Landscape

I guess I was thinking of creating a conglomeration of images drawn, cut and photographed from earlier on in the year and tying it to the unconscious mind or dream world... I guess i could say this is a conglomeration of dreams...

Retouching

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5 weeks of undies...

Yay scanning project of all of my underwear... no comment...

Chip Kidd

The Chip Kidd lecture was so fun. He is very inspirational to a hopeful graphic designer such as myself. I found him really interesting and despite some technical difficulties in the beginning and a move over to Tyler. I found it interesting that the things he created and thought would sell really didnt as much as the ideas he had that he wasnt so sure about. I found him animated and fun and really loved his lecture.

The real cattails

Morph of cattails and cat's tails 1 2 3 4

Where do unicorn lollipops come from?

Yay another Morph with horses and lollipops

Pigs can fly

Pig from this link

Geese image from this link

Scan and color via photoshop

These fish were originally hand drawn then scanned into photoshop where i added color and the texture in the background

Landscape Lighting; Composing the Night Landscape

Tonight I attended a Lecture at The Waterworks Restaurant about Landscape lighting and design by Janet Lennox Moyer. The lecture consisted of Janet showing slides of her work and explaining how she creates a composition in a night scene using light. Above are not examples of her work, they are simply the types of fixtures she uses. Janet uses lght to "direct the viewer" to a "visual destination" where she concentrates more light to highlight it. She believes that it is very important to use both a down light and an up light when lighting a point of interest. The down light acts as a softer natural light, it acts like sunlight. Up light is used to add drama to the form. When both lights are used together the lighting designer has the ability to hide unwanted attributes of the night lanscape such as neighbors house or garbage cans. Janet is able to show her client how she wants to light the landscape using photoshopped photographs of an originally daytime scene. 

 It was a very interesting lecture and very inspiring as well. Examples of Janet's work is on her website, www.janmoyerdesign.com.

Ribbon Candy Curls...

I'm not a fan of this piece... I'm planning on redoing this project, it just didn't turn out how i had imagined it unfortunately.

Waking Life

Waking Life was a very interestingly surreal film. It really is in my opinion a piece of art through film, not just a film. It was interesting how well different artists were able to add in their pieces without breaking the movie up to much into the clips that each artist was responsible for. I flowed very well. Unfortunately I felt that viewing it on a large screen made myself feel sick to my stomach because of the style it was created in, which made the film jumpy as if the camera was hand held and not steady. Backgrounds would jump and float while subjects would remain grounded, or the other way around. It became very distracting to me. It was much easier to enjoy though on a smaller scale. 

Artist and style of interest: Will Cotton

"When I began working with confectionary landscapes as subject matter, I wanted to approach the idea like an explorer in a new and strange place. I always start a painting by first building a maquette in the studio. This allows me to look at the scenery and be surprised by what I see. Building candyland is a way of being in it, of making it real for me. The maquettes don't survive, they melt and deteriorate and rot, so the painting becomes a record of a place which was real but has ceased to exist. Like the mythological 'land of Cockaigne,' candyland is an imagined utopia whose exact geographical location is elusive. It's the idea of a land of plenty where all is pleasure and there's no such thing as work. It's about imagining the possibility of constant indulgence." Will Cotton

Will Cotton is interesting to me because he makes these scenes with candy and sweets and this idea of a utopia. He uses very fleshy but light colors, whites pinks, and he uses a very saturated color to tie his pieces together and make them look like a too good to be true moment. I love his want to capture and portray this land and constant existence of pleasure. The pieces make me think of a positive version of gluttony, or a dream with the way everything has sort of an atmospheric quality.  

Self portrait on llustrator

Ok so this is a revised portrait I realized that the shine on the cheeks are too distracting for the piece I also tried getting rid of the shadowed effect and actually like it better in comparison.
Ok so this is a self portrait was made with illustrator we made a collage portrait with cut paper first ad then attempted to reproduce it on the computer with illustrator... so here it is.

Kitty >.<

Kitty made with the pen tool on Illustrator... 

Logo2: Peacock

For this one i wasn't really interested in working with any other colors than what a peacock is. When I played with primary colors I hated it and this I thought had a little of both complimentary and saturated colors.

Logo 1: Gold Fish

Saturated

Primary
Complimentary

the complimentary one is my favorite...

In class project with Illustrator CS3. It is a family made in geometric forms. We basically just played with the program to get familiar with it.

Helvetica

It is interesting to see that Helvetica is so popular. I personally didn't find the font as much of an exciting thing as most in the movie did, I sided more with the german man who hated the font. But the process of creating and designing fonts is very interesting. I never noticed helvetica so present in our every day lives. Stores and other companies like American Apparel, Microsoft, Sears, Staples, and American Airlines use the font. As the movie said, Helvetica is clear and simple and easily relates to the viewer in its simplicity. I believe that I never really noticed the font type because it is so simple and in my opinion boring.

Responses to three websites, 3 of 3

The last site that I found an interest towards is the "1000 Journals" site. It is very similar to "Post Secret" in that people are able to post their journals. All were inspirational. Either through words or images people express themselves and I found many very interesting and inspiring.

Responses to three websites, 2 of 3

Wow Creaktif is an amazing site so many images to draw from and to look at. Because I am a very visual person, it was very fun to explore the site. I definitely plan on exploring it more in the future. It was so interesting that I had difficulty choosing an image or two to head this post... n_n

Responses to three websites, 1 of 3

Peter Callesen's paper cut artwork was awesome! I love paper cut art and his work is so delicate and intricate and beautiful. I really enjoyed "Heaven and Hell" and "Dead Angels". I also felt very inspired as I looked over his work. It is really interesting how the paper is manipulated to be something that has weight and depth.

Project 1 Six word Memoir with word

Ok so this is our first project on foundations computer. We had to work with word in creating an interesting image using a picture of ourselves and a six word memoir sentence. Mine is "I ran away with my imagination." This image is what I came up with and the picture is an older picture of me when I still had longer hair. I chose this image because it seemed to best describe and flow with my memoir. This project was interesting because word is so limiting, and it was fun to find out more about the program and find that it isn't as limiting as I first had believed.