shouldn't take long, since we've been working digitally all semester and don't have paintings to scan or anything. Thanks guys! Have a good weekend!


ALSO, it's the end of the semester and since we always talk about YOUR work, I figured I'd share some of the work I've been doing recently. :) These are just some recent highlights.

Lately I've had a lot of girly-type assignments, which has been fun because usually I do a lot of business-type work! I did these illustrations for Pregnancy Magazine about unrealistic examples of post-baby celebrity weightloss:

This lady was for the LA Times-- it was a really quick turnaround, 4 days total for sketching AND the final, so I'm happy with how it turned out. It was for a feature by Carmandy from What Not to Wear, about the trends in spring makeup! Yup, pretty girly.

This 4 page comic (I did the lettering for the title, but not the text) was for Muse magazine-- a kid's magazine, and it's a Okanagan Native American myth about how Coyote got his name. I don't usually get animals in my assignments, so this was a fun challenge. They also requested that I draw it in a pacific-northwesterny style, to match with the myth's origins (think totem poles)


Sometimes it's tough to have enough creative juices left to do personal artwork when you're drawing all the time for a living, but it's easier when you've got a schedule and a group! I was asked to be a part of the Picture Book Report, http://picturebookreport.com, a group of illustrators who pick one of their favorite books and do an illustration based on it each month, for a year, for fun. This is the end of our third month, and there's a ton of great art on there already! I just put up my piece for this month today, my book is Sabriel, one of my favorite novels when when I was younger. It's an adventure/horror/ fantasy story, which is a genre I don't get a chance to illustrate much!


And that's that. See you on Tuesday!

Ahhh!

I keep messing with stuff but it's just making me frustrated... I've been trying to find that cool gradient thing that Aaron used when he gave us the tutorial. Does anyone know how to do it/where it is? Thanks.

-Ace

For your LAST CLASS

Wow, time flies! It's already the end of the semester!
I made a timeline for you guys so you know what we did and when we did it, in case you need to organize your stuff!

Jan 19-- 1st class, Homework: Noun/Verb sketch due next week. Blog: Favorite food in Photoshop.

Jan 23-- Homework: Noun/Verb final due next week. Blog: Room thumbnails

Feb 2-- In class: Add texture to Noun/Verb final. Homework: Sketches for Valentines Zoo/Aquarium event poster due next week. Blog: 8 Tone sketches

Feb 9-- SNOW DAY Blog Assn: Favorite pet experiment in Illustrator

Feb 16-- Homework: Final Valentines poster due next week. Blog: Pick 2 proverbs and draw them.

Feb 23-- In class: B&W "Mysterious Happenings in Room 13". Homework: Shakespeare Sketches due next week. Blog: 5 hands, 5 minutes, 5 diff. mediums

Mar 2-- Homework: Another week to work on Shakespeare sketching/coloring. Blog: 15 blind contours

Mar 9-- In class: Shakespeare Spot. Homework: Shakespeare final, due after Spring Break. No blog assn!

Mar 16-- SPRING BREAK

Mar 23-- Homework: Non-traditional self portrait due next week. Blog: 3 traditional self portraits

Mar 30-- Homework: Mythological creature collage "sketch" due next week. Blog: Dream boyfriend/girlfriend collage.

Apr 6--Homework: Final mythological creature due next week. Blog: 5 animal observational drawings

Apr 13--In class: 5 concept-based silhouettes Homework: 6-9 final sketches due next week for final pieces Blog: 25 inspirational list

Apr 20--Homework: Work on final pieces & redos. No blog assignment.

Apr 27--Homework: Work on final pieces & redos. No blog assignment.

Your last day of class is next week! Bring in printouts of all homework assignments (and if you missed some blog assignments & are going to do them, post redos by this day)
If you redo any of your assignments, bring in your original printout AND your redo printout.

The site I talked about in class for photo reference is Gettyone.com or Gettyimages.com

Good luck to you all, and see you next tuesday!

hi friends

check out paolo ventura's winter stories. i am really enthralled with the colors and atmosphere of his photos (illustrations? maybe! in some ways.)
and these may be something fun for you to look at



http://www.paoloventura.com/work/winter.html


(p.s. the above photos get cut off which kind of ruins it and i suck at blogs but
you can explore for yourself and i think it will be worth it!)

blogger is being weird and only showing one comment for the recent posts, but I've posted a response to your comment Kali. check it out with my old post.

