20th Birthday

I turned 20 years old today! 

I thought I would play with some text and decided to show off the number 20 in a very minimalistic cropped out fashion but still legible as the number. It took a great deal of time trying to place the 2's in each image without making it look like a question mark, it was challenge! The first two are somewhat similar because I wanted the base of the 2 to show and I decided on greens because it's my favourite colour. With the last one I wanted to play around with black and white. In the end I think the first one is the weakest with the last two being stronger designs. 

Out in the Wild

Here are a couple of sketches of people that I've done ever since school ended.

Went to California Sandwiches with a group of friends after the school open house last month. Decided to draw on the receipt. There's also a very rough drawing of Sonic someone else drew on the other side.

I finally found a decent sized pocket sketchbook (with great paper and a durable cover for $7!) that I could carry around at the end of the year. Ever since I bought it, I've been bringing it around everywhere I go and I draw whenever I can. So here are a few drawings of people from the theatres...

 ... a dessert cafe and clothing store...

 ... and a food court!

Digital Painting studies

Since I suck at painting and I need to get used to my tablet more, I thought I should do some painting/colour/lighting studies.

A cave picture that I had lying around for a while, I liked the colours in it too. I really like how the foreground turned out.

I've been taking screenshots from a couple of videogames in a photographer's POV and using them as a starting point. I did this one this morning, it's an area from Portal 2, I absolutely love the lighting in that game and the old Aperture sections. 

END OF THE YEAR

Alright instead of doing one gigantic post, I decided to split each class into its own.

Digital Media

Life Drawing

3D

2D

Unfortunately, I couldn't find my paintings when I went to the art show this weekend (as well as other students telling me the teacher didn't bring in the assignments during the show into his office). So whether or not I do get them back and if I still have any interest in my terrible paintings, I will post them. If not I can post the drawings/sketches of them instead, although one works better as a painting.

Digital Media

If these are too small here are links for a full page version:

Orion Wine Website

Marco Rivera Website

Flash

This was our first project involving Flash, and I decided to create a website for the fictional wine company that my group made in 2D class. Everyone loved the transitions when you clicked on the colour banners. Also, that phone number spells "lol-cake".

Flash Website

Our final had to be a professional website, brochure or interactive document that promoted something or ourselves. I chose to do an art website for myself. I went with a green highlight theme because it's my favourite colour. I really like how the icons on the front page turned out. There is also a secret on my info page, with two hyperlinks that link to one awesome secret page. 

 

Life Drawing

This was the other pair to the standing and sitting figures we had to do a couple months ago on kraft paper and white conte.

Creature Design and Skeleton

This was my first time designing a creature and we had to create a skeleton for it. I went for a bipedal mutated humanoid. I referenced the splicers from Bioshock a lot and I mainly did not want toes on mine.

Figuring our the skeleton for this was difficult...

Master Drawing Anatomy

We had to take a drawing from any of the old masters (a lot of people did Michelangelo this year according to my teacher) trace it and do a muscle and skeleton study of it. I chose one of Michelangelo's and we had to label 20 muscles and 25 skeleton/skeletal structures. This project taught me a lot!

Muscles

Skeleton

I really need to work on the pelvis...

Contrast and Portrait 

Our final two drawings for the year focused on contrast in the figures. One needed to be a standing pose while the other was a portrait, which I was terrified to do because I have difficulty with portraits.

Model stood for 3 hours...

My camera recognized this as a face...so I guess that's a good thing? I'm satisfied with it though.

3D

Our second project needed had to fit under one or more of the four given categories. All of which had to involve some sort human body part. Mine fit under the the hybrid, body fragmented and social commentary category. 

The sculpture portrays our reliance on technology and how it consumes us. I asked a few people and they either interpreted as either being consumed by technology (what I first saw it as) and other saw it as breaking free. 

I mainly wanted to use computer parts, especially wires for the arm section and keyboard keys and apoxie for a flesh-y look for some interesting contrast. The hand was made out of apoxie with a foil and wire armature. I was going for the whole zombie breaking through the dirt imagery, and the idea of using keyboard keys as the "dirt" came into my mind. The fingers were also going to be somewhat wirey but due to time constraints and the slightly larger than life size, it would have proven to be too difficult with very little space to work with in the fingers. 

Materials used: A pictionary electronic toy, an old power supply (which provided most of the wired and connectors), one keyboard. I also bought an optical drive but I couldn't get it to open for some odd reason, a waste of 5 dollars...

Overall I'm proud of it, could have used more keyboard keys and I liked the messy look I gave the fingers (looks like it's melting of sorts).

Close-up of the wire arm, this was pretty fun to do, but it took longer than I expected.

I hid my name with the keyboard keys, as well as the word "pwn" (not pictured).

It was also at the art show this past weekend!