Showing posts with label Talking. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Talking. Show all posts
4.07.2011
Rob Granito Returns
Rob Granito Returns, calling himself the Charlie Sheen of Comics, offering paid interviews (via Bleeding Cool)
2.17.2011
Talking about Classes
Alright, so I haven't really talked much about my classes this semester. It's my last one, and I'm taking World Religions, Typography I, and Printmaking II.
So far I really enjoy Religion class, and I've learned a lot. I really need to look into what mediums Hindu and Buddhist art is done in.
Typography was scary at first, because I don't know much about Illustrator, but once I found the typography menu setting and got some advice from Samskee on the pathfinder tab and general advice from my professor, I'm starting to enjoy myself. Our first assignment was just transforming letters into logos. At first I really wanted to incorporate a second letter in the designs, but luckily that so happened to be the second project.
I'm still a little intimidated by what my classmates can do, but I suppose it's only fair. After all, if they were handed paint and a canvas they'd feel inadequate compared to fine art and illustration majors. I didn't really play much with trying to make images with the text, and my wanted poster might have been slightly missing the point, but I realize that now and can improve on future projects.
Our next assignment is a text portrait. I am considering Neil Gaiman, Death from Sandman, Batman, Catwoman, Crowley from Good Omens, or Spike from Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Neil has wonderful quotes, so that would be a great one to do. Death is awesome and of course the quotes come from Gaiman. I would feel bad using Jim Lee or Adam Hughes' art as a reference for my picture (why yes, I realize there are photos from the Batman movies, but admit it, none are as iconic as Lee or Hughes' work.) I'm really considering Crowley since I found a wonderful quote to use: "An Angel who did not so much Fall as Saunter Vaguely Downwards." When I was looking up reference pics, I came across Spike, and I've been wanting to draw him for a few weeks, so there's that. I'm really focused on either doing Death or Crowley though.
Printmaking II: oh how this is nothing like my first print class. I'll be honest, this isn't going well so far. I have really been holding off complaining, but I have to, at least a little. I traded my portfolio class for this because I thought I'd be able to do whatever subject matter I liked as I did in Print I. I wouldn't be so upset having specific assignments except I feel I'm not getting to develop my portfolio before I graduate. This scares me.
I've managed to work around it a little though so far. It isn't terrible, I'm just worried about not having a consistent subject matter. Our first assignment was a collagraph of a song, I chose Magdalena by A Perfect Circle. I made a decent version of it on my computer (for printing out and transferring to the plate) but the final version was less than satisfactory. Everything that could go wrong did. Wrong color matboard, trouble tracing and cutting out shapes from the contact paper, glue not sticking, etc. We had to choose three different ways of using the same plate, but once my lace decided to fall off and my etched in lineart decided not to show up, I was left with a much-too-simplistic picture that could only be wiped as an intaglio. Also, trying to see if black ink is still on black mat-board is quite difficult. Needless to say, my final prints weren't quite as spectacular as I'd hoped. I do think I could use the techniques to make future projects that worked.
The second project was screenprinting... valentine cards, for a print exchange. We chose conversation hearts blindly, I picked "get real." Rather than go with a rejection picture, I thought of robot girls, mermaids, virtual women, etc. all trying to become human. My ideas started getting abstract after a while. After a full week of sketches (some of which will be used for other things) I talked with the professor about my struggle and he asked what I would have liked to do before there was an assignment. I said Carmilla, or maybe Medusa. That's how I ended up with Frozen Love. I was really happy with it until I realized how difficult screenprinting was. First my arms were too short to pull the squeegee at the right angle/force, then my ink kept drying out. It was mostly the ink drying out. This is not a process that allows much time for problem solving. The first layer went on okay, the second took around 6 hours of failure. The third was going well until my hands refused to drag it at the right angle and things started drying out. So now that I've worked out the problems, I definitely want to do more.
The next two projects are a shaped woodcut and a colored intaglio. My class is petitioning to show at Site:Lab on April 15th. We are doing a giant flip-book. We have teams: Salami,Edward Zeus, Spiders A-Team, and Plague Unicorns (Plauge for short.) Some of us are seriously discussing logos and t-shirts. This is totally random but totally awesome. The other assignment hasn't been demoed yet, but it's based on memories. I'd like to have an open assignment besides the final project but that's not going to happen.
So that's about it. I will post pics of the Valentine prints the next time I go to school to get them.