Illustration final ARGGH

So! Still kind of not sure what I'm doing, but I have at least some ideas to throw out there. While I wanted to initially do a comic (and still kinda really want to do) I'm not sure I'd be able to get a successful concept together for a 2-3 page comic. Anyway, all the ideas I have for comics right now are either 1 page or ideas spanning volumes, so probably not.

I do know that I want to experiment more with digital painting, character designs, and environments, so I'm considering doing a mini "proposal", as if for a tentative comic, animation, video game, etc with character designs and one or two scenes( and maybe a comic page or two depending on what I would be proposing). I'd really like to base it off of one of my longer original ideas, but I'm not sure if this would be suitable for the assignment, based on the other discussions about original concepts/stories/characters. I have a few undeveloped original concepts that I wouldn't mind messing around with, but it's pretty easy for an original concept to actually suck so yeah.

So is original stuff ok for this assignment? Would it depend on the quality of the original concept in question or should I just base it off of an earlier assignment?

gosh! I thought I'd posted this yesterday!! aahh, I guess I just thought about it so hard I convinced myself that I had. -____- LAME, eh? anyway, I've decided to continue on with the shakespeare project, kinda. except, this time I'm making digitally painted papercuts that stack-up kinda into an interactive poster of sorts. Let me clarify: it's a little bit of a mix between paper dolls and those magazine adds where you can pick an outfit by choosing hair styles, tops, bottoms, and shoes by flipping through a series of photos. Essentially, I picked a play with LOTS of characters and their heads will be "flippable" while the bodies are static?! Anyway, I'm going to design a couple characters and see how that goes.

MY TWENTY-FIVE!!!!!!!

1. identity

2. camp counselor

3.space

4. Routines (bathroom)

5. school scene

6. sleep overs

7. camp outs

8. crowds

9. child fantasy

10. carnival

11. magic tricks

12. hot summer days

13. public pools

14. birthday parties

15. puberty

16. 4th of july weekend

17. beach

18. shopping

19. pupet shows

20. baking

21. halloween

22. christmas

23. movie theater

24. dating

25. collecting box tops

I really like the idea of creating a comic strip, a series of small panels. The two i like most so far around this idea is idea #4 (bathroom routines) and idea # 25 (box tops). but i am not a hundred percent sure so far. So for the box top idea i was thinking of making a story line about a little boy who is basically eating breakfast and he notices the back of the box advertising what he thinks to be this giant robot that shoots lasers and has cool awesome powers excited about this idea he rushes to buy hundred of boxes of cereal so he can get the proof of purchase seals and when he gets the prize it is this disappointing tiny toy that does nothing. and i want to do some somwehere between 5-10 small panels conveying this idea. I was thinking that i would keep most of these panels black and white with the exception of one color (or patterns) used repeatedly through out the story.

Inspirational List by Alice

Hi, sorry this is late! I forgot this was due yesterday.

Some of these things terrify me.
1.) Spaces
2.) Clutter of commodities, possessions, etc.
3.) Cuticles, nail beds, and nail-biting
4.) My little sister
5.) Interpersonal relationships
6.) Paper cut outs/Paper architecture/paper and cloth origami
7.) Still lifes
8.) Clothesline pulley system
9.) Kitchen appliances
10.) Colors and patterns
11.) Glamour/ the idea of creating and maintaining a persona
12.) Chinese culture/mythology/traditional thought
13.) (Chinese) immigration/1st+2nd generation
14.) Dim sum and chinese restaurants
15.) Kitsch
16.) animated movies
17.) Escapism
18.) Archetypes (especially tricksters or child prodigies)
19.) Hoarding
20.) Hair styles (braids)
21.) Art by an artist I like
22.) Noodles, soup, and omlettes.
23.) Mold
24.) Collecting
25.) Fights!

I don't have a proposal ready but I wanted to put this list up.
I'm thinking!

