Verti's College Art Space: January 2011

Monday, January 17, 2011

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.

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.