So far I really enjoy Religion class, and I've learned a lot. I really need to look into what mediums Hindu and Buddhist art is done in.
Typography was scary at first, because I don't know much about Illustrator, but once I found the typography menu setting and got some advice from Samskee on the pathfinder tab and general advice from my professor, I'm starting to enjoy myself. Our first assignment was just transforming letters into logos. At first I really wanted to incorporate a second letter in the designs, but luckily that so happened to be the second project.
I'm still a little intimidated by what my classmates can do, but I suppose it's only fair. After all, if they were handed paint and a canvas they'd feel inadequate compared to fine art and illustration majors. I didn't really play much with trying to make images with the text, and my wanted poster might have been slightly missing the point, but I realize that now and can improve on future projects.
Our next assignment is a text portrait. I am considering Neil Gaiman, Death from Sandman, Batman, Catwoman, Crowley from Good Omens, or Spike from Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Neil has wonderful quotes, so that would be a great one to do. Death is awesome and of course the quotes come from Gaiman. I would feel bad using Jim Lee or Adam Hughes' art as a reference for my picture (why yes, I realize there are photos from the Batman movies, but admit it, none are as iconic as Lee or Hughes' work.) I'm really considering Crowley since I found a wonderful quote to use: "An Angel who did not so much Fall as Saunter Vaguely Downwards." When I was looking up reference pics, I came across Spike, and I've been wanting to draw him for a few weeks, so there's that. I'm really focused on either doing Death or Crowley though.
Printmaking II: oh how this is nothing like my first print class. I'll be honest, this isn't going well so far. I have really been holding off complaining, but I have to, at least a little. I traded my portfolio class for this because I thought I'd be able to do whatever subject matter I liked as I did in Print I. I wouldn't be so upset having specific assignments except I feel I'm not getting to develop my portfolio before I graduate. This scares me.
I've managed to work around it a little though so far. It isn't terrible, I'm just worried about not having a consistent subject matter. Our first assignment was a collagraph of a song, I chose Magdalena by A Perfect Circle. I made a decent version of it on my computer (for printing out and transferring to the plate) but the final version was less than satisfactory. Everything that could go wrong did. Wrong color matboard, trouble tracing and cutting out shapes from the contact paper, glue not sticking, etc. We had to choose three different ways of using the same plate, but once my lace decided to fall off and my etched in lineart decided not to show up, I was left with a much-too-simplistic picture that could only be wiped as an intaglio. Also, trying to see if black ink is still on black mat-board is quite difficult. Needless to say, my final prints weren't quite as spectacular as I'd hoped. I do think I could use the techniques to make future projects that worked.
The second project was screenprinting... valentine cards, for a print exchange. We chose conversation hearts blindly, I picked "get real." Rather than go with a rejection picture, I thought of robot girls, mermaids, virtual women, etc. all trying to become human. My ideas started getting abstract after a while. After a full week of sketches (some of which will be used for other things) I talked with the professor about my struggle and he asked what I would have liked to do before there was an assignment. I said Carmilla, or maybe Medusa. That's how I ended up with Frozen Love. I was really happy with it until I realized how difficult screenprinting was. First my arms were too short to pull the squeegee at the right angle/force, then my ink kept drying out. It was mostly the ink drying out. This is not a process that allows much time for problem solving. The first layer went on okay, the second took around 6 hours of failure. The third was going well until my hands refused to drag it at the right angle and things started drying out. So now that I've worked out the problems, I definitely want to do more.
The next two projects are a shaped woodcut and a colored intaglio. My class is petitioning to show at Site:Lab on April 15th. We are doing a giant flip-book. We have teams: Salami,
So that's about it. I will post pics of the Valentine prints the next time I go to school to get them.
8.24.2010
It's been awhile
So I have spent most of this summer busy with doing the darks for Cynthia von Buhler's illustrations for the Evelyn Evelyn graphic novel. The release date has been pushed to December rather than October.
I've been working off and on on sample pages for a noir comic for a writer I met at JAFAX. I have the first page mostly done and just need to start on the second to send him.
I worked on an entry for a possible colorist job and finally got a response a couple weeks ago. I didn't make it but I really enjoyed doing it, so maybe I will try to apply for some more colorist work.
My senior+ year starts on Monday. I did all the cool elective classes, now I have to make up the requires courses. This year I'm taking poster design and portfolio 1, along with a couple academic classes.