Sorryyyyyyyyyy Im late : (
here are my 25 inspirational things :

1. Deserts/ sweets
2. Hair style
3. Children’s book
4. Robots
5. Superheroes
6. Fashion
7. Music
8. Friends
9. Nature
10. Japan
11. The internet
12. Human body
13. Christianity
14. Barbie dolls
15. Vintage things
16. Camera/photography
17. Make ups/ cosmetics
18. Romance
19. Tattoos
20. Sushi (Japanese foods)
21. Party/festivals
22. Delicate line illustrations
23. Faces (expressions)
24. Night
25. Shoes

Nooooooooooooooooo, I'm late. I'm sorry.
25 Inspirational things:
1. Nighttime
2. The supernatural
3. Myths/legends/folktales
4. Sleep
5. Action (fighting, combat, battles, etc.)
6. Music
7. Books
8. Simplicity
9. Complexity
10. Pain
11. Learning
12. Architecture
13. Solitude
14. Nature
15. Foreign cultures
16. Movement/animation
17. Masks
18. History
19. Traditions/traditional things
20. The surreal
21. Artwork/artists that I admire
22. Concept art
23. Food
24. Characters/Characterization
25. The everyday good stuff

I know some of them are broad or contradict each other (like 8 and 9...yep.), but really, I can be inspired by anything at different times and such. Which I guess you can say for anyone, but...well...I don't know, it makes sense to me.
Anyway. My proposal.
I want to do a triptych about an old man in his study. I want him surrounded by books and scripts and tools of learning(quills, abacus, things like that). With the series of pictures, I want to illustrate both how time passes him by, and how he passes his time in his quiet little isolation. In one way, I guess I'm trying to show his own private little world to the viewer. It'll make more sense in the sketches though...
Let me know how this sounds, or if you need more explaining for anything. :)

baaah, i know this is kinda late, but I'm just totally clueless about what to do for the final...so i was avoiding it. :( anyway, i know i need to keep it simple because of time! without further ado: list!

25

ok so here goes:

1. movies
2. pirates
3. vikings
4. guitars
5. bagpipes
6. smoking pipes
7. top hats
8. cacti
   
9. dungeons and dragons
10. the world of warcraft
11. the call of cthulhu , or rather, H.P. lovecraft
12. vintage video games(tetris and pac man)
13. dali
14. cartoons (futurama)
    
15. Celtic/ norse culture
    
16. wood cuts
17. 18th century illustrations
18. Miyazaki
19. Anthony Burgess
    
20. Neil Gaiman
    
21. Asimov
    
22. Sherlock Holmes, original stories by Sir A.C. Doyle
    
23. the music of steve vai
24. British things and culture
25. technology

So im not quite sure what to do as of yet but my idea thus far is 3 or so illustrations that coincide with the fictional world of some of my past Dungeons and Dragons groups, yes im a nerd. my thought right now is to make digital paintings of the world map in a Tolkien or world or warcraft style then have 2 more paintings that are either of much more specific landmarks in this fictional world, or of our characters doing awesome things, i.e. slayin' dragons.

this kind of map, ya know?

Beautiful

You must watch this.

Also, I know I keep seeming to change my idea, Kali, but I was thinking and I think you're right.... this whole comic thing is going to take too long and I want to make my final really awesome. So I am still going to use that idea with the song and the comic, but I'm just going to take 3 frames I like and use those to make 3 illustrations so I don't need to worry about all of those other frames and their placements. What do you think?

LIST!

1. animals
2. Street art
3. Music
4. Surrealism
5. Science Fiction
6. Video Games
7. Propaganda Art
8. Festivals
9. Current Events
10. Urban Landscape
11. Cartoons
12. Pen and Ink drawings
13. Feminism
14. Protests/Riots
15. PostSecret.com!
16. Technology
17. Decay
18. travel
19. architecture
20. sea/space exploration
21. Concept Art
22. comics
23. Extreme lighting
24. Extreme Perspective
25. Mythology

My idea was to illustrate Greek myths or mythological creatures in a futuristic/sci fi setting. I want to use limited color pallets in each individual illustration and for them to function as a diptych or triptych

dis is mine

i tried to avoid listing art, music, film genre etc etc etc inspirations. too obvious for me i think !! because all that stuff excites me so it'd take up all the space for other important things, like mud!

also i wrote it because focusing on all the typed lists grew difficult after awhile, and i really liked seeing everyone's thoughts.



