Monday, January 17, 2011
Collage Reflective Essay
I altered the document size on several occasions. Being able to drag from the library was nice but for a lot of my collages I would simply drag one instance to the area I needed and if I needed more I would just copy, paste and adjust from there.
I always think a little too literally about my work but I did have a lot of fun just messing around. I had a couple of Ideas going into this project but for the most part I played. In some ways I was still very connected to my work because I chose to manipulate as much as I did. I also played with a lot of different tools this time, mainly the decor pencil.
I always think a little too literally about my work but I did have a lot of fun just messing around. I had a couple of Ideas going into this project but for the most part I played. In some ways I was still very connected to my work because I chose to manipulate as much as I did. I also played with a lot of different tools this time, mainly the decor pencil.
Tuesday, January 11, 2011
ART 353 Blockville
I like all of my images so I refuse to pick a best one. It has been a blast getting back into Maya again. I haven't returned to edit my work yet but I will because I don't feel any of these scenes are 'finished'. The idea of 'finished' for this project was mainly trying not to go too far past the set time limit I gave myself. If I worked for my idea of 'finished' I wouldn't even have one done.
My reference images came mostly from diving into the internet and finding things that looked cool. In picking what I would model I tried to go for each of the techniques for depth and sizing mentioned in class for variety.
Dingbats And Reflective Essay
I feel the need to say that anyone who can name everything is this pic gets 1000 nerd cred points!!!!
Now to the reflective essay portion:
I came up with my theme before I started drawing. I've been getting more and more into nerd and internet cultures so this was a very fun project to do. I had ideas in mind so I picked very specific references and I used them a lot more than I thought I would. So many of my images came out very close to the way I wanted that I didn't revise much. I did have some problems with my D20. It had 20s on every face but when resizing the symbol as a whole the numbers got very contorted and became unusable.
Drawing in flash is okay. I would prefer using Illustrator for a lot of the work. Illustrator just seems easier to get the results I want with out a lot of extraneous finagling. There is only one dingbat that was something I had worked with before and I'm sure it is obvious as to which one it is.
Now to the reflective essay portion:
I came up with my theme before I started drawing. I've been getting more and more into nerd and internet cultures so this was a very fun project to do. I had ideas in mind so I picked very specific references and I used them a lot more than I thought I would. So many of my images came out very close to the way I wanted that I didn't revise much. I did have some problems with my D20. It had 20s on every face but when resizing the symbol as a whole the numbers got very contorted and became unusable.
Drawing in flash is okay. I would prefer using Illustrator for a lot of the work. Illustrator just seems easier to get the results I want with out a lot of extraneous finagling. There is only one dingbat that was something I had worked with before and I'm sure it is obvious as to which one it is.
Friday, January 7, 2011
[Art 353] Project 1: Reference Material
These are the 10 images I've chosen for my block city reference material.
November 2008
2004
1984
2009
2001
June 2008
351 Dingbats References
So my chosen theme for my dingbats is going to be Nerd Core. Some of my idea images are as follows:
This is just a few of the images in my file.
This is just a few of the images in my file.
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