In October I am going to go to New York with Alysha so I will be spending the next month shaping my portfolio work to be usable when I go check out some businesses in NY. I also need to see what places to drop by at.
Also in October, the Tata Gala entries are due. It's a gallery show where the proceeds go to breast cancer research. I'll have to find a model though.
I intend to continue doing art this semester in the style of Erik Jones, because I tried it out during summer classes and really loved it, it worked really well for me and I caught on by the second picture.
I've been working off and on on sample pages for a noir comic for a writer I met at JAFAX. I have the first page mostly done and just need to start on the second to send him.
I worked on an entry for a possible colorist job and finally got a response a couple weeks ago. I didn't make it but I really enjoyed doing it, so maybe I will try to apply for some more colorist work.
My senior+ year starts on Monday. I did all the cool elective classes, now I have to make up the requires courses. This year I'm taking poster design and portfolio 1, along with a couple academic classes.
In October I am going to go to New York with Alysha so I will be spending the next month shaping my portfolio work to be usable when I go check out some businesses in NY. I also need to see what places to drop by at.
Also in October, the Tata Gala entries are due. It's a gallery show where the proceeds go to breast cancer research. I'll have to find a model though.
I intend to continue doing art this semester in the style of Erik Jones, because I tried it out during summer classes and really loved it, it worked really well for me and I caught on by the second picture.
3.17.2010
Internship
I won an internship with Cynthia Von Buhler, award-winning artist and author. I will be doing work on her graphic novel for the next few months.
For details, see her blog post.
For details, see her blog post.
1.25.2010
Life Drawing & Illustration Concept
In my Illustration class, I have the same professor and he's letting HeroScarf and I do digital despite it being a traditional class. HeroScarf's major is digital art so it makes sense for him and I am doing it to learn how to get work done faster.
I'm going to do some more work to submit to White Wolf, and to continue my theme from last semester, have Asian overtones in them. So far I have a samurai for Hunter: the Reckoning, a detective in a haunted house with ghosts for Geist, a yakuza member with call girl ghouls for Vampire, and a monk performing onmyoji for Mage. I haven't really painted any men in a while, so I'm going to take this class as an opportunity for that too.
11.21.2009
Current Projects
So in Printmaking I am two colors away from finishing the kitsune reduction woodcut. My final project will consist of another triptych, this time all yokai. A futakuchi-onna (woman with two mouths, one in the back of her head,) a Kuchisake-onna (woman with a Glasgow smile,) and a Ohaguro-bettari (bride with no eyes/nose, and a blackened mouth.)
In Sequential I'm doing a music video for Clone Your Lover by Zeromancer. I came up with the idea last year and had started storyboarding one prior to my hardrive dying. The same computer contained all my reference photos for a painting I'd been working on to illustrate the song. The illustration was never finished, but I'm finally getting to do the music video. I only need 30 seconds for class, but I'll at least draw up thumbnails for the rest of it to be finished later.
In Alma Prima I am halfway done with the first coat on my sphinx painting. I need to find some photos of caves and Athens to put in the background this weekend so I can work on it during the week. In class we'll be doing painting from life for the next couple weeks.
In Sci-Fi/Fantasy painting, I have the robo-girls' faces and clothes in pretty well and will have the two figures fnished in the next couple weeks.
No personal projects right now, though I intend to make up for it in December.
In Sequential I'm doing a music video for Clone Your Lover by Zeromancer. I came up with the idea last year and had started storyboarding one prior to my hardrive dying. The same computer contained all my reference photos for a painting I'd been working on to illustrate the song. The illustration was never finished, but I'm finally getting to do the music video. I only need 30 seconds for class, but I'll at least draw up thumbnails for the rest of it to be finished later.
In Alma Prima I am halfway done with the first coat on my sphinx painting. I need to find some photos of caves and Athens to put in the background this weekend so I can work on it during the week. In class we'll be doing painting from life for the next couple weeks.
In Sci-Fi/Fantasy painting, I have the robo-girls' faces and clothes in pretty well and will have the two figures fnished in the next couple weeks.
No personal projects right now, though I intend to make up for it in December.
9.06.2009
First Week of Senior Year
This year I am taking Intro to Printmaking, Sequential Art, Alma Prima, and Sci-fi/Fantasy Painting.