ANYWAY proposal:

i wouldn't mind continuing my shishi dog lion buddy guardian book idea. i will do my best to learn to bind books and try to organize them all, but if that ends up ruining the image i think it will also be successful as a printed series.
but i aim for the book!
is that awright?

Some things that inspire me.

1. flat colors

2. vibrating colors

3. fashion

4. music (hip hop,rock,r&b,jazz,blues)

5. comics

6. animation

7. Takashi Murakami

8. Lesean Thomas

9. Seung kim

10. D-pi (artist)

11. inking

12. line art

13. anatomy

14. japanese woodblock prints

15. japanese pop art culture

16. graffiti

17. tattoos

18. abstract paintings

19. concept art

20. storyboards

21. cathedral fresco paintings (ceilings)

22. sculpture

23. martial arts

24. photography

25. philosophy

Inspirations

My 25 Inspirations and my idea for my Final Works


1) Neo Sci Fi works: This is the term that I use for the works (art, books…) that deals with modern Science-Fictions and fantasies.

2) Greek/Norse Mythology

3) Japanese Science Fiction based works: Either its manga, anime, games, visual novels, or just a cool illustrations

4) Anime

5) Manga

6) Japanese Gothic Lolita: Please don’t get a wrong Idea. I just like their styles, NOT because I’m some kind of perverted otaku

7) Swords

8) White roses

9) Wide, empty, quiet space

10) Music box

11) Rokugen Alice: My most favorite Doujinshi music circle. Most of their albums deals with dark cultism.

12) Old pocket watches

13) Night

14) Otherworld theories: Anything that deals with Reality Marble, Spontaneous Generation, Parallel World, or Netherworld Dark

15) Study of Afterlife

16) Angels, Demons, Spirits, and etc

17) Cthulhu Mythos

18) Parents’ Advice: There’s NOTHING inspiring than the Advice of our parents

19) Bible verses

20) Personal Fantasies: All people have their ideal world, but let us be careful NOT to confuse between Phantasm and Reality :-)

21) Sketchbook no.0 and 1 : My personal notebooks

22) Reflecting myself: Reflecting all the realities and fantasies that I faced is what inspires my works (Kinda like a mirror for myself) J

23) My sister

24) A.S Genesis

25) J.S: My most special person


*I been thinking how to utilize my created character. So for my final project, I decided make a book cover for the story of the character that I made. With good background with my character on the front.
*As for my second work. I like to make another Self Portrait (Still need to do more thinking about it). I got a lot of good inspirations from the works done by HR Giger..

To Kali: My character, A.S Genesis was the character that was on my Shakespeare work (I should told you this during that critique. Still I’m going to make more enhancement on him J).It’s just a reminder for my final Critic.

Stoof

1. sci fi

2. Lady GaGa

3. retro patterns

4. cephalopods

5. androgyny

6. b-movies

7. music

8. high heels

9. strippers

10. robots

11. cats

12. opposites

13. mythology

14. ancient history

15. mutants

16. posters

17. the 80s

18. concept art

19. makeup

20. costumes

21. superheroes

22. animals with horns/antlers

23. peaches

24. video games

25. high fashion

SO I was thinking of either making 2/3 illustrations for one of my favorite books, Lost Souls by Poppy Z. Brite, or developing a superhero character and doing 2 covers for the comic they would star in and maybe a page of my character development stages.

Eh?

Oh my goodness

I am almost sure I want to do this, (but now I feel like I'm stealing Kate's idea, LOL D: ), OK, SO, I love this song by Shiny Toy Guns, and as I was trying to figure out what exactly I wanted to do for the final, I noticed Major Tom by Shiny Toy Guns is like, PERFECT for a narrative/comic/thing. Plus it's one of my favorite songs by my favorite band. (woooooo!) I did some really quick sketches on the song. I'm only going to do the part before the chorus, (3 pages). Tell me what you think!

The Song.



-Ace

(Edit: Sorry about that! Is that better?)