In Printmaking, we just started learning monotype, and are going to be doing subtractive portraits. I have ideas for later projects including doing some scenes that would work as illustration for World of Darkness, since they tend to want black and white scenes. Something about the format of thin panels along the side just seemed to make it click for me.
In Sequential I'm the only one doing storyboarding, and the script I chose to do some for is Aliens. Luckly I don't have to redesign the Xenomorph Queen though, because otherwise I'd be out-of-luck as Geiger's design is perfect. I am looking forward to redesigning characters for a TV animated series though, since this is something I've been wanting to do for a while now.
Just doing portraits for now in Alma Prima, and hoping to learn how to paint faster and apply it to Photoshop.
For Sci-fi/Fantasy, I'm looking at Luis Royo and some others for inspiration. We are only doing one huge painting, so I have to come up with something really good to try and get in Spectrum. I think I'm going to do something horror-based.
In Printmaking, we just started learning monotype, and are going to be doing subtractive portraits. I have ideas for later projects including doing some scenes that would work as illustration for World of Darkness, since they tend to want black and white scenes. Something about the format of thin panels along the side just seemed to make it click for me.
In Sequential I'm the only one doing storyboarding, and the script I chose to do some for is Aliens. Luckly I don't have to redesign the Xenomorph Queen though, because otherwise I'd be out-of-luck as Geiger's design is perfect. I am looking forward to redesigning characters for a TV animated series though, since this is something I've been wanting to do for a while now.
Just doing portraits for now in Alma Prima, and hoping to learn how to paint faster and apply it to Photoshop.
For Sci-fi/Fantasy, I'm looking at Luis Royo and some others for inspiration. We are only doing one huge painting, so I have to come up with something really good to try and get in Spectrum. I think I'm going to do something horror-based.
5.25.2009
Plans for the Upcoming Week or So
I am completely cleaning my house today, so probably no art 'til tonight. ConceptArt.org is having a competition for a Zombie Hunter design, so I'd like to do that but dunno where I'll find time this week.
Tomorrow I am going to do a photoshoot with Oni for a Lolita modeling competition. Wednesday I need to run to the mall and get a new art book, fix my phone, and pick up contacts. In the afternoon I will be doing a shoot with Oni and Michael for the ArtPrize competition.
Michael is in the process of moving, so the story project is being slowed a tad as the entire weekend was spent working or helping to move. I am getting nearer to done with the picture of Jenny as I worked on it last night while gaming.
Maggie has given me several character sketches and info so if I have time Wednesday evening, I will start on my World of Darkness character project.
I haven't started on bishie paper dolls yet for Oni but it should get started sometime the first week of June. Later next month I'll start working on the rest of the Kurios Fairy Tales: Magnetic Personalities dolls and try getting the Flash version started by July.
I think that is all for now... Oh yeah, monster girls. Maybe those will happen in June. I don't have a table at JAFAX, so maybe I'll wait 'til next year for that series. I'm kind of still on a vampire kick for now.
Oh yeah, my 21st birthday is this weekend so Friday I'll be in Chicago to go to see Kill Hannah and Saturday I'll be heading to the bars to hang out with friends.
Tomorrow I am going to do a photoshoot with Oni for a Lolita modeling competition. Wednesday I need to run to the mall and get a new art book, fix my phone, and pick up contacts. In the afternoon I will be doing a shoot with Oni and Michael for the ArtPrize competition.
Michael is in the process of moving, so the story project is being slowed a tad as the entire weekend was spent working or helping to move. I am getting nearer to done with the picture of Jenny as I worked on it last night while gaming.
Maggie has given me several character sketches and info so if I have time Wednesday evening, I will start on my World of Darkness character project.
I haven't started on bishie paper dolls yet for Oni but it should get started sometime the first week of June. Later next month I'll start working on the rest of the Kurios Fairy Tales: Magnetic Personalities dolls and try getting the Flash version started by July.
I think that is all for now... Oh yeah, monster girls. Maybe those will happen in June. I don't have a table at JAFAX, so maybe I'll wait 'til next year for that series. I'm kind of still on a vampire kick for now.
Oh yeah, my 21st birthday is this weekend so Friday I'll be in Chicago to go to see Kill Hannah and Saturday I'll be heading to the bars to hang out with friends.
5.01.2009
Summer Plans
My teacher gave me an extension on my cityscape and literary watercolor projects, so those are due the 20th.
Michael visited his parents and took the computer the scanner is compatible with, so hopefully by the time he gets back I'll have plenty of sketches to start reworking in Photoshop.
I'm going to get started on some sketches and see if I can churn out something presentable for Dominance War by the 11th. Everyone else has had an extra month+, but having something is better than nothing. I just didn't want to miss anymore work since I took off a couple weekends to finish Finals.
I'm now involved in a World of Darkness game, and I handed out forms last night so everyone could fill out their character information. Over summer I intend to do turnarounds and maybe a scene or two so I have more character designs in my portfolio, especially work relevant to a company I want to work for.
I'm trying to get some models together so I can do a photo-shoot for my Indian Miss Muffet idea. If I get models in the next couple weeks, it should be photoshopped, printed, and traced by my birthday and I'll be ready to paint in June. I intend to enter it into the ArtPrize competition but am really nervous about competing with artists worldwide and trying to ponder what it takes to win people's votes when it comes to style and subject matter.
Besides turning my Kurios Fairy Tale dolls into a Flash game, I am also going to take part in Oni's Bishie Paper Doll Project, hosted at Bishie.org.
If I have time, I'll do some fun little bat drawings.
If even half of these plans are finished by the time school starts, I'll feel accomplished.
Michael visited his parents and took the computer the scanner is compatible with, so hopefully by the time he gets back I'll have plenty of sketches to start reworking in Photoshop.
I'm going to get started on some sketches and see if I can churn out something presentable for Dominance War by the 11th. Everyone else has had an extra month+, but having something is better than nothing. I just didn't want to miss anymore work since I took off a couple weekends to finish Finals.
I'm now involved in a World of Darkness game, and I handed out forms last night so everyone could fill out their character information. Over summer I intend to do turnarounds and maybe a scene or two so I have more character designs in my portfolio, especially work relevant to a company I want to work for.
I'm trying to get some models together so I can do a photo-shoot for my Indian Miss Muffet idea. If I get models in the next couple weeks, it should be photoshopped, printed, and traced by my birthday and I'll be ready to paint in June. I intend to enter it into the ArtPrize competition but am really nervous about competing with artists worldwide and trying to ponder what it takes to win people's votes when it comes to style and subject matter.
Besides turning my Kurios Fairy Tale dolls into a Flash game, I am also going to take part in Oni's Bishie Paper Doll Project, hosted at Bishie.org.
If I have time, I'll do some fun little bat drawings.
If even half of these plans are finished by the time school starts, I'll feel accomplished.
4.05.2009
Finals
I've been quite busy lately and haven't had time to post anything.
I went to the Kendall College Bodies of Art Fashion Show on Friday but didn't want to talk about it without images.
I should have enough free time in the next two days to get those pictures up, along with the finished versions of my latest projects.
I'm currently listening to Alysha Lach and Abigail Southworth give tutorials at Concept Group.
My mom visited and brought me all of my How to Draw Manga books. I forgot how many useful references were in them. (Occult & Horror for my zombies and More About Pretty Girls has latex and other materials I'll need for my Fairy Tale Alternative Clothing Paper Dolls.)
I went to the Kendall College Bodies of Art Fashion Show on Friday but didn't want to talk about it without images.
I should have enough free time in the next two days to get those pictures up, along with the finished versions of my latest projects.
I'm currently listening to Alysha Lach and Abigail Southworth give tutorials at Concept Group.
My mom visited and brought me all of my How to Draw Manga books. I forgot how many useful references were in them. (Occult & Horror for my zombies and More About Pretty Girls has latex and other materials I'll need for my Fairy Tale Alternative Clothing Paper Dolls.)
3.12.2009
Zombies, Vampires, Pirates!
Okay, so my "spring break" has been a tad busy.
Pirates: I did a photoshoot of a friend Sunday and she had a poofy shirt on, so I now have a character turnaround of a sorta-pirate. I think I might need to stylize it though since it's too obvious it was traced in Flash.
Industrial: Monday I got more shots of a cemetery and a turnaround for my male friend dressed in some industrial gear. Haven't drawn from it yet though. Was going to tonight but my Superheroes game got canceled, where I was going to draw when my character wasn't directly involved (I'm good though, I still listen and scheme quite well.)
Vampires: I started using Painter on Tuesday and... don't have the hang of it. I tried fooling with brushes but everything showed too many strokes, and I really didn't feel like having to rework and reblend my entire picture to make the strokes my show. ...I just realized Painter has blenders... Still, my picture is due Monday. I'll learn Painter later. My picture is pretty smooth and I don't want to waste time trying to figure out a whole new program when I only just kinda sorta got the hang of painting in Photoshop. But yeah, after the brushes, I tried downloading other brushes, palettes, and such but for whatever reason couldn't load them. Again, I'll deal with this later and ask someone who actually knows Painter.
Zombies: I spent the evening trying to get my background to look decayed and dirty. I looked up pictures of Silent Hill, but I'm still not sure how to get such textures in watercolor. I wonder if such tutorials even exist.
So... all of this is due Monday and then some. And I still have work-work to do. Argh.
Pirates: I did a photoshoot of a friend Sunday and she had a poofy shirt on, so I now have a character turnaround of a sorta-pirate. I think I might need to stylize it though since it's too obvious it was traced in Flash.
Industrial: Monday I got more shots of a cemetery and a turnaround for my male friend dressed in some industrial gear. Haven't drawn from it yet though. Was going to tonight but my Superheroes game got canceled, where I was going to draw when my character wasn't directly involved (I'm good though, I still listen and scheme quite well.)
Vampires: I started using Painter on Tuesday and... don't have the hang of it. I tried fooling with brushes but everything showed too many strokes, and I really didn't feel like having to rework and reblend my entire picture to make the strokes my show. ...I just realized Painter has blenders... Still, my picture is due Monday. I'll learn Painter later. My picture is pretty smooth and I don't want to waste time trying to figure out a whole new program when I only just kinda sorta got the hang of painting in Photoshop. But yeah, after the brushes, I tried downloading other brushes, palettes, and such but for whatever reason couldn't load them. Again, I'll deal with this later and ask someone who actually knows Painter.
Zombies: I spent the evening trying to get my background to look decayed and dirty. I looked up pictures of Silent Hill, but I'm still not sure how to get such textures in watercolor. I wonder if such tutorials even exist.
So... all of this is due Monday and then some. And I still have work-work to do. Argh.
3.02.2009
Currents:
Digital Media for Print: Vampire attack in Winter.
Watercolor: Cityscape, Zombies
Pro Practices: Business Plan, starting estimates and invoices. Will take photos for blog later this week.
Social Criticism: Stoned Phelps, A-Rod built like a brick.
Photos of W.I.Ps will be posted later. I have no internet at my house and I need. to save the steps and layers to show progress
Watercolor: Cityscape, Zombies
Pro Practices: Business Plan, starting estimates and invoices. Will take photos for blog later this week.
Social Criticism: Stoned Phelps, A-Rod built like a brick.
Photos of W.I.Ps will be posted later. I have no internet at my house and I need. to save the steps and layers to show progress
2.17.2009
Visiting Artist
So yesterday in Digital Media for Print, the local artist Michael J. Williams visited. He went through several of his pieces, and explained his process of sketching, shooting and compiling photos, and making the final piece. He explained in detail how to make and use brushes in Corel Painter and then did a demo. I haven't used Painter before, but after seeing his work, and knowing full well that most professionals are using it, I definitely want to learn how to use it; though maybe not right now since I went and got the new Adobe package and need to learn Photoshop better first of all. When I have the money and the time though I'm certainly getting it.
Mike Williams has done work for Call of Cthulhu, Legend of the Five Rings, and a few other card companies.
Mike Williams has done work for Call of Cthulhu, Legend of the Five Rings, and a few other card companies.
Status Report
I have been quite busy with school this semester. I've been mostly fine doing my digital work, but having to stay at my studio at the school hasn't been too appealing when I already don't get out of school 'til 6:30 each night, so my watercolors have been going a tad slow. Hopefully when Spring gets here and there is a few more hours of daylight I'll feel better about staying down there after class.
I gave my Professional Practices presentation yesterday. I now have a list I've begun to compile of contacts for work in the future (though I was so caught up in following the requirements I forgot to write down actual contacts I've made in the last few years,) and a list of possible expenses for the first couple years after I graduate and jobs I should try for in order to make enough to pay for those expenses. Next we'll be working on a business plan. Unfortunately, the logo and business card I made probably won't be used past this class.
I came up with Paper Wings Illustration. There are a few other companies with variations of the name so I'd have to fidget with URL choices. My professor says trying to get people to spell "kurios" properly over the phone (when I don't have a business card to hand them) will waste time spelling out rather than selling my abilities. I have enough trouble getting people to spell my first name right, so I don't know how much of a problem this is. I guess I won't know 'til I ask people.
Here's the logo.
We'll be making blogs soon. I already set up the name, so that's secured. I have an idea for a banner header which will probably end up here. I just need to take some pictures for references.
I'm on my second project in Digital Media for Print, I'm going to do a Con-banner, with a female vampire attacking a woman in a cemetery. I was considering an alleyway, and if I get downtown sometime today, I'll get some shots. Even if I don't use them for this, they'll be great for the future, we have some cool alleys around here.
My second editorial cartoon for Illustration for Social Criticism is to accompany an article on how if DNA from discarded tissues, hair in brushes, or nail clippings are taken from the trash, a person could discover information from the genes and if it were a celebrity, sell information about the person's health.
I bought REPO! The Genetic Opera last week and was watching it while coming up with my picture, so there is definitely some influence. It's got a wonderful visual style, the costumes and scenery are fantastic, and the rock opera songs are really catchy. I want to do some more art in the future based off the style.
Here's the W.I.P
I need to come up with a fantasy/surrealistic piece for Watercolor class but don't know what to do with no real time for photo shoots. I don't want to resort to faeries or whatnot.
I gave my Professional Practices presentation yesterday. I now have a list I've begun to compile of contacts for work in the future (though I was so caught up in following the requirements I forgot to write down actual contacts I've made in the last few years,) and a list of possible expenses for the first couple years after I graduate and jobs I should try for in order to make enough to pay for those expenses. Next we'll be working on a business plan. Unfortunately, the logo and business card I made probably won't be used past this class.
I came up with Paper Wings Illustration. There are a few other companies with variations of the name so I'd have to fidget with URL choices. My professor says trying to get people to spell "kurios" properly over the phone (when I don't have a business card to hand them) will waste time spelling out rather than selling my abilities. I have enough trouble getting people to spell my first name right, so I don't know how much of a problem this is. I guess I won't know 'til I ask people.
Here's the logo.
We'll be making blogs soon. I already set up the name, so that's secured. I have an idea for a banner header which will probably end up here. I just need to take some pictures for references.
I'm on my second project in Digital Media for Print, I'm going to do a Con-banner, with a female vampire attacking a woman in a cemetery. I was considering an alleyway, and if I get downtown sometime today, I'll get some shots. Even if I don't use them for this, they'll be great for the future, we have some cool alleys around here.
My second editorial cartoon for Illustration for Social Criticism is to accompany an article on how if DNA from discarded tissues, hair in brushes, or nail clippings are taken from the trash, a person could discover information from the genes and if it were a celebrity, sell information about the person's health.
I bought REPO! The Genetic Opera last week and was watching it while coming up with my picture, so there is definitely some influence. It's got a wonderful visual style, the costumes and scenery are fantastic, and the rock opera songs are really catchy. I want to do some more art in the future based off the style.
Here's the W.I.P
I need to come up with a fantasy/surrealistic piece for Watercolor class but don't know what to do with no real time for photo shoots. I don't want to resort to faeries or whatnot.
10.23.2008
Updates This Weekend
I will be uploading sketchbook work, life drawing work, and character design work over the next couple days.
Murray Tinkelman
So last Tuesday the great Murray Tinkelman visited my college for Career Day. He spent the morning giving a history of Illustration and the afternoon discussing his own personal career. I wrote down almost every artist he mentioned and my professor let me know that the college library has books on every one of them. Starting next month I'll start spending more time there. Murray explained how his work was influenced by other artists and his style would change each time he discovered a new one. He also said how you have to find work with art you haven't done on commission, such as sending art out to magazines and publishers.
He teaches at the College of Hartford and every single one of his students are some of the best in the country. Instead of studying in Conneticut, students travel to different places to study for a week or two each season. I believe this would be best since to get in you need a couple years in the field, so I can have a job and then travel around expanding my experiences and reference photo files and horizons.
He teaches at the College of Hartford and every single one of his students are some of the best in the country. Instead of studying in Conneticut, students travel to different places to study for a week or two each season. I believe this would be best since to get in you need a couple years in the field, so I can have a job and then travel around expanding my experiences and reference photo files and horizons